You may have heard about the latest Raspberry Pi 2 clone: The Orange Pi PC, a device that sells for only $15 yet comes with a quad-core Allwinner H3 and 1 GB RAM. (But don't be fooled - while "open source" is mentioned everywhere on that website, the actual open source situation is still pretty bad).
After my Raspberry Pi started acting up and run very unstable a year ago, this looked like a nice replacement. Thus I decided to order the "Orange Pi PC set 3" including a plastic case and power cable from AliExpress, and will try to get Gentoo running on that device. The manufacturer's Gentoo forum section is all crickets, so I expect to encounter at least some problems.
If you want to see this thing in action, or at least watch me struggling to get Gentoo running, come next weekend (10+11 October 2015) to the Prague Linux Days and visit the Gentoo booth.
After my Raspberry Pi started acting up and run very unstable a year ago, this looked like a nice replacement. Thus I decided to order the "Orange Pi PC set 3" including a plastic case and power cable from AliExpress, and will try to get Gentoo running on that device. The manufacturer's Gentoo forum section is all crickets, so I expect to encounter at least some problems.
If you want to see this thing in action, or at least watch me struggling to get Gentoo running, come next weekend (10+11 October 2015) to the Prague Linux Days and visit the Gentoo booth.
5 comments:
Hi Christopher, hopping you'll keep us up to date with your findings & issues ...
However it is also planned to order one here as well.
I've given up figuring out how to build an equivalent gentoo qemu VM for this platform as I never felt googled information to be enough reliable to risk loosing days in try and fails sessions. This VM was supposed to be a milestone toward the real thing ...
Good luck to you.
How did it work out for you in the end? If you got this running, can't wait to hear how :D
Gentoo runs on the device. I still need to document how to build u-boot and the kernel. For now, I made a guide in the wiki for using precompiled u-boot and kernel from existing Linux images:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Orange_Pi_PC/Quick_Start
Thks 4 keeping us updated ;-)
Post a Comment