November 19, 2025Nov 19 Hello, my Orange Pi 5 works well with the stock OS (1.22, Ubuntu Jammy, BSP kernel 6.1.99), using the SD as a boot device. It also works ok with Armbian Minimal-IoT / Debian 13 / 6.1: v25.8.2 for Orange Pi 5 running Armbian Linux 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx But I prefer Ubuntu and wanted to try 6.12, so I downloaded 25.8.2 / Ubuntu Server / 6.12. Wrote to SD, hooked up the debug UART and powered on. The bootloader is fine, the kernel starts, but at a certain point it panics: [ OK ] Reached target sockets.target - Socket Units. Starting armbian-hardware-monitor.…ce - Armbian hardware monitoring... Starting armbian-hardware-optimize… - Armbian hardware optimization... Starting armbian-led-state.service - Armbian leds state... Starting armbian-resize-filesystem…vice - Armbian filesystem resize... armbian-hardware-monitor.service [ OK ] Finished armbian-hardware-monitor.…vice - Armbian hardware monitoring. [ OK ] Finished armbian-led-state.service - Armbian leds state. armbian-led-state.service [ OK ] Finished armbian-hardware-optimize…ce - Armbian hardware optimization. armbian-hardware-optimize.service [ OK ] Finished console-setup.service - Set console font and keymap. console-setup.service sys-kernel-debug-tracing.mount [ 158.363359] rockchip-pm-domain fd8d8000.power-management:power-controller: failed to get ack on domain 'gpu', val=0xa9fff [ 158.364324] SError Interrupt on CPU7, code 0x00000000be000411 -- SError [ 158.364327] CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 462 Comm: (udev-worker) Tainted: G M C 6.12.49-current-rockchip64 #1 [ 158.364332] Tainted: [M]=MACHINE_CHECK, [C]=CRAP [ 158.364333] Hardware name: Xunlong Orange Pi 5 (DT) [ 158.364334] pstate: 404000c9 (nZcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 158.364336] pc : _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x38/0x8c [ 158.364342] lr : regmap_lock_spinlock+0x18/0x2c [ 158.364347] sp : ffff800083f03660 [ 158.364348] x29: ffff800083f03660 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff800083f03c60 [ 158.364351] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff710bf0c4c080 x24: ffff710bf0f64098 [ 158.364354] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000001 x21: 0000000000000000 [ 158.364356] x20: 000000000000000c x19: 0000000000000000 x18: ffffffffffffffff [ 158.364358] x17: 66203a72656c6c6f x16: 72746e6f632d7265 x15: 776f703a746e656d [ 158.364361] x14: 6567616e616d2d72 x13: 00000000000002ac x12: 00000000ffffffea [ 158.364363] x11: 0000000000000001 x10: 0000000000000001 x9 : ffffc80dcfdf9250 [ 158.364365] x8 : 000000000002ffe8 x7 : c0000000ffffdfff x6 : 00000000000affa8 [ 158.364368] x5 : ffffc80dce6c1b54 x4 : 0000000000000008 x3 : ffffc80dce6c15c8 [ 158.364370] x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff710bf0f65c00 [ 158.364373] Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt [ 158.364374] CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 462 Comm: (udev-worker) Tainted: G M C 6.12.49-current-rockchip64 #1 [ 158.364377] Tainted: [M]=MACHINE_CHECK, [C]=CRAP [ 158.364378] Hardware name: Xunlong Orange Pi 5 (DT) [ 158.364379] Call trace: [ 158.364380] dump_backtrace+0x94/0x114 [ 158.364383] show_stack+0x18/0x24 [ 158.364385] dump_stack_lvl+0x38/0x90 [ 158.364387] dump_stack+0x18/0x24 [ 158.364389] panic+0x39c/0x3f4 [ 158.364392] nmi_panic+0x40/0x8c [ 158.364394] arm64_serror_panic+0x70/0x80 [ 158.364396] do_serror+0x3c/0x78 [ 158.364398] el1h_64_error_handler+0x30/0x48 [ 158.364401] el1h_64_error+0x64/0x68 [ 158.364402] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x38/0x8c [ 158.364404] regmap_lock_spinlock+0x18/0x2c [ 158.364407] regmap_write+0x3c/0x78 [ 158.364409] rockchip_pd_power+0xf8/0x5e8 [ 158.364414] rockchip_pd_power_on+0x14/0x20 [ 158.364417] _genpd_power_on+0x94/0x188 [ 158.364418] genpd_power_on.part.0+0xa4/0x1ac [ 158.364421] __genpd_dev_pm_attach+0x144/0x2dc [ 158.364423] genpd_dev_pm_attach+0x60/0x70 [ 158.364425] dev_pm_domain_attach+0x20/0x34 [ 158.364429] platform_probe+0x50/0xdc [ 158.364431] really_probe+0xc0/0x38c [ 158.364434] __driver_probe_device+0x7c/0x15c [ 158.364437] driver_probe_device+0x40/0x114 [ 158.364440] __driver_attach+0xf4/0x1fc [ 158.364443] bus_for_each_dev+0x74/0xd4 [ 158.364445] driver_attach+0x24/0x30 [ 158.364448] bus_add_driver+0x110/0x234 [ 158.364451] driver_register+0x60/0x128 [ 158.364453] __platform_driver_register+0x24/0x30 [ 158.364455] panthor_init+0x64/0x1000 [panthor] [ 158.364467] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x2a8 [ 158.364470] do_init_module+0x58/0x20c [ 158.364472] load_module+0x1e4c/0x1f3c [ 158.364474] init_module_from_file+0x84/0xc4 [ 158.364476] __arm64_sys_finit_module+0x1f4/0x2f0 [ 158.364478] invoke_syscall+0x48/0x110 [ 158.364481] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xe8 [ 158.364484] do_el0_svc+0x20/0x2c [ 158.364487] el0_svc+0x30/0xfc [ 158.364488] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x13c/0x158 [ 158.364491] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 [ 158.364492] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs [ 158.364557] Kernel Offset: 0x480d4dc00000 from 0xffff800080000000 [ 158.364558] PHYS_OFFSET: 0xffff8ef600000000 [ 158.364559] CPU features: 0x1c,00000017,00280928,4200720b [ 158.364561] Memory Limit: none [ 158.393407] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt ]--- Power brick is a solid 5V/4A and as I said works OK with the stock OS (7zip benchmark and all) and Armbian Minimal Any suggestion? Thanks a lot Fernando Edited November 19, 2025Nov 19 by XFer012 Added reference to Armbian Minimal
November 20, 2025Nov 20 current isn't a good option for rk3588/s devices. At this point of time barely any support for this SoC was mainlined. And it seems like later revisions introduced a regression causing a crash. Since 6.18 may become next LTS kernel it will replace current current kernel at some point. So better go for an edge based image instead.
November 24, 2025Nov 24 Author I would try an "edge" image, but I cannot see any: https://www.armbian.com/orangepi-5/ Only "vendor" and "current" images are listed. Is there a specific page to look for edge-type images? Thanks Fernando
November 24, 2025Nov 24 Not all possible kernel-userspace combinations are built and/or exposed. If you cannot find what you are looking for, DIY: https://github.com/armbian/build/
November 24, 2025Nov 24 Your best bet is to compile your own image. It's super easy: "git clone https://github.com/armbian/build.git;cd build;./compile.sh" https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Building-with-Docker/ https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQcEFsXEJEE
November 24, 2025Nov 24 Author In case everyone else is interested: the easiest way I found to get a running system with the latest kernel is Start with an image based upon the vendor 6.1 kernel (I used "Armbian_25.8.2_Orangepi5_noble_vendor_6.1.115_minimal.img.xz") Once it's running, launch "armbian-config" Choose "System", then the entry to install a different kernel Now you can select the latest kernel, in my case "6.18-RC5" Just for the records, I was interested in trying the latest kernel because, with the vendor-provided 6.1 kernel, my NVMe drive was limited to 400 MB/s ("downgraded link speed"). Unfortunately, the same applies to the latest 6.18-RC5: probably a DTS issue, but I don't know how to fix it, so be it. Best, Fernando Edited November 24, 2025Nov 24 by XFer012
November 24, 2025Nov 24 28 minutes ago, XFer012 said: my NVMe drive was limited to 400 MB/s What do you expect from single lane M.2 PCIe2.0?
December 1, 2025Dec 1 Author I expect 2x the figure: dmesg | grep PCIe pci 0004:41:00.0: 4.000 Gb/s available PCIe bandwidth, limited by 5.0 GT/s PCIe x1 link at 0004:40:00.0 (capable of 15.752 Gb/s with 8.0 GT/s PCIe x2 link) lspci -vv | grep LnkSta LnkSta: Speed 5GT/s (downgraded), Width x1 (downgraded)
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