Orange Pi RV2

[sven-ola]

@c0rnelius: Thanks for the info, I'll fiddle with the GPU in the meantime. 

 

@Cristian Apas: that hack above is necessary if you use the Xunlong Ubuntu userspace. They have replaced every hint on the OEM, which includes the GPU driver name. Hack not necessary if we simply use the Spacemit Bianbu Ubuntu userspace.

 

I hacked an image together with this (see my site https://privat-in.de goto Downloads). It has a glmark2 score of 424 (not very fast). This is not for everybody. I compiled a standard OrangepiRv2 Armbian image with a legacy kernel and put in a Bianbu 3.01 minimal userspace as root. Details from my notes:

# Image creation starts with Armbian-Orangepirv2_trixie_legacy_6.6.99_minimal.img
Root from https://archive.spacemit.com/image/k1/version/bianbu/v3.0.1/ -> minimal.img
--
Default LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8, change: dpkg-reconfigure locales -> en_US.UTF-8
Copy from Armbian: /etc/netplan/10-dhcp-all-interfaces.yaml, /etc/fstab, /boot/*,
/lib/modules/*, /etc/modprobe.d/orangepirv2.conf /etc/modules-load.d/orangepirv2.conf
Purge spacemit-flash-dtbs (and thereby remove linux-image-6.6.63*)
Uploaded this image to https://privat-in.de/ (Downloads)

 

First steps after flashing

UART login as root / bianbu

apt-get install parted
parted /dev/mmcblk0 (or /dev/nvme0n1): resizepart 1 100%
resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1 (or /dev/nvme0n1p1)
apt-get install gnome-core glmark2-es2-wayland

adduser a-new-user

adduser a-new-user sudo
Reboot and login

Click on Terminal, run glmark2-es2-wayland

 

Notes: other Spacemit K1 boards can run Bianbu without any changes, this is exclusively for OpiRV2. Expect oopses at every corner...

 

You can install cinnamon-core and use that. Make sure to run cinnamon under gdm3 b/c starting via lightdm does not work well (e.g. menu open freezes). Also, KDE plasma only with screen artifacts and xfce4-wayland simply exits immediately. No other wayland DE tested...

Edited Tuesday at 09:35 PM by sven-ola
Switched from cinnamon to gnome (works better), update-initramfs seems to work

[maxsub]

In the meantime I brought up an access point server using the nightly armbian build. So far it is running solidly. The WiFi is underpowered, while the rest of the system seems stable.

 

[sven-ola]

Found the "no Wayland on current kernel" (see new PR https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/9515). glmark2-es2-wayland still reports a 462 score on 800x600. Thus I updated and renamed the image mentioned in previous post with a current 6.18 kernel. You need to switch from 6.6 with /boot/switch-6.18.16-current script, anything else described in the post still is valid.

 

@maxsub Alternatively install a M2(m)-to-M2(e) adapter in the larger bottom M.2 slot and use a NGFF Wifi card, for example RTL8822CE should run 

Edited Wednesday at 04:11 PM by sven-ola
Edit: PR is merged

[LivingLinux]

I tried the nightly build, and I'm happy with the result.

Vulkan and OpenGL are still running on the CPU, but I'll try newer images in the future.

 

I did a quick test with Yamagi Quake 2. OpenGL 1.4 doesn't even get 60fps at 640x480, but it looks playable. Should run a lot faster once we can run Vulkan on the GPU.

https://github.com/yquake2/yquake2/blob/master/doc/020_installation.md

 

This the make command I used: 

make WITH_GLES1=yes WITH_SDL3=no -j4

 

I also tested Stable Diffusion XL Turbo with OnnxStream. Image generated in 7m27s. Looks like the CPU performance is as expected. You do need gcc-14 and g++-14. They are available in the repository.

https://github.com/vitoplantamura/OnnxStream

 

You need to change the architecture string in CMakeLists.txt.

-march=rv64gcv

 

 

[sven-ola]

Success: tested RV2 with GPU on Armbian-noble-nightly. It's a bit hacky but should work. I created a mirror of the relevant packages from Spacmit/Bianbu. Only packages with source, specific to k1x / video / gpu plus chromium. Mirror project is here, in case you want to mirror yourself or miss a package: https://codeberg.org/sven-ola/spacemit-mirror

 

After getting up Armbian-noble-xfce4-nightly on your Spacemit/K1 board (that includes Ky X1)

1. Add mirror repo to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sven-ola.sources (Note: this is experimental)

   Types: deb deb-src
   URIs: https://privat-in.de/armbian
   Suites: noble
   Components: main
   Signed-By: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/sven-ola.gpg

    

2. Get my repo key with 

   wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/sven-ola.gpg https://privat-in.de/armbian/key.gpg

3. Give the mirror some weight, add an /etc/apt/preferences.d/sven-ola file

   Package: *
   Pin: release o=Sven-Ola
   Pin-Priority: 1000

    

4. Install GPU support 

   apt-get update
   apt-get install img-gpu-powervr
   apt-get dist-upgrade

   Note: this will downgrade mesa-25.x to mesa-24.x from Bianbu/Spacemit

5. Install a Wayland-enabled GUI (tested: gnome)

   apt-get install gnome-core
   systemctl disable lightdm

   If asked, select gdm from gnome instead of lightdm from xfce4.

6. After rebooting, click on your user, then stop and select Gnome with the lower right gearwheel icon.

I also installed glmark2-es2-wayland to check if that runs. It shows 417@800x600 which is faster than software mesa... 

Edited 21 hours ago by sven-ola

[LivingLinux]

I followed the instructions and have OpenGL ES 3 working now.

I wasn't able to build Yamagi Quake 2 because of a version issue with one of the packages. I copied a build from the Muse Pi Pro and now I can run it at 1080p, and sometimes it even hits 60fps!