Is there a simple way to configure rockchip SBCs manually?

#1

I’m a big fan of manual configuration because it gives me freedom.

I bought NanoPi R2S to learn to install any linux distribution that I want on a rockchip SBC. I was able to use dirty hacks to create idbloader.img, trust.img, and uboot.img from downstream u-boot. I compiled downstream kernel and wrote extlinux/extlinux.conf. However, it seems that I need to turn /boot(boot.img) and /(rootfs.img) into ext4 android images with make_ext4fs. I haven’t been able to boot it.

I expect Rock Pi products to be similar because they are also rockchip SBCs.

At least, it was relatively straightforward to configure raspberry pi manually.

Have I been looking in a wrong direction? Is there a simple way to configure rockchip SBCs?

#2

For ROCK Pi 4/S/E, we provide gpt image, just dd it to uSD card and boot.

#3

What gpt images do you provide?

Can you document how to manually configure microSD cards for Rock Pi SBCs?

Manual configuration means something like https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi