Odroid C4/HC4 ArchLinuxARM Images
The Odroid C4 and HC4 newer variant is a inexpensive and powerful enough single board computer that has 4 cores clocking up to 2Ghz. It supports up to 4GB of ram, has integreted ethernet, USB 3 and USB 2 ports, SDCard slot, EMMC slot and a Mesa OpenGL stack supported Mali G31 gpu, making it capable enough for lightweight desktop usage, as a powerful NAS and more. More details can be seen on the C4 Hardkernel wiki or the HC4 Hardkernel wiki.
Where to buy
Images
| Environment | Info & Download |
|---|---|
| Gnome | |
| Xfce | |
| Wayfire |
Distinct features from regular ALARM tarballs
- Support for C4 and HC4.
- Linux kernel maintained by @tobetter and other people with audio support, hdmi driver fixes.
- U-Boot package with hooks to update boot.ini automatically if kernel is changed to non mainline which helps prevent bootup failures.
- More up to date mesa-devel package with more recent panfrost work for better graphics performance.
Installation
The process of burning the image into a SD or EMMC is documented in https://wiki.odroid.com/troubleshooting/odroid_flashing_tools.
What Works?
Some of the graphic applications that have been tested.
Triple A Games :D
- OpenArena -
sudo pacman -S openarena - Cendric -
sudo pacman -S cendric-git - SuperTux -
sudo pacman -S supertux - MineTest -
sudo pacman -S minetest - Chromium B.S.U -
sudo pacman -S chromium-bsu - Neverball -
sudo pacman -S neverball - teeworlds -
sudo pacman -S teeworlds - supertuxkart -
sudo pacman -S supertuxkart
Video
- MPV with video acceleration -
sudo pacman -S mpv - KODI with opengl support -
sudo pacman -S kodi-x11
Development
- CodeLite IDE for C/C++, PHP, NodeJS development -
sudo pacman -S codelite-git - CodeBlocks for C/C++ development -
sudo pacman -S codeblocks-svn
Improving System Performance
If you want better performance try running sudo cpupower frequency-set -g
performance from the terminal, and to permanently set the CPU governor to
performance open /etc/default/cpupower and change the line that reads:
governor='schedutil'
to
governor='performance'
Then you can just run sudo systemctl restart cpupower to apply the changes
immediately.