Arch on NanoPi NEO4

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I recently purchased one of these devices and decided to try and get Arch on it. It has an RK3399 chip which does work with existing devices which use it, so, I figured I'd try my hand at it.

Figured I'll post my progress here and see if anyone else has tried messing with this device.

So far, I've managed to boot and run Arch from a 16GiB eMMC chip by using their provided eflasher software-- I replaced rootfs.img by creating my own using their provided instructions: https://github.com/friendlyarm/sd-fuse_rk3399

However, I'm not 100% sure what to do about installing linux-aarch64-rc and uboot via Arch. Right now, even though I'm running Arch, I'm still using the kernel and uboot images they provided, which is a patch on Linux 4.4. Will update once I figure that out, and may even provide PKGBUILDs and more formal installation instructions if I get around to it.

[TheSaint]

Several members done the same as you, me too.
But it remain an hybrid which won't go far as long as kernel holds everything for itself. Rockchip doesn't understand mainlined procedures.
You might try to build your own u-boot and see whether the latest kernel will come alive. But with this kind of process I'd recommend to get an USB-RS232 adapter which is surely proved to work at 3.3 V.