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The bottom side of FriendlyElec’s NanoPi R6S SBC comes with a FORESEE eMMC flash (right side) and an STM32G030F6P6 microcontroller to handle the power circuitry, the IR receiver, and the RTC. After flashing is complete, eject the SD card from NanoPi-R6S, NanoPi-R6S will automatically reboot and boot from eMMC. Cpuminer total scores (5 minutes execution): 21.45,21.43,21.42,21.41,21.40,21.39,21.37,21.36,21.35,21.33,21.32,21.31,21.30,21.28,21.27,21.26,21.25,21.24,21.21,21.20,21.19,21.17,21.16,21.14,21.13,21.12,21.11,21.10,21.08,21.07,21.06,21.05,21.04,21.02,21.01,21.00,20.99 kH/s Cpuminer total scores (5 minutes execution): 24.38,24.37,24.36,24.35,24.34,24.33,24.32,24.31,24.29 kH/s It does not matter too much for now, since I’ll focus on the 2.5GbE ports. iperf3 interface and routing testing
The router/mini PC ships with 6 rubber feet (3M), and nothing else. The front panel comes with four LEDs for the system and Ethernet ports, a USB 2.0 port and a USB 3.0 port, as well as an IR receiver “window” (under the USB 3.0 port). The rear panel includes a USB Type-C port that supports 5V to 20V DC input, an 8K capable HDMI 2.1 port, one Gigabit Ethernet “LAN” port, one 2.5GbE “LAN” port, and one 2.5GbE “WAN” port, each of which can be reconfigured to LAN or WAN to meet your requirements. buffer] columns=200:interleave=false:update-dispersion=0.9:update-fraction=0.5:update-method=subdata: FPS: 590 FrameTime: 1.695 ms The post NanoPi R6C review – Ubuntu 22.04, NVMe SSD, USB debug appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News. Configuring the Kernel # Load default configuration make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- ARCH=arm64 nanopi6_linux_defconfig
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All in all, the NanoPi R6C is a board featured with multiple Ethernet ports, light NAS and video playing. It is a cannot-miss platform with infinite possibilities for geeks, fans and developers. Connected to PWM3_IR_M0 38Khz carrier frequency compatible with NEC protocol, User code is 3B4C Support power on via IR controller Support FriendlyELEC RC100 IR controller 4 Get Started 4.1 Essentials You Need VPU: 8K@60fps H.265 and VP9 decoder, 8K@30fps H.264 decoder, 4K@60fps AV1 decoder, 8K@30fps H.264 and H.265 encoder
Debian 11 Desktop, Xfce desktop, pre-installed mpv, smplayer and chromium brower, supports HW acceleration USBImager is supposed to support flashing compressed images, so I opened an issue on GitLab and the developer pointed out to me that the GZIP file format specification ( RFC 1952) limits the size to 4GB because it is only stored in a 32-bit field. Indeed, if I open one of the gz files in Ubuntu, it will incorrectly show the size is 3.5GB, instead of 7.8 GB… gzip (mostly) ignores the reported size and uncompresses the entire file just to get the uncompressed size. That explains why the smaller FriendlyWrt image would work, but not the desktop OSes… The issue has not been resolved in USBImager just yet, but the important point is to uncompress any gz file before flashing it with USBImager, and board manufacturers should probably avoid compressing their files with gzip and use a more modern format…By default, the system will be booted from the TF card first, but this is not the case under all conditions. This section will explain all situations in detail; Firefox is typically slower in this benchmark, but somehow not on the NanoPi R6S with Ubuntu 22.04 as Speedometer 2.0 was rendered at 41.3 runs per minute on Firefox 110. Eject the TF card, insert the TF card to NanoPi-R6C, power it on it will automatically install your firmware. You can watch the installation progress by observing the LEDs’ status.
The NanoPi can work with FriendlyARM's LCDs: H43,S70,A70,W50,A97,L80,G10,A56,W101,W35,P43,P35,TD35. The NanoPi R6S has rich hardware resources with a compact size of 90 x 62 mm. FriendlyElec has released a carefully-designed custom CNC housing for it. It has one HDMI port. It works with Android, Debian Desktop and Ubuntu etc and works with headless systems as well. It supports decoding 8K60 H.265/VP9 formatted videos. git clone https: //github.com /friendlyarm /sd-fuse_rk3588.git -b kernel- 6.1.y --single-branch cd sd-fuse_rk3588 buffer] columns=200:interleave=false:update-dispersion=0.9:update-fraction=0.5:update-method=map: FPS: 622 FrameTime: 1.608 msThe NanoPi R6C review sample also had a 32GB FORESSE FEMDNN032G-A3A55 eMMC 5.1 flash (see PDF datasheet) with up to 270MB/s read speed and up to 200MB/s “Turbo Write” speed, as well as an STM32G030F6P6 Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontroller apparently used as an SWD debugger. For some reason, the NanoPi R6C runs quite hotter than the NanoPi R6S and CPU throttling does occur albeit with limited impact on performance. I don’t know if the issue is specific to my sample, or whether it’s the same across all NanoPi R6C mini PCs since I only got one sample this time around. Another issue I had was the YouTube resolution limited to 720p in Chromium, while I had no such problem with NanoPi R6S with the earlier Ubuntu 22.04 image. I would assume is a temporary software issue that will be fixed soon.
The NanoPi R6S loses on USB 3.0 port replaced by a USB 2.0 port but gains an IR receiver and a Reset button. The rest of the ports are the same, but the layout of the ports is different. The NanoPi R5S supports 5V/9V/12V DC input, while the NanoPi R6S can also handle 20V DC. There’s no marking on the device that indicates where it is an R5S or R6S, so it may be useful to remember those small differences or simply mark them accordingly to avoid potential issues if you need to reflash the firmware. NanoPi R6S teardown The new NanoPi R6S has the same dimensions as the NanoPi R5S router, but with some notables differences. NanoPi R5S on top of NanoPi R6S Unlike the NanoPi R6S with three LAN ports, this new variant only has one 2.5 GbE LAN port and one Gigabit LAN port as shown below. The product specifies that “the Gbps is directly extended from the SoC while the 2.5G port is converted from PCIe.” It took me well over 10 hours to find out, but at least we can carry on with the review… Ubuntu 22.04 system informationPower on NanoPi-R6S and it will be booted from your TF card, some models may require pressing the Power button to start; dmc: dmc_ondemand / 528 MHz (rknpu_ondemand dmc_ondemand userspace powersave performance simple_ondemand / 528 1068 1560 2112) query to search for latest git commits related to this device; might need some tweaking to deliver useful results.