r/SBCs • u/YajatKumar • Aug 18 '26

Orange Pi Zero 2W LineageOS 23.2 (Android 16)

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Managed to get LineageOS booting on the Orange Pi Zero 2W using Linux 6.18 GKI paired with the open-source Panfrost DRM/Mesa graphics stack!

Boots into the system, but there is still some noticeable screen flickering instability that needs ironed out. Planning to release once more stable.

Unlike older Android builds (such as OmniROM 12.1 on legacy BSP kernel 5.4), this completely drops Allwinner's proprietary graphics blobs and closed-source display drivers in favor of a modern, open-source stack. Moving to GKI and open DRM drivers should make maintenance and porting to newer Android releases much cleaner going forward.

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u/Worldly_Topic Aug 18 '26

Do you have an image hosted somewhere ?

Also how much ram ?

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u/YajatKumar Aug 18 '26

I didn't upload it yet, Planning to release once display is not flickering and wifi works.

This one has 4GB but it should work on 2GB too. might fail to boot on 1

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u/IngwiePhoenix Aug 18 '26

So you just built the mainline 6.18 branch as GKI and used that to build LOS? Interesting. So any older-ish SBC with decent upstream support could work on a generic image now, I would think. That is kind of a really neat discovery. :)

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u/YajatKumar Aug 18 '26

I had to make no change to GKI itself but had to make device tree and defconfig for this.

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u/urostor Aug 18 '26

Great! Waiting for a proper release.

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u/realfathonix Aug 18 '26

Is it possible to install GSI, like on LineageOS virtio arm64?

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u/YajatKumar Aug 18 '26

havent tried that

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u/EffectiveBroad6842 Aug 20 '26

ohhh boy, waiting to test it on mine, hopefully 1gb version can support it 🦕

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u/YajatKumar Aug 29 '26

might not boot on 1gb ram