Re: Help with Rock64

Benson Muite <benson_muite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:46:27 +0300



    Hi Agharta,
    Thanks for the update. Responses below. Hope you are successful.
    Benson

    
    On 11/11/19 7:09 PM,
      agharta82@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

    
      Hi Benson,
      You helped me a lot!!!
      Following Your suggestion, I've investigate over $TARGET and
        $MEDIA.
      After writing sdcard with pine64-lts, inside usr/share/uboot/
        (of sdcard) i can see rock64-rk3328 (my sbc), rockpro64-rk3399
        and many other sbc not listed into arm-image-installer folder
        (/usr/share/arm-image-installer/boards.d/)!!!!!!!!
      So, rock64 is really supported by fedora (31, minimal,
        aarch64)!!!
      Another interesting thing: if I create a file called
        rock64-rk3328 into my /usr/share/arm-image-installer/boards.d/
        and set --target=rock64-rk3328, arm-image-installer executes IT!
      So, next step: I've copied pine64-lts into rock64-rk3328.
      One question: rock64-rk3328 folder does not have sunxi-spl.bin,
        but a file called idbloader.img. Should I 'dd' it insead of
        sunxi-spl.bin?
      Following this link seems yes http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Boot_option
    
    Thanks, this seems helpful.

    
      Seems needed to add some extra stuffs too (seek):
      dd if=idbloader.img of=sdb seek=64

        dd if=u-boot.itb of=sdb seek=16384
      So, script become as follow:
      # write uboot

        echo "= Writing idbloader.img for $TARGET ...."

        dd if=$PREFIX/usr/share/uboot/$TARGET/sidbloader.img of=$MEDIA
        bs=8k seek=64; sync

        echo "= Writing u-boot FIT image for $TARGET ...."

        dd if=$PREFIX/usr/share/uboot/$TARGET/u-boot.itb of=$MEDIA bs=8k
        seek=16384; sync; sleep 5

        # set console for allwinner

        SYSCON=ttyS0,115200
      

    Looks similar to what is at:
    https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer/blob/master/f/socs.d/Rockchips-ARMv8
    https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer/blob/master/f/socs.d/Rockchips-ARMv7
    Might need to change seek value. I do not have that board, so
      cannot try this out, but hope it works. If it does work, can you
      contribute the script back? I believe additions are also needed
      here:
    https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer
    https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer/blob/master/f/boards.d

    
      Tomorrow I'll try!

      
      Thanks a lot for Your support.
      Best regards,
      Agharta

      
      Il 11/11/19 16:21, Benson Muite ha
        scritto:

      
        Hi Agharta,
        I used an earlier Fedora release on Banana pro (after first
          using Fedora combined with a different kernel). It worked ok,
          but took a bit of time for the Arm image to support Banana
          pro.

        
        On 11/11/19 4:04 PM, agharta82@xxxxxxxxx
          wrote:

        
          Hi Benson
          a) Yes, but I can't specify Rock64 as --target parameter.
          "A number of Pine64 boards are supported, but you might
              use as a bass to get something for rock64" Can You
            explain me how? Is it possibile without manual
            recompilation, etc...? (see why in b) and c) )

            
        There was a message earlier on the list that support had been
          added for rock 64. Thus you might be able to take the
          configuration for Pine64 and modify that for Rock 64, though
          can also wait. After installing the arm image installer, as
          indicated at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Installation
          in a terminal I can type
        $ls /usr/share/arm-image-installer/boards.d/
        to get a listing of supported boards. Typing
        $more /usr/share/arm-image-installer/boards.d/pinebook
        gives settings for Pinebook, which are
        # write uboot

          echo "= Writing sunxi-spl.bin for $TARGET ...."

          dd if=$PREFIX/usr/share/uboot/$TARGET/sunxi-spl.bin of=$MEDIA
          bs=8k seek=1; sync

          echo "= Writing u-boot FIT image for $TARGET ...."

          dd if=$PREFIX/usr/share/uboot/$TARGET/u-boot.itb of=$MEDIA
          bs=8k seek=5; sync; sleep 5

          # set console for allwinner

          SYSCON=ttyS0,115200

        
        The commands for pine_h64, pine64_plus and pine64-lts are the
          same, so you might try these for your Rock 64.

        
          b) Yes, an Armbian kernel....but
              I'd like to use a 'standard' kernel.
        
        Ok.

        
          c) Yes, is possibile, but i
              still prefer a community delivered rpm (and maintained).
        
        Noted. Thanks for using and reporting where work is still
        required. Sorry cannot be much more help at present. 

        
          Thanks again for Your support.
          Best regards,
          Agharta

            
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