Edge kernel image parameters

[Marco Schirrmeister]

The page for the NanoPi R76S has also an edge kernel (6.18) image.

 

I noticed some issues related to sdcard and emmc. I know edge images are not officially supported and that is fine. But given the image is available I would like the parameters/configuration/conditions for the current available image.

Could you explain the background or assumptions behind the 6.18 edge image for the R76S? (e.g., test conditions you used when building it)

[eselarm]

There are 2 sentences below that set of download URLs that should say enough:

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* Edge kernels are actively developed, so there may be some unreported issues on this images. You should beware of that.

* Most of images are tested with test automation or by Armbian community or official maintainers.

 

 

Also see section title: "Bleeding" in normal life means something went wrong, blood dripping from your body might spoil the carpet, blood squirting from your body might mean death is near. So you are expected to do something maybe. You already did by doing that by creating this topic.

 

In case of a device with new SoC (on the market after old 6.1 kernel) it seems wise to put also focus on new mainline kernel which is maybe a bit problematic w.r.t. certain things, but you can be sure it will be the main stable thing sometime. Maybe after years.

If people who care about such a device/computer/board would only stick to old/stable Rockchip proprietary downstream kernel and firmware, this thing will be dead after 5 years from now. So in order to survive, it needs development/testing now and continuously actually (also w.r.t. security, that is the case for every computer). You are one of the testers, maybe you forgot to realize. 'images' is very low effort getting an integrated and pre-installed OS tested. If no images, you would point people to a rootfs.tar.gz or instructions to run debootstrap and let people guess how to build a kernel and some bootloader. Or run Debian Testing or a rolling distro like Arch Linux.

 

You would be a better tester if you could more exactly inform where or what the issue is. Maybe it is so simple like a week ago or so that a listed image was only containing U-Boot, so the .xz file was something like  500 kilo not Mega Bytes.