Possible eMMC firmware bug or hw issue - recent Seeed Studio BBBs with 6.1.x kernels

Robert

Is there a plan (on your part or anyone elses) to release updated images for the BBB including this fix. I saw on one of the other channels your comment to the effect that ‘it is pretty late for the armhf’, I fully understand that the age and limited capabilities of this CPU mean that at some time people will stop expending effort on it - but is that time now? Looking on Latest Software Images - BeagleBoard the latest images offered when the filter is set to ‘Beaglebone Black’ are from September 2023, I have been able to boot SD card variants, but I have not been able to flash any of these to the eMMC on my Seeed Studio BBB purchased about 18 months ago. From the u-boot log last time I tried to do this, about 6 months ago it looked like the eMMC and/or SD card were shuffling their /dev filesystem node names at some time between the OS being booted from the flasher image on SD and the flashing script being auto-run, not sure this was a symptom of the issues with Seeed devices covered by this ticket - there is some logging from this in this comment.

Anyway, is there any likelihood of new BBB images in the foreseeable future, or should I work my way back through older images until I find one that works for me (probably around Debian 9)?

Nothing I am working on requires bleeding edge OS, but obviously from a security PoV supported is better than out-of-support.

I should just say, whatever your response, I’m very grateful for the extensive work you’ve put into keeping this community of devices viable, and I respect your right to focus on more current devices if that is what you choose to do.