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- ROCK 5B | Added an option in dietpi-software "Advanced Option" to flash the SPI bootloader, which enables NVMe boot for DietPi images.
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MichaIng committed Oct 2, 2023
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(2023-10-21)

Enhancements:
- ROCK 5B | Added an option in dietpi-software "Advanced Option" to flash the SPI bootloader, which enables NVMe boot for DietPi images.
- DietPi-Software | Firefox: Enabled the software option for RISC-V, since Debian provides packages now. But do not expect good performance, as GPU-acceleration is missing.

Bug fixes:
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G_WHIP_MENU_ARRAY+=('Update RPi4 EEPROM firmware' ': Install rpi-eeprom APT package')
fi

# Orange Pi 5 (Plus): https://dietpi.com/forum/t/orange-pi-5-boot-from-nvme/16457
elif [[ $G_HW_MODEL == 8[02] ]]
# ROCK 5B and Orange Pi 5 (Plus): https://dietpi.com/forum/t/orange-pi-5-boot-from-nvme/16457
elif [[ $G_HW_MODEL =~ ^(78|80|82)$ ]]
then
[[ -b '/dev/mtdblock0' && -f '/usr/lib/u-boot/platform_install.sh' ]] && G_WHIP_MENU_ARRAY+=('Update SPI bootloader' ': Flash current U-Boot to /dev/mtdblock0')

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Interesting, as I already flashed a bootloader some time ago that can do NVMe, but sadly I cant remember where I got it from (It was for sure not from Radxa)...
DId you take a look at this btw: https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588

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Sure there are other bootloaders which support NVMe, but the one from Armbian we ship does as well. So it makes sense to allow flashing that one, which is already installed anyway.

Due to lack of time, and since I do not see any benefits, we won't look into UEFI for ARM SBCs for now. Also note that they still use U-Boot as SPL, so it is U-Boot which then looks for and in case boots the UEFI as next bootloader stage. However, regular (mainline) U-Boot is well established, supported and allows a lot of well known configuration ways, notably boot scripts and extlinux, and can even start EFI binaries from within the U-Boot shell, if for some reason this is really wanted.

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Fair enough, thx for the detailed answer...

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