Follow-up to this note:

I decided to test whether #GotoSocial would work on the #RockPro64 using the current instead of the legacy #Armbian kernel before risking problems upgrading my production #yunohost.

I have a similar testing setup: old mechanical drives instead of SSDs, a different PCIe SATA controller, an additional eMMC.

The additional eMMC I need to boot from, because for some reason the PCIe SATA ctrl didn't work, when u-boot initializes the controller before the kernel.

Installing the current kernel on my testing setup I found it not working: no console on hdmi, no network. Forgot to install the newer dtb (device tree binary) as well.

With currrent kernel and dtb from #Armbian installed the system booted half of the times I switched it on. Asking around on the rock64 chat I met Dragan Simic who greatly helped me to get further down the #RabbitHole…