I noticed higher idle consumption (approx. 1 watt more) and lower clock speeds with Armbian. Is this a problem for a testing kernel? No. Bleeding edge/development kernels are usually broken at some point, regressions are common and they are definitely not optimised. This happens after basic functio...

I noticed higher idle consumption (approx. 1 watt more) and lower clock speeds with Armbian. Do you know why?

That was a regression due to a network driver change which usually doesn't happen just like this. It was a surprise but nevertheless, it's fixed and it works now. Ethernet drivers were ported from 4.15: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/5908-neo2-ethernet-port-not-work-after-upgrading-to-537/?do=find...

I was thinking of Armbian too and would actually prefer it (I have an Orange Pi PC running with Armbian for over a year now without issues, great work, thanks!). However, the last time I tried Armbian ethernet did not work and the board did not boot: http://www.friendlyarm.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f...

I was thinking of Armbian too and would actually prefer it (I have an Orange Pi PC running with Armbian for over a year now without issues, great work, thanks!). However, the last time I tried Armbian ethernet did not work and the board did not boot: http://www.friendlyarm.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=...

I am running my Neo Plus 2 with the official Ubuntu image, which was available in July 2017 (kernel 4.11.2), flashed to emmc. Today I noticed there are new official images with kernel 4.14 available for downloading. How can I upgrade to this version? Alternatively, is it possible to backup all my ap...

Got it, thanks for the explanation.

I downloaded "Armbian_5.34.171031_Nanopineoplus2_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.13.10.7z" and flashed it on a Sandisk micro sd card with Etcher. Unfortunately neo2plus does not boot. After removing the micro-sd card the board boots normally (Friendlyarm's Ubuntu on emmc). Should I try a different im...

Great news!

Is NEON and AES encryption/decryption enabled on this build?

Friendlyarm Wiki: http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO_Plus2 then follow the link in the "Get Image Files" section: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/vknb4g7udw103/NanoPi-NEO-Plus2 I downloaded and flashed "nanopi-neo-plus2_eflasher_4.11.2_20170630.img.zip" to emmc

I downloaded "nanopi-neo-plus2_eflasher_4.x.y_YYYYMMDD.img.zip" for my neo plus 2 and was able to flash it to emmc. This Ubuntu image works pretty well, however I prefer Debian.
Is it possible to flash debian (nanopi-neo-plus2_debian-nas-jessie_4.x.y_YYYYMMDD.img.zip) to emmc? If yes, how?