costel

Hello, Long time Gentoo and Raspberry Pi user, but I am interested in a more powerful Arm device. Will buy an Orange Pi 5 plus device if it meets my requirements. I am interested about dual or multiple boot: let's say Linux and Android or, at least multiple Linux distro - let's say Armbian and Gentoo. It is possible ? On Raspberry Pi 4 with a larger boot partition I switch content of /boot from boot/debian /boot/gentoo, have multiple partition on SATA SSD connected via USB edit root parameter in /boot/cmdline.txt and that way I choose which distro to boot. On Orange PI 5 (Plus) I read that SPI chip have to be flashed to choose the boot device from SDCard (default) or NVME disk - I am not sure about eMMC memory, but it is ok to use SD card as boot partition and change root to Gentoo/Armbian/Android partition. No problem using command line, dd, tar partitioning. So questions: 1. Is dual boot possible now on Orange Pi 5 Plus ? 2. If yes, is possible to switch between Linux and Android ? 3. Or just between multiple Linux installations ? I am convinced that Raspberry Pi support is better, I put this question here, because on Orange Pi forum I am not yet able to make a new post. What to expect from Raxda/Orange ? I am referring to hardware drivers support like mesa, kernel etc, not questions, community, or simply technical support. On panfork I see a new package created on 2023-08-16 - https://launchpad.net/~liujianfeng1994/+archive/ubuntu/panfork-mesa , but no commit on git in the last 8 months. Nothing about mesa 23.1, it stay to mesa 20.0 from the beginning. On the other hand Rock Pi 4 also started from kernel 5.10, but now has support for kernel 6.1 - latest stable one, on Armbian. Thank you for your support!