Very minor niggle, got a ZeroPi today and of course it will run Armbian, after doing the mandatory apt update && apt upgrade I was greeted with a banner saying xt-q8l-v1 instead of ZeroP when logging back in after rebooting for the kernel update. Not sure why it's confused. I used the Buster Minimal image from the ZeroPi download page.

 

root@zeropi:~# cat /etc/armbian-release

# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE

BOARD=xt-q8l-v10

BOARD_NAME="xt-q8l-v10"

BOARDFAMILY=rockchip

BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build

BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=1ac5f7ac

VERSION=5.95

LINUXFAMILY=rockchip

BRANCH=default

ARCH=arm

IMAGE_TYPE=stable

BOARD_TYPE=tvb

INITRD_ARCH=arm

KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=zImage

 

root@zeropi:~# cat /etc/armbian-image-release

# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE

BOARD=zeropi

BOARD_NAME="ZeroPi"

BOARDFAMILY=sun8i

BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/rkbin

BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=3e533c9

DISTRIBUTION_CODENAME=buster

DISTRIBUTION_STATUS=supported

VERSION=20.02.1

LINUXFAMILY=sunxi

BRANCH=current

ARCH=arm

IMAGE_TYPE=stable

BOARD_TYPE=conf

INITRD_ARCH=arm

KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image

IMAGE_UUID=ed2ea060-5123-4c5a-826f-3f0dc83fba63

 

4 minutes ago, stut said:

I used the Buster Minimal image from the ZeroPi download page.

 

Strange.

Thank you. I'll check it tomorrow. Can you please provide

armbianmonitor -u

 

Yes of course: http://ix.io/2fc6

 

I hope tomorrow my ZeroPi has grown a hdmi port and some emmc 

 

It also changed some stuff like cpufrequtils in /etc/default but nothing fatal as far as I can tell. Everything is running fine and I could easily reinstall from the image again if needed.

Ended up reinstalling. So far so good but I will watch very closely what updates do. Specially dtb updates and such.