July 19, 2023 · 1:13 pm
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Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A

At some point I will do a head to head comparison of HiFive Unmatched, Vision Five 2, Lichee Pi 4A, and Raspberry Pi 4B. I believe this little Lichee board below might win!

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8 responses to “Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A”

  1. problemchild68's avatar problemchild68
    July 20, 2023 at 9:35 am

    have you got Fedora running on this yet Richard ?

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    • rich's avatar rich
      July 20, 2023 at 10:22 am

      Not yet – the network interface doesn’t get brought up by the installed Debian distro so I have to find an HDMI monitor and keyboard.

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      • problemchild68's avatar problemchild68
        July 20, 2023 at 10:26 am

        AWKWARD! Is the Distro currently on the EMMC the one that is supplied with it ? If so thats not so cool to have no NIC support .. I’ll be a good boy and hold of buying one of these until I see Octets coming out of all the ports 😉

      • rich's avatar rich
        July 20, 2023 at 10:38 am

        Yes there’s a Debian distro on the eMMC (I assume, as I haven’t hooked up a monitor yet). It does in fact respond to pings, so I guess the actual problem is the distro doesn’t enable sshd by default.

        An actual annoyance of the board is that they seem to have cheaped out on the Ethernet PHY. It’s one of those boards that gets a different MAC address on every boot 😦

  2. problemchild68's avatar problemchild68
    July 20, 2023 at 10:57 am

    Maybe a HDMI TV is in order …could also put your feetup and watch some TV 😉

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  3. Ian Z's avatar Ian Z
    August 8, 2023 at 10:09 pm

    Hi, does the Lichee include WiFi and Bluetooth? It seems most of this class of SBCs omit both (e.g. the OrangePi 5, the BeagleV-Ahead, etc.) I could maybe do without WiFi and use a bridge, but Bluetooth is a must (mice and headsets).
    The sipeed site seems to say it’s there, but I read neither schematics nor Chinese 😦

    Thanks, Ian

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    • rich's avatar rich
      August 9, 2023 at 9:30 am

      Wifi definitely works. There is a Bluetooth device reported by the kernel but I’ve not tried to use it.

      [    2.797688] Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.2.0c90be4.20211102-175223
[    2.804364] Bluetooth: HCI H4 protocol initialized
[    2.809266] Bluetooth: HCI Realtek H5 protocol initialized
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      • rich's avatar rich
        August 9, 2023 at 9:34 am

        Apparently the device driver is “rtk_btcoex”. I can’t find out anything else useful about the device itself since the board has no PCI and it’s not a USB device, so it’s probably presented through device tree or some nonsense.

        TBH I would avoid this board and go for the VF2.

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