ubuntu-rockchip

I bought a NanoPi R6C in the past in the hope that it's going to be a nice mini pc to run all my containers with super low power usage or router. But the software was bad, really bad. I found https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/ , it was godsend but still had some shortcomings. after 2 years, it's bit stable but I just keep it around as a backup route to access my homelab incase the main machines go down.

You can get an n100 system for $110 on sale. Price went up but I still see $135 on eBay now. However YMMV because Europe prices are different For power I don’t know about orange pi 5 but for many SBC power was a mixed bag. I had pretty bad luck with random SBC taking way more power for random reasons and not putting devices in idle mode. Even raspberry pi was pretty bad when it launched. It’s frustrating because it’s hard to fix. With x64 you can often go into bios and enable power modes, but that’s not the case with arm. For example pcie4 can easily draw 2w+ when active. (The interface!) See for example here: https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/issues/606 My n100 takes 6W and 8w (8 and 16gb). If pi5 takes 3w that’s not large enough to matter especially when it’s so inconsistent. Now one place where I used to like rpi zero was

I think that my problem is similar to this [1]. Have tried more than one USB to serial adaptor with the same result, the adaptors work fine on other boards. The board boots Armbian fine with nothing connected to the serial port. [1] https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/issues/1073

while not perfect, this is fairly close: https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip

RPi OS is also using a modified kernel and packages that include the v4l2 codec and FFmpeg (rpi-ffmpeg, which I ever tested). https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/commit/46f21cab3e888823... https://github.com/jc-kynesim/rpi-ffmpeg These staging drivers do not exist in the Linux mainline. It means that you will not get hardware acceleration support when compiling and installing the kernel from `torvalds/linux` instead of `raspberrypi/linux`. As for the RK3588 SBCs, you are free to choose to use Linux 5.10 LTS (legacy) or 6.1 LTS kernel, both of which are officially supported by Rockchip. Or alternatively, use the bleed edge kernel 6.9. Official 3D acceleration will be available in Mesa 24.1 and Linux 6.10, and the developers have also backported it to 6.1 LTS for ease of use. In addition to Armbian, you can also use `ubuntu-rockchip`, whic

Joshua makes some good improvement and upstreams for this SOC https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip