Banana Pi BPI-M4 ZERO standard support

[ScoreABSM]

I really like this small board but with new revision firmware choice is a nightmare...

Looking for Debian or Ubuntu with XFCE and support for wifi (usb eth at start if needed ok), bluetooth, HDMI sound, QHD display resolution (2560x1440) 

Main tests results:

- Standard Armbian (V25.2.2 Linux 6.6.75 Ubuntu noble XFCE + overlays=bananapi-m4-sdio-wifi-bt)

   -> wifi OK, bluetooth NO, HDMI sound NO, bad display perf, buggy screen size (display 1920 when choosing 2560) 

- Official BPI (V24.8.2 Linux 5.4.125 Debian XFCE + overlays=i2c0 spi1 uart4

   -> wifi OK, Bluetooth NO, HDMI sound NO, bug in screen size (limited to 1920)

- Other rolling releases, starting from minimal, ...: not better ou worse.

 

Any build you know with better results? Please help.

 

[c0rnelius]

The GPU node needs to be enabled.

There has been adjustments made to the patching for 6.12.y and above, but I haven't messed with yet. Basically nodes need to be added for sound.

As for  Bluetooth. I haven't figured out yet why it doesn't work on Armbian. In my personal builds it works fine. I believe there is some patching or service preventing it from loading. But I can't be sure.

 

I've put a lot of time already into the DTS to get this working on both REVS. To much time in my opinion. Anyone is welcome to do a PR and add and enable the bits if they like. Otherwise peps are just gonna have to wait till I get around to it again.

 

[going]

04.05.2025 в 14:18, ScoreABSM сказал:

Any build you know with better results? Please help.

Try some of these images.
https://github.com/armbian/os/releases/tag/25.5.0-trunk.507

 

And please post here what doesn't work with the download link to the image.

[ScoreABSM]

Thanks for replying c0rnelius, going, sorry for the delay.

 

Testing 507 (2 Bananapi M4 Zero images available, minimal Trixie and minimal Plucky) I got same result:

- no wifi adapter found

- adding an ethernet usb I was able to activate network/ssh install/upgrade from another computer

- no HDMI sound (no sound cards found)

- no bluetooth adapter

- no GPU

- no change with overlays available (sun50i-h616-bananapi-m4-sdio-wifi-bt, sun50i-h616-gpu) 

 

Do you know about other overlays available elsewhere?

 

Thanks

Denis

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Edited 2 hours ago by ScoreABSM