HCL:BananaPi

The Banana Pi is an AllWinner A20 (sun7i) based single board computer that tries to maintain compatibility with Raspberry Pi third-party options as much as possible. At the time of release, it was an alternative to the Raspberry Pi that offered more capable hardware at a similar price point.

Technical Data

AllWinner A20 SoC
- 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A7 dual-core CPU
- Mali400MP2 GPU (but no kernel support yet!)
1 GB DDR3 RAM
SD Card Slot
e-SATA connector
Built-in HDMI and composite outputs
Extensible via LVDS connector
HDMI audio and 3.5mm stereo out/microphone in
Gigabit ethernet
2 USB 2.0 pors
1 USB OTG port
Powered by either separate microUSB or pin header
26-pin GPIO header compatible with Raspberry Pi
Serial port RS-232 via GPIO header
Camera connector
IR Receiver

Writing a disk image to the SD card

Download the image you want (Leap is stable, Tumbleweed is rolling) from here:

Tumbleweed
JeOS image

If the direct links above do not work for you, please check the general download directory for the images.

Leap-15.3
JeOS image

If the direct links above do not work for you, please check the general download directory for the images.
As root extract the image onto your SD card (replace sdX with the device name of your SD card).
WARNING: all previous data on the SD card will be lost. Check first if the device you have selected is really your SD card!
```
 xzcat [image].raw.xz | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdX iflag=fullblock oflag=direct; sync
```
Insert the SD card with the openSUSE image into your board.
Connect the board to your PC via serial port (optional, but helpful for debugging; USB-TTL serial cable needed).
Connect the board to your monitor (via DVI/HDMI, optional).
Power on the board.
Walk through the first boot steps.
Ethernet is configured to request an IP via DHCP, check your DHCP server for the board IP if used.
Have a lot of fun...

Default login is root:linux, works on serial console, via ssh, GUI.

HCL:BananaPi

Technical Data

Writing a disk image to the SD card

See also