NicoD

YES  I like it in red!

I have watched this thread and decided to check the status of the mainline kernel 5.0 for the H6 with the @Icenowy 's work on top of it.
I can say it works really nice (tested on Orange Pi 3 H6):
* HDMI
* DVFS
* Gbps / ethernet
 
I have prepared a blindly DT that should work on Opi 3 H6: https://github.com/avafinger/orangepi-h6-ubuntu-base-minimal/tree/master/dts
 @Igor , Basically fetch the mainline kernel 5, apply your patch set on top and add/modify my DT.
 
I have tried to add i2c and spi but it did not work as i expected.
I had something like this:
For the i2c
        i2c0: i2c@5002000 {             compatible = "allwinner,sun6i-a31-i2c";             reg = <0x05002000 0x400>;             interrupts = <GIC_SPI 4 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;             clocks = <&ccu CLK_BUS_I2C0>;             resets = <&ccu RST_BUS_I2C0>;             status = "disabled";             #address-cells = <1>;             #size-cells = <0>;         };         i2c1: i2c@5002400 {             compatible = "allwinner,sun6i-a31-i2c";             reg = <0x05002400 0x400>;             interrupts = <GIC_SPI 5 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;             clocks = <&ccu CLK_BUS_I2C1>;             resets = <&ccu RST_BUS_I2C1>;             status = "disabled";             #address-cells = <1>;             #size-cells = <0>;         };             i2c0_pins: i2c0_pins {                 pins = "PH5", "PH6";                 function = "i2c0";             };             i2c1_pins: i2c1_pins {                 pins = "PD25", "PD26";                 function = "i2c1";             }; Default i2c in use (PMIC and possibly HDMI):
ls /dev/i2c-* /dev/i2c-0  /dev/i2c-1 i2cdetect -y 0      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f 00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  30: -- -- -- -- -- -- UU -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --                          i2cdetect -y 1      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f 00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  30: 30 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  50: 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --            
For the SPI0:
 
        spi0: spi@5010000 {             compatible = "allwinner,sun8i-h3-spi";             reg = <0x05010000 0x1000>;             interrupts = <GIC_SPI 10 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;             clocks = <&ccu CLK_BUS_SPI0>, <&ccu CLK_SPI0>;             clock-names = "ahb", "mod";             dmas = <&dma 23>, <&dma 23>;             dma-names = "rx", "tx";             pinctrl-names = "default";             pinctrl-0 = <&spi0_pins>;             resets = <&ccu RST_BUS_SPI0>;             status = "disabled";             num-cs = <1>;             #address-cells = <1>;             #size-cells = <0>;         };             spi0_pins: spi0 {                 pins = "PC0", "PC2", "PC3", "PC5";                 function = "spi0";             }; One thing i noticed was some instability on SD card but resorting to 4.19-rc6 clk values fixed it.
 
Regarding the reboot command, i applied the latest ATF power fix (as suggested by @jernej but reboot works exactly as shutdown -h now

for me the eyes and sky are much better

Maybe you can look into snow flakes too ...
I know ! I´ve done some decades ago with 3D-Studio during early 199x, on a x386/x486 ! It was painful !
 

A good read.
I've learned something. I didn't know the ethernet and usb share the same line. The thing is even crappier than I thought.
I would also have complained (a lot) about their ancient ddr2 RAM chips. I find this the biggest flaw in the design of the 3B+. The SoC is so bottlenecked by this that even at OC of 1.5Ghz, it performs very badly on ram dependend tasks. 

The thing is just one collection of design flaws. I don't know what was going on while they were designing the 3B/3B+. They were clearly not concentrating on their work.
Either they don't have good testers, or they just don't listen to their concerns. All these issues should have been fixed after the first tests.

I still love my 2B, and still use it often. That's got advantages towards other sbc's(power efficient, no throttling, much more stable, ...) I still hope they're going to do better with the next one. But for now I'm going to use my RK3399's and dream of the Odroid N2.
Great job, thanks.

I think clouds are looking like asteroids ...
 

for voltage-drops and resistance inside connectors and how to measure I could recommend the following Youtube-Video
 

I would set the blue sky a little bit darker-blue. The far away cloud are grey - when then near more white clouds. I like the pedestal in this way
I will stay for the straight shapes.
I dont know if I like the "raytraceing" in the eyes *hmm* looks like he is crying

man they're all super cool.

Here with round shapes. There's a black part on the feet that need to be colored. With the rounded one the eyes should be a little bit smaller.
I also like it. Tomorrow I'll also try to make a sky background.

Ok. I'll try that tomorrow.
I now have this. A snowy surface.  I think it's an improvement. Tomorrow I'll try different renders with different settings, and rounded edges too. It's enough for today. Greetings.
 

Change the floor again and made the eyes whiter. Now I'm really gonna put an end to it for today.

Here one with straight lines, and one smoothened. Let me know what you like more.
I made it look cute with the round big eyes, but the original looks a bit more though than this. Do I need to change that?
All tips are welcome.

I like both, but maybe a bit more the smoothened one ...

I almost think you should maintain some hard angularity to it, as the 2D.  Very nice though!

Check top for load. With 3.10.65 image it stabilizes at 3 which means three of four cores are permanently under full load which also explains the temperature issues. Did not test on OPi3 though as I do not have one but on OPi1+ which comes with H6 as well. 4.17 with initial support for H6 fixed this for me.

Even with a heat sink and a fan I encountered thermal throttling under load as well, using the Debian image. Worse transcoding performance than a Raspi Pi 3B+ but that's probably unrelated 

I installed Ubuntu and was able to upgrade to 18.04.2 LTS keeping the 3.10.65 kernel
Basically you have to replace the mirrors provided in /etc/apt/sources.list and resize the /boot partition (added another 50MB: originally it's only 50MB and the script "do-release-upgrade" fails), did the resizing on my main computer.
I can mount a USB3 pen drive but the I/O performance are appalling. Gigabit ethernet works fine.
I agree about overheating, I'll have to mount a heat sink...

There is little I can do here. We hardly manage forum settings, while any coding in this area is not possible ... in case anyone have ideas that are generally usable, https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/forum/499-feedback-and-ideas/, but there are a lot of them 

BTW 

Hi all. 
Since I wanted a 3D intro for my Youtube Channel I started working with Blender again. Now the intro is finished I've got time to try to make a 3D Armbian Logo.
 

I'll show some of the progress here for those who are interested. And if anybody else wants to do the same, go  ahead. We can then compare the results.
I've only just begun. But I needed a break so I started writing this.
Here's how it begins... create a side view ... 


Then put those pictures in Blender, add a cube, position it right on both pictures, and start modeling....

All done with the NanoPi M4 on Armbian Bionic.

I'll slowly keep working on it. I can't promise it will look great, but nothing is lost if it doesn't... Someone once asked me to do this, I can't remember who it was. I think Chwe or jmcc or tido. Could also have been a ghost in my sleep.
Cheers, NicoD

ps: @Igor It would be nice if we could easily resize images in our posts. Maybe with a dropdown box and % would be easiest to do. I know this isn't a priority, just a suggestion. 
 

Hi all. 
Since I wanted a 3D intro for my Youtube Channel I started working with Blender again. Now the intro is finished I've got time to try to make a 3D Armbian Logo.
 

I'll show some of the progress here for those who are interested. And if anybody else wants to do the same, go  ahead. We can then compare the results.
I've only just begun. But I needed a break so I started writing this.
Here's how it begins... create a side view ... 


Then put those pictures in Blender, add a cube, position it right on both pictures, and start modeling....

All done with the NanoPi M4 on Armbian Bionic.

I'll slowly keep working on it. I can't promise it will look great, but nothing is lost if it doesn't... Someone once asked me to do this, I can't remember who it was. I think Chwe or jmcc or tido. Could also have been a ghost in my sleep.
Cheers, NicoD

ps: @Igor It would be nice if we could easily resize images in our posts. Maybe with a dropdown box and % would be easiest to do. I know this isn't a priority, just a suggestion. 
 

Hi all. 
Since I wanted a 3D intro for my Youtube Channel I started working with Blender again. Now the intro is finished I've got time to try to make a 3D Armbian Logo.
 

I'll show some of the progress here for those who are interested. And if anybody else wants to do the same, go  ahead. We can then compare the results.
I've only just begun. But I needed a break so I started writing this.
Here's how it begins... create a side view ... 


Then put those pictures in Blender, add a cube, position it right on both pictures, and start modeling....

All done with the NanoPi M4 on Armbian Bionic.

I'll slowly keep working on it. I can't promise it will look great, but nothing is lost if it doesn't... Someone once asked me to do this, I can't remember who it was. I think Chwe or jmcc or tido. Could also have been a ghost in my sleep.
Cheers, NicoD

ps: @Igor It would be nice if we could easily resize images in our posts. Maybe with a dropdown box and % would be easiest to do. I know this isn't a priority, just a suggestion. 
 

Hi all. 
Since I wanted a 3D intro for my Youtube Channel I started working with Blender again. Now the intro is finished I've got time to try to make a 3D Armbian Logo.
 

I'll show some of the progress here for those who are interested. And if anybody else wants to do the same, go  ahead. We can then compare the results.
I've only just begun. But I needed a break so I started writing this.
Here's how it begins... create a side view ... 


Then put those pictures in Blender, add a cube, position it right on both pictures, and start modeling....

All done with the NanoPi M4 on Armbian Bionic.

I'll slowly keep working on it. I can't promise it will look great, but nothing is lost if it doesn't... Someone once asked me to do this, I can't remember who it was. I think Chwe or jmcc or tido. Could also have been a ghost in my sleep.
Cheers, NicoD

ps: @Igor It would be nice if we could easily resize images in our posts. Maybe with a dropdown box and % would be easiest to do. I know this isn't a priority, just a suggestion. 
 

https://github.com/leeboby/OrangePiH6_Linux4.9