crust vs sunxi-tools

crust

SCP (power management) firmware for sunxi SoCs (by crust-firmware)

Firmware sunxi

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sunxi-tools

A collection of command line tools for ARM devices with Allwinner SoCs. (by linux-sunxi)

sunxi linux-sunxi allwinner

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crust		sunxi-tools
	Project
2	Mentions	2
149	Stars	557
2.7%	Growth	2.3%
5.7	Activity	5.2
8 months ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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crust

Posts with mentions or reviews of crust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

How suspension work in Linux mobile?
1 project | /r/pinephone | 18 Aug 2021

The PinePhone has its own deep sleep implementation. Basically there is a firmware called "Crust" (see https://github.com/crust-firmware/crust) running on a small microprocessor, which suspends most of the hardware during deep sleep.
My local supermarket stocks the Raspberry Pi magazines in the cooking section
1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 24 Feb 2021

Don't forget the crust. (might not go great with raspberries though)

sunxi-tools

Posts with mentions or reviews of sunxi-tools. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-07.

I updated my CHIP to Debian 12 (Bookworm) so you don't have to
2 projects | /r/ChipCommunity | 7 Jul 2023

Compile and install specifically sunxi-tools v1.4 (the one from APT is 1.4.2 which didn't work for me, I also tried compiling from source both 1.4.2 and 1.4.1 and neither worked) git clone https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-tools -b v1.4 && cd sunxi-tools make && sudo make install-tools
entering FEL mode on Mac OS X?
1 project | /r/CapcomHomeArcade | 16 Oct 2022

## Linux and OS X - compile and install [sunxi-tools](https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-tools)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing crust and sunxi-tools you can also consider the following projects:

edk2 - EDK II

amlogic-s9xxx-armbian - Support for Armbian in Amlogic, Rockchip and Allwinner boxes. Support a311d, s922x, s905x3, s905x2, s912, s905d, s905x, s905w, s905, s905l, rk3588, rk3568, rk3399, rk3328, h6, etc.

nodemcu-firmware - Lua based interactive firmware for ESP8266, ESP8285 and ESP32

hftrx - Embedded firmware for ham radio transceivers

Tasmota - Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

IronOS - Open Source Soldering Iron firmware

mongoose-os - Mongoose OS - an IoT Firmware Development Framework. Supported microcontrollers: ESP32, ESP8266, CC3220, CC3200, STM32F4, STM32L4, STM32F7. Amazon AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure, Google IoT Core integrated. Code in C or JavaScript.