Odroid C4

[Brian Beuken]

Sahhhweeet my C4 arrived today, much faster than I was expecting, and faster it seems than Hardkernel were expecting too, there's no official OS available yet, none of the download links work;. There's a user version available but it needs a lot of time and effort  to get it set up....I hate time and effort... oh well it can go in the drawer of shame for a few weeks, bugger..
the user version is here.. https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=202&t=38557

According to the post on the forums it may not boot from SD and since I don't have an eMMC on it I am not sure its worth the effort but theres a neat video that does explain what might happen, at least as a 1st test system, only for Wayland  at the moment but I do want to test out some wayland rendering so...might give it a go.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MfHMKcHaUc&t=864s

edit yup, SD boot didn't work
trying an armbian version..

damn, it did boot, and took forever to resize and then update/upgrade, at which point it no longer boots.....no blue pulse
sigh
I tried Armbian one more time, not updating, and installing glmark2, it worked, but software only, however it actually produced quite good scores, suggesting a very fast CPU... as soon as GPU is usable this will be  beastie.
But for now, like the N2 it has to go in the drawer of shame and await software that gets the most out of it.