No PCIe on Orange Pi 5 Plus

[aaronw2]

I installed the official 2024.07 release (1.1) and do not see my NVME device nor are any Ethernet devices visible. The pci command says there is no such bus.

This is a 32GiB Orange Pi 5 Plus board.

[schneid-l]

Hum... As the OPI5P 32GiB is not exactly the same as the "classic" OPI5P and it was released after the last commit on the config file in the U-Boot source tree.

Maybe you could check in the BSP U-Boot modified by Xunlong if there are major diffs

[aaronw2]

I will look into this. For some reason the U-Boot images I have built USB hangs on me (though this one it's working). I'll look at it when I get a chance.

[schneid-l]

For now I've found this thread on the Armbian forum: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/36123-opi5plus-32gb-version-issue/
It seems like the 32GiB version is stable yet

They also mention a potential power supply problem: do you have a powerful enough power supply?

[aaronw2]

I have it connected to a 60 watt supply, which should be adequate. I am not seeing any stability issues in Linux, other than X11 isn't working with my distribution (OpenSUSE). I also noticed that USB-3 is not working in either U- Boot or Linux. eMMC, SD, and NVMe are quite stable in Linux. With my own build of U-Boot I am unable to get USB to work so I don't know what's different between my build and this one. I'd like to get my own U-Boot build working since I would like to enable BTRFS. I might also add that HS400ES mode works fine with eMMC on this board in U-Boot. In the case of U-Boot, none of the USB3 ports are visible, nor are any PCIe devices. Note that PCIe is working fine in Linux. I need to switch to Armbian to see if USB-3 is working in Linux and it's just my distro or not. For my day job I work on ATF and sometimes U-Boot or the Linux kernel for another ARM chip, so I'm quite familiar with the hardware, though not so much Rockchip. I also know that at least with the SoC I work with that the DWC USB 3 block we use requires firmware to be loaded in order to work properly, though we do this in BL1. I have not been able to find any patches or changes in the official U-Boot for the Orange Pi 5 Plus that would affect this. I'm hoping to have PCIe working in U-Boot so I can move from the micro SD card to NVME so I can use this for a small server project (or use one of my FriendlyPC Nano-T6 boards).

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-Aaron

On Saturday, July 20, 2024 8:20:13 AM PDT Louis SCHNEIDER wrote: For now I've found this thread on the Armbian forum: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/36123-opi5plus-32gb-version-issue/ It seems like the 32GiB version is stable yet They also mention a potential power supply problem: do you have a powerful enough power supply?

[schneid-l]

Hi @aaronw2 👋

Obviously you seem to know a lot more about what you're talking about than I do.
I'm pretty new to the world of hardware and SBCs, so I'm not sure I know how to help you any more than you can help yourself ahah.

I also know that at least with the SoC I work with that the DWC USB 3 block we use requires firmware to be loaded in order to work properly, though we do this in BL1.

For the build, I'm using the BL31 provided by Rockchip in their rkbin repo.

If there's anything I can do to help you don't hesitate, if you ever manage to find a fix don't hesitate to contribute here, at least we'll be able to come up with the most functional U-Boot build possible.

Louis

[schneid-l]

I noticed there are patches in the Armbian repo for U-Boot v2024.07 for OPI5 Plus
I tried a build there, could you try this?
https://github.com/si0ls/u-boot-orangepi5/actions/runs/10421542000
I don't have a OPI5 Plus to test...

Not sure if it will fix the problem, I hope so
If you take a look at #2 it does not seems to be a 32Gb version specific problem, but more a OPI5 Plus problem

[aaronw2]

I'll see if I can take a look at it tomorrow if I get some time. -Aaron

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On Friday, August 16, 2024 7:35:55 AM PDT Louis SCHNEIDER wrote: I noticed there are [patches in the Armbian repo for U-Boot v2024.07](https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/main/patch/u-boot/v2024.07) for OPI5 Plus I tried a build there, could you try this? https://github.com/si0ls/u-boot-orangepi5/actions/runs/10421542000 I don't have a OPI5 Plus to test... Not sure if it will fix the problem, I hope so If you take a look at #2 it does not seems to be a 32Gb version specific problem, but more a OPI5 Plus problem

[schneid-l]

Hi @aaronw2, were you able to boot on NVMe with your 32GiB OPI5P?

[aaronw2]

I haven't tried again. I should have some time this weekend.

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