Hello everyone,
This is my 1st post on the forum.
My intention with this post is not to report a specific issue that I am running into, but more because I would like to collect info and suggestions from people with more experience than myself.
I've recently received an Orange Pi 5 Plus and have spent a bit of time exploring operating systems suitable for this system and have settled on the Armbian solution.
I'm a HW designer by trade, and have done some SW work, but I do not consider myself proficient in SW at all. I find my way around things, but that's about as far as it goes....
For the my planned use of the OPi5+, I will need eMMC boot (for the improved OS performance and longevity) and access to the various interfaces (mainly SPI and I2C) on the GPIO header.
What I have discovered so far:
- Version 6.1 of the Armbian built kernel supports the GPIO interfaces quite well (I haven't actually communicated with anything yet, just got the interfaces showing up in /dev), but I could not get it to see the eMMC storage on the board. I tried various different options and flavours of the 6.1 images and I never saw /dev mmcblk0 listed.
- Version 6.10 kernel builds were successful at accessing the eMMC (/dev/mmcblk0 was present) and I have successfully transferred the OS to the eMMC storage on the board. However this version of the kernel has a limited number of device tree overlays (mostly different UART options, and one I2C option).
I'm assuming that the 6.10 kernel is quite a new build and that more support for the board's IO should be available soon.
Did I overlook something on the 6.1 version regarding the eMMC support?
Am I missing something regarding overlays in the 6.10 build?
My thinking is to stay with 6.10 as it supports eMMC and it's the newest kernel version.
Cheers
Volt