Updated images?

ROCK 4 Series
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I just got a Radxa 4 C Plus card, and the latest image Radxa has released is 1.5 years old and using Debian Bullseye…

Is there no more software support for this card? I sure would like to have a current Debian (Bookworm) image, and soon to come Trixie image. What about using the better performing Panfrost graphics driver? The current images have very poor graphics performance, and no hardware gpu support in web browsers.

Most, if not all other community images available have some issues. The common one is that there is no WiFi/BT support, boot issues, HDMI issues and so on. I therefore have to rely on officially released Radxa images for the Radxa C 4 Plus card. I hope Radxa will step up and release new OS images for their cards.

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I just tried two Ubuntu XFCE images posted on the official Radxa Github page and none of them finished booting to the desktop… Why does Radxa post non-working images for their own cards? Why are they not removed? Does this not give Radxa a negative reputation?

Since I’m just a novice linux user and do not have the skills to build my own OS images, are there any detailed instructions on how to make a new OS image for the Radxa C4P SBC? I would like to have a Debian Bookworm CLI image with all the hardware on the SBC supported with drivers. Then I would like to use tasksel to add my desktop environment of choice.

Can anybody help?

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@RadxaYuntian please help tocheck

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There is no Rockchip RK3399 Debian 12 SDK at the moment. We do provide online update services so our image does not need to be rebuilt every month and you don’t need to wipe your disk every month.

Please post the image link you were using that were not working.

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The images are found here: https://github.com/radxa-build/rock-4c-plus/releases/ b60

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Since Bookworm will be updated to Trixie (Debian 13) soon, I assume there will be no support for Debian 12. Will there be support for 13, or is it over and out for new images for the Radxa 4CP?

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There are community made images, like this one, https://sd-card-images.johang.se/boards/rock_pi_4c_plus.html that use Bookworm and Trixie. How are they made without the SDK? The problem with these image is that the WiFi/BT module is not loaded on boot. Is that because of the missing SDK for the Rockchip? Or is it possible to make working images without the SDK?

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You don’t need to use Rockchip SDK to build Debian images. But some hardware features may not work due to missing hardware enablement packages. If feature is missing on 3rd party images you should contact them about it.

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Please use the Debian KDE image. This is the one we tested. The others are either for internal use or provided AS-IS.

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Thanks for info.

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I would like to ask also about the Rock 4A+:

Which is the right image to install from github?
I would like to install a CLI image since I have only 2GB of RAM.

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We only support desktop image. No Linux 5.10 image was officially released for ROCK 4A+, so please use the image from ROCK 4SE. They are software compatible.

@Peter.Wang

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Is the Radxa 4C+ defined in the U-Boot definition database (device tree)?
What drivers for the 4C+ is in the mainline linux kernel?

Is there a future in making images for the Radxa 4C+ using U-Boot and Linux mainline kernel?

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I noticed that older images (https://github.com/radxa-build/rock-4c-plus/releases/tag/20220901-0148) have an accelerated desktop, but the newer ones does not. Is it not possible to have a GPU accelerated desktop on current images (b60)? XFCE, Gnome and KDE which I have tried have no acceleration of the desktop.