Orangepi CM5 support

[e954]

Is there a specific reason why orangepi cm5 isn't supported? Or is it simply because nobody has contributed? Because I am willing to add support for it if there aren't any serious issues when building armbian for this board. The webpage for the board is currently empty.

 

I see two issues when using Armbian on orangepi cm5:

1. The ethernet and the fan won't work. There is a device tree published by Laurent Pinchart that may fix this.

2. armbian-install bricks the board. The only way to recover the device is by enabling maskrom and using rkdeveloptool to flash a new image.

 

Other than these Armbian seems to work fine on orangepi cm5.

 

Has anyone tried using (and also installing) armbian on this board?

[laibsch]

3 hours ago, e954 said:

Is there a specific reason why orangepi cm5 isn't supported? Or is it simply because nobody has contributed?

 

Probably the latter.  https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Board-Support-Rules/ has more information. 

 

We already have a lot of boards in Armbian.  Probably too many from a maintenance POV.  Do you simply want to do the work of bringing up your board in Armbian or do you want to become the maintainer of this board going forward?

  

3 hours ago, e954 said:

The webpage for the board is currently empty.

 

That's an artefact that @Igor may be able to fix.  The page should not really exist at this point.

[e954]

4 minutes ago, laibsch said:

do you want to become the maintainer of this board going forward?

Realistically I can't promise that. But I think with very small patches this board can work (it already does, minus the ethernet and armbian-install).

 

14 minutes ago, laibsch said:

We already have a lot of boards in Armbian.  Probably too many from a maintenance POV.

I will try to solve the problems in this board and then post my solution here (as a single post, not as a series of posts). I don't think it needs to be added to the list of supported boards as long as this thread is indexed by search engines and someone else with the same board can use these forums to successfully install armbian on orangepi cm5.