Comment by Muromec

24 days ago

I still have to run my own build of kernel on Opi5+, so that unfortunately tracks. At least I dont have to write the drivers this decade

Why? I'm running an Orange Pi 5+ with a fully generic aarch64 image of Home Assistant OS and it works great. Is there some particular feature that doesn't work on mainline?

  • for server use you can live with generic images. When you want stuff like HDMI audio out and all, generic images usually won't do.

  • I use it as a desktop, so I need HDMI and actual video drivers, which were added to mainline like this year.