Googulator

Does PCIE 2.0 (i.e. Ethernet and Wi-Fi) still work with this change?

If you mean pancsf, check out the pancsf-midstream branch.

It does load the firmware just fine on the branch.

I don't have ITS working right now, however I suspect that's precisely why PCIE works in my kernel. Rockchip's ITS implementation has a nasty bug that makes it incompatible with...

Can you post your extlinux.conf entry for this kernel?

It's in /boot/extlinux. Also, what are you booting from?

Oh, so Armbian doesn't use the extlinux boot process. It would be great to know what command line is being passed to the kernel - unfortunately it's probably in boot.scr,...

Can you upload boot.scr here? I'd like to take a look.

Please try with the included config (in arch/arm64/configs). The Armbian config is missing important drivers.

Note that I still plan to eliminate the "pre-SSL, post-networking" stage, and switch to exclusively HTTPS downloads - my expectation is still that ISPs won't allow non-SSL traffic to pass...