Request for Armbian Support on Orange Pi 5 Ultra

[Hmz]

Hello Armbian Team,

 

I am experiencing some difficulties with my Orange Pi 5 Ultra. Currently, there is no Armbian distribution available for this board.

Although official Debian/Ubuntu images are provided on the Orange Pi website, none of them include the latest NPU driver (RKNPU 0.9.8).

Since Orange Pi 5 Ultra has hardware similarities with Orange Pi 5 Max, I was wondering if it would be possible to release an Armbian version for this board as well.

An official Armbian release would be highly beneficial for developers and users who require a stable and optimized OS for this hardware.

Would it be possible to consider adding support for Orange Pi 5 Ultra? I appreciate any feedback or guidance on how the community can contribute to making this happen.

Thanks in advance for your support!

Best regards,

[Igor]

Please buy hardware we recommend. Thank you.

[Werner]

https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/7902

Support is there AS IS. May work, may not. If latter, feel free to fix it and send PRs.

[ag123]

if you want to play with the NPU, you would likely need to resort to the reversed engineered open source NPU driver

https://www.hackster.io/news/tomeu-vizoso-s-open-source-npu-driver-project-does-away-with-the-rockchip-rk3588-s-binary-blob-0153cf723d44

https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/04/21/rockchip-rk3588-npu-open-source-driver-object-detection30-fps/

https://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/search/label/rk3588

 

this is not from rockchip nor orange pi, probably no documentation and you would need to find your way around yourself, you are on your own.

but that the open source driver is absolutely bleeding edge, i.e. it is in mainline linux and the one and only one.

 

as for wifi I didn't seem to see explicit support for the chip AP6611 in the wild, may be I didn't find it in the 'right' places.

did anyone chanced upon a driver for ap6611 on github, etc?