August 12, 2018

Nanopi Fire3

These are little boards based on the Samsung "6818" (the s5p6818). This offers 8 ARM Cortex A53 cores running as fast as 1.4 Ghz. These are ARMv8 (64 bit) cores. At a price of $35, it was hard to resist, and I bought three.

I have no interest in running linux on this board (so don't expect much on that topic here), but intend to first do bare-metal coding, then move on to getting my Kyu RTOS running.

This have been the most challenging ARM boards I have worked with. They clearly figured that if the board could boot and run linux, their work was done. The TRM is decent though, and sources are available. I had to redo the U-boot build to get networking support into U-boot.

My Fire3 projects on Github

Links and Resources

Try some things

Have any comments? Questions? Drop me a line!

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