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Armbian requires the latest UEFI firmware for this board available here: https://forum.radxa.com/t/radxa-dragon-q6a-firmware-snapshot/
For flashing the (extracted) armbian image to UFS storage you can use the same edl-ng tool from flashing the firmware with this command:
./edl-ng --loader prog_firehose_ddr.elf --memory UFS write-sector 0 *.img
- Installation to NVME or USB is done via standard armbian install utility (
sudo armbian-install). Make sure to generate partitions and format them before start. - For UFS ready images use an image with the Extension UFS and flash it directly either via an USB-Adapter or via `rkdeveloptool`. See this Docs page for more information on how to flash Rockchip boards via Maskrom mode.
How to install
Radxa-Nio-12L uses EFI Boot via Grub with DeviceTree. To make use of it follow this Guide from Collabora to flash Uboot onto the UFS storage. Then you can flash one of the provided images onto a SD-Card and power on the SBC which will automatically boot into Armbian. Keep in mind the Boot order has UFS at first place so you need to erase any OS you have on on UFS to boot from a SD Card.
Q&A for Genio-Family:
- Can I boot from UFS?
- Yes just make sure to use the Armbian image with the UFS extension as these are partioned with 4096 sector size instead of the 512 used commonly for SD-Card / NVMe / etc.
- Which kernels are available?
- We’re making use of Collabora’s mediatek-next branch which is based on mainline Linux.
- XYZ is not working.
- Check this support matrix to see if that feature has been implemented already.
