Feat/armbian opi5 image#145
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Thanks to even's testing, I feel pretty good about merging this as an alternate build so we can test it on the main repo. Can I get a review please? |
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Overview
This PR adds an Armbian for the OrangePi5 Debian Trixie image with kernel 6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx. The image is much smaller than the one we have been using and it is being maintained. Armbian images are also available for the other RK3588(S) boards that we support.
Image source
The image comes from https://armbian.hosthatch.com/archive/orangepi5/archive/, which is not the latest image. The latest images are located at https://armbian.chi.auroradev.org/dl/orangepi5/archive/, but they are not archived there, so pointing to those images would cause our build to break when the image is updated. The hosthatch repo is a long-term archive, so links to those images should be stable.
Vendor-supplied U-Boot may need to be updated
When I first tested this image on my OPi5, I experienced very slow boot time (1.5 to 2 minutes). Updating the bootloader on the MTD flash via
sudo armbian-installmade a huge difference and decreased the boot time to < 9 seconds! I don't know if I had a bad U-Boot on my board, or if everyone will need to update U-Boot.You can see what version of U-Boot is installed on your system by running
sudo strings /dev/mtd0 | grep "^U-Boot"