The kernel probably has to be compiled with these flags.
Armbian images are now available for Rock 5b!
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Thanks.
- could you update the info that PD is broken only for Rock 5B?
- what is the eMMC bug situation on Armbian for Rock 5A now? Could you put it in the FAQ?
- could you update the info that PD is broken only for Rock 5B?
So they fixed it in the A? That is nice of them. ( yes that was sarcasm . they really dropped the ball on this )
things are looking pretty good with mainline kernel now
I basically merged collabora’s rk3588-test branch with mainline (6.5-rc1)
this works but for some reason usb3 wasn’t hooked up in the rock5b dts, so I just copied exactly what they did to get the usb3 working for u-boot. dfi/cpufreq also wasn’t working but it was easy to fix up by merging in the dfi branch and adding the tsadc node and mem-supply lines to the &cpus
With Armbian it’s good to make room with the boot partition as the default size is too small to hold even one extra kernel image. I just used gparted to move the root partition back and increase the boot partition size.
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I have 3 5Bs running 23.8.1 Stable. Under armbian-config -> System -> Other I am unable to swap the kernel on all 3 boards. If you select Other it will retrieve 255 files, then show
If you hit space bar to acknowledge and enter to move forward, it will just return you to the previous System menu. Previously on older versions of armbian this worked fine, notably 23.5.1. Is this commonplace or do I have an issue?
I would like to note, one board started at 23.5.1 and was upgraded, the other two were fresh 23.8.1 installs that all show this behavior.
which builds have PD working? it’s my first run with this board need something that can install through ssh
If you use Ethernet it will connect to the network automatically. If not, you can always use the script in /boot/ to set the WiFi ssid and pass.
i’m a real noob with these things so after the whole afternoon trying to getit working i think it’s done
the brand new emmc>usd adapter was not working so i flashed a couple sd cards with 4 different OS that didn’t work also tried 2 power supplies each time i changed something leds changed the blinking pattern(is there a led code chart?)
finally what worked for me was flashing the emmc directly through RKDevtool with DietPi and using this PD power supply> aliexpress.com/item/1005002768872162.html
ran the benchmark / stress test for 1min and it resisted no reboots
seems like my board is the fastest one around on https://dietpi.com/survey/ lol
Indeed this looks like a good PS. PD is broken enough that I gave up on it long time ago and just run it using a dumb 12 volt power supply. As for the eMMC to microsd, you need the oldest SD adapter you can find (a USB 2.0 will most likely work). Dietpi is a nice system but you won’t have a good time trying to use it with a desktop, or enabling any GPU acceleration - it’s more for server stuff (but I assume that’s what you want).
damn i thought you could add desktop stuff down the road, there’s no GPU on acceleration on Debian yet?
the adapter I’d gotten from radxa with rock5 board last year but it sat unused should’ve tested before
the power supply is good did a bunch of light server stuff yesterday for a few hours without apparent issues, also installed netdata to get more stats but the real test will do this week after installing klipper/mainsail and configuring the printers
You can add a desktop but you will have a bad time trying to figure out how to enable the GPU acceleration (you need to use a fork of mesa Panfrost, so-called “Panfork”). It’s the easiest to do on a jammy system because there is a ppa. In principle it can also be done on Debian as well, but I doubt DietPi offers an easy way to do this.
Download Armbian and it will work.
If you would ever look how its hacked together, you would never run it.
do tell more what is so bad about it, i thought honestly it’s the best arm os I’ve seen
@Vinicius agree with you from a user experience point of view. dietpi has never let me down so far. I use it across different boards (radxa’s rockpis, rockpi4c, rockpi5, rasp pi4, orange pi5). Believe they build they layer on top of armbian. (So credit cetainly goes to armbian for doing all the heavy lifting.)
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Yes.
Dietpi is a single person developed and never reviewed bash scripts on top of some OS, mainly Armbian. Others are making OS, dietpi downloads and adds their brand and collection of junk. They contributes nothing to stability whatsoever … but why I am wasting my time?
Can you understand this reasoning?
Not saying I am better, but have few decades of dealing with this and a decade in open source. I read few hundred of books and am old enough. Not the most stupid, but also not the smartest on the planet. But this is anyway not about me.
Point of open source software is exchange and common work Their work is impossible to use as its pointless and terrible quality. In let say 10.000 hours Armbian developers and supportive community lost yearly for maintaining firmware they only download, brand with useless user-land changes and ship, they contributed perhaps 15 minutes into resolving a [banal trivial common problem as such].(https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/5930/commits/10396645064d2dc77e04f7cee0d4d58ec833e672).
Dietpi is permanent reminder:
“The worst-case scenario is that you give the maintainers an opportunity to reconsider if continuing to work on the open source project is worth it.”
Oh no a wild @igorp appears, now the discussion shifts to why Armbian is superior to anything else (tbh I to me Armbian right now is the second best on Rock5, behind Joshua Riek’s Ubuntu - but again it depends on the use case).
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Even you are not a developer, you can assemble your own distro. There are many tools out there - Armbian made even super easy tools for that.
This is a myth. Every distribution has a light variant, where “nothing” is preinstalled. I am not saying application installer is not looking cool, but that’s not OS.
Its Armbian or Debian with application installer.
Not at all. Just saying that copy of Armbian is the same as Armbian. Or worse if bloatware is added.