Orange Pi CM4

We are going to have to change from Raspberry Pi CM4 to Orange Pi CM4 and wondered if anyone had investigated this board?
Unlike the Raspberry Pi version, Debian on Orange Pi uses u-boot as standard.
Any information you have would be greatly received.

John

Hi @jjsteele,

Presuming that you want to stick with a Debianoid, the process is roughly:

  • create a mender-convert configuration, probably based off the RPi one.
  • prepare a patched version of their u-boot. You can use the RPi one at GitHub - mendersoftware/uboot-mender at mender-rpi-2024.04 as reference
  • create the u-boot binary, environment tools and corresponding configuration files, and provide them to the mender-convert config, usually through the assets directory.

Hope this helps,
Josef

Thanks Josef,
Probably a couple of weeks before the Golden image is ready for conversion. I’ll let you know how it goes.
The current version on Raspberry Pi CM4 is approaching 10,000 units!

John

hi @jjsteele @TheYoctoJester I’m developing mender on Orange pi 5 plus and I’m having the same error. Is there anything new?

@levantung, unless @jjsteele is willing to share his mender-convert configuration or the releavant parts thereof, I explained the process to create it at Orange Pi CM4 - #2 by TheYoctoJester already.

If you are stuck at a specific stage, please share the corresponding details so we can possibly help.

Greetz,
Josef

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@TheYoctoJester @levantung I can’t help, I’m afraid. The company decided to go with RPI CM5 instead.

John

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