I will receive soon a Orange Pi 5 Plus.

I have setup completely an Orange PI5 with Armbian. I had to recompile kernel, compile drivers ...... it took some time.

If I run the Orange PI5 plus with the same SD card as the Orange Pi 5, would it work?

If not, is there an easy thing to do to make it work? I think there is a device tree file hardware specific , but is it read when compiling the kernel or dynamically?

 

I am asking because processors are very similar, and it would make my life easier!

 

Your view will be appreciated.

Thanks.

@Tony3 It depends on the config of your current kernel if the ethernet adapter will work:

cat /boot/config* | grep CONFIG_R8125

 

If that module is not enabled then the easiest thing to do is recompile with your current config and enable the R8125.

 

You could first check if the modules you were missing aren't already in the default config.

And you'll need to select the right DTB of course in armbianEnv "rk3588-orangepi-5-plus.dtb". If you don't have that file, download a minimal image and copy to /boot/dtb/rockchip/