LeMaker Banana Pi

The Banana Pi is trying very hard to mimic the formfactor of the Raspberry Pi and to cash in on its popularity, but it fails to match both the exterior dimensions, the exact connector placing and the software support.

Despite claims of being open source, this is not open source hardware. There are not even schematics available. If you are thinking of getting this device, you should try looking into the hardware from our Community instead. There is also little actual support to be had from LeMaker, at best, they are rehashing things from the linux sunxi community.

= Identification = The PCB has the following silkscreened on it: BP-A20

= Sunxi support =

Current status
Supported

Note: Banana Pi's GMAC is not supported in the community kernel. A commit within Lemaker's Banana Pi Github fork of linux-sunxi-3.4 seems to provide GMAC support for Banana Pi. This has to be proved and merged into linux-sunxi.

Manual build
Everything else is the same as the manual build howto.
 * For building u-boot, use the Bananapi target.
 * The .fex file can be found in sunxi-boards as Bananapi.fex

= Tips, Tricks, Caveats =

FEL mode
The button marked K3, between the HDMI and USB host connectors, triggers FEL mode. FEL mode is automatically triggered, if no SD card is present.

= Adding a serial port =



Locating the UART
The UART pins are located in the upper left corner of the board. They are marked as TXD, RXD and GND on the PCB. TXD and RXD is in J11, GND can be grabbed from pin 7 or 8 of J12. Just attach some leads according to our UART Howto.

= Pictures =

= Also known as = There aren't any known rebadged devices at the moment.

= See also = There are several websites about Banana Pi and claiming to support it. It has to be clarified, what is "official" and who is behind this sites.


 * LeMaker Banana Pi site, LeMaker (Distributor), "Official" Github Repository
 * BananaPi R&D Team, Github Repository
 * Sinovoip Banana Pi site, Sinovoip (Manufacturer?)
 * OpenWRT support for the BananaPi with mainline kernel - Daily build / Manual for building an SD-card image

Manufacturer images
A various amount of prebuilt images is provided via LeMaker's Website.