jotapesse

The most current download images for Helios64 are now all provided with linux 6.18.xx.
 
I downloaded a minimal image and checked the dtb: it would not appear to contain the opp-microvolt patch that made Helios64 finally stable.
 
So for the ones who have stability issues again on Helios64, I attached the patched dtb compiled for linux 6.18.xx using the exact same opp-microvolt values as in the previous dtb versions I compiled for linux 6.6 and 6.12. The current linux deb files can be downloaded from beta.armbian.com, the linux 6.18.18 deb files I used can be downloaded from here (to be installed with 'dpkg -i linux*').
 
In order to install the dtb, simply unzip it, copy it into the proper location, update initramfs and reboot:
 
# install the dtb with the opp-microvolt patch: unzip rk3399-kobol-helios64.dtb-6.18.18-opp.zip cp rk3399-kobol-helios64.dtb-6.18.18-opp /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3399-kobol-helios64.dtb update-initramfs -u reboot rk3399-kobol-helios64.dtb-6.18.18-opp.zip

Hi jotapesse, yes same for me ... but on closer inspection ... the flashing of the LAN activity light no longer seems
to be tied to real network activity!
 
1/ It flashes a lot less than it used to do.
2/ If I download a large movie file from the Helios64 to my PC I occasionally see a brief flash, but not the sustained activity that
I'd expect from a download that takes several minutes.
3/ Inspecting my network router, I can see constant low level activity on the Helios64 ip address (I only have one ethernet cable attached to the Helios64)
but don't see any flashing LED.
 
So in conclusion ... its still not working properly!  

Hi everyone! Just to let you all know that I have updated today my Helios64 to Armbian 21.08.3 Bullseye and the "LAN" front panel led now works again. :-) Great!

Hi, I was making my own battery for the kobol64. To do this, you can use a ready-made balancing board, like this https://aliexpress.ru/item/32884781878.html?item_id=32884781878&sku_id=12000024864748835 any 10k thermistor, for example such https://aliexpress.ru/item/32819250168.html  6 pin connector https://aliexpress.ru/item/1005001490801246.html?item_id=1005001490801246&sku_id=12000016325255609 

Hi everyone, thank you for all of your support.
I'll be still around but not in full time as before.
 
I saw Helios64 has several issues in this new release. I will start looking into it.

Armbian is a build system first, cheap ARM hardware enabling second, OS 3rd. We construct user land from Ubuntu and Debian packages since early days, could be said from the day 0. We always provided both because of things as such - bugs and to not deal with user land - let user choose what he needs / prefers. We - those few people - that are investing our resources into common software development, can't afford to fix (all) bugs that showed up. That is not possible by greater Debian community or open source community software in general. Certainly not by corporate Linux flushed with resources such as Cannonical, RedHat, ... even they could do a lot more.
 

We are using carefully selected packages. Cancer, which you are afraid from, is removed in the process - but surely it could return for short time.
 
My x86 workstation is running Linux Mint, which is also assembled from Ubuntu packages, using their repositories. My personal and also very much Armbian philosophy is - get from Ubuntu what is good / was improved, leave everything else and make a new, better OS. In our case, this is even more extreme, since most of the hardware we deal with, doesn't even boot Ubuntu and we maintain our own kernels. The most expensive part of the OS.
 

Maintenance responsibility and costs. We are trying to keep things minimal (we only need one image with latest kernel, user land is less of importance) & manageable, low entropy ... and IHMO we are already failing. I work 6-10h on this project every day and there is not much to notice. Contrary. It looks like we are not doing anything, not answering on bugs, not answering on problems, not porting hardware, I don't answer on personal request ... People, everyday Linux user, usually have absolutely no clue whatsoever how much work is needed to fix a bug, to develop this and that feature, enable some hardware ... to keep a project as ours operational, that moves on.