[HN Gopher] Almost an open-source boot chain for Rockchip's RK3588
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       Almost an open-source boot chain for Rockchip's RK3588
        
       Author : voxadam
       Score  : 69 points
       Date   : 2024-02-24 10:24 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.collabora.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.collabora.com)
        
       | transpute wrote:
       | Related: _" Getting the RK3588 SoC supported in upstream Linux
       | (2023)"_, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39356530
        
       | graphe wrote:
       | How is it in terms of usability? I read there was support, tried
       | a rockchip sbc and found support lacking. Judging from the
       | functionality of various pine products and support, is this any
       | different?
        
         | jacoblambda wrote:
         | the pine product that shares this SoC (QuartzPro64) has to my
         | knowledge not actually been released officially yet.
         | 
         | The closest would probably be the Quartz64 which uses the
         | RK3566. The RK3566 is pretty well supported but it has some
         | quirks since most products just use its big brother the RK3568
         | instead so most of the dev efforts come from that model
         | instead.
         | 
         | The RK3588 is already used in a handful of pretty popular SBCs
         | (such as the OrangePi5) so despite being newer and potentially
         | having a bit less mature drivers in some areas, it is almost
         | certainly getting way more development attention.
        
         | zokier wrote:
         | https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-35...
         | has some docs
         | 
         | Really it boils down to specific SoC and even specific device;
         | it is futile to try to generalize too much. But Rockchip has
         | seen steady progress in this front, and I'd assume older
         | devices like rk3399 based ones especially would have pretty
         | solid support.
        
         | rcarmo wrote:
         | Don't know about this specific piece of code yet, but I have
         | had good results with one board
         | (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/01/20/1800) and mixed
         | results with another
         | (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/02/10/2000).
         | 
         | I have another couple RK3588 and RK3588S boards that I just got
         | and that look promising, but I haven't done all my tests yet.
        
       | markhahn wrote:
       | It is astonishing that open firmware is not yet normal and
       | expected!
       | 
       | How can we begin to expect our systems to be secure, correct,
       | efficient, and sustainable without a fully open stack?
       | 
       | Trusting vendors is like the role of the Church in the dark ages.
        
         | ethbr1 wrote:
         | Desire and financial sustainability are not the same thing.
        
         | pjmlp wrote:
         | That is why there is a whole industry built around
         | certification and NDA accessibility.
        
       | rcarmo wrote:
       | The timing is serendipitous - only yesterday I was having another
       | go at building an image for one board
       | (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/02/10/2000) and I am having
       | trouble with uBoot, so I'm definitely going to dig in.
        
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