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armfan reacted to maxsub in Orange Pi RV2 May 20

Got it! But this DKMS should be loaded by the build:

function post_family_tweaks_bsp__orangepirv2_wifi() {
display_alert "$BOARD" "Force load bmcdhd wireless" "info"
run_host_command_logged mkdir -pv "${destination}"/etc/modules-load.d
run_host_command_logged echo "bcmdhd" > "${destination}"/etc/modules-load.d/${BOARD}.conf
}

armfan reacted to sven-ola in Orange Pi RV2 May 20

Hu? In difference to Spacemit 6.6.99, the 6.18 kernel has no bcmdhd included. For that reason I put in an adapted version of bcmdhd in a DKMS, installed via a source deb from my repo on codeberg.org/sven-ola. B/c DKMS needs a compiler on the board, the edge image is larger than current image. Code quality of bcmdhd is questionable so it probably never make it into the official Linux tree, but it works (at least on my board with my image). HTH // Sven-Ola

armfan reacted to sven-ola in Orange Pi RV2 May 20

I think I've completed all tasks. Thus the OpiRV2 PR now waits for a team member to press the [merge] button probably.

@maxsub I compiled 6.6.99 kernel on my board with 2Gb RAM once. Needed 3 hours and a decent swap file. HTH // Sven-Ola

armfan reacted to maxsub in Orange Pi RV2 May 20

I am so thrilled to be able to get this working. Donation to Armbian on the way.

armfan reacted to maxsub in Orange Pi RV2 May 20

This is fantastic work! Thank you so much. I was able to build from source. Tested it on RV2 and R2S and both work great. Your changes are patched on to the 6.6.99 kernel as far as I can tell. Are these going to be merged upstream and make their way into 6.17?
Thanks again for your amazing work.

armfan reacted to rayrayrayraycat in Orange Pi RV2 May 20

THANK YOU so much for this effort. I no longer regret buying an OrangePi RV2!

armfan reacted to Malay in Orange Pi RV2 May 20

Hello, sven-ola!
First of all, thank you very much for your work! HDMI audio now works well on the Edge.
Secondly, I'm not particularly knowledgeable about this, so please forgive me in advance for this possibly stupid question 🙂
It's impossible to implement video hardware acceleration support in the firmware, from here - https://sdk.spacemit.com/en/faqs/ ?
If I understand correctly, patched versions of FFmpeg and GStreamer are needed, and they should also be integrated in firmware into the k1x-vpu-firmware and mpp . Is this possible?
When playing any video (even at very low resolution), there is terrible lag. The board should easily support 4K HEVC, but it can't play 720p video properly.
At the same time, the Banana Pi BPI-F3 board with similar technical characteristics copes with video 4K HEVC https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI-F3/BananaPi_BPI-F3.

armfan reacted to sven-ola in Orange Pi RV2 May 20

Hello @Malay! No need to raise your voice. Anyhow - thanks for the feedback. The missing HDMI audio has a deeper reason: the communication with the Realtime-CPUs does not work. Background: HDMI audio needs a special DMA: adma, that in turn is supported by the rCPUs (the extra Cores running the real-time-OS from esos.elf) and that does not communicate correctly via rpmsg currently. Not sure why and also not sure if this is true with the other RiscV/Spacemit boards.

The 2280 M.2 slot works, I am pretty sure. If you need a running Armbian *with* HDMI audio, grab the orangepi-rv2-ky branch from my repo. It's older and I use it to compare working vs. non-working currently.

Also, there's a reason this has no pull request to Armbian/main: it's work-in-progress.

LG // Sven-Ola

armfan reacted to sven-ola in Orange Pi RV2 May 20

Have solved another todo: grab overlay *.dtbo from Ky/Xunlong. There is still some quirks with SD/TF read/write speed (UHS / 1.8v mode). Also applied for Armbian maintainership on orangepirv2 in advance.

Had some experiments with that M.2 to PCIe adapter I recently got. That oversized thing is an older Radeon with an Opi RV2 mounted on top. That does not work (no, card is so old it does not require extra 12V). Second image is a even older Nividia Geforce, That one shows up with "lspci" but does not work b/c no RiscV drivers (that's expected). Next ist an TP-Link / Aquantic 10 GbE Ethernet card. That one works, even without that extra power supply from the PC next to it. Not sure, if the Spacemit CPU can handle the ten gigs... Last image: the 2280-to-PCIe adapter with the eternal SATA power feed cable.

LG // Sven-Ola

armfan reacted to sven-ola in Orange Pi RV2 May 20

If inserted, SD is booted first. If not inserted or SD read err, NOR flash is booted. NOR flash in turn boots from lower 2280 NVME. I have added boot-from-upper 2230 NVME to uboot. To install
Boot via SD. Log in as root. Start armbian-install Select 7 Install to MTD Put fresh image to NVME via dd of=/dev/nvme... Eject SD, press [reset] If anything is wrong, start over with 1. Boot via SD. I am not sure wich NVME (upper or lower?) is used first.

Note: If you put the same image to both NVMEs and insert SD, you may have up to three ext4 partitions with the same UUID in the box. So on reboot it is very unclear which of the three ext4 is used as root. Check with df -h /. If necessary, you can use uuidgen from uuid-runtime package and tune2fs -U as well as nano to change extlinux.conf for a different ID.

HTH // Sven-Ola

armfan reacted to sven-ola in Orange Pi RV2 May 18

@armfan you start mixing instructions from Xunlong, SpacemiT, and Armbian. That will not work probably. The SoC is able to boot from SD, eMMC, and MTD (in that order). With Armbian started, you can use armbian-install to write u-boot to MTD (which is Memory Technology Device aka the kernel device for SPI flash and other flash mem). That Armbian u-boot is able to indirectly boot from NVME. Or via USB but only with manual u-boot commands you can type into the UART console, see discussion on OpiR2S booting in this thread.

armfan reacted to brunorro in Orange Pi RV2 May 13

Hey, thank you very much!! Downloading and testing current (did a dd on an sd card, didn't boot, I'll check it again)
But edge... Boots! I have to check it with some more care so I can see how does it work

And yes, the guys from Devuan make a good work keeping stuff a bit simpler. I like quite a lot Void Linux (in fact this laptop I'm writing in has it installed)

I'll test current with some more care

Thank you!

current.txt
edge.txt