radxa ROCK 3 Model A (RK3568), howto install Archlinux Arm?

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radxa ROCK 3 Model A (RK3568), howto install Archlinux Arm?

Postby cedric1337 » Sun Mar 06, 2022 8:37 am

Hi All,

I'm looking to buy the ROCK 3 single board PC [1], based on the Rockchip RK3568. I would like to install Arch linux on this board, and use it to build a NAS (by using a JMB585 M.2 to sata converter, and several JMB57 SATA expanders for a maximum of 25 SATA drives)

On the platform page [2] I don't see the ROCK 3, nor the RK3568 listed.

Under http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/rockchip/boot/ I only see the ROCK64 listed.

I've downloaded and extracted ArchLinuxARM-aarch64-latest.tar.gz as mentioned by the generic instructions [3].
In /boot/dtbs/rockchip I see the file one file for my SOC, rk3568-evb1-v10.dtb, but this file is not for the ROCK 3.

On the radxa WIKI, there are instructions [4] to build a debian image for the ROCK 3. On this page they mention instructions resulting in a kernel, uboot and rk3568-rock-3-a.dtb Can these files be used to run the arch linux root filesystem?

Is the above procedure the correct way to install Arch linux on this board?
Has anybody already done this?
Are there reasons why using this board as the basis of a NAS is a dumb idea?

[1] https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock3/hardware/3a
[2] https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms
[3] https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/generic
[4] https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock3/dev/Debian

PS, is this the correct place to ask this question?

Kind regards,
Cedric
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Re: radxa ROCK 3 Model A (RK3568), howto install Archlinux A

Postby cedric1337 » Sun Mar 06, 2022 3:57 pm

I've also asked this at the radxa forum [1]. It turns out there are Manjaro Arm images [2] for this board.

[1] https://forum.radxa.com/t/radxa-rock-3- ... x-arm/9097
[2] https://github.com/manjaro-arm/rock3-a- ... g/20220228
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Re: radxa ROCK 3 Model A (RK3568), howto install Archlinux A

Postby sehraf » Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:18 am

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'C')an these files be used to run the arch linux root filesystem?


Yes, this is usually the easiest way. Grab a working U-Boot and Kernel from somewhere and use them with the generic image. Instead of compiling them yourself, i like to simply strip them from a vendor supplied distribution ;)

Also, you probably want to have a serial adapter, though (Rockchip usually uses 3.3V). Sometimes the U-Boot scripts doesn't match exactly (e.g. patch to kernel, dtb or initfs) or the kernel argument for the rootfs is wrong and you often can't use a display this early on.
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