The Orange Pi Nova is an upcoming single-board PC with a Loongson 2K3000 processor, up to 32GB of DDR4 memory, 2.5 GbE and Gigabit Ethernet, and plenty of other I/O. It'll most likely be a China-only product. https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-nova-teased-with-loongson-2k3000-as-loongson-expands-product-line/ #LoongArch #Loongson #OrangePi #OrangePiNova

@bradlinder granted #OrangePi - like all the "#RaspberryPi competitiors" - fail at the most important part:

#Documentation!

They do make the "superior" #hardware where 'number go bigger!' and 'benchmark go brr!' is the case, sometimes even with lower power and lower price but if all they do is vomit out SBCs and a few outdated, highly-customized & non-reproduceable boot images, that is all pointless at a certain degree...

  • Mind you I'm confident #JeffGeerling would be comfortable porting a minimalist #linux like @OS1337 to a board, but the average user & systems integrator ain't!

@kkarhan @bradlinder @geerlingguy @OS1337 What documentation are you referring to?

The manual is 638 pages.

@frenzybiscuit @bradlinder @geerlingguy

How about makibg custom bootable.images from scratch and it's boot pipeline.

Cuz there are half a dozen different boot pipelines and methods for #ARM systems...

@kkarhan @bradlinder @geerlingguy @OS1337 Why???

https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588

Use any linux distro you want with a mainline (latest) kernel.

GitHub - edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588: EDK2 UEFI firmware for Rockchip RK3588 platforms

EDK2 UEFI firmware for Rockchip RK3588 platforms. Contribute to edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588 development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

@frenzybiscuit @bradlinder @geerlingguy @OS1337 so that SoC boots #ARM-#UEFI and is fully supported by mainline Kernel?

  • Since when??

@kkarhan @bradlinder @geerlingguy @OS1337 The nova? No. But some of the orange pi 5’s do.

Fedora Rawhide works great.

@frenzybiscuit @bradlinder @geerlingguy sadly I.don't have hardware to test.

  • Tho feel free to DIY: @OS1337 is FLOSS after all...

@kkarhan @bradlinder @geerlingguy @OS1337 I dont even know what OS1337 is, but I run fedora rawhide on several orange pi 5 pluses. They are servers, though.

I will say desktop mode worked @ 4k30 when I tested.

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