Rock 5B 32 GB 6.8rc problem

[foxx1337]

I was getting kernel panics and discovered that my 32 GB Rock 5B Blue Edition just crashes when I try to malloc 8-9 gigabtes of memory. Is there a way to specify that this board has 32 GB ram? 5.10 works fine.

[Werner]

For now using 5.10 vendor bsp is the way to go. 6.8 is - as the name implies - bleeding edge  and problems are to be expected.

This will most likely be addressed upstream sooner or later. MAY take a while since there seems to  be a general shortage in 32G boards due to the lack of available memory chips.

[foxx1337]

Thanks!

 

I was wrong with the kernel - same panic happens also on the old 23.11.1-legacy Armbian with the vendor's 5.10.160 kernel.

 

The one that works is Joshua Riek's Ubuntu build (still 5.10.160). Maybe DTB related?

Edited February 18 by foxx1337

[Werner]

Hm this is odd. Joshua's and our kernel sources are very close. He did some adjustments for packaging and directly integrated some wifi stuff but that's it...