Any basic mainline image avail with 6.2?

stuartiannaylor · February 21, 2023, 4:46am

Early days but is mainline now bootable, or 6.3 as numerous submissions now?

darkmode · February 21, 2023, 8:27am

Can’t wait to see this for my favorite distro.

gnattu · February 21, 2023, 8:31am

It merged some RK3588 support code but not for anything practical yet. Wait for 6.3 which will have a larger chance to actually be useful.

stuartiannaylor · February 21, 2023, 8:35am

I was just looking and wondering as seems much at least to get a server up and running seems to be there but prob there is a gotcha somewhere
6.2
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?h=v6.2&qt=grep&q=rk35*
6.3
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/?h=next-20230221&qt=grep&q=rk35*

So it is looking like if not 6.2, 6.3 may at least have basic running server images…

mIIsko · February 21, 2023, 8:48am

If anyone would like to try
Armbian can build you own image
just change this line

github.com

armbian/build/blob/master/config/sources/families/rockchip-rk3588.conf#L26


		KERNELSOURCE='https://github.com/radxa/kernel'
		KERNELBRANCH='branch:linux-5.10-gen-rkr3.4'
		KERNELPATCHDIR='rockchip-rk3588-legacy'
		;;


	edge)


		SKIP_BOOTSPLASH="yes"
		LINUXFAMILY=rockchip-rk3588
		LINUXCONFIG='linux-rockchip-rk3588-'$BRANCH
		KERNELBRANCH='tag:v6.2-rc2'
		KERNELPATCHDIR='rockchip-rk3588-edge'
		;;


esac


prepare_boot_configuration


family_tweaks_bsp() {
	if [[ $BOARD == orangepi5 ]]; then

to I think “branch:linux-6.2.y”

And you can build own image with ./compile.sh EXPERT=yes
just choose EDGE kernel

But mainline kernel have just CPU and emmc support
nothing more

But you can follow some changes for example here

spikerguy · February 22, 2023, 5:47am

I will prepare a basic mininal alpha mage for rock5 by weekend.

I already have one for opi5 for Manjaro arm minimal.

Only uart and lan is working.

stuartiannaylor · February 22, 2023, 8:53am

Brilliant as ‘Manjaro arm minimal’ aka Arch linux is very much a fave of mine.
Do you have a link for the Opi5 as have one also?

spikerguy · February 22, 2023, 10:04pm

Please move to manjaro forum for that.

Thanks.

spikerguy · March 6, 2023, 11:22pm

Anyone testing mainline kernel?

I am struggling to bring up lan while I am able to get pcie3 to work fine.

knuxyl · March 7, 2023, 6:06am

I’m still waiting for a release of the ATF source code so we can have mainline u-boot, to test with mainline linux. U-boot recently got rk3588 setup but is still using blobs from rockchip. I’d rather wait to go any further until ATF source code is released.

stuartiannaylor · March 7, 2023, 7:58pm

Is there not firmware needed for that? Or is the RTL8125BG a kernel driver?

spikerguy · March 8, 2023, 4:54pm

Linux already have drivers for it.

DavidT · March 9, 2023, 5:45pm

There is a work-in-progress from Collabora for U-boot located here: https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/u-boot/-/tree/2023.04-rc3-rock5b

I tried injecting it into the Armbian build config file, but am coming away with errors, seems to be related to binman and/or generating u-boot.itb.

On the kernel side, in the Armbian build there is support for the mainline 6.2-rc2 plus a series of patches, and the board does indeed boot up to a desktop, though I haven’t tested much beyond “it boots”. If you were to instead change the config file to look for the 6.3-rc1, you’d have to remove the patches I assume, though I haven’t tested that.