Dev/OPi

Common description

Orange Pi Boards are small SBC's (Single Board Computer) made by Xunlong.

Most information can be found by looking at Xunlong official website or official Wiki, or even official github repositories or online resources.

You will also find shared resources on Linux Sunxi Wiki pages.

But, as most advanced users, I do not like to do it the usual way, and prefer making my own custom images for the boards I use :)
Of course I like doing so, but that's not the only incentive I have :

• I do not want to use a system which I am unable to improve or fix, so I need to be able to recompile every part of the system.
• I'm looking for open-source systems, so I need to have access to all the sources, and building my images from scratch is a good way to check.
• Vendor images are often outdated
• Third party images are ... third party ones, from unknown and untrusted sources.
• I do not like common embedded "solutions" like OpenEmbeded, Yocto, or their predecessors. They are most of the time a problem, not a solution, and hide all the interesting parts behind complex build systems and tend to promote the wrong approach to embedded systems (from my point of view at least).
• Working on embedded systems and customizing them is a big part of my job, so this enables me to keep up-to-date and learn new stuff by the way :)
• And writting it all here helps me improve my english, and helps showcasing my skills :)

So you'll find on these pages the information I share about these boards, and the links to the results when appropriate (but refer to fourth point in the list above about these images ... better to follow the steps, you'll learn a lot).

Boards

(Note that the official specs are here : Hardware page on orangepi.org

Orange Pi Zero

Main specs :

• Processor : Allwinner H2+ - Quad-core Cortex-A7 - armhf
• Memory : 256Mo (512Mo option)

Dedicated page : Orange Pi Zero

Note that the Orange Pi Zero LTS is similar but has some differences

• Processor : Allwinner H3 - Quad-core Cortex-A7 - armhf
• Memory : 512Mo

Orange Pi Zero plus

• Processor : Allwinner H5 - Quad-core Cortex-A53 - arm64
• Memory : 512Mo

Dedicated page : Orange Pi Zero Plus

Orange Pi Zero 2

• Processor : Allwinner H616 - Quad-core Cortex-A53 - arm64
• Memory : 512Mo (1Go option)

Dedicated page : Orange Pi Zero 2

Orange Pi 3

• Processor : Allwinner H6 - Quad-core Cortex-A53 - arm64
• Memory : 1Go (2Go option)

Dedicated page : Orange Pi 3

Orange Pi 3 LTS

• Processor : Allwinner H5 - Quad-core Cortex-A53 - arm64
• Memory : 2Go

Note that this board has significant differences with Orange Pi 3 :

Only one USB 3.0 port

different Wifi/BT chipset

No PCI-Express port

Smaller

Dedicated page : Orange Pi 3 LTS

Orange Pi Zero 3

• Processor : Allwinner H618 - Quad-core Cortex-A53 - arm64
• Memory : 1Go (1.5Go / 2Go / 4Go options)

Dedicated page : Orange Pi Zero 3

Orange Pi 4 LTS

• Processor : Rockchip RK3399 - Dual-core Cortex-A72 + Quad-core Cortex-A53 - arm64
• Memory : 3Go (4Go option)

Dedicated page : Orange Pi 4 LTS

Usefull Links

• Orange Pi official website
• Sunxi official Wiki
• Sunxi wiki manual build how-to