On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 11:38 AM Peter Boy <pboy(a)uni-bremen.de> wrote:
I’m still doing various test for my Fedora Server documentation about usage of SBC [1]
and a scheduled Fedora Magazine article about Fedora Server and Arm SBC.
After some difficulties regarding Odroid and Banana Pi I now got hold of an Radxa Rock Pi
4 to explore and test an alternative hardware to Raspberry Pi 4
During first start, after the grub menu was displayed the monitor lost connection and
showed nothing. But the device bootet correctly and I had access over network. After an
update the monitor worked correctly anything else I tried was fine.
When I connected a NVMe SSD it didn’t boot anymore. I had to re-flash the SD card and
start over. It worked than but didn’t show the NVMe.
When I tried an Ubuntu image as delivered by Radxa the NMMe worked fine (with the Radxa
provided uboot). So the hardware setup is OK. I tried Armbian (using mainline uboot as it
states) and it worked fine with NVMe.
Is there a way to access NVMe in Fedora?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1704945
And if it is, is there a way to flash the SPI with fedora so I can
boot from NVMe? There seems to be some provision for this, but I can't figure out the
details.
Does it have SPI flash? Looking at the specs [1] there's no mention of
it, and in the photos on that page some have the SPI populated, others
have it missing.
[1]
https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/getting_started#get_start_specs