As you can see, there aren't very many knowledgeable people listening here
Also, I recently discovered that the vanilla Linux kernel still doesn't support the 3 ethernet ports (it supports one, the "WAN" one), even though this device is now 4 years old, so buyer beware.

I just upgraded my kernel to the latest Debian kernels and now I get only eth0 and no eth1 nor eth2. Do I need some extra firmware blobs (tho `dmesg` doesn't show any sign of missing firmware for the ethernet hardware).? Or are they by any chance still not supported by the vanilla kernel (seems hard...

I installed your Debian stable minimalist image on my R5S (housed in its black metal box), added an NVMe disk (WD Blue SN5000), I boot into it and let sit idle for a few hours and `sensors` tells me: % sensors nvme-pci-22100 Adapter: PCI adapter Composite: +66.8 C (low = -40.1 C, high = +89.8 C) (cr...

How do I upgrade my Debian install when a new kernel is released?
I can install `linux-image-arm64` just fine, but that puts the kernel only inside `/boot` where it's not used AFAICT when booting (instead the kernel used for boot seems to be hardcoded to the one in `/dev/mmcblk2p4`).

I installed the Debian image on my machine. AFAICT the boot options are passed to the kernel via a device tree overlay stored in the "dtbo" partition (a.k.a /dev/mmcblk2p3). This is a binary format not fit for editing: # hexdump -C /dev/mmcblk2p3 00000000 d7 b7 ab 1e 00 00 05 80 00 00 00 2...

AFAICT, mmcblk2boot0 and mmcblk2boot1 are both empty (hexdump says they contain just NULL bytes).
Can we install U-Boot in there?

I'm trying to build U-Boot (from git.denx.de/u-boot.git). I basically did `make nanopi-r5s-rk3568_defconfig; make` and I'm getting the following message at the end: Image 'simple-bin' is missing external blobs and is non-functional: rockchip-tpl atf-bl31 /binman/simple-bin/mkimage/rockchip-tpl (rock...

Where's the boot information? Things like: - How to build U-Boot - How to install it (how it's found, in which order various devices are tried to find the cmd.boot file, ...). - What's supported by the U-Boot build (is it supposed to show something on HDMI, if not why not? Does it support USB keyboa...

I can't find anywhere in the wiki where the boot process is described. All I see is explanations of how to take someone else's premade image and maybe how to tweak it, but I'm looking for documentation about how it works, so as to know what are the constraints on eMMC or uSD partitioning, for exampl...