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Support of this system is YMMV (your mileage may vary), and depends on vendor-provided BSP (Board Support Package) based components. | Support of this system is YMMV (your mileage may vary), and depends on vendor-provided BSP (Board Support Package) based components. | ||
== Platform | == Platform Firmware == | ||
=== Vendor Platform Firmware === | |||
Booting the system with the vendor-provided platform firmware may not work due to a [https://github.com/samueldr/u-boot/commit/a0af72272b8db4b5d83df2f14ad950d3e30b3e04 known issue in older U-Boot]. | |||
If using the vendor-provided platform firmware is desired, [https://gitlab.com/K900/nix/-/blob/1ae5db476aee96fab9c445d7b690a8f5cf7fbe75/hacks/orangepi5/kernel/default.nix#L20 renaming the kernel derivation to a shorter name] should allow boot to succeed. | |||
=== Community Repo === | |||
A WIP tree to build U-Boot using the infrastructure for Tow-Boot is available. | |||
* https://github.com/samueldr/Tow-Boot/tree/wip/rock5-vendor | |||
This uses [https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/compare/d892cca08d5da230a6690f504ba7a06044b840c8...samueldr:u-boot:wip/rock5/not-tb-2023-03-29 a fork with some fixes], so that an installation on the SPI Flash will work, and allow booting from eMMC or SD. NVMe was not successfully validated yet (issues likely hardware-specific). | |||
To build: | To build: | ||
Revision as of 21:53, 30 March 2023
| Radxa ROCK5 Model B | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Radxa |
| Architecture | AArch64 |
| Platform firmware | Vendor BSP |
| Startup order | SPI NOR Flash, eMMC, SD |
| Maintainer | |
The Radxa ROCK5 Model B is a Single-Board Computer with a Rockchip RK3588 SoC.
Support of this system is YMMV (your mileage may vary), and depends on vendor-provided BSP (Board Support Package) based components.
Platform Firmware
Vendor Platform Firmware
Booting the system with the vendor-provided platform firmware may not work due to a known issue in older U-Boot.
If using the vendor-provided platform firmware is desired, renaming the kernel derivation to a shorter name should allow boot to succeed.
Community Repo
A WIP tree to build U-Boot using the infrastructure for Tow-Boot is available.
This uses a fork with some fixes, so that an installation on the SPI Flash will work, and allow booting from eMMC or SD. NVMe was not successfully validated yet (issues likely hardware-specific).
To build:
nix-build -A radxa-rock5b
Flash result to installation media (sd or mmc)
System configuration
None of the basic components (Platform Firmware, Kernel) are available from upstream NixOS.
Building a working system requires additional configuration.
@aciceri's flake
Nix flake for building OS image: https://github.com/aciceri/rock5b-nixos
To build:
nix-build
Flash result to a new second legacy bootable ext4 partition on the installation media
Boot into system
sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake github:jonahbron/config/aciceri-rebooted-into-this#rock5b