- UART has unusual speed: 1500000
- boot from SD card is possible by shorting TP50265 to the ground and powering the board. After Armbian boots up, you can overwrite eMMC. You need to do this procedure only once or in case you totally brick your system.
- once you have Armbian booting from eMMC, you can boot SD card in more simple manner: stop booting from UART console and execute those commands:
setenv devnum 1followed byrun mmc_boot - you need to use
EXPERT="yes"to build kernel or images.
Specifications
1000tx 2GB 4GB 6 core 64bit bluetooth docker eMMC usb-c usb3 wifi wireguard Rockchip RK3399
* Specifications differ from hardware revision, model and software support level
FAQs
- check power supply and SD card issues
- check previous images from archive
- ask for help on forums
Simple
BASH or ZSH shell, standard Debian/Ubuntu utilities. Features can be adjusted with menu-driven utility. Login is possible via serial, HDMI or SSH.
Universal
Minimal, server or Desktop. We work with XFCE, Gnome and Cinnamon but more is possible to build: Mate, KDE, Budgie, Deepin, i3, …
Light
No bloatware or spyware. Special utilities are completely optional. Suitable for newcomers and professionals.
Optimized
Distributed images are optimized for flash media (SD/eMMC/SSD) and compacted to real data size.
Fast
Armbian is optimized on kernel and userspace level. ZRAM & ZSWAP support, browser profile memory caching, garbage commit delay.
Secure
Security level can be adjusted with the armbian-config. OS is reviewed by professionals within the community.
Supported
Maintainers and community have deep understanding how HW work. We are seniors with 30+ years of experience in Linux + embedded Linux.
Open
Armbian provides open source build framework to build a distribution of optimised Linux hardware interface for armhf, aarch64 and x86.
We provide a selection of images that fits hardware best. If you need different image – use build framework and make whatever you need. Build framework relies on Debian and Ubuntu packages – you can build any combination – stable, old stable or rolling release.
Minimal images comes without armbian-config, armbian-zsh, build-essentials, Python, DKMS, … If you are interested in detailed comparison, CLI images also have those packages:
Make sure you have a good & reliable boot media (SD card / USB key) and a proper power supply. Archives can be flashed with Etcher (all OS) directly.
Insert the SD card into the slot, connect a cable to your network if possible or a display and power your board. (First) boot (with DHCP) takes a bit longer.
Support is provided in one of two ways:
- Free support is provided via general project search engine, documentation, community forums or IRC/Discord. Keep in mind this is mostly provided by our awesome community members in a best effort manner and therefore there are no guaranteed solutions.
- For commercial or prioritised assistance:
- book a an hour of professional consultation,
- consider becoming a project partner. Reach us out at https://armbian.com/contact,
Rolling weekly releases
- Debian testing or Arch - Manjaro support quality level
- Untested automated builds for power users that are able to fix problems on their own
- Images are receiving updates when master branch changes