NixOS on ARM/Radxa ROCK 4
| Radxa ROCK 4 | |
|---|---|
| |
| Manufacturer | Radxa |
| Architecture | AArch64 |
| Bootloader | U-Boot |
| Boot order | SPI NOR Flash, eMMC, SD |
| Maintainer | msgilligan |
The Radxa ROCK 4B+ is a Single-Board Computer with a Rockchip RK3399 SoC.
- CPU: ARM Cortex-A72 and Cortex-A53
- GPU: Mali-T860 MP4
- RAM: 2GB/4GB LPDDR4
- MMC: eMMC Connector for up to 128GB
- NET: 1 Gigabit Ethernet
- USB: 1x USB3 OTG/HOST Type-A, 1x USB 3 Type-A, 2x USB 2 Type-A
- PCIe: M.2 M Key M connector (4-lane PCIe 2.1) supports NVMe SSD
The @msgilligan PR below has been tested with both the ROCK 4B+ and ROCK 4 SE variants.
Status
Support of this system is YMMV (your mileage may vary).
U-Boot bootloaders are available in different variants:
The official hardware documentation can be found on the Radxa wiki.
Bootloader Firmware
U-Boot Firmware
- The @msgilligan PR rely's on `nixos-rockchip` which in turn uses the mainline U-Boot repository.
- There is also support for ROCK 4 U-Boot in Nixpkgs, but testing and documentation for using this version of U-Boot is not available here yet.
System configuration
Use the instructions in the README, but until the PR is merged, you'll need to checkout the PR branch.
Use the following command to build the image:
nix build .#RadxaRock4
@msgilligan's PR to @nabam's flake
Nix flake for building several Rockchip SBC images, see GitHub nabam/nixos-rockchip
@msgilligan's WIP PR to add ROCK 4 support (WIP, but tested on ROCK 4B+ and ROCK 4 SE): nabam/nixos-rockchip PR #27