03:39 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <harbin1> Any progress (or interest) in the Orange Pi 800? The Orange Pi 4LTS image will run on it but has no wireless or built in sound.

05:30 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> not possible - there are no volunteers for HW and maintainance budget is negative. Already bring up to mainline of both devices was 99% our cost and will never be covered - you and Orangepi both want this for free. Loss we generate with 4 LTS is big enough.

05:32 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <harbin1> What kind of work is needed? I have programming experience and embedded systems experience (very dated) but no arm experience. I have no connection to Orange Pi btw

05:39 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> there is a mess in hardware configuration - never done right

05:39 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> there are many examples how to do it right

05:39 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Board-Support-Rules/

05:39 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> this is tl;dr;

06:17 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <gambl0r> @harbin1 I know it's not Armbian, but you could try manjaro if you wanted to: https://github.com/manjaro-arm/opi-800-images/releases

06:17 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> Where do you think this came from ?

06:18 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <gambl0r> I can't be certain nor do I care 🙂

06:20 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <gambl0r> Just suggesting an alternative as there is no Armbian image for the hardware

06:20 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> Inages might be just they are unmaintained.

06:20 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> Same as manjaro

06:21 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <harbin1> None of the recent images will boot. I’m still learning about the ARM Linux way of doing things so I’m not quite sure how to debug the boot process.

06:22 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <harbin1> There are a lot of recent releases but I suspect they are automatically generated and not actually tested.

06:22 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <gambl0r> USB to UART is how you debug the boot sequence

06:22 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> Dig in, start learning

06:25 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> They are 100% auto generated

06:25 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <harbin1> Yep I have one of those cords. Okay, time to dig in.

06:25 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <gambl0r> The user manual of the opi800 will tell you which pins to connect to for UART, baud rate is 1500000

06:28 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <harbin1> Yeah I’ve done it before on this computer in an effort to get it to boot off of a USB stick and another time to blank a corrupted emmc so that it would stop trying to boot off of it!

06:29 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <harbin1> The boot firmware doesn’t seem as sophisticated as Rpi’s. That one can load a flasher off of Ethernet!

06:30 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <harbin1> The manual is ugly but the info is accurate at least.

06:32 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <harbin1> So I will use it to spy on the serial output when it’s trying and failing to boot the latest Manjaro. While I like Armbian (and Debian) better I would still like to check out Manjaro on this.