schwar3kat

I don't see this load to early issue on any of my boards, perhaps it is specific to your board. Please note that cpufrequtils is deprecated and has a number of issues with various boards that are unlikely to be addressed. (the other issue with cpufrequtils not being enabled by default for all boards has been addressed).

Good point about I wouldn't have noticed, because personally, I haven't seen a need to use this armbian-config functionality but people are apparently using it so what do I know? The main issue, as I understand it, is that an armbian-config function doesn't work as it could reasonably be expected to work. I will mull over and test an idea and perhaps I can come up with a simple way to control expectations based on the ENABLED state. Edit: AR-1883

I can confirm that in current images that I examined, in /etc/default/cpufrequtils, ENABLE is set to false. In older images that I examined ENABLE was set to true. This affects all boards. Without ENABLE being set, the armbian-config CPU speed governor settings simply don't work. Normally when cpufrequtils is installed, and a CPU driver exists, then the installer sets ENABLE to true. But cpufrequtils is pre-installed by Armbian build. Before logging a Jira issue I thought that I should investigate further to try and understand what had changed led me to this change tagged as [HIGHLY CONTENTIOUS CHANGE]. @rpardini do you have any insight into this change or advice?

What are you plugging into the USB3 ports? Is your power supply capable of supplying enough current? If you measure USB3 inline voltage does it drop when you plug in the device? I am running the same Kernel version on OPi 5+ and my USB3 ports work with externally powered HDD's. Kernel and firmware upgrades disabled on mine.

Because you are not using Armbian build for your u-boot, we can't know what might be wrong or missing. Armbian build documentation Have you tried to dd your entire SD card? You might need to shrink your image if not copying to an identical or larger SD card. Old instructions still work