pine-h64
Community maintained

What Does Community Support Mean?

Community maintained boards are not officially supported by the Armbian project. These boards are maintained (or not maintained) by community members (like you). These builds are provided by the Armbian project as a service to the community. They are automatically generated and untested!
  • PCIe port is not supported: Allwinner H6 has a quirky PCIe controller that doesn’t map the PCIe address space properly to CPU, and accessing the PCIe config space, IO space or memory space will need to be wrapped. As Linux doesn’t wrap PCIe memory space access, it’s not possible to do a proper PCIe controller driver for H6. The BSP kernel modifies the driver to wrap the access, so it’s also not generic, and only devices with modified driver will work. Armbian does not support BSP based kernels. You can find more information here and here.
  • USB3 sometimes doesn’t detect high-speed devices properly

Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.6

Build Date: Nov 12, 2024

Distro Variant Extensions Torrent Integrity Size
 
Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) Gnome MESA / VPU SHA    ASC 1.2 GB
 
* Desktops are very simple and minimal but containing standard features such as Chromium, Firefox browser, Office tools etc.

Minimal/IOT images with Armbian Linux v6.6

Build Date: Nov 12, 2024

Distro Variant Extensions Torrent Integrity Size
 
Debian 12 (Bookworm) Minimal / IOT SHA    ASC 227 MB
 
* Minimal images have very small footprint. They come only with essential packages and build-in systemd-networkd. They are optimised for automation and production deployments.
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Specifications

2GB 4 core 4GB 64bit UASP docker eMMC i2c mpci usb3 wireguard Allwinner H6

* Specifications differ from hardware revision, model and software support level

FAQs

We provide a selection of images that fits hardware best. If you need different image - use build framework and make whatever you need. Build framework relies on Debian and Ubuntu packages - you can build any combination - stable, old stable or rolling release.
Make sure you have a good & reliable boot media (SD card / USB key) and a proper power supply. Archives can be flashed with Etcher (all OS) directly. Insert the SD card into the slot, connect a cable to your network if possible or a display and power your board. (First) boot (with DHCP) takes a bit longer.

Support is provided in one of two ways: