Fedora 32 Minimal on the Orange Pi Zero plus.

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Orange Pi Zero plus can be configured for use as a wifi router or webcam as a NAS or small CCTV server. For him, there are very few images are FreeBSD, NetBSD, openWRT and Armbian. In my opinion, the most adapted Armbian (My respect for its developers). Most ARM-Linux distributions are limited to images for the raspberri-pi and Pine-64 platforms. I was interested in one thing, I will not name it, it is my secret, which is well done in Fedora Linux. I will not describe everything in detail, I will only say that comparing the codes from Kernel.org and the Armbian repository, the difference was crazy, about 6,000 files differed. Therefore, it was not possible for me to view all this and I limited myself to what is needed for Orange Pi Zero plus. The patches I chose can be found here. The Fedora-32-Minimal disk image I created for Orange Pi Zero plus can be found here.

(md5

f593464dd183b808d83c88e3316bd651 *Fedora-Minimal-32-1.6.OrangePiZeroplus.aarch64.raw.xz

sha256

39c1ed484d6f9957eb9bdf05efe5441d2a257474e0a2240b8933a0d4262dfe21 *Fedora-Minimal-32-1.6.OrangePiZeroplus.aarch64.raw.xz)

 I added WiFi support and CPU recognition. SELinux enabled and secure boot works perfectly. Rpm packages compiled using% fedpkg local are located in the user's home directory. You can try to run the OS on a disk on other platforms with Allwinner a64, H5, H6 (the boot may not work if the Device Tree is radically different).

(write image: 

% sudo sh -c "xzcat Fedora-Minimal-32-1.6.OrangePiZeroplus.aarch64.raw.xz |dd of=/dev/sdX bs=4M iflag=fullblock oflag=direct status=progress; sync" 

replace sdX with the device name of your SD card) 

The loading lasts about 50 seconds, the indicators do not light up, the end of the loading can be observed on the network card when the Network Manager tries to configure the network. Login via SSH over Ethernet. We find the IP address using nmap (for example: # nmap -sP 172.31.255.1/24 where instead of 172.31.255.1 you specify the IP of the router of your local network, and instead of 24 the size of the mask of your subnet) login: poltawer (aka root), password: Fedora.

Original Fedora 32 Minimal aarch64 image , kernel package and uboot 

How do I create the disk image ^^^^^^

How I ran Fedora 31 Minimal on an Orange Pi zero plus.

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I create image Fedora 31 Minimal for Orange Pi zero plus. Summary of the changes I made during installation Fedora.

1. Add swap file 2GB
2. Installing my custom kernel
3. Disable SELinux
4. Create administrator (user name: ‘poltawer’, password: ‘Fedora’)

(Warning: I don't know how loaded in kernel a dtb overlays, because something is not working. For example GPIO. I'll be grateful for your help in this matter)

 Download image

Demo

1. Fedora installer Dracut needs 2GB of RAM, Orange Pi zero plus has only 500MB. IMHO is three variants for solving problems. For the first I do not have enough money, the second is questionable, and the third is what I did, if someone was interested in it then I will describe in the next post.
2. I get the source from git Armbian and kernel.org and create a patch. Now, these .patch files are a shame to show, I have to clean them, I hope everything will be fine and I'll post them. In the Fedora kernel config file, I made some changes relative to the Orange Pi architecture. And build a kernel.
3. Secure Boot doesn’t loaded unsigned kernel. Fedora Team or the system owner can sign the kernel. I hope my work is useful for someone, so it would not be ethical to put my private key in someone else's system. So if you need Secure Boot and you trust me, you can sign my kernel with your key or use native kernel or builded your own signed kernel.
4. To secure your system change the user name and password. And enjoy!