Hi all,I've just bought the very new Orange Pi 3 and need some advices to install the OS and OMV4.Thanks !!!
Orange pi 3
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- OMV 4.x
- michelefaccini
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Be careful.
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Funny answer but useless...
See the following linkhttp://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_m…ffort#cite_note-h6-pcie-4
Found on orangepi forum :
Allwinner H6 ,which is the orangepi 3 cpu, 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.What do you think so about the mini pcie ?
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What do you think so about the mini pcie ?
Useless of course for the reason you cited already. Same with PineH64 also using Allwinner's H6 SoC. But back then we didn't know that the PCIe implementation is quirky. One year ago H6 looked really promising but the PCIe implementation and the poor USB3 bandwidth results killed it for me.
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Why so do they sell such a board with fake hardware...it's illegal !!!!
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Why so do they sell such a board with fake hardware
Huh? Which fake hardware? The SoC has a PCIe implementation and the SoC vendor's software makes use of PCIe (TV boxes with PCIe attached Wi-Fi for example). The 'only' problem is that the SoC vendor's software offerings (the so called BSP) are focused on Android only and code quality usually sucks a lot.So in case you want to use your new shiny H6 device with Android and a mPCIe attached Wi-Fi card that is supported by the Allwinner BSP hardware will most probably work without issues.
'Only' problem is upstream Linux not wanting to deal with this specific PCIe implementation so from a 'mainline Linux' point of view PCIe is not existing. Fortunately BSD exists so maybe by switching to NetBSD or (later) FreeBSD PCIe hardware (with appropriate driver support requiring quirks for each and every single PCIe controller you want to attach!) might work: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/allwinner/
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my intention was to connect to the PCIe a solid state disk and use the orange pi as a webserver
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connect to the PCIe a solid state disk
Well, I'm not aware of any PCIe capable SSD that uses the mPCIe half size form factor (all the SSDs for this form factor I know are mSATA and most of them slow performing garbage... and while on the OPi PC 3 mSATA is even silkscreened next to the mPCIe connector I've no idea how this should work without either a PCIe or USB to SATA bridge)
So if you've this board already the best way to attach a (SATA) SSD is to use an USB enclosure with one of those bridges known to work flawlessly: 3.5" HD UASP enclosures: currently available, hassle-free chipsets? (we could add VIA VL715/VL716 to the list)
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Hi, I'm interested in the topic.
What about no mPCIe use?
I mean I'm using an old rpi2 with usb drive attached and other volume from smb share.
I'm interested into move to OPi 3 to have more power for nas stuff and also Plex and docker.
Also wifi is not relevant for me, I use eth to connect raspberry to the router -
I'm interested into move to OPi 3
Choosing an unsupported device is most probably not the best idea?"Running OMV" involves 3 layers
- Bootloader/kernel support (on x86 this is Grub and usually a distro maintained kernel, on ARM situation is totally different)
- Debian as "base OS"
- OMV as "Debian add-on"
With ARM boards 1) is the problem. Allwinner hardware is nice, software support by Allwinner is horrible. That's where linux-sunxi community jumps in. Some brave souls for whatever reasons rewrite everything Linux related (all the drivers) from scratch since the Allwinner software is just crap.
This takes some time. Allwinner A20 boards receive now almost full support by the Linux kernel. A20 is from 2012, H6 from 2017. Go figure...
If you want to use something in 2019 then H6 is not the best basis...
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what about Opi 3 downloadable images ?
Can I install OMV as an addon if I download debian server jessie ? Is it then upgradable to debian stretch ? -
what about Opi 3 downloadable images ?
No idea. In the past the OS images from Xunlong were simply crap (Android kernel crappily combined with some Linux userland). Might have changed, maybe not. I'm not able to use these vendor provided OS images anyway for security reasons so there's no reason to try this stuff out other than extracting settings to pass them over to linux-sunxi community.If you buy hardware as cheap as possible this already ensures that vendor software support is non existent or at least crappy (doing software is way more expensive than doing hardware if you have to pay for and can't rely on enthusiasts).
It's as easy as that.
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