Orange Pi 6 Plus

[rdunkle]

Has anyone looked into this new arm based sbc?
http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/details/Orange-Pi-6-Plus.html

The specifications are frugal with technical information.
Does not even tell the manufacturer of the network interfaces.

The recommended power supply is a 100W 20V.
The cooling fan looks serious.

This board appears similar to a Radxa Orion O6.

 

[Beastie7]

It's a compelling board on paper spec-wise; although i'm skeptical of having chinese chips on my network (allwinner, rockchip, mediatek, cix, etc.)

The lack of documentation doesn't help either.

I'd shoot for Raspberry, SolidRun, ODroid, etc. stuff instead. (broadcom, qualcomm, amlogic, nxp, etc.)

 

[covacat]

the nics are realtek
its clearly visible on the back of the board

 

[diizzy]

Your best bet on FreeBSD is RK3399 followed by Allwinner H5 as far as "SBC" and aarch64 goes. Anything newer is unfortunately unsupported and support for RPi is in worse shape than the other two.

 

[covacat]

on all arm boards
there is 0 support for wifi and bluetooth.
there is no gpu support except of panfrost but even that sucks because of no iommu support
a lot of the drivers are half-assed and there is a good chance they work only on the device they were developed
obvious bugs take forever to be fixed even after the patch is available

 

[kent_dorfman766]

I looked at it enough to be "triggered". I'm very anti-PI, but won't go into details, as I've explained my position in the past and offended some hobbiists in the process.

 

[covacat]

if you want to build arm ports it may be useful.