HiKey

The HiKey is based on a HiSilicon Kirin processor. There are two variants of the HiKey: the original from CircuitCo and a new version in 1GB and 2GB variants from LeMaker.

Technical specification

CPU

HiSilicon Kirin 620 1.2 GHz

GPU

Mali 450-MP4

RAM

1GB (CircuitCo or LeMaker) or 2GB (LeMaker)

Storage

4GB (CircuitCo) or 8GB (LeMaker) eMMC flash

WIFI

yes

Audio

yes

Bluetooth

yes

Connectors

micro SD, USB (2 standard, 1 micro), HDMI

Other

96Boards 40-pin low speed and 60-pin high speed expansion connector

Debian support

The HiKey uses UEFI, so Debian should work out of the box once there's a kernel.

Kilian Krause requested ARCH_HISI to be enabled in the kernel recently. However, it seems that HiSilicon Kirin support in the kernel is still very basic (e.g. no USB support).

Current bug list associated with the HiKey support: