Here is some stuff compiled since March 2023 when I received 4 x BPI-CM4 during RPI CM4 global shortage.
Bpi-CM4 ansible playbooks doc
| Description | link |
|---|---|
| SINOVOIP | https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-CM4 |
| https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Getting_Started_with_CM4 | |
| https://www.amlogicusbburningtool.com/ | |
| Bret's review | https://bret.dk/banana-pi-cm4-review/ |
| Jeff's Geerling review | geerlingguy/sbc-reviews#11 |
| Orange PI CM4 perf vs | https://gadgetversus.com/processor/rockchip-rk3566-vs-amlogic-a311d/ |
| RaspberryPi CM4 perf vs | https://gadgetversus.com/processor/amlogic-a311d-vs-broadcom-bcm2711/ |
| Component/feature | Tested | Working | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| BMC power | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Network I/O (x nodes) | ✔️ | ✔️ | official armbian image works fine. |
| HDMI ouput | ✔️ | ✔️ | main HDMI on node 1 with same HDMI Circuit Switch configuration as rapsberry PI CM4 |
| Boot from SD card | ✔️ | ✔️ | write img on SDcard then insert in the turingPI CM4 adapator |
| Boot from EMMC | ✔️ | ✔️ | boot from SD card then dd your img to /dev/mmcblk0 see this |
| USB OTG (host) | ✔️ | ❔ | (node1) I didn't get USB host to work yet. |
| USB OTG (device) | ✔️ | ❔ | (node1) GX-CHIP peripheral will appear on windows 10, install AML burning tool suite to get the driver. |
OS armbian bookworm |
✔️ | ✔️ | Testing Armbian 23.5 Bookworm minimal. ssh working user/pwd root/1234 then create pi/bananapi |
OS debian 10 |
✔️ | ✔️ | Testing 2023-01-12-debian-10-buster-bpi-cm4-aarch64-sd-emmc.img. ssh working user/pwd pi/bananapi then su - |
OS dietPi |
✔️ | ❌ | DietPi's transformation script fails on official armbian image |
❌ ko / ✔️ ok / ❔ todo or more testing required
Armbian community has added support for bananapi CM4, currently valid since Armbian 23.5.