Fedora on Rock 5

[linuxfriend]

Hello,
I’ve write the UEFI Bootmanger into SPI, but on SD-Card should also work.
While booting the device I see also these 4 lines, afterwards Fedora starts normal.

Greetings
Andreas

[DarkevilPT]

Aye opensuse worked but I didnt something or forgot to do something cause the emmc isnt detected so it only allows me to flash on the same usb pen and that doesnf work.

[linuxfriend]

I don’t try Opensuse, but on my 2 SBC UEFI Bootmanager into SPI and Fedora on NVME works fine. Does’t try it with EMMC (have to search for one).
Will report later if I found one.

Andreas

[Uli_Beling]

UEFI on sd card and Opensuse Tumbleweed on USB harddrive works fine.
But no Panfrost or Panfork driver.
Try to get AX200 wireless working.
Any hint?

[linuxfriend]

As I know GPU will work with kernel 6.10 (later summer) and mesa-24.x

Andreas

[hukka]

But no Panfrost or Panfork driver.

You are waiting for Panthor…

Try to get AX200 wireless working.

That is what I am working on too.

[hukka]

UEFI Bootmanager into SPI

How did you do it?

[DarkevilPT]

Its the drama everywhere…
1 - getting mainline kernel
2 - getting the f.ng wifi to work…

Nothing ever does without issues fs…

[linuxfriend]

Hello hukka,
it’s very easy. Getting the file from https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588/releases/ (Actual v0.9.1), booting with a different system from SD-Card ( I take Armbian for that) and writing it to SPI.
Howto: https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/install/spi
sudo dd if=rock-5b_UEFI_Release_v0.9.1.img of=/dev/mtdblock0

Greetings
Andreas

[hukka]

0. connect ethernet cable

1. getting mainline kernel
2. getting the f.ng wifi to work…

[DarkevilPT]

Yeah… pretty much that was the only way I got the installation going… and apparently it does works if installed on the usb itself… all it needed was ethernet cable to update the installer before running the installation…

[Uli_Beling]

Installation with Netgear USB realtec chip also works.
Complete installation in USB harddisk is o.k.
Only AX200 does make a problem.
If you can solve it let me know.
regards

[DarkevilPT]

Can you link me that netgear usb realtek chip?
I need one linux driver less wifi dongle for testings… and Havent found one. If that works it can be handy for other images as well.

Got this one working but… god damm it took forever for it to show … idk if pressing enter helped when that bug of uefi comes up.

[Uli_Beling]

dmesg output ,dont know the partnumber .
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 137.332616] usb 7-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform
[ 137.481847] usb 7-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0846, idProduct=9041, bcdDevice= 2.00
[ 137.481909] usb 7-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 137.481942] usb 7-1: Product: 802.11n WLAN Adapter
[ 137.481971] usb 7-1: Manufacturer: Realtek
[ 137.481996] usb 7-1: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
[ 137.567618] rtl8192cu: Chip version 0x10
[ 137.687740] rtl8192cu: Board Type 0
[ 137.687962] rtl_usb: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1
[ 137.688062] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin
[ 137.688506] ieee80211 phy1: Selected rate control algorithm ‘rtl_rc’
[ 137.693736] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192cu
[ 137.777836] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay!
[ 137.821154] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05
[ 138.549454] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay!
[ 138.599513] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05
But vendor id and product number will help.
it is an old item. only 2,4 Mz

[hukka]

Some info on the AX200 problem…

Installed Intel AX200. ...but it is hard blocked

There are two pins on the M.2 interface that allows wireless functionality to be killed, pin 54 and 56 to be exact. Only when they’re pulled high is the card allowed to operate. If you’re running the upstream or collabora’s 6.8 kernel, these pins were not described in the device tree, so they can’t be controlled by software. If you absolutely need to run upstream kernel, wait for 6.9 release, or you can try isolating pin 54 and 56 on the card with a piece of adhesive tape, or you can try apply…

[Rush]

Cheers, btw. Did this and was able to get both Fedora 40 and Fedora 41 (which I accidentally downloaded ) to boot.

It is, however, unbelievably slow lmao. It looks like the CPU is doing all of the graphics rendering, which makes sense since the GPU patch was only just sent upstream for 6.10 I believe.
Back to Joshua Riek’s ubuntu for now!

[hukka]

@Rush – Is that Armbian 23.2.1 Jammy Gnome with panfork?

Panthor is scheduled for mainline kernel 6.10, yes.

[RossBurton]

If Radxa officially supported EDK and actively worked towards SystemReady certification there wouldn’t be a need for “does my distro work” threads because they’d just work…

[Rush]

Sorry not sure what you’re asking about. If you mean what kernel am I switching back to, yes I believe Joshua’s “Linux-rockchip” is forked from Armbian’s and uses the panfork driver.

As an aside, I’ve tried to run collaboras prebuilt Debian image just to see what it’s like, since it seems they made a ***load of kernel patches for the chip using this very board, but I just couldn’t get it to boot. Not sure whether it has to do with how I’m flashing the image to the SD, or something similar to do with the bootloader/SPI but it just hasn’t worked.

[silverstone]

Is UEFI Really necessary ?

I am currently running a heavy modified version of https://github.com/inindev/rock-5b (Debian Bookworm with Kernel 6.6.x Patched).

But it really looks like I’ll need to transition to Fedora, since Podman version 4.9.x (from Debian Testing before they introduced all this libc6 2.38+ and time64 Breaking Changes) just doesn’t cut it with Pasta Networking.

But concerning Fedora I am quite lost on how to set it up. I am currently booting and have / on SDCard EXT4 (just for increased reliability), while my main storage is on NVME with ZFS.

Thanks for your Help .