Will there be an Archlinux distro be available ?
Archlinux for Orion
I think there will be, for sure 
This is the wrong question.
Properly made board should boot whatever distro. Out of the box. Like you have in x86-64 world.
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Will there be a how-to from migrating from a working rock 5b installation to orion ?
will there be like rock 5b an installation wiki ?
maybe someone of Radxa can answer the questions.
Board present in mainline kernel, with sane firmware stored in on-board flash, boots whatever mainline distribution.
Sure, many arm SBCs are Seriously Bad Computers and require external patches for anything but their vendors should be ashamed.
Arm tried to introduce some order with creation of SBSA, then BSA and now even PC-BSA but SBC market mostly ignored those specifications.
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You don’t need to have the board inside the kernel as UEFI can pass through a DTB that should be used by the kernel.
Would you be satisfied with “s/board/SoC used in board and it’s peripherials/” then?
Last time I looked there was no trace of CD8180 SoC in mainline Linux kernel.
So yes, you can give DTB to the kernel but if support is not there then kernel will not have drivers to attach to nodes in that DTB.
Let me take RK3588 as an example - your DTB can have info about both hdmi outputs and hdmi input but mainline would not use all of them as drivers are not merged yet.
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Did you have to compile this yourself? How did you port the vendor kernel to another distro?
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We repackaged the kernel, but are in the process of compiling it outselves
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@rippanda12 are there any updates on the BredOS images? I would be really curious to test one, considering the debian image is a bit bare-bones.
I think it’s good:
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Which Bredos image and found where?
And something else …
besides the subject
howdo you installed the cix kernel and pakages on it?
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Good question. It seems to me that there is a lot of software pieces (from drivers to firmware and kernel) that are spread a little bit everywhere on different github (or even gitlab) repositories but no one has explained properly what and how they managed to build this or that so everyone has to dig into it and fail (resp succeed) randomly.
YET : It seems that they released an orion o6 iso : https://github.com/BredOS/BredOS-iso/releases/download/2025-03-21/BredOS-ORION-O6-2025.03.21-aarch64.iso (c.f)
Dosent work for me, the live image boots, but the installer dosent work, i get to the user part and the “next” button is greyed out and there is no indication something is wrong.
EDIT: Works if i dont change any of the previous options lol.
Good thing is that the image boots. When flashing the iso on a drive, mine will load grub with two options (with or w/o nomodeset). But then the board will turn in a kind of “off” state then nothing. (No matter the bios version or the type of drive I use)