c0rnelius

This works for me. Edit it to fit the commands you want to be able to run.
sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/010_$USER-nopasswd <<EOF ${USER} ${HOSTNAME} = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown ${USER} ${HOSTNAME} = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/poweroff ${USER} ${HOSTNAME} = (root) NOPASSWD: /sbin/reboot EOF  

@c0rnelius I would like to report back with the news of full success:
 
I have updated cmdline.txt to start with:
console=tty1 console=ttyAMA0,115200 earlycon=pl011,0x107d001000,115200n8  
And also added the following to config.txt:
usb_max_current_enable=1 enable_uart=1 dtparam=uart0 dtparam=uart0_console dtparam=pciex1 dtparam=pciex1_gen=3 dtoverlay=disable-wifi-pi5 dtoverlay=disable-bt-pi5  
All this with the HAT+ (in the picture above) still connected.
The early boot console also works, and I also get a login prompt, which is all I wanted.
After this I tried replacing ttyAMA0 to serial0 in cmdline.txt, to see if there is any difference, but they both seemed to work in the end.

Finally there is a proper tor-browser available for arm64/aarch64:
 
1. Goto https://nightlies.tbb.torproject.org/nightly-builds/tor-browser-builds/
2. Navigate into: tbb-nightly.<date>/nightly-linux-aarch64/ 
3. Download tor-browser-linux-aarch64-tbb-nightly.<date>.tar.xz
4. Unpack with tar -Jxvf and run tor-browser/start-tor-browser.desktop
 
Yay!
 
(I'm sure you can compile it too from their github page)

@twwn
 
Add to rk3566-radxa-zero-3.dtsi -->  snps,usb2-lpm-disable;
https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/patch/kernel/archive/rockchip64-6.12/dt/rk3566-radxa-zero-3.dtsi#L495
 
&usb_host0_xhci { dr_mode = "peripheral"; + snps,usb2-lpm-disable; status = "okay"; };  
See if it makes a difference.
 
Information:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/dwc3.txt

Ur welcome.

Try this overlay
 
/dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { fragment@0 { target = <&ehci0>; __overlay__ { status = "okay"; }; }; fragment@1 { target = <&ohci0>; __overlay__ { status = "okay"; }; }; fragment@2 { target = <&usbotg>; __overlay__ { dr_mode = "host"; }; }; };  
sunxi-usb-host-mode.dts

Endless …
Garbage 😉
 

@ScoreABSM
https://github.com/pyavitz/binary/releases/download/images/Armbian-unofficial_25.08.0-trunk_Bananapim4zero_trixie_current_6.12.35.img.xz

The issue appears to be two things.
 
These two patches and the current defconfig(s) being used.
drv-rtc-sun6i-support-RTCs-without-external-LOSCs.patch
drv-rtc-sun6i-Add-Allwinner-H616-support.patch
 
When I disable those patches and use my own defconfig everything works as it should.
https://paste.armbian.com/tixixocubu
 
The hard part here would be figuring out exactly what in the defconfig(s) are either breaking things or missing. Also if I disable those patches, what does it break on other units? I'm under the impression these patches were rejects from the original h616 bring up in mainline. But I could be wrong?
 

Tried creating an overlay and changing it to; peripheral?
 
 
/dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-h2-plus", "allwinner,sun8i-h3"; fragment@0 { target = <&usb_otg>; __overlay__ { dr_mode = "peripheral"; }; }; };  

@ScoreABSM
 
https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8339
 

I use a 12v 3a PSU "Barrel"
 
patrick@bananapif3:~$ dmesg | grep pcie [ 0.322772] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: has no power on gpio. [ 0.325025] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: host bridge /soc/pcie@ca400000 ranges: [ 0.325065] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: IO 0x009f002000..0x009f101fff -> 0x009f002000 [ 0.325088] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: MEM 0x0090000000..0x009effffff -> 0x0090000000 [ 0.425212] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: iATU: unroll T, 8 ob, 8 ib, align 4K, limit 4G [ 0.525297] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: PCIe Gen.2 x2 link up [ 0.525837] k1x-dwc-pcie ca400000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0001:00 [ 0.543059] pcieport 0001:00:00.0: PME: Signaling with IRQ 65 [ 0.543510] pcieport 0001:00:00.0: AER: enabled with IRQ 65 [ 0.544202] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: has no power on gpio. [ 0.546446] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: host bridge /soc/pcie@ca800000 ranges: [ 0.546484] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: IO 0x00b7002000..0x00b7101fff -> 0x00b7002000 [ 0.546510] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: MEM 0x00a0000000..0x00afffffff -> 0x00a0000000 [ 0.546525] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: MEM 0x00b0000000..0x00b6ffffff -> 0x00b0000000 [ 0.646655] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: iATU: unroll T, 8 ob, 8 ib, align 4K, limit 4G [ 1.647016] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: Phy link never came up [ 1.647233] k1x-dwc-pcie ca800000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0002:00 [ 1.654489] pcieport 0002:00:00.0: PME: Signaling with IRQ 69 [ 1.654939] pcieport 0002:00:00.0: AER: enabled with IRQ 69 patrick@bananapif3:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS mmcblk2 179:0 0 14.6G 0 disk ├─mmcblk2p1 179:1 0 508M 0 part └─mmcblk2p2 179:2 0 14.1G 0 part mmcblk2boot0 179:8 0 4M 1 disk mmcblk2boot1 179:16 0 4M 1 disk zram0 250:0 0 1.9G 0 disk [SWAP] nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 508M 0 part /boot └─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 238G 0 part /  

sudo modprobe i2c-dev ?

If the u-boot on the unit supports USB Boot, yes. 
 
GXL:BL1:9ac50e:bb16dc;FEAT:ADFD318C:0;POC:3;RCY:0;EMMC:800;NAND:81;SD:800;USB:8;LOOP:1;EMMC:800;NAND:81;SD:800;USB:8;LOOP:2;EMMC:800;NAND:81;SD:800;USB:8;LOOP:3;EMMC:0;READ:0;0.0;CHK:0; The above looks like USB Mode. This Mode is for flashing vendor or custom imgs to the unit via USB. This is for recovery.
 
 

There are big differences between the two revisions. The biggest one is, one is using Wifi/BT over USB and the other SDIO, which requires the sdio overlay. The reason for BT not working on Armbian, I have yet to figure out. Like I said before, it works on (my personal) a more minimal build;
 
Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid 6.12.26 #1 Sun May 4 17:50:23 EDT 2025 aarch64 BananaPi BPI-M4-Zero v2 ── DISK Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mmcblk2p2 29G 2.8G 26G 10% / /dev/mmcblk2p1 466M 74M 363M 17% /boot ── NETWORK Hostname: bananapim4zero Wireless: wlan0 UP 10.0.0.XX Bluetooth: hci0 AC:6A:A3:3B:D9:D6 ── SYSTEM Processor: Cortex-A53 @ 1416MHz 52°C Frequency: 1416MHz Online: 0-3 Governor: performance Memory: 3.8G 199M Entropy: 256 Uptime: 15:13:05 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.06, 0.  
It is hard for me to determine the reasons BT doesn't work, as the patching is very extensive. If it is even the patching?
 
And yes I include the BT node in the overlay; https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/patch/kernel/archive/sunxi-6.12/patches.armbian/Add-BananaPi-BPI-M4-Zero-overlays.patch#L267
 
As for HDMI audio and GPU, the PR I posted a link to corrects this. In future releases and rolling (give it a day) it should now work. Although I think I need to now add my changes to the 6.14.y branch? I'll check.
 

The GPU node needs to be enabled.
There has been adjustments made to the patching for 6.12.y and above, but I haven't messed with yet. Basically nodes need to be added for sound.
As for  Bluetooth. I haven't figured out yet why it doesn't work on Armbian. In my personal builds it works fine. I believe there is some patching or service preventing it from loading. But I can't be sure.
 
I've put a lot of time already into the DTS to get this working on both REVS. To much time in my opinion. Anyone is welcome to do a PR and add and enable the bits if they like. Otherwise peps are just gonna have to wait till I get around to it again.
 

I tested Armbian 25.2.2 Bookworm Minimal / IOT on both the REV1 and REV2. Wifi worked fine in both cases.

https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/7951

They were custom built.
 
I suspect the issue is: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/patch/u-boot/v2022.10/meson64-boot-usb-nvme-scsi-first.patch
 

@dnwhoop02
 
sudo dd if=u-boot.bin of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=512 seek=1  

The kernel checks a few places for firmware blobs. https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/firmware/fw_search_path.html
 
You can also set a firmware path in cmdline. This usually isn't needed though.
firmware_class.path=/lib/firmware/updates/brcm  
The kernel checks /lib/firmware/updates before /lib/firmware, allowing us to be able to test new firmware without removing the old.
 

Should be available in future kernel builds.
https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/db3fdc74117392d3d0c0ec02811c8939769fe6da

Makes sense, thanks @c0rnelius

I'm told the bluetooth doesn't work, which is why I haven't submitted it. The patch was also done quick and dirty and I'm sure needs some clean up.
0001-arch-arm64-dts-allwinner-sun50i-h618-bananapi-m4-zero-v2.patch

I think the problem is Pine and not Armbian here. But I understand your point of view.