Orange Pi Zero 3

[andrew g]

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 Has anyone ordered and/or played with this 

https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/07/03/orange-pi-zero-3-allwinner-h618-sbc-ships-with-up-to-4gb-ram/

https://liliputing.com/orange-pi-zero-3-is-a-cheap-tiny-single-board-pc-with-up-to-4gb-ram-gigabit-ethernet-and-allwinner-h618/

http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-Zero-3.html

even the linux images is very 'fresh' as in that they are just released *yesterday* 😄

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[Andre Przywara]

Hi Andrew,

On 11/07/2023 19:29, andrew g wrote:
> Has anyone ordered and/or played with this
>

> https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/07/03/orange-pi-zero-3-allwinner-h618-sbc-ships-with-up-to-4gb-ram/ <https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/07/03/orange-pi-zero-3-allwinner-h618-sbc-ships-with-up-to-4gb-ram/>

Please look here:
https://linux-sunxi.org/Xunlong_Orange_Pi_Zero3
and here:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20230731011725.722...@arm.com/T/#u

In short, it boots existing mainline Linux v6.5-rc1, given the right DTB,
which is in the patch series above. U-Boot support is work in progress.
For now you could use the firmware binary from one of the official images,
that's actually not too bad (because based on just two year old
mainline, and without too many custom hacks, it seems).

>
> https://liliputing.com/orange-pi-zero-3-is-a-cheap-tiny-single-board-pc-with-up-to-4gb-ram-gigabit-ethernet-and-allwinner-h618/ <https://liliputing.com/orange-pi-zero-3-is-a-cheap-tiny-single-board-pc-with-up-to-4gb-ram-gigabit-ethernet-and-allwinner-h618/>
>
> http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-Zero-3.html <http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-Zero-3.html>

>
> even the linux images is very 'fresh' as in that they are just released

> *yesterday* 😄[Click and drag to move]

"Freshly built" doesn't mean it's fresh software. On the SPI flash I
found some kernel 4.9.170 (4.9 is out of LTS support for a while now),
compiled with GCC 5.3 in a 2016 build.

In general I would disregard any official software offering, and just
focus on fixing problems in mainline, and supporting more hardware.
For instance graphics support is missing from H616, even though patches
for the display engine, HDMI, and the GPU are floating around. Same goes
for DVFS, so defining voltage/frequency pairs for the CPU.

Cheers,
Andre