Orange Pi 5 Support

[Efe Çetin]

Orange Pi 5 is a new board using RK3588S. I think it would be really nice to support it 

 

 

http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-5.html

 

[Werner]

If somebody funds R&D on it...

[Efe Çetin]

Will work after my board arrives

[pazzoide]

Hello, I've bought one, still waiting for its arrival. I'm not a big piece of dev, but I can help with tests and stuff

[Igor]

2 hours ago, pazzoide said:

but I can help with tests

 

We need something else ... In area of testings, we need (yours? and few more) part and full time engagement as a test engineer https://forum.armbian.com/staffapplications/ ... if you can pay for your time, we can't. So far all people that applied, sooner or later lost their interest in working for you. Testings is anyway automated and when a bug is found, there is nothing we can do as you don't want to compensate for the time we lost by working to fix problems you and our competitors have with those computers. Even recording a bug goes on our private bill. This is how you support us and you think a bug report for software support, which you are paying nothing for, will represent an added value?

[bla]

This is happening here: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4582

[pazzoide]

I see. I'm not asking for anything, just trying to help. Unfortunately, I'm not skilled enough to help you with the code and, since testing is not needed, I will support the project donating, if this suites more your needs.

[ChisBread]

hi, I moved from:

https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4582

 

type-c can be found by lsusb, but no power is supplied

I tried waking up manually but it didn't work

[Efe Çetin]

Is it working when to use orange Pi kernel?

[bla]

I'm not able to boot any of the images in https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4582 from NVME, but I'm able to boot the official Ubuntu image from the NVME just fine...

[Efe Çetin]

https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/install/spi#Step1:_Install_Tools.26Drivers it should work if you follow here

[haajee]

I can´t get it working also with Armbian. I think i do something wrong. I followed to he official Ubuntu manual and it works. Also read the link of the Rock Pi 5 but it´s not very clear for me.

 

I downloaded the Armbian image, zero.img and rkspi_loader.img. I booted also from the micro sd armbian and that works fine. On the Orange pi i did the following:

 

orangepi5:Downloads:# sudo dd if=zero.img of=/dev/mtdblock0
32768+0 records in
32768+0 records out
16777216 bytes (17 MB, 16 MiB) copied, 253.123 s, 66.3 kB/s
orangepi5:Downloads:# sudo dd if=rkspi_loader.img of=/dev/mtdblock0           
32768+0 records in
32768+0 records out
16777216 bytes (17 MB, 16 MiB) copied, 254.654 s, 65.9 kB/s
orangepi5:Downloads:# sudo dd bs=1M if=Armbian_20221220a-rpardini_Orangepi5_kinetic_legacy_5.10.110.img of=/dev/nvme0n1 status=progress
2053111808 bytes (2.1 GB, 1.9 GiB) copied, 3 s, 683 MB/s
2020+0 records in
2020+0 records out
2118123520 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 6.42917 s, 329 MB/s
orangepi5:Downloads:# sudo poweroff 

 

After powering up it just don´t start. I see also methods by using a usb port. And the steps for windows, linux and so on the call also step 3 and step 4. So totally not clear...?

Edited December 23, 2022 by haajee

[bla]

Quote

https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/install/spi#Step1:_Install_Tools.26Drivers it should work if you follow here

 

I flashed rkspi_loader.img using rkdeveloptool on a Mac with rk3588_spl_loader_v1.08.111.bin and now the Orange Pi won't boot anything from the NVME (including the official Ubuntu image, which was previously working). 

 

Were these the same steps you followed, and were you able to boot from NVME after doing this? I feel like I must be missing something.

 

Update: eventually got this working after booting from the SD card and running `armbian-install` to install the bootloader on SPI flash -- only then could the NVME boot.

Edited December 24, 2022 by bla
works

[Efe Çetin]

Oh it seems rkspi in radxa's doc is incompatible with opi5. I'll install armbian on nvme ssd after getting offical image for opi5

[haajee]

Got it also working now! Just so simple with armbian-install working

 

What i did maybe wrong:

1. Not as root user but just with SU

2. Used nand-sata-install instead of Armbian install

 

Things i noticed at first use:

1. At first setup it does not show the iP adress. If you don´t have a keyboard/mouse connected, you should search in your modem for the the ip.

2. CPU speed settings / governor does not working in armbian-config. But this problem is also in the official Orangepi ubuntu image.

3. GPIO could not be configured in armbian-config

4. USB-C port looks like not working. Blue USB-A top port works on 5000Mb speed. Bottom port on USB 2.0 480Mb speed. But think that´s also a USB 2.0 port

Edited December 24, 2022 by haajee

[ChisBread]

1. Enable `2005-OrangePi5-dubious-tcpm-stuff-extracted-from-Xunlong-.patch` and recompile the kernel, type-c should work fine.
2. Yes, Bottom port is 2.0. 

[haajee]

Ah ok. I read on github that the it´s just waiting for a new test build but need to approved or something?

[Efe Çetin]

I can send new commit to fix these USB issues but i don't have a permission to send commit to @rpardini's repo. Maybe he can add a service into the opi5 bsp and activate the tcpm patch. Then there's no reason not to approve the PR i think.

Edited December 25, 2022 by Efe Çetin

[ChisBread]

Just because of weekends, we have to be a little patient, full-time employees also have weekends.

This is the kernel I'm using now, just need to overwrite the installation:

https://github.com/ChisBread/linux-orangepi/releases/tag/v1.06.001

But be careful not to install my dtb, which is overclocked. Unless you know what you're doing.

 

btw @Efe Çetin . Maybe I can also submit a patch to fix mouse cursor flickering under x11?  

Edited December 25, 2022 by ChisBread

[Efe Çetin]

Yeah it'd be really cool to fix flickering.

 

Btw why did you increase voltage? Are there any big profit of overclocking RK3588S?

[ChisBread]

You can take a look at this post, it's a bit long
https://forum.radxa.com/t/rock-5b-debug-party-invitation/10483
Pressurizing 50mv can make my RK3588S reach 2.4GHz, before this it was 2.28GHz
Use this tool to test https://github.com/wtarreau/mhz

 

Increasing voltage gives ~20% gain on glmark2

[ChisBread]

This is my current glmark2 score, just need panfork+wayland+overclocking

 

But it seems to be able to reach 3900 on RK3588, I'm still researching why, but it's good enough...

[Efe Çetin]

Can you run geekbench with overclocked kernel? Sounds interested

[ChisBread]

the performance improvement of overclocking is not as good as modifying dmc governor(or upthreshold)

<10% vs 20%+

[ChisBread]

Now the score of glmark2 is 5000

with PAN_MESA_DEBUG=gofaster

and kernel https://github.com/ChisBread/linux-orangepi/releases/tag/v1.06.002

[Efe Çetin]

I think you can add another release for kernel with panfork patches and without OC. Maybe they can also be included into the Armbian RK3588 patches if they are stable

[archetech]

Thought I'd give your kernel and envar on my Rock5 since it's close to Opi5 board.  I got a boost from 995 on x to 1379 (glmark2-es2) on wayland.  Nice and now Kde Plasma session works!   It's no where near what Chisbread is getting.  I haven't messed with this install other than add your kernel and export the debug variable.  Saving OC and governors for last.

[loop] fragment-steps=5:fragment-uniform=false:vertex-steps=5: FPS: 1518 FrameTime: 0.659 ms
[loop] fragment-steps=5:fragment-uniform=true:vertex-steps=5: FPS: 1525 FrameTime: 0.656 ms
=======================================================
                                  glmark2 Score: 1379

Kernel: 5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588 arch: aarch64 bits: 64
    Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.26.4 Distro: Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)
Machine: Type: ARM System: Radxa ROCK 5B Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 1.22.1.3 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
OpenGL: renderer: Mali-G610 (Panfrost) v: 3.0 Mesa 23.0.0-devel

Thanks for the boost/fix. 

Edited December 26, 2022 by archetech

[ChisBread]

<< I think you can add another release for kernel with panfork patches and without OC. 

OC is only related to linux-dtb-*

 

<< Maybe they can also be included into the Armbian RK3588 patches if they are stable
I don't think it's possible until icecream95 and upstream settle

<< Saving OC and governors for last.
governors are the most important one, and there are no side effects, I recommend reading https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/Knowledge/blob/master/articles/Quick_Preview_of_ROCK_5B.md#important-insights-and-suggested-optimisations

Edited December 26, 2022 by ChisBread

[ChisBread]

BTW, I run glmark2 in performance mode

Edited December 26, 2022 by ChisBread

[Efe Çetin]

Hi @haajee @bla. Which image did you boot from nvme ssd? I can boot opi images from nvme but i'm not able to boot armbian image from ssd. Maybe you know how to fix it