gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> writes: > One of the things apparently missing in today's support for the arm64 > boards such as the bananapi-m5, is the lack of support for the nvme > memory on some of these devices. I have quite a few of them, all > booting and running from 64G micro-sd's. Yet these all have, soldered > to the board, several gigs of nvme memory, more that enough to contain > a full desktop install with all the toys, but totally unused.
https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-M5 says eMMC, not NVME. Same page has a link to a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5I6pzWCTrg which supposedly explains how to use it to install some software. I have no idea if you can actually boot from eMMC on those boards. I only have edible bananas here but on my Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ the eMMC was fully usable and in fact, I have no SD card on that system. Although the eMMC solution on these boards isn't great because they're slow. Apparently the Foundation went cheap (or clueless) on it which is a pity.
