Just being curious. Did a blind google translate. No offense intended in anyway 
" SPI operation, I tried moving armbian as well. Certainly, you can not boot unless you repeat the switch many times. Comparing chrome and firefox, chrome is very heavy. flutter compiles and works fine. Finally, I have an ax210 and it works if I copy the latest linux-firmware to /lib/firmware. To the armbian staff, keep up the good work. "
@Etienne @igorp also worth to note that, the radxa kernel is also getting too far away from rockchip kernel.
Just have a look at this comparison
We are talking about about a fork of a fork with is forward ported from a 15 years older than the upstream project.
I would understand if the radxa is only doing DTS maintenance but they are adding new modules, chaging the headers of existing drivers etc, so i doubt that radxa fork would work on any other devices rather than Radxa’s. I would be surprised it would work also, because at that point i have no idea what they are doing with the kernel anymore, i also think after several years no one would understand including the people who made the fork of a fork, and dump this kernel somewhere deep in the internet. Not sure if those changes woul be merged backed to Rockchip fork as well.
So in this state only way to have a package with up to date kernel would be using Radxa’s fork but i dont think it has a place in AUR just for 1 single specific device.
Did have a try of Jammy with Cinnamon desktop today.
Did not work out well. After login screen, just a pengiun wallpaper. Nothing else. I’m able to right click but nothing else.
Locales seems messed up with eo_US used as default and unable to change.
Anyone else tried Jammy with cinnamon?
i think cinnamon thinks there is another monitor connected (i had the same problem with a embedded atom computer and linux mint)
You know how to change?
hdmi do not give any output as only way to connect my display is through the USB-c(display power the rock)
May I bother you armbians with some basic questions? 
What is:
GPG and SHA downloads?
Sid, lunar release?
Trunk and kinetic?
Branch edge?
The community rolling releases, how do I know if it is debian or Ubuntu?(maybe answer to above clarify this)
Those are basics, just google for each keyword and You will get easily answer to all of them. GPG is used to sign image to check if it comes from trusted source, sha to verify if it’s same file - complete and not damaged. Check out debian and ubuntu version names - easy to find and it will make it clear.
Hi, I am writing this reply on my Rock5B, I tried to install Armbian to NVME via armbian-install
but when it comes to file system selection, I tried twice SPI + NVME and btrfs filesystem and both failed.
after that, I tried SDcard + NVME and btrfs, and it can boot.
But when I choose ext4, it can boot from SPI + NVME normally.
For the installation of the panfork and rockchip multimedia by our friend liujianfeng, do I need to follow the instruction he made or these are not relevant for Armbian jammy?
mali_csffw.bin appears to be at lib/firmware already so I guess no.
For rockchip-multimedia, do I need to create the udev rules + instruction relevant for chromium?
For some reason the hw acceleration did not work this time I installed Armbian jammy + adding panfork and rockchip-multimedia.
<20 fps for webgl at 500 fish.
Strange as I had 50fps or more previous time I installed Armbian jammy.
You seem to be struggling with nvme boot, good luck.
Hi. there are images of Sid & Lunar on site Armbian ver 6.2.0.
I tryed write that images on sd cadr through dd and balenaEtcher but Rock 5 didnt voot with that images. 5.10.110 - boot, i can make first instalation (set root pass add user etc). but after reboot i onli cursor blinking on empty screen.
On spi writed rkspi_loader for armbian.
How i can use 6.2.0 armbian images?
You can’t without investing tens of thousands of hours to port missing functions and make it stable. Those are developers preview builds, where you can check what works and at some point it will be good enough for some use cases. If something doesn’t work, you are on your own. In a couple of years it will be functional on the level of kernel 5.10.y. Otherwise Armbian related topics are here … kernel 5.10.y only.
Can confirm that I’m facing the same issue. Tried as I might to get it to run armbian-install to a btrfs root partition, I can not get it to boot via SPI. As soon as I changed that root partition to EXT4 and ran armbian-install (within re-running the SPI flash) it worked just fine.
In case you find some time to debug, install script: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/bsp/common/usr/sbin/armbian-install (or identical path /usr/sbin on your board).
But I don’t recommend using BTRFS as Rockchip kernels are not what you run on your PC. Kernel was designed for Android and most of general bug-fixes will never come in. There is nothing to do about … but wait for modern kernel, if you want to do something more serious or use advanced features.
Thanks Igorp, I appreciate the recommendation. This thing is my learning board so I’m sure I’ll end up poking around some more.
When it comes to not using BTRFS, I’ve set up a root partition using EXT4 and a data partition (on which I will run Nextcloud and some other services) as BTRFS as it has baked in extensibility should I later add additional disks - should I be avoiding that filesystem completely and stick with EXT4 + LVM?
If your data is valuable, listen to my advice, if not, go for it. For learning and for most of stuff, this device is great!
Thanks! Though I was trying to narrow down whether you mean that BTRFS should be avoided entirely, or if only for the root partition.
Ambian Cinnamon desktop works fine for me. Have 16GB Rock 5 with 1TB SSD. Run mostly Docker containers.
have installed Brave browser that is more reliable than Chromium or Firefox, much less packet loss with youtube videos.
Mmm… let me tell you my experiences.
I have no boot problems with official Ubuntu image, also with dedicated PD (a ugreen one 65W) and also with my laptop powered usb-c port, all well done.
I have boot loop with last Armbian image with both methods.
Something like a software problem? So strange…
He’s more than likely suggesting to not use BTRFS at all because the kernel more than likely won’t be pulling in bug fixes and such for it because the radxa kernel isn’t mainline, it’s a hacked android kernel. It’s best to use EXT4 for everything.