X1.1 Hardware, no SPI2 overlay?

[Simzie]

It appears all of the SPI overlays in rsetup relate to the X1.2 version of the board. I bought this device only a month ago from Allnet. Have you stopped supporting this version of the board, is this an oversight or does the install fail to correctly ID the board? I wish to use SPI2 on my device.

[RadxaYuntian]

Can you first check if you have X1.1 or V1.1 product? You can attach picture of your board here.

[Simzie]

It's the V1.1 version.

I'm now guessing from your question that X1.1 is different from V1.1 and V1.1 is actually X1.2? If so it must have failed to work for some other reason.

[RadxaYuntian]

That's basically it. X versions are pre-release revisions, and V versions are production revisions. So the timeline is X1.1 -> X1.2 -> V1.0 -> V1.1. It is stupid, and we now finally changed so that the version number, regardless of its prefix, can only increase, or at worst, the same if nothing changed.

You can find 5A's GPIO pinout from here, which should be less confusing since it no longer mentions X1.1 or X1.2.

To enable overlay, please use rsetup to do so, which will automatically lists only the compatible overlays for you (we use the same kernel on multiple devices, so the shipped overlays contains a lot of incompatible ones for other devices).