> Am 04.09.2022 um 23:21 schrieb Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com>:
> 
>>>> Before that I got the EFI screen and could select a kernel, but the 
>>>> keyboard is not initialised so the system does respond to the cursor keys 
>>>> at all.
>>> 
>>> Is it the firmware shipped by Fedora or does it come from elsewhere?
>> 
>> Fedora doesn’t include a spi Version, so I used spi firmware from Armbian 
>> late 2020, which is according to Arabian docu  mainline U-Boot. And 
>> everything worked since then.
> 
> So Fedora doesn't include a SPI version of it because neither of the
> Rock Pi 4 devices, rock-pi-4-rk3399 and rock-pi-4c-rk3399, have
> support for SPI in upstream U-Boot even with upstream master ATM. I
> have neither of those devices so I can't test any patches I could do
> to be able to send that support upstream.

So the Armbian docu pretends something that doesn’t exist - not nice.
> 
>> But when the kernel issue arises, the system is already running from NVMe 
>> device, isn’t it?
> 
> It could be because something had changed in the firmware and the
> kernel isn't powering up a regulator that is needed by PCI or similar
> that was previously powered up by firmware.
> 
>>> Which model of Rock Pi 4 is it?
>> It is the Rock Pi 4a (without wifi), Board revision 1.4 which is the first 
>> revision with a soldered SPI module.
>> 
>> 
>>> Do you get all the early displayoutput?
>> 
>> I get after the update the same output as with the installation kernel. That 
>> is the EFI selection screen, the the display goes blank so some seconds, 
>> then the online message in the first line „BootingFedora …, then the display 
>> goes blank again for some seconds, and the output as I wrote in my previous 
>> mail. The keyboard is with both kernels not operational when the EDI screen 
>> is displayed.
> 
> So you get output from U-Boot before you get a grub menu? If so what
> version string does the Armbian firmware return?

It says: U-Boot 2020.10 - Armbian May 06 2011


> I may have found something, but I'm still bisecting some pieces down.

Gives ma hope.

Peter


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