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System Requirements

Hardware Requirements

  • Platform: Radxa Orion O6
  • SoC: CIX Sky1 or Sky1P series chips
  • BIOS: Use FlashUpdate.efi and cix_flash_all_O6.bin from the repository bios/ directory

BIOS Downloads

BIOS File Checksums

  • FlashUpdate.efi MD5: 0a4b30e07c8408abd84db076ec4ab7c9
  • cix_flash_all_O6.bin MD5: dd034964c999bebd37d116f2ea8eb99e

⚠️ Note: These BIOS files are currently for testing. Back up all important data before flashing. An official release is expected within the next few days.

BIOS Flashing Instructions

  1. Format a USB drive as FAT32.
  2. Copy FlashUpdate.efi and cix_flash_all_O6.bin from the repository bios/ directory to the root of the USB drive.
  3. Insert the USB drive into the Radxa Orion O6 board.
  4. Power on the board and press Escape after power-on to enter the BIOS screen.
  5. In the BIOS screen, choose Boot Manager, then choose UEFI Shell.
  6. In UEFI Shell, find the USB drive. It is usually exposed as fs0, fs1, or fs2.
  7. If the USB drive is fs2, enter it and list the files:
fs2:
ls
  1. If you can see FlashUpdate.efi and cix_flash_all_O6.bin, run the flashing command:
FlashUpdate.efi -f cix_flash_all_O6.bin
  1. Wait for the BIOS flashing process to finish and reboot the board.

Software Requirements

Distribution Version Codename Support Status
Debian 13 trixie ✅ Fully Supported (Recommended)

⚠️ Note: Currently only Debian 13 (trixie) is supported. Support for other distributions will be added in future releases.

Network Requirements

  • Internet connection required to download packages
  • Initial installation downloads approximately 500MB of data