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Odroid N2/N2+ ArchLinuxARM Images

The Odroid N2 and N2+ newer variant is a powerful single board computer that has 6 cores clocking from 1.8Ghz up to 2.4Ghz for the N2+ variant. 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 G52 gpu, making it powerful enough for usage as a desktop computer replacement and much more. More details can be seen on the Hardkernel wiki.

Where to buy

Images

Environment Info & Download
Headless
Gnome
Xfce
Wayfire

Distinct features from regular ALARM tarballs

  • Linux kernel maintained by @tobetter and other people with audio support, hdmi driver fixes, higher cpu frequency support for the N2+ and other changes.
  • 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 package (mesa-devel or mesa-devel-git) that includes the latest panfrost work for better graphics performance on non headless images.

Installation

The process of burning the image into a SD or EMMC is documented in https://wiki.odroid.com/troubleshooting/odroid_flashing_tools. The images do not boot from petitboot unless you have an updated petitboot installed (20200721 release or newer seems to work) and compatible display (otherwise you will get a blank screen), if not you will need to boot directly from emmc or sdcard.

What Works?

Some of the graphic applications that have been tested and work nicely.

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
  • xonotic - sudo pacman -S xonotic

Video

  • MPV with video acceleration - sudo pacman -S mpv
  • KODI with opengl support - sudo pacman -S kodi-wayland or 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.