Orange Pi 5 Max builds?

[OttawaHacker]

Was looking at the build repo and noticed there is already support for Orange pi 5 max (add support for orangepi5 max · armbian/build@b38e4b2). Any specific reason there are no "official" community builds, or did I miss it?

[Werner]

Yes you missed it

https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/tag/25.2.0-trunk.266

[OttawaHacker]

  On 1/6/2025 at 7:36 AM, Werner said:

Yes you missed it

https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/tag/25.2.0-trunk.266

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Oh lol of course 😛 Are there only trunk releases for the opi-max? Was hoping to get a current build instead, anyway, if this doesn't exist, I will build my own image. I got the opi 5 max working by changing the dtb on the 5 plus image - booted fine except I have no wifi.

[Werner]

This is an unsupported (community/staging/whatever you wanna call it) board and those do not get stable build. Become a maintainer and change it

 

[OttawaHacker]

  On 1/6/2025 at 2:57 PM, Werner said:

This is an unsupported (community/staging/whatever you wanna call it) board and those do not get stable build. Become a maintainer and change it

 

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I'm happy to help - but so far the build is unstable and hangs when I request lsmod. The wifi doesn't seem to be enabled out of the box. I checked on the orange pi build and they use the wl module (broadcomm) however I think there are some serious pcie exceptions in the armbian journal that cause the box to blow up. I will probably try ubuntu rockchip version and see if their figured out all the opi max 5 details. If so, I assume this could be a start to bring more board features to armbian?

[Werner]

  On 1/6/2025 at 10:11 PM, OttawaHacker said:

I assume this could be a start to bring more board features to armbian?

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Yes, probably. Basic kernel support should be there in both vendor and (I guess) with 6.14 mainline dtb being pushed.

So it narrows down to wifi drivers and some tweaks and maybe dts issues.

Feel free to dive into.

[OttawaHacker]

  On 1/7/2025 at 4:37 AM, Werner said:

Yes, probably. Basic kernel support should be there in both vendor and (I guess) with 6.14 mainline dtb being pushed.

So it narrows down to wifi drivers and some tweaks and maybe dts issues.

Feel free to dive into.

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So current aka 6.12 is a no-go because armbian/bcmdhd-dkms: Broadcom ap6xxx dkms package doesn't build yet on 6.12 (support for the Orange Pi 5 Max with kernel 6.13-rc1 by shenmintao · Pull Request #7537 · armbian/build)

 

Vendor 6.1 is unstable, after boot, lsmod, modprobe are broken and there are pcie errors. I'm going to assume something is wrong with the dts file. I was hoping to try some hacks there... From what I understand that one is hosted on armbian/linux-kernel but how can I tweak it for the build? I see the dts files in the uboot/legacy but is there any way to customize the dts files without cloning the whole linux kernel repo?  

[OttawaHacker]

  On 1/12/2025 at 1:37 AM, OttawaHacker said:

Vendor 6.1 is unstable

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Also just tested ubuntu-rockchip - this one works perfectly (6.1 vendor) and is stable so there must be some patches missing in the armbian-linux repo. I don't mind looking into that but no clue how to test this with armbian-build

[Werner]

  On 1/12/2025 at 1:37 AM, OttawaHacker said:

From what I understand that one is hosted on armbian/linux-kernel

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https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip

 

When comparing also keep in mind we're on rkr4.1 version of rockchip sdk while Joshua was on rkr3 before he quit.

 

  On 1/12/2025 at 1:37 AM, OttawaHacker said:

I'm going to assume something is wrong with the dts file.

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Yes, maybe. Maybe in both the dts exist  in full in both sources so comparison is easy.