News World's first' open-source Armv9 motherboard surfaces — Radxa Orion O6's pricing starts at $200 for the 8GB RAM model

[Admin]

A collaborative effort between Arm China, CIX, and Radxa has precipitated what is claimed to be the world's first open source Armv9 motherboard. - the Radxa Orion O6.

World's first' open-source Armv9 motherboard surfaces — Radxa Orion O6's pricing starts at $200 for the 8GB RAM model : Read more

 

[GeorgeLY]

This is really good news. The biggest problems with ARM boards is really spotty *mainline* Linux support. The only one reasonably well supported is Raspberry PI.
For comparison, Orange Pi 5 had version hacked together for almost two years until it got to mainline kernel. And that was a shame, as Orange Pi 5 is much faster than Raspberry PI 5 and has M.2 interface built-in.
So let's hope it is well-supported.

 

[bit_user]

Nice! The 32 GB option for $300 seems really attractive! I love that it's (Thin?) mini-ITX compatible, too!

I'll have to wait and see how software support materializes. That's usually the catch, with ARM-based SBCs.

 

[myself248]

Can you talk a little about the "open source" claims? Where is the source? What license is it under? Are the PCB design files open in an editable format, or only the Gerbers (output format, analogous to a PDF)?

I've seen the words "open" and "open source" thrown around in INCREDIBLY disingenuous ways, and nobody in the press holds their feet to the fire for it. We're trusting you.

 

[P.Amini]

Nice! The 32 GB option for $300 seems really attractive! I love that it's (Thin?) mini-ITX compatible, too!

I'll have to wait and see how software support materializes. That's usually the catch, with ARM-based SBCs.

I knew and I was waiting for you😀

 

[DeeDeeCee]

This is really good news. The biggest problems with ARM boards is really spotty *mainline* Linux support. The only one reasonably well supported is Raspberry PI.
For comparison, Orange Pi 5 had version hacked together for almost two years until it got to mainline kernel. And that was a shame, as Orange Pi 5 is much faster than Raspberry PI 5 and has M.2 interface built-in.
So let's hope it is well-supported.

I love my OrangePi 5+ - though it really does want the 4A power supply for doing anything interesting.

This board has caught my attention - specifically the ePCI slot as I'd love to see a decent Nvidia graphics card in it.

So yes... let's hope that it is well supported, and that we see some of the work that has been done getting GPU cards running on the rPi 5 translate across to this as well.