What Does Community Support Mean?
Community maintained targets have full featured Armbian OS support but lack quality control imposed by Armbian standard support criteria. Boards are supported / maintained at least on the level of 3rd party Linux distributions. They are maintained (or not maintained) by community members (like you). These builds are provided by the Armbian project as a service to the community. They are automatically generated and untested.
What you can do to help lifting support status?
- support users of this board in our forums
- stand up as a maintainer and start maintaining the board
- provide tests results prior to point release and propose lifting support status
- PCIe port is not supported: Allwinner H6 has a quirky PCIe controller that doesn’t map the PCIe address space properly to CPU, and accessing the PCIe config space, IO space or memory space will need to be wrapped. As Linux doesn’t wrap PCIe memory space access, it’s not possible to do a proper PCIe controller driver for H6. The BSP kernel modifies the driver to wrap the access, so it’s also not generic, and only devices with modified driver will work. Armbian does not support BSP based kernels. You can find more information here and here.
After you download and boot?
Basic OS configuration is conducted at first boot. You are asked to set a root password, normal user and confirm your, automatically determined, language settings. If your hardware has internal media, you might want to transfer your OS to it. You can also choose to configure your OS first, setup applications, enable services and install to internal media later.
armbian-config
You can select different login shell (ZSH), enable 2FA for your SSH, enable virtual read-only file-system, switch to rolling releases, ... and more. Armbian config tool helps you configure your network (static, dynamic, enabling hotspot). Once you are done configurion your OS, you can proceed to software section. Armbian config provides clean and fast way of installing great selection of popular software titles. If you plan to use your board for running a home automation, file server, ad blocking, downloading media, ... we got you covered.
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Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.6
Build Date: Dec 12, 2024
| Distro | Variant | Extensions | Torrent | Integrity | Size | |||||
 Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) |
Gnome | MESA / VPU |  |
SHA | ASC | 1.1 GB | ||||
| * Desktops are very simple and minimal but containing standard features such as Chromium, Firefox browser, Office tools etc. | ||||||||||
Minimal/IOT images with Armbian Linux v6.6
Build Date: Dec 12, 2024
| Distro | Variant | Extensions | Torrent | Integrity | Size | |||||
 Debian 12 (Bookworm) |
Minimal / IOT | |
SHA | ASC | 236.7 MB | |||||
| * Minimal images have very small footprint. They come only with essential packages and build-in systemd-networkd. They are optimised for automation and production deployments. | ||||||||||
Dedicated applications images with Armbian Linux v6.6
Build Date: Nov 20, 2024
| Distro | Application | Torrent | Integrity | Size | ||||||
| Debian 12 (Bookworm) |
Home Assistant | |
SHA | ASC | 313.4 MB | |||||
| * 3rd party unofficial applications deployment made with official Armbian build framework. Application support is not provided by Armbian team, but you are welcome to use our community forums for support. | ||||||||||
Specifications
1000tx 1wire 2GB 4 core 64bit UASP bluetooth docker eMMC i2c spi spi flash usb3 wifi wireguard Allwinner H6
* Specifications differ from hardware revision, model and software support level
FAQs
dpkg -i linux-image-[branch]-family.deb linux-dtb-[branch]-family.deb. In that process you can enforce many customisation.