wilmardo Posted September 1, 2023 Share Posted September 1, 2023 Hi all, For most Nanopi devices there are packages in the registry which contain the u-boot files, for example: https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/armbian-apt/pool/main/l/linux-u-boot-nanopi-r4s-current/ Is there a reason these packages aren't present for the Nanopi R6S? The reason behind this question is that I used to extract the u-boot from these packages to experiment with other OS'es which have no official release for a certain device. Of course I can get the u-boot from the downloadable images its first couple bytes, but downloading just the package is way smaller. If there is another source to obtain the u-boot blobs I am all ears. I found that I can build them myself from the armbian/build repository with something like this but this isn't as lean as just downloading a package: ./compile.sh \ BUILD_ONLY=u-boot \ BOARD=nanopi-r6s \ BRANCH=legacy \ RELEASE=focal \ BUILD_MINIMAL=yes \ BUILD_DESKTOP=no \ KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no Hopefully someone could point me in the right direction, thanks for all the time in getting support to these ARM devices ♥️ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Werner Posted September 1, 2023 Solution Share Posted September 1, 2023 There are no packages for 23.05 release at all due to major stability issues. I think there aren't older ones either because R6S has been added after 23.02 release. Anyway as you already guessed you can use the build framework to create a package bundle for your board and do whatever you want with them. Or simply wait a few days until 23.08 release which will have both images and apt repo up to date 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilmardo Posted September 4, 2023 Author Share Posted September 4, 2023 Massive thanks, this exactly answers my question :) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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