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Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images

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On 4/11/23 00:22, Daniel Gnoutcheff wrote:
>> The best answer is if the board has been supported for a while by
>> Armbian then that is probably a better choice than a less well
>> supported/documented manufacturer specific build of Debian.
>
> Oh, I should clarify.  By "official Debian binaries and images" I meant
> to say "pure" or "mainline" Debian as distributed from *.debian.org. 
> Yes, a bespoke "Debian" image from the hardware vendor is, indeed, out 
> of the question.  ARMbian is better, but I know and deeply trust the 
> Debian project and would prefer to use their releases over those from 
> a derivative like ARMbian. 


The problem with pure Debian is it will likely not ever support the 
extra goodies on some SBC. In my case the NPU and GPU which are 
manufacturer specific.

I have exactly this problem with a NanoPC-T6 which has a RK3588 SOC with 
a 6 TOPS NPU. I run the manufacturer version of Debian and they have 
locked down 20 or 30 packages to use the NPU so I can't upgrade any of them.

The alternative of Armbian is a WIP (work in progress) and pure Debian 
will likely never get in the game.

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Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Daniel Gnoutcheff <gnoutchd@softwarefreedom.org> - 2023-11-01 23:50 +0100
  Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images yxcv@vienna.at - 2023-11-02 01:10 +0100
    Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-02 04:10 +0100
      Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Daniel Gnoutcheff <gnoutchd@softwarefreedom.org> - 2023-11-03 17:40 +0100
        Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-11-03 18:50 +0100
        Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-03 22:30 +0100
          Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-11-04 00:20 +0100
          Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-11-04 17:40 +0100
        Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-11-05 23:30 +0100
          Debian support for ARM SBCs (was: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-11-06 00:50 +0100
            Re: Debian support for ARM SBCs (was: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B  using SD-card-images) "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-11-06 08:20 +0100
          Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-11-06 01:20 +0100
          Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-06 02:40 +0100
            Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-11-06 08:30 +0100
              Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-06 11:20 +0100
    Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-11-02 08:50 +0100
      Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images yxcv@vienna.at - 2023-11-02 08:50 +0100
        Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-11-02 09:20 +0100

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