January 6, 20251 yr Was looking at the build repo and noticed there is already support for Orange pi 5 max (add support for orangepi5 max · armbian/build@b38e4b2). Any specific reason there are no "official" community builds, or did I miss it?
January 6, 20251 yr Yes you missed it https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/tag/25.2.0-trunk.266
January 6, 20251 yr Author 6 hours ago, Werner said: Yes you missed it https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/tag/25.2.0-trunk.266 Oh lol of course 😛 Are there only trunk releases for the opi-max? Was hoping to get a current build instead, anyway, if this doesn't exist, I will build my own image. I got the opi 5 max working by changing the dtb on the 5 plus image - booted fine except I have no wifi.
January 6, 20251 yr This is an unsupported (community/staging/whatever you wanna call it) board and those do not get stable build. Become a maintainer and change it
January 6, 20251 yr Author 7 hours ago, Werner said: This is an unsupported (community/staging/whatever you wanna call it) board and those do not get stable build. Become a maintainer and change it I'm happy to help - but so far the build is unstable and hangs when I request lsmod. The wifi doesn't seem to be enabled out of the box. I checked on the orange pi build and they use the wl module (broadcomm) however I think there are some serious pcie exceptions in the armbian journal that cause the box to blow up. I will probably try ubuntu rockchip version and see if their figured out all the opi max 5 details. If so, I assume this could be a start to bring more board features to armbian?
January 7, 20251 yr 6 hours ago, OttawaHacker said: I assume this could be a start to bring more board features to armbian? Yes, probably. Basic kernel support should be there in both vendor and (I guess) with 6.14 mainline dtb being pushed. So it narrows down to wifi drivers and some tweaks and maybe dts issues. Feel free to dive into.
January 12, 20251 yr Author On 1/6/2025 at 11:37 PM, Werner said: Yes, probably. Basic kernel support should be there in both vendor and (I guess) with 6.14 mainline dtb being pushed. So it narrows down to wifi drivers and some tweaks and maybe dts issues. Feel free to dive into. So current aka 6.12 is a no-go because armbian/bcmdhd-dkms: Broadcom ap6xxx dkms package doesn't build yet on 6.12 (support for the Orange Pi 5 Max with kernel 6.13-rc1 by shenmintao · Pull Request #7537 · armbian/build) Vendor 6.1 is unstable, after boot, lsmod, modprobe are broken and there are pcie errors. I'm going to assume something is wrong with the dts file. I was hoping to try some hacks there... From what I understand that one is hosted on armbian/linux-kernel but how can I tweak it for the build? I see the dts files in the uboot/legacy but is there any way to customize the dts files without cloning the whole linux kernel repo?
January 12, 20251 yr Author 3 hours ago, OttawaHacker said: Vendor 6.1 is unstable Also just tested ubuntu-rockchip - this one works perfectly (6.1 vendor) and is stable so there must be some patches missing in the armbian-linux repo. I don't mind looking into that but no clue how to test this with armbian-build
January 12, 20251 yr 4 hours ago, OttawaHacker said: From what I understand that one is hosted on armbian/linux-kernel https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip When comparing also keep in mind we're on rkr4.1 version of rockchip sdk while Joshua was on rkr3 before he quit. 4 hours ago, OttawaHacker said: I'm going to assume something is wrong with the dts file. Yes, maybe. Maybe in both the dts exist in full in both sources so comparison is easy.
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