Is anyone still playing with this board? When the CPU microcode bur came out, interest in this board immediately died down and in my opinion it's a real shame. I can understand in operational and production scenarios that if malicious code is injected the attacker can take control of the machine but it's a pretty difficult scenario to implement.

 

I tried to load the latest armbian builds but I couldn't boot. As for performance, I have to say that with the official sipeed image I'm not bad even if it's not a distro but a debian image optimized by the sipeed team. I also believe in this case that there are no maintainers who can follow the armbian community release of this board, what a pity.

 

What other image could I use? Thanks to everyone

I am seeing EOS under armbian-build. But it looks like it has a old vendor stable option. Visit https://github.com/armbian/build   if you want to give it a try.

 

thanks, I was aware of this tool on github but I had never seen the supported boards. while I'm at it I'll check if the starfive visionfive2 board was also available, I wrote a post for that too.