04-08-2021, 02:22 AM
There is no need to defend Armbian, from my experience and others had similar encounters with them.
If a user turns up at their forum with a problem, first thing they yell at them --> "read the wiki" even if it does not cover the issue in question remotely.
Next they tell them "you have a problem you need to pay for the support" because support costs money and time and they have neither.
And if the user still dares to come back and ask for help they get told we don't have the hardware to reproduce the probelm and by the way that patch that would be needed to fix the issue breaks our setup so we don't care about your problem and will not apply the suggested patch even it would help a majority of users.
See all in all not very user friendly atmosphere overthere. Sorry to say that.
Other Distros are doing much better in this regard, especially the guys at Arch Linux Arm or Manjaro which seem to be the Prime Distros for Pine64 products.
Regarding the reboot issue on Rock64, this appears to be a software problem as I get on Debian every now and then that something calling for device /dev/ttyAM0 gets stuck in a loop and therefore the boot process can not finish. A simple press on the reset button fixes the problem, but this only helps if you have direct acces or be able to interrupt power remotely as this will cancel the loop as well.
If a user turns up at their forum with a problem, first thing they yell at them --> "read the wiki" even if it does not cover the issue in question remotely.
Next they tell them "you have a problem you need to pay for the support" because support costs money and time and they have neither.
And if the user still dares to come back and ask for help they get told we don't have the hardware to reproduce the probelm and by the way that patch that would be needed to fix the issue breaks our setup so we don't care about your problem and will not apply the suggested patch even it would help a majority of users.
See all in all not very user friendly atmosphere overthere. Sorry to say that.
Other Distros are doing much better in this regard, especially the guys at Arch Linux Arm or Manjaro which seem to be the Prime Distros for Pine64 products.
Regarding the reboot issue on Rock64, this appears to be a software problem as I get on Debian every now and then that something calling for device /dev/ttyAM0 gets stuck in a loop and therefore the boot process can not finish. A simple press on the reset button fixes the problem, but this only helps if you have direct acces or be able to interrupt power remotely as this will cancel the loop as well.