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You are right, supporting a board family is a different thing 🙂 The board can have different hardware (nic, wlan, usb .... ) But sorry im was only care about the processor, and if i'm not wrong, the SOC is completely the same (cpu, gpu, apu). Maybe some minor differences (frequencies etc). And so im looked about the kernel / user modules regarding the cpu/gpu not for the complete image 🙂 But looks like the situation is the the same there, for different features( vpu / openGLES / vulkan) you need special kernel / image versions.

Thanks for your answer 🙂 Thats what I'm also not understand .... You (premium) support the radxa 5B or so, it has exactly the same Chip .... what does this exactly mean ? And you are completely right, the SOC world looks like so depressing, regarding the gap between the promises of the SOC producers and what you really can use .... 🙂

Hello all, I'm also bought an orange pi 5 pro :-) I have red a little bit in the Forum (after i'm bought) and I'm a little bit confused now 🙂 I'm new in the embedded (arm) world but have some knowledge from the desktop/x86 windows & linux world. my first expirience with the device was also .... intresting. I'm installed the official (orangepi.org) debian-booksworm image with the 6.1.xx kernel .... and diddnt get the network interfaces to run, and no nvme device available ... next try was with debian-booksworm image and the 5.10..xx kernel and the networks just runned and the nvme showed up. But i think for my need this kernel is just old ... So now im trying armbian (iot version) ..... at the moment with an 6.1.99 vendor kernel. installed weston seatd & co for running some rudimentary OpenGL ES based tests .... but without success. glxgears / glxinfo failing EGLInitialize() cannot create context ... rknpuxxxx.so not found. i think thats the "which /dev/dri device is the right" issue. Have also red that some HW functionally is only available on full blown desktop environments 😞 What do I need: - i dont want to use the device as a desktop replacement - i want to use it as development board for tinkering around with OpenGL ES / OpenCL and get some experience with embedded development. - rudimentary boot2qt functionality based on wayland-egl or eglfs platform (running Qt apps in wayland cage or without window manager) - good opengl es 3.2 support - recent compiler support, gcc13(+) / clang 18 - boost / qt 6.7 + should available as devel packages (don't like to build it for my own, but if its necesarry ...) - opencl support would be nice - media / audio support (QMultimedia) - atm i dont need video acceleration, but maybe later .... So my question: with which Kernel / System should i start with ? is the device a good choice ? I bought it mainly because the 2 nics and the available storage options (nvme / emmc) makes it very flexible for another usage (router backup i.e) Soon or later i have to dig into yocto also maybe ....