SoC: Rockchip

4K Video acceleration within Chromium works only in Jammy / Noble Gnome or KDE Neon desktop images with kernel 6.1.y

• If you cannot boot Armbian from SD card, you need to erase SPI bootloader from stock OS
• If you are having a Orange Pi 5B variant, replace fdtfile=rockchip/rk3588s-orangepi-5.dtb in /boot/armbianEnv.txt with fdtfile=rockchip/rk3588s-orangepi-5b.dtb

Enable AP6275P Wireless Module on Orange Pi 5:

Enable orangepi-5-ap6275p overlay from Hardware menu of armbian-config and reboot.

In order to run Kodi (sudo apt install kodi) with HW acceleration, you have to run kodi under gbm or wayland.

Armbian 24.11.1 Noble KDE Neon test report:

• Flashed to SD card with USB imager
• Boot ok, from sdcard, install to NVME and boot from
• HDMI is ok, HDMI audio works
• USB2 ports are ok
• Gigabit Etherner is ok, troughput ~940Mbit/s
• 4K video playback works in Chromium (accelerated)
• Reboot and shutdown work as intended

Armbian 24.11.1 Bookworm minimal test report:

• Flashed to SD card with USB imager
• Boot ok, from sdcard
• USB2 ports are ok
• Gigabit Etherner is ok, troughput ~940Mbit/s
• Reboot and shutdown work as intended

• Images for non LTS version can be downloaded here

Ubuntu Noble 24.8.1 XFCE testing:

• Boot ok, from both sdcard and emmc
• HDMI ok, boot splash screen shows up
• USB2 and USB3 ok
• Gigabit ethernet ok
• Wireless ok
• Bluetooth ok (although a bit spotty and usual cohabitation issues with wifi)
• Analog audio codec is ok
• Reboot and shutdown work as intended

 Debian Bookworm 24.8.1 minimal testing:

• Boot ok, from both sdcard and emmc
• HDMI ok
• USB2 and USB3 ok
• Gigabit ethernet ok, throughput is fine (~960mbps)
• Wireless ok, throughput ok (~50mbps at 2.4ghz, but far from router)
• Analog audio codec is ok
• Reboot and shutdown work as intended