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The Rockchip 3588-based Orange Pi 5, 5b and 5+ are readily available. The MSRP is a little higher than RPi4 but they have significantly more CPU/GPU power and I/O. The new 5+ looks to be a viable desktop replacement with m.2 NVME, dual 2.5 Gbps Ethernet, dual HDMI 2.1 and USB 3.1.


But are they running mainstream kernel or some weird patched one which means at one point they will stop providing updates?

nvm I just saw it supports debian


It's running a weird unsupported kernel, though iirc mainline 6.3 mostly works now (just don't expect hardware video encode or decode to work anytime soon, if ever on a rockchip soc running Linux)


Why not? Video decode acceleration works fine in mainline Linux on other Rockchip SoCs. This one will likely not be very different.

And there's already AV1 decoder driver posted for inclusion mainline (so the work is happening):

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ab2b13e31e1af52ae52b0678b0abd5d...


Not mainline yet.


Significantly more = 6-8 times the compiling performance. I was quite impressed as how fast the RK3588 is.


> The MSRP is a little higher than RPi4

If by a little you mean about twice. I'm sure the Orange Pi 5 is a lot more powerful, but it's reflected in the price.


I have been running Armbian on a 5 as home server for some time with a ton of services. It has performed impressively well with 2TB NVME and additional 8TB of drives I have connected. It is a relatively powerful home server with low cost, power, and price.




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