Rock Pi S Armbian Buster

#1

Features:

  • latest Rockchip develop-4.4 branch (as of 20191030)
  • patched to 4.4.198
  • Radxa’s Rock Pi S patches
  • Rockchip u-boot with Radxa’s patches
  • u-boot patched to make LAN MAC address stable based on CPUID
  • almost all USB_SERIAL modules compiled
  • overclocked to 1.3 GHz
  • increased available memory from 424MiB to 486MiB
    • I don’t have 256MiB version but it should increase from ~168MiB to ~230MiB
    • configurable via /boot/armbianEnv.txt
      extraargs=swiotlb=1024 means 2MiB reserved - single unit equals 2KiB.
      I would stick with “round” numbers (in binary system) when configuring it, eg. 2048, 4096…

Caveats:

  • no Bluetooth or WiFi for now
  ____   ___   ____ _  __  ____  _   ____
 |  _ \ / _ \ / ___| |/ / |  _ \(_) / ___|
 | |_) | | | | |   | ' /  | |_) | | \___ \
 |  _ <| |_| | |___| . \  |  __/| |  ___) |
 |_| \_\\___/ \____|_|\_\ |_|   |_| |____/
 
 Welcome to Debian Buster with Armbian Linux 4.4.198-rockpis
 System load:   1.00 0.43 0.16  	Up time:       1 min
 Memory usage:  8 % of 486MB  	IP:
 CPU temp:      33°C
 Usage of /:    1% of 58G

Download: https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rockpi-s/

EDIT: Available on Armbian website now!

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#2

thank you :slightly_smiling_face:
hope to recieve an update with BLE & Wifi support soon!

#3

Bringing Bluetooth and WiFi support was not my priority but I will definitely do that.

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#4

Well, the wait is over!

Rock Pi S has got it’s download page in Armbian website now :smile:
https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rockpi-s/

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