Orange Pi RV2 riscv64 support

[Kriston]

I'm looking for Orange Pi RV2 RISC-V support.  This board is gaining popularity due to the Orange Pi manufacturer's good reputation with Arm.

 

I have successfully built both Orange Pi and Raspberry Pi aarch64 builds on Debian from source so I'd like to know how to build Armbian for Orange Pi RV2 riscv64.

 

What would I need to modify in the build process?

 

Thanks!!

 

 

[Igor]

11 hours ago, Kriston said:

This board is gaining popularity due to the Orange Pi manufacturer's good reputation with Arm.

 

Lowest price is what makes it popular. But software is the biggest key of the package and there they are among the worst.

 

11 hours ago, Kriston said:

What would I need to modify in the build process?

 

On this SoC, we will be cooperating with SoC maker's board directly - working with Orangepi is too damaging for us:

https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/27/muse-pi-pro-feature-packed-credit-card-sized-spacemit-m1-risc-v-sbc/

This will probably be done in a couple of weeks, so you can follow that and adjust accordingly.

[The Tall Man]

19 hours ago, Kriston said:

This board is gaining popularity due to the Orange Pi manufacturer's good reputation with Arm.

I have an Orange PI 5 Plus, and both USB-C connectors (including the one used for power delivery) are faulty. Also the second HDMI output is corrupted. Clearly their manufacturer leaves a lot to be desired.

[sven-ola]

@Igor wrote about upcoming Muse Pi Pro (a SpacemiT K1 board). Orange Pi RV2 features a "Ky X1" SoC which may be a variant of the SpacemiT SoC and at least similar to the already compile-able Banana Pi F3 board.

 

However, Xunlong seems to be serious about the differences, since the published patch sets on github.com/orangepi-xunlong to kernel and u-boot have a GPL-2 copyright notice, stating

 

Zitat

# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
#
# Copyright (c) 2023 Ky, Inc

 

I expect my RV2 arriving tomorrow. Thus, it would be very appreciated if support for this board pops up in time 😉 Otherwise I may try my luck with adding Armbian support on my own (without expecting success soon). For clarification, I compiled a list of RISC-V64 boards currently available:

 

• Banana Pi F3, runs on SpacemiT K1 8-core X60 RISV-V@1.5?
  (2 TOPS NPU, 2x1 Gbit, M.2@m, mPCIe, eMMC@soldered, SD/TF)
• Orange Pi RV, runs on StarFive JH 7110 4-core RISC-V@1.5
  (1x1 Gbit, M.2@m, SD/TF, SPI-flash)
• Orange Pi RV2, runs on Ky X1, 8-core RISC-V@1.5, variant of SpacemiT K1?
  (2 TOPS NPU, 2x1 Gbit, M.2@m2280, M.2@m2230, SD/TF, eMMC@socket, SPI-flash)
• Muse Pi Pro runs on overclocked SpacemiT K1 8-core X60 RISC-V@1.8
  (2 TOPS NPU, 1x1 Gbit, M.2@m, mPCIe, eMMC@soldered, SPI-flash)

Best // Sven-Ola

[sven-ola]

As a follow up: got my board yesterday. 2GB RAM as announced, no obvious bringup probs. The Ubuntu image runs from SD, UART ok, got 80mb/s from SD and around ~300mb/s from an 128GB 2230 NVME. No boot from upper m.2, only lower m.2 boots (works as announced). The SBC starts via uboot stored on the 16mbyte SPI flash, so I think it should be possible to also boot from upper m.2 since the uboot recognizes media both m.2 slots. Currently unclear how to recover from damaged SPI flash, so I need to proceed carefully. Uboot env is closed (bootdelay=0), so first task is to open up uboot cmd line. Theres a boot switch that seems to trigger some USB boot from ROM but thats undocumented AFAICT. Plenty to investigate for my 50 bucks 😉