TinkerBoard
By jock jock / General purpose • Desktop / 0 Comments

Tinkerboard / S

  • Severe powering troubles due to Micro USB power connector. It’s recommended to power through GPIO pins to prevent under-voltage issues (instabilities, boot/crash cycles). Powering situation is a little improved/masked on model S.
  • serial console is enabled on UART2 (pin 32, 33, 34=gnd)
  • eMMC flashing (model Tinkerboard S with eMMC) can be done the same way as burning an SD card. Connect your board with USB cable to your computer (Linux or Windows) and eMMC will be seen as a new hard drive. Burn an image to this drive. Wait until it's done, detach from computer and power with your normal PSU.
  • booting from SD card on S model is possible in Maskrom mode.
  • kernel headers are broken on legacy builds
  • video and 3D acceleration
clearfogbase
By Jannis / General purpose • NAS • Networking / 0 Comments

Clearfog base

 

To boot the image from USB flash:

  • Write the image to a USB flash drive
  • Insert the flash drive into the USB3.0 port
  • Load the modified u-boot (from the Armbian image) using the UART method
  • Stop the default boot sequence
  • Execute in u-boot prompt: run usbboot

To flash the image to eMMC:

  • Boot the image from USB flash
  • Write the image to eMMC using dd or other methods
  • Mount the eMMC partition and add a line emmc_fix=on to /boot/armbianEnv.txt file – this changes the DT during boot to switch from SD with card detect switch to a non-removable eMMC.
  • Unmount the eMMC partition and reboot

Please refer to this forum thread for the USB boot details and this thread for a discussion of known eMMC issues.

Pine 64
By Pander Musubi / General purpose / 0 Comments

Pine64 and LTS

  • The only led on the board is a power LED, it starts to light as soon as power is available and does not indicate anything else.
  • DC-IN via Micro USB, keep in mind that most USB cables have a resistance way too high which leads to undervoltage situations. It is recommended to power your Pine64(+) through the Euler pins (see linux-sunxi wiki for details).
  • If you clone one Armbian installation for more than one Pine64 please keep in mind that the Ethernet MAC address will be chosen randomly on first boot and then saved in /boot/uEnv.txt. To avoid MAC address collisions you must adjust the address there or delete the whole ethaddr line.
  • If you use a DVI display don’t forget to define disp_dvi_compat=1 in /boot/armbianEnv.txt
  • Pine64’s own LCD with touchscreen support can simply be activated in /boot/armbianEnv.txt by setting pine64_lcd=on and adding gt9xxf_ts to /etc/modules followed by a reboot.