openwrt-rockchip VS ubuntu-rockchip

Now here's the kicker. Looks like vanilla openwrt only clocks the chip to ~1Ghz or thereabouts. I've installed this modified fork https://github.com/quintus-lab/openwrt-rockchip

Use this build instead: https://github.com/quintus-lab/openwrt-rockchip

I recommend installing this build of openwrt

Anyways, please, don't stick with the official openwrt build, nor the friendlywrt proprietary build. Use this firmware instead which has specific performance adjustments and patches.

This might help you

Thanks for your answer. I am looking at the nanopi rs4 board and it seems to have support for wireguard https://github.com/quintus-lab/OpenWRT-R2S-R4S

Joshua makes some good improvement and upstreams for this SOC

https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip

I've tried clearing the SPIFlash, which I think succeeded, though it's hard to tell with the entire UI in Chinese. I've flashed the U-Boot following the instructions at https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/wiki/Orange-Pi-5-Plus. However, that doesn't seem to have fixed it.

Software support is a bit spotty, I could not get the official distributions from Orange Pi to run, but luckily there is a community build of ubuntu which runs perfectly.

Going by the github page it says you flash the bootloader onto there. I think that includes GRUB but I'm not sure.

I would recommend Armbian or my Ubuntu 22.04 port, you should try both and see what you like. https://www.armbian.com/orangepi-5/ https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/releases

I highly recommend https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip . I use it with 5 and it's great, stable and fast. There are desktop and server variants.