3 Oct

Radxa Dragon Q6A

Armbian requires the latest UEFI firmware for this board available here: https://forum.radxa.com/t/radxa-dragon-q6a-firmware-snapshot/

For flashing the (extracted) armbian image to UFS storage you can use the same edl-ng tool from flashing the firmware with this command:

./edl-ng --loader prog_firehose_ddr.elf --memory UFS write-sector 0 *.img

By meco / General purpose • IOT • Desktop / 0 Comments

7 Sep

Radxa Rock 4D

Installation to NVME or USB is done via standard armbian install utility (sudo armbian-install). Make sure to generate partitions and format them before start.
For UFS ready images use an image with the Extension UFS and flash it directly either via an USB-Adapter or via `rkdeveloptool`. See this Docs page for more information on how to flash Rockchip boards via Maskrom mode.

By Igor Pečovnik / IOT / 0 Comments

19 Aug

Rock 2F

By Igor Pečovnik / General purpose • Networking / 0 Comments

8 Apr

Radxa Cubie A5E

By meco / General purpose / 0 Comments

28 Mar

How to install

Radxa-Nio-12L uses EFI Boot via Grub with DeviceTree. To make use of it follow this Guide from Collabora to flash Uboot onto the UFS storage. Then you can flash one of the provided images onto a SD Card and power on the SBC which will automatically boot into Armbian. Keep in mind the Boot order has UFS at first place so you need to erase any OS you have on on UFS to boot from a SD Card.

Q&A for Genio-Family:

Can I boot from UFS?
- Regarding Armbian this is currently not possible as we cannot utilize 4096 sector sizes for our partitions. Follow this issue to see what the current status is.
Can I make use of UFS as a Data Partition inside of Linux?
- Yes.
Which kernels are available?
- We’re making use of Collabora’s mediatek-next branch which is based on mainline Linux.
- There is also a highly experimental BSP branch from Canonical’s Ubuntu on Genio available. This one is lacking support for various important features like GPU acceleration on Desktop and therefore is meant for developers only.
XYZ is not working.
- Check this support matrix to see if that feature has been implemented already.

By meco / General purpose / 0 Comments

18 Feb

Radxa Rock 5T

By meco / General purpose • NAS • Desktop / 0 Comments

11 Nov

Radxa Rock 5B Plus

Ubuntu Noble 24.11.1 GNOME Testing:	Rolling Release (25.2.x) Testing:
Kernel Vendor 6.1.75 Boot ok, from emmc and nvme HDMI ok, boot splash screen shows up USB-C DP + HDMI at the same time wonky (alone both work as intended) USB2 and USB3 ok 2.5GbE Ethernet ok WiFi ok Bluetooth “Failed to set mode: Failed (0x03)” Analog audio codec is ok Reboot and shutdown work as intended 4K YouTube Playback fine with Mesa-VPU extension	Kernel Vendor 6.1.84 Everything from 6.1.75 Fixed Bluetooth search & pairing

Images here are for 5B, for model 5A can be found here.
Some eMMC devices are broken on 5A
PD is broken for the 5B model (background) on most revisions that are in the wild and is causing boot loop. Workaround is to use a stupid / fixed 5-24 volts USB-C power supply.
Installation to NVME or USB is done via standard armbian install utility (sudo armbian-install). Make sure to generate partitions and format them before start.

By Kat Schwarz / Desktop • General purpose / 0 Comments

13 May

Radxa Rock 5C

Armbian 25.8.1 Trixie Minimal / IOT testing:	Armbian 25.8.1 Noble Gnome testing:
Boot okay, from sdcard HDMI video (text) is okay Audio not tested on minimal image USB2 ports are okay USB3 ports are okay Gigabit Ethernet is okay, Iperf3 ~944 Mbit/s Wireless okay, Iperf3 ~186 Mbit/s Reboot and shutdown okay	Boot okay, from sdcard HDMI video is okay HDMI audio is okay Jack audio headphone out is okay Jack audio mic in is okay USB2 ports are okay USB3 ports are okay Gigabit Ethernet is okay, Iperf3 ~945Mbit/s Wireless okay, Iperf3 ~181 Mbit/s Bluetooth okay Reboot and shutdown okay

By amazingfate amazingfate / NAS • Desktop / 0 Comments

7 May

Radxa Rock 5 ITX

Testing report:

Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_noble_vendor_6.1.75_kde-neon-kisak_desktop.img.xz	1.7 GiB	2024-Nov-28 20:28	OK	Desktop Works
Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.75_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop.img.xz	1.4 GiB	2024-Nov-28 20:20	OK	Desktop Works
Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_noble_vendor_6.1.75_gnome-kisak_desktop.img.xz	1.4 GiB	2024-Nov-28 20:19	OK	Desktop Works
Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.75_xfce_desktop.img.xz	1.3 GiB	2024-Nov-28 20:15	OK	Desktop Works
Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_noble_vendor_6.1.75_xfce_desktop.img.xz	1.2 GiB	2024-Nov-28 20:24	OK	Desktop Works
Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_noble_vendor_6.1.75-kisak.img.xz	476.3 MiB	2024-Nov-28 19:58	OK	System Works (MESA)
Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.75_minimal.img.xz	238.3 MiB	2024-Nov-28 19:57	OK	System Works (HDMI YES)
Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_noble_vendor_6.1.75_minimal.img.xz	233.2 MiB	2024-Nov-28 19:54	OK	System Works (HDMI YES)

By Igor Pečovnik / IOT / 0 Comments

26 Apr

Maker: Radxa

How to install

Q&A for Genio-Family:

Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_noble_vendor_6.1.75_kde-neon-kisak_desktop.img.xz

1.7 GiB

2024-Nov-28 20:28

OK

Desktop Works

Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.75_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop.img.xz

1.4 GiB

2024-Nov-28 20:20

OK

Desktop Works

Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_noble_vendor_6.1.75_gnome-kisak_desktop.img.xz

1.4 GiB

2024-Nov-28 20:19

OK

Desktop Works

Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.75_xfce_desktop.img.xz

1.3 GiB

2024-Nov-28 20:15

OK

Desktop Works

Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_noble_vendor_6.1.75_xfce_desktop.img.xz

1.2 GiB

2024-Nov-28 20:24

OK

Desktop Works

Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_noble_vendor_6.1.75-kisak.img.xz

476.3 MiB

2024-Nov-28 19:58

OK

System Works (MESA)

Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_vendor_6.1.75_minimal.img.xz

238.3 MiB

2024-Nov-28 19:57

OK

System Works (HDMI YES)

Armbian_24.11.1_Rock-5-itx_noble_vendor_6.1.75_minimal.img.xz

233.2 MiB

2024-Nov-28 19:54

OK

System Works (HDMI YES)

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