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using the new Rock 5 Model B #221

Open slaesh opened 1 year ago

slaesh commented 1 year ago

is this possible?

floion commented 1 year ago

At this time, no. Even the vendor has not released yocto support for it afaics: https://github.com/radxa/meta-radxa/tree/dunfell/conf/machine (there's no conf file for the Rock 5 there)

RadxaYuntian commented 1 year ago

We have switched to meta-rockchip for new development: https://github.com/radxa/meta-rockchip/blob/kirkstone-radxa/conf/machine/rockchip-rk3588-rock-5b.conf

slaesh commented 1 year ago

Thanks @RadxaYuntian .. does this help @floion ? =)

terehov commented 1 year ago

I think this is the perfect hardware for many use cases. We are quite unhappy with the performance of Raspberry 4 and version 5 seems far away. I believe this would be a huge benefit for the balena system.

floion commented 1 year ago

@slaesh @terehov do any of you have the hw in hand? On our side we do not have it at this moment. If you do have the hardware, would you be interested in adding support for it? We have instructions on what needs to be done https://github.com/balena-os/meta-balena/blob/master/contributing-device-support.md

slaesh commented 1 year ago

yes I have. but what is missing is.. This will require knowledge of the Yocto project and familiarity with tools used to build custom images :sweat:

but I will give it a shoot if I have some spare-time soon

floion commented 6 months ago

Hi @RadxaYuntian which is the official kirkstone branch that should be used on the new layer? There are a few there: kirkstone, kirkstone-radxa, kirkstone-radxa-rebased. Thank you

RadxaYuntian commented 6 months ago

For future Yocto related question you can contact @RadxaStephen directly, since he is the current Yocto maintainer in Radxa.

The official branch is kirkstone-radxa.

csvke commented 6 months ago

For future Yocto related question you can contact @RadxaStephen directly, since he is the current Yocto maintainer in Radxa.

The official branch is kirkstone-radxa.

@RadxaStephen I have started to create Balena support for rock5b and here's the progress https://github.com/frankieslab/balena-radxa/commit/2eff98e26a71c613ced01e1f96e1b01eb9660948

However, I wonder if there's any reference I can follow when I prepare recipes-core/images https://docs.balena.io/reference/OS/customer-board-support/#recipes-coreimages-directory

Should I start base on rock pi 4b?

floion commented 6 months ago

For future Yocto related question you can contact @RadxaStephen directly, since he is the current Yocto maintainer in Radxa. The official branch is kirkstone-radxa.

@RadxaStephen I have started to create Balena support for rock5b and here's the progress frankieslab@2eff98e

However, I wonder if there's any reference I can follow when I prepare recipes-core/images https://docs.balena.io/reference/OS/customer-board-support/#recipes-coreimages-directory

Should I start base on rock pi 4b?

Yes, you can look at the Rock Pi 4 B as a reference

floion commented 4 weeks ago

Hi @RadxaYuntian I can't find the older machines in the new layer here: https://github.com/radxa/meta-rockchip/tree/kirkstone-radxa/conf/machine So the RockPi 4B will not have kirkstone support?

RadxaYuntian commented 4 weeks ago

You will have to use 4SE on kirkstone, but there is one for 4B in scarthgap.

floion commented 4 weeks ago

@RadxaYuntian so the conf machine for the 4SE on the kirkstone branch can be used to generate a working image for the RockPi 4B?

RadxaYuntian commented 4 weeks ago

Those 2 models are software compatible.

floion commented 4 weeks ago

@RadxaYuntian ok so going forward with scarthgap and newer, there will not be a machine for the 4SE but rather only for the 4B, right?

RadxaYuntian commented 4 weeks ago

You need to ask @RadxaStephen since he is the maintainer of Yocto layer.