Orange Pi One Plus -- early manufactured board does not work with 5.15.x kernel

[znoxx]

I have several OpiOne Plus boards.

They differ by the date of manufacture (let's say 1st batch and 2nd batch)

 

1st batch:

Works with kernel 5.10.x but does not boot kernel 5.15.x. Red light is on, power meter shows very little consumption, ethernet does not go up. 

Switching to last available 5.10.x kernel resolves the situation.

2nd batch:

Successfully work with both 5.10.x and work with 5.15.x. Green light is on, power meter shows adequate consumption, board works.

 

I'm pretty sure, that no more "new" opi one plus will appear at Xunlong shop and this issue won't be fixed in visible future. But well.. How I can "freeze" kernel update and I guess, uboot update also ? Just to prevent accidental updating of boards from "1st batch" ?

 

Thanks in advance for the answer.

[znoxx]

Well, sorry.

Answer is: via armbian-config

Anyway, is it known issue ? 

[Werner]

14 hours ago, znoxx said:

Anyway, is it known issue ? 

I think there was a discussion about OPi1+ a few weeks ago but cannot remember if it was forums or Discord. Anyways the conclusion was I could boot 5.15 image with my board and other could not while having the same board with same revision. No solution.

[nnb1972]

19.05.2022 в 23:00, znoxx сказал:

They differ by the date of manufacture (let's say 1st batch and 2nd batch)

Please write the date for 1st and 2nd batch.

 

Werner! Please write the date of manufacture your OPi1+.

Edited May 22, 2022 by nnb1972

[Werner]

53 minutes ago, nnb1972 said:

Please write the date for 1st and 2nd batch.

 

Werner! Please write the date of manufacture your OPi1+.

There is no date on the PCB rather than the v2.1

However there is a sticker on the back that reads 2018060800201173

I assume at least 2018 is year of production.

[nnb1972]

My OPi1+ v2.1 2020122800100146 doesn't boot with 5.15.x.

It doesn't boot any kernel which use RSB instead of I2C for AXP805.

 

[znoxx]

One i can check was bought in 2019.

This is "old", which does not boot "new" kernel.

 

[grn]

My Opi1+ sticker states: 2019042800100097

 

It doesn't boot any kernel which use RSB instead of I2C for AXP805.

 

Kind regards

[gleam2003]

I patch the kernel 5.18 with the attached patch and it boot fine.

 

The kernel patch switch to i2c like orangepi 3 lts.

 

Probably it can work with 5.15 but not tested

kernel-sunxi64-edge.patch u-boot-sunxi64-edge.patch

Edited July 3, 2022 by gleam2003

[Werner]

8 hours ago, gleam2003 said:

I patch the kernel 5.18 with the attached patch and it boot fine.

 

The kernel patch switch to i2c like orangepi 3 lts.

 

Probably it can work with 5.15 but not tested

kernel-sunxi64-edge.patch 624 B · 0 downloads u-boot-sunxi64-edge.patch 769 B · 1 download

Would you mind providing a PR with these changes?

[gleam2003]

3 hours ago, Werner said:

Would you mind providing a PR with these changes?

 

Yes, i would first test if it work ok with 5.15.

5.10 work fine without change

[gleam2003]

I'm working on it, sorry for delay.

The patch work ok on 5.15.

The uboot patch isn't needed.

Today I will submit the patch

Edited July 6, 2022 by gleam2003

[gleam2003]

On 7/4/2022 at 7:30 AM, Werner said:

Would you mind providing a PR with these changes?

 

PR make

 

https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/3964

[grn]

Good work. I compiled Armbian 22.08 Jammy, kernel  5.15.53 and it works like a charm.

 

I know it has nothing to do with the patch but there is some odd behaviour when I set console=serial in /boot/armbianEnv.txt boot progress hangs at Starting kernel ...

Setting it back to console=both the boot progress works fine.

 

I just want to point it out in case someone runs into this when they set their armbianEnv.txt for debugging output the way it is advised.

verbosity=7 and console=both works just fine.

can somebody confirm that behaviour with newer Armbian release?

Kind regards

[znoxx]

May be it will be helpful for someone

 

I have spare board, which previously was running under 5.10.?? (may be 65 ?).  I have especially saved this Armbian build, since it worked with "strange boards".

Today I flashed latest Jammy diet with 5.15.80 and... no reaction. USB doctor shows 0.05 to 0.08 spikes and nothing.

Tried to use again image with 5.10.65. Same reaction.

Tried image from "orangepi.org" with 5.4.x or whatever. Same, but red light immediately on.

Found one of boards running 5.10.34, copied microSD and it booted!

After this I've downloaded 5.10.34 Armbian Focal -- https://mirror.yandex.ru/mirrors/armbian/archive/orangepioneplus/archive/Armbian_21.05.1_Orangepioneplus_focal_current_5.10.34.img.xz and it booted OK.

Upgraded to 5.10.74 -- still ok.

Then again flashed Jammy diet -- and it works now.

 

No idea, how to explain what happened, but thanks for bringing board "up" again...