Hi,
I’m mostly an inexperience user. I’ve recently received la frite sbc computer from the kickstarter campaign I backed. At first, I installed a debian image provided by libre computer, but I would like to use a distribution with more up to date software, specially for the lima driver, and openSUSE seemed like a good option with good documentation. I’ve looked at the installation documentation, and there’s still no specific installation process for this board, but I referred to the previous model, le potato, and subsequently to khadas vim specific documentation, since they use amlogic chips from the same family. Aside from the fact that u-boot is already included in a SPI ROM on this board, not much else should be different, I assumed.
I used dd to copy t one of the available raw images to a usb drive. I managed to boot the image from the board, but it gets stuck start on “Reached Basic System” step.
I’ve also tried using the iso installer, and it boots fine, but once I get into the installation process, the keyboard is not detected anymore.
Has anyone managed to install it? If negative, can anyone help me understand where the issue resides? Maybe it’s just inexperience from me, but at the time, there’s not much documentation specific for this SBC.
I haven’t looked more deeply,
But I suspect that ll of the boards at the bottom of this page use the SoC so are candidates to work (You’ll have to actually try each).
Hi and welcome to the Forum
I would suggest jumping onto either IRC (Freenode #opensuse-arm) or the openSUSE ARM Mailing list a lot more folks playing with different hardware and can give you pointers on where to start.
That is the guide I was trying to follow, as the AML-S905X has a very similar SoC, but some of the software support differs, as mine is a newer product, and I believe not all the patches have been upstreamed to the kernel yet.
The other significant difference is that this board has an sd card that requires u-boot to be written into it, while as mine doesn’t and u-boot is already loaded into the SPI rom.
Thank you for this gitlab link as it could be useful information I didn’t knew about.
In a response from the manufacturer, they told me the problem with the usb detection could be that the kernel doesn’t include usb meson support. I’m still waiting for another answer to know if this support is present on the kernel, but not enabled, or if it’s not present on the mainline kernel at all.
