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