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Installing a New Linux Distribution on the Anbernic RG35XX SP

Device Overview

The RG35XX SP is a clamshell (GBA SP-style) retro gaming handheld from Anbernic. Its internals are shared across the entire RG35XX-family (Plus, H, 2024, SP, and the RG28XX). The hardware that matters for this guide:

  • SoC: Allwinner H700 (a variant of the H616 family), quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 (AArch64/armhf)
  • GPU: Mali G31 MP2 (supported by Panfrost in mainline, but display pipeline support is incomplete)
  • PMIC: AXP717 (an uncommon part — driver support is limited)
  • RAM: 1 GB LPDDR4