Cubieboard users abandoned? Trying to find support docs & software.

I just bought a 2nd-hand CubieTruck which apparently has a cubieboard 3. The cubieboard.org website is a shit-show of dead links. There are some docs but all the drivers and software are dead links. No Android or Debian images. It’s also a shit-show over at archive.org:

http://web.archive.org/web/20171105012836/http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubieboard/android/v2.0_A20_android_source.tar.gz

There is a tree of directories here:

http://web.archive.org/web/20180225200418/http://dl.cubieboard.org/

but 404 errors on all files. In principle, softwareheritage.org should have the software. But it doesn’t because (I suspect) s/w heritage fixates on github and probably needed someone to manually request that they keep software outside of Microsoft’s walled garden.

I don’t suppose anyone has cubieboard 3 files.. but in the very least I hope this post will serve to warn ppl to avoid cubieboard.

3 Comments

homik@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 88d (1 reply)

I'll mention https://armbian.com/boards/cubietruck as that's probably the best SW source for most boards. No idea if hw docs were stashed by someone.

evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 88d

Thanks! That was helpful!

hendrik@palaver.p3x.de · 3 pts · 88d

Yeah, use Armbian. And Debian mainline and Arch Linux (ARM variant) run on the Cubietruck as well. Most of the stuff has been mainlined. I just can't get graphics acceleration working. Other than that you could just install any regular Linux distribution. If you're willing to put in the extra effort to deal with u-boot or whatever we use these days and the other effort involved to put Linux on an ARM computer. There's info on their Wikis. And https://linux-sunxi.org/ has some information as well. Most of the times general instructions for A20 boards apply.