ROCK Pi E Engineering Sample is available now

#21

ROCK Pi E 13W PoE HAT is working now…

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#22

@jack I am not a developer directly, but I am a software tester (as is my partner) and very familiar with low-level Linux; would it be possible to obtain a D8W2 sample? I could do distributions and stress testing and contribute with bug reports and possibly fixes/patches as well as basic thermal analysis (it’s handy having a thermal camera!).

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#23

Hi @jack

Which chipset is used for the second Ethernet?
is it USB2Lan convertor or a specific Ethernet chip?

I can see 2 Realtek chip, so If it uses rtl8152 chipset then we might have beta opnsense img soon :smiley:

Thanks.

#24

RK3328 has two ethernet controllers, one 100M with phy, the other is 1000M MAC and we use RTL8821E phy. We don’t like the USB to Ethernet things because of the latency.

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#25

This is good news.

Thanks for confirming.

#26

Hi @jack. I’m an open source software developer who contributes to the yocto project and maintains the meta-radxa layer which contains the recipes for Rock pi 4. I would love to receive an engineering sample and add the board to the meta-radxa layer so that users can also build their own images. I’ve worked with different Radxa boards in the recent months and would love to work on this one too in contributing through different ways.

Thank you.

#27

Are you planing to add your uboot patches to upstream?

#28

Hello i would love to try this so bad i am trying to make a laptop that is small or a stealth monitor for my channel.

#29

Hmm… having the second port limited to 100M pretty seriously neuters the device. Have you considered hooking an ethernet switch to the 1000M, and a few plugs on the switch? You could still hook the 100M to the switch using another port.

#30

Hi Jack,

Can I mod the board to wire and solder those GPIO pins somehow on the USB C connector?

Thanks

#31

That’s ROCK Pi E3, it’s under progress now :slight_smile:

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#32

Actually yes, you can just wire the USB D+ and D- from the GPIO to the USB C pin.
As you can see on the PoE HAT, we added one USB 2.0 A connector, which can be used as USB device with a USB male A to A cable.

#33

Hi Jack, what is RockPi E3?

Thanks

#34

ROCK Pi E3 is and upgrade version of ROCK Pi E with triple GbB, that’s why it’s called E3. It targets at networking/router applications, with wifi6 capability…

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#35

This is good news :smiley:

Well Due to corona causing shipment delays my E have not arrived but E3 is under progress already :stuck_out_tongue:

That’s fast engineering. Keep up the good work.

#36

Hi Jack, can I also apply to get an E3 engineering sample?

Thank you,
Armand

#37

Finally I have received my sample board after months in shipping.
It is looking good and can boot it using rock64 uboot for now until I built it myself from radxa repo or better from mainline uboot once it is merged

I am trying to boot with FreeBSD , it can boot fine but there seem to be some modules missing in the kernel which I have informed the bsd developers.

Happy development LOL.

#38

You typed it wrong here.

The chip used for 1Gb/s is RTL8211E, This made the devs confused as RTL8821E is wifi chip.

#39

Hi @spikerguy

Can you show some pictures of the board and the micro HDMI?

#40

Hello Ava Finger :smiley:

I see you ;). Sure I will send now.

Here

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