archetech

Got the N2+ with OC and nic fixed with image from lanefu.  His is current-nighly. Mine was dev.  survived an update too. I may have caught some wip maybe.  I'll now build kernel 5.8.1 for kicks and break it again.  
 
UPdate:   5.8.1 boots/runs fine so far.

tobetter's Gnome-wayland is the best build I've ever used out of my 2 SBC's.  Rock64 and the N2+.   Just got the N2+ last week and it's as good as folks are saying so far.   So today I built Armbian Deb bullseye-dev for it and I thought you might like to know how it went.
 
Flashed to sdcard booted first try.   Same as the Ubu focal-dev last week.   Both run great but the nic on the UBU broke as you know using armbian-config to upgrade it to nightly.   The bullseye nic won't download during first upgrade faster than 1-10k p/s.
Popped a wireless nic in , finished upgrade and rebooted.   Solid blue/red lights no boot.   Maybe they are related.
 
Figured you could use the info.  When I get free time I like to experiment with cutting edge builds of a few arm distro's.  
FYI   I'm waiting for a patch set for mainline kernel on Manjaro hoping panfrost gets support working soon through mesa.
At this time the tobetter libMali drivers seem the way to go until then.  I will attempt an Armbian KDE build/install when panfrost/mesa/mainline is more advanced.  
 
Cheers, Archetech
 
Update  8-13-20         Thanks to the dev team I can report that my N2+ is now officially OC'ed to 2100  vs 1800 Mhz and idles at 29 C.    Lanefu built the latest Boot stuff  and I hand edited the boot.ini to match the new dual use- n2 and plus one at github.  Sadly we confirmed the nic can't receive well at all.   Looking forward to more progess on this SBC.

tobetter's Gnome-wayland is the best build I've ever used out of my 2 SBC's.  Rock64 and the N2+.   Just got the N2+ last week and it's as good as folks are saying so far.   So today I built Armbian Deb bullseye-dev for it and I thought you might like to know how it went.
 
Flashed to sdcard booted first try.   Same as the Ubu focal-dev last week.   Both run great but the nic on the UBU broke as you know using armbian-config to upgrade it to nightly.   The bullseye nic won't download during first upgrade faster than 1-10k p/s.
Popped a wireless nic in , finished upgrade and rebooted.   Solid blue/red lights no boot.   Maybe they are related.
 
Figured you could use the info.  When I get free time I like to experiment with cutting edge builds of a few arm distro's.  
FYI   I'm waiting for a patch set for mainline kernel on Manjaro hoping panfrost gets support working soon through mesa.
At this time the tobetter libMali drivers seem the way to go until then.  I will attempt an Armbian KDE build/install when panfrost/mesa/mainline is more advanced.  
 
Cheers, Archetech
 
Update  8-13-20         Thanks to the dev team I can report that my N2+ is now officially OC'ed to 2100  vs 1800 Mhz and idles at 29 C.    Lanefu built the latest Boot stuff  and I hand edited the boot.ini to match the new dual use- n2 and plus one at github.  Sadly we confirmed the nic can't receive well at all.   Looking forward to more progess on this SBC.

tobetter's Gnome-wayland is the best build I've ever used out of my 2 SBC's.  Rock64 and the N2+.   Just got the N2+ last week and it's as good as folks are saying so far.   So today I built Armbian Deb bullseye-dev for it and I thought you might like to know how it went.
 
Flashed to sdcard booted first try.   Same as the Ubu focal-dev last week.   Both run great but the nic on the UBU broke as you know using armbian-config to upgrade it to nightly.   The bullseye nic won't download during first upgrade faster than 1-10k p/s.
Popped a wireless nic in , finished upgrade and rebooted.   Solid blue/red lights no boot.   Maybe they are related.
 
Figured you could use the info.  When I get free time I like to experiment with cutting edge builds of a few arm distro's.  
FYI   I'm waiting for a patch set for mainline kernel on Manjaro hoping panfrost gets support working soon through mesa.
At this time the tobetter libMali drivers seem the way to go until then.  I will attempt an Armbian KDE build/install when panfrost/mesa/mainline is more advanced.  
 
Cheers, Archetech
 
Update  8-13-20         Thanks to the dev team I can report that my N2+ is now officially OC'ed to 2100  vs 1800 Mhz and idles at 29 C.    Lanefu built the latest Boot stuff  and I hand edited the boot.ini to match the new dual use- n2 and plus one at github.  Sadly we confirmed the nic can't receive well at all.   Looking forward to more progess on this SBC.