nanopim4
By Test Test / General purpose / 0 Comments

Nanopi M4

  • UART is accessible on a standard connector but with unusual speed: 1500000
  • If you don’t have USB Type-C PSU, you can power the board via pins 4 (5V) and 6 (GND) of the 40-pin GPIO1 header
  • Powering related troubles are possible since USB Type-C is not PD-compliant
nanopct4
By Oleg Ivanov / General purposeNASDesktop / 0 Comments

Nanopc T4

  • UART is accessible on a standard connector but with unusual speed: 1500000
  • If you want to boot from your SD card you need to hold boot button while powering up/resetting
renegade
By Tony Mckahan / DesktopGeneral purpose / 0 Comments

Renegade

  • UART is accessible on pin 6 (GND),8 (TX) and 10 (RX) and with unusual speed: 1500000
  • Video and 3D acceleration addon
  • Clocking to maximum safe CPU speed (1.51Ghz) is possible this way:
    sed -i "s/MAX_SPEED=.*/MAX_SPEED=1510000/" /etc/default/cpufrequtils 
    service cpufrequtils restart

    Make sure to install large heatsink!

TinkerBoard
By jock jock / DesktopGeneral purpose / 0 Comments

Tinkerboard / S

  • Severe powering troubles due to Micro USB power connector. It’s recommended to power through GPIO pins to prevent under-voltage issues (instabilities, boot/crash cycles). Powering situation is a little improved/masked on model S.
  • serial console is enabled on UART2 (pin 32, 33, 34=gnd)
  • eMMC flashing (model Tinkerboard S with eMMC) can be done the same way as burning an SD card. Connect your board with USB cable to your computer (Linux or Windows) and eMMC will be seen as a new hard drive. Burn an image to this drive. Wait until it's done, detach from computer and power with your normal PSU.
  • booting from SD card on S model is possible in Maskrom mode.

Debian Bookworm 24.8.1 minimal testing:

  • Boot ok, from sdcard and eMMC
  • HDMI is ok
  • USB2 ports are ok
  • Gigabit Etherner is ok, troughput ~940Mbit/s
  • Wireless ok, (stable but slow, ~5Mbps/s but router is far away as well)
  • Analog audio codec does not work
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended

Ubuntu Noble 24.8.1 XFCE testing:

  • Boot ok from sdcard and eMMC
  • HDMI is ok
  • USB2 ports are ok
  • Gigabit ethernet ok
  • Wireless ok, inglorius performances as Debian
  • Bluetooth works
  • Analog audio codec work
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended