Thewonderer

I noticed the clock speeds not dropping below 1000Mhz also when using the current kernel 6.12 Hopefully 6.14 will address these and let the cores clock down further when it's released to OPi5+ through an apt update.

I've updated my OPi5 Plus to the latest Armbian build. 25.2 with 6.12 kernel. I noticed the power usage dropped after I full disconnected the power from the device. It's gone from 5W to 4W with an idle USB HDD drive connected and the OS on EMMC (the same it's been since posting in this thread). I used the excellent Btop app to monitor resources and can see the RK3588 never drops below 1GHZ while my RPI 4 will drop to 600MHZ when idle.

Sorry to jump in on this thread, but I wanted to ask where you are downloading Orange PI 3B from? I have a 4GB v1.1 board and still using JReik build. Want to hop on a 25.2 Kernel 6.12 build with Ubuntu Server 24.04 to stay supported. Thanks.

Thank you Igor and Eselarm. I saw some of the github issues Joshua had to deal with. Glad he's looking after himself by walking away. I believe Kernel 6.1 is the Android Kernel Rockchip released and was hacked together by them. I know Sebastian and colleagues having been chipping away at Collabora .... https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md I like the idea of using btop, but from what I can see it needs to be compiled, so will try that later. I recall when I had a Rock64 that, when the kernel enabled all the hardware features, the power usage did increase. As my install is a headless server, I could probably disable the HDMI and a few other things. It's not a major deal, but it would be nice to reduce the power usage when idle. Keep up the great work!

Hi, I've come from Joshua's 24.04 Server build. I was concerned that the support was dropping off as he's having a well deserved break. I've installed the latest Server build from here. https://dl.armbian.com/orangepi5-plus/Noble_current_server-kisak Works fine, have moved it to EMMC and removed the SD card. I use a USB power meter to see how much juice it uses. I noticed this build uses about 20 to 25% more when idle or under load compared to Josh's 6.1 kernel build. I am suspecting 6.12 has enabled more hardware in the OPi5+ and this is the reason. Is there a way to disable some of the HW to lower the idle power usage? On average it uses 5w on idle. Thanks. Loving the Armbian build.

Might need to clear the SPI flash first them re-image that before copying to NVME. I had an issue with my OPi5 + not booting of EMMC, wiping SPI and imaging that first, sorted it. With all the newer kernel versions coming out and Spooky getting close to 6.1 too, I'm not clear if I will need to do the wiping for SPi first as the uboot is different...? Any advice appreciated.

The newer builds are up. I hope the Server Jammy builds will come soon. https://repo.jing.rocks/armbian-dl/orangepi5-plus/archive/

Thanks Werner, I've been looking at the work going on here and this gives me hope. https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md

Hi, I've been running Armbian legacy server on my 5+ for a month now. I had trouble initially with my EMMC not booting, but I discovered, I had to wipe the SPI Nor then using Armbian config to flash it, then write to EMMC. When a new version of Armbian comes out for the 5+ and it may be a 6.8 kernel build, will I need to re-flash the SPI before I can install the newer version of Armbian (or another image from that's not Armbian?) before updating the EMMC. I found the steps on the Radxa site insightful for a general overview of SPI Nor and flashing (I understand it not an OPi5 x board), but it's not clear to me if a different OS will need the SPI updated due to different bootloader etc ..... https://docs.radxa.com/en/rock5/lowlevel-development/bootloader_spi_flash

Thanks Wener. I did read the vendor bsp was a hack job. What a shame. They make a great SOC and then release poor and probably inefficient BSP to go with it. I might hold off until 6.8 comes out in a month then do a clean install.

Following on from the update, if and when a new Kernel is added such as 6.8 which is getting a lot of commits with RK3588 SOC, will an apt update do the trick for that too?

Hi, I went to see if there were any updates to the OPi5+ images and saw the OPi5 had updates. I clicked on the link on the main download page. https://www.armbian.com/orangepi-5/ https://redirect.armbian.com/orangepi5-plus/archive/ I've come back and now it has desktop images but no server images.