bananaPi CM4 on Turing Pi2

Here is some stuff compiled since March 2023 when I received 4 x BPI-CM4 during RPI CM4 global shortage.

Bpi-CM4 ansible playbooks doc

Resources

Description	link
SINOVOIP	https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-CM4
	https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Getting_Started_with_CM4
	https://www.amlogicusbburningtool.com/
Bret's review	https://bret.dk/banana-pi-cm4-review/
Jeff's Geerling review	geerlingguy/sbc-reviews#11
Orange PI CM4 perf vs	https://gadgetversus.com/processor/rockchip-rk3566-vs-amlogic-a311d/
RaspberryPi CM4 perf vs	https://gadgetversus.com/processor/amlogic-a311d-vs-broadcom-bcm2711/

What's working

Component/feature	Tested	Working	Remark
BMC power	✔️	✔️
Network I/O (x nodes)	✔️	✔️	official armbian image works fine.
HDMI ouput	✔️	✔️	main HDMI on node 1 with same HDMI Circuit Switch configuration as rapsberry PI CM4
Boot from SD card	✔️	✔️	write img on SDcard then insert in the turingPI CM4 adapator
Boot from EMMC	✔️	✔️	boot from SD card then dd your img to /dev/mmcblk0 see this
USB OTG (host)	✔️	❔	(node1) I didn't get USB host to work yet.
USB OTG (device)	✔️	❔	(node1) GX-CHIP peripheral will appear on windows 10, install AML burning tool suite to get the driver.
OS armbian bookworm	✔️	✔️	Testing Armbian 23.5 Bookworm minimal. ssh working user/pwd root/1234 then create pi/bananapi
OS debian 10	✔️	✔️	Testing 2023-01-12-debian-10-buster-bpi-cm4-aarch64-sd-emmc.img. ssh working user/pwd pi/bananapi then su -
OS dietPi	✔️	❌	DietPi's transformation script fails on official armbian image

❌ ko / ✔️ ok / ❔ todo or more testing required

Software

Armbian community has added support for bananapi CM4, currently valid since Armbian 23.5.

See https://www.armbian.com/bananapicm4io/