4.26. Rockchip RK3188¶
4.26.1. Radxa Rock¶
Radxa Rock is a small SBC based on Rockchip RK3188 SoC. See http://radxa.com/Rock for additional information.
4.26.1.1. Building¶
make ARCH=arm radxa_rock_defconfig
make ARCH=arm
4.26.1.2. Creating bootable SD card¶
This will require a DRAM setup blob and additional utilities, see above.
Card layout (block == 0x200 bytes).
Block Number |
Name |
|---|---|
0x0000 |
DOS partition table |
0x0040 |
RK bootinfo (BootROM check sector) |
0x0044 |
DRAM setup routine |
0x005C |
Bootloader (barebox) |
0x0400 |
Barebox environment |
0x0800 |
Free space start |
Instructions.
Make 2 partitions on SD for boot and root filesystems.
Checkout and compile https://github.com/apxii/rkboottools
Get some RK3188 bootloader from https://github.com/neo-technologies/rockchip-bootloader
Run “rk-splitboot RK3188Loader(L)_V2.13.bin” command. (for example). You will get FlashData file with others. It’s a DRAM setup blob.
Otherwise it can be borrowed from RK U-boot sources from https://github.com/linux-rockchip/u-boot-rockchip/blob/u-boot-rk3188/tools/rk_tools/3188_LPDDR2_300MHz_DDR3_300MHz_20130830.bin
Run “rk-makebootable FlashData barebox-radxa-rock.bin rrboot.bin”
Insert SD card and run “dd if=rrboot.bin of=</dev/sdcard> bs=$((0x200)) seek=$((0x40))”
SD card is ready
4.27. Rockchip RK356x¶
Barebox features support for the Rockchip RK3566 and RK3568 SoCs, where the RK3566 can be considered as reduced but largely identical version of the RK3568.
4.27.1. Supported Boards¶
Rockchip RK3568 EVB
Rockchip RK3568 Bananapi R2 Pro
Pine64 Quartz64 Model A
Radxa ROCK3 Model A
Radxa CM3 (RK3566) IO Board
Protonic MECSBC
The steps described in the following target the RK3568 and the RK3568 EVB but generally apply to both SoCs and all boards. Differences between the SoCs or boards are outlined where required.
4.27.2. Building¶
The build process needs three binary files which have to be copied from the rkbin https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin repository to the barebox source tree:
cp $RKBIN/bin/rk35/rk3568_bl31_v1.34.elf firmware/rk3568-bl31.bin
cp $RKBIN/bin/rk35/rk3568_bl32_v2.08.bin firmware/rk3568-op-tee.bin
cp $RKBIN/bin/rk35/rk3568_ddr_1560MHz_v1.13.bin arch/arm/boards/rockchip-rk3568-evb/sdram-init.bin
With these barebox can be compiled as:
make ARCH=arm rockchip_v8_defconfig
make ARCH=arm
NOTE I found the bl32 firmware non working for me as of 7d631e0d5b2d373b54d4533580d08fb9bd2eaad4 in the rkbin repository.
NOTE The RK3566 and RK3568 seem to share the bl31 and bl32 firmware files, whereas the memory initialization blob is different.
4.27.3. Creating a bootable SD card¶
A bootable SD card can be created with:
dd if=images/barebox-rk3568-evb.img of=/dev/sdx bs=1024 seek=32
The barebox image is written to the raw device, so make sure the partitioning doesn’t conflict with the are barebox is written to. Starting the first partition at offset 8MiB is a safe bet.
4.27.4. USB bootstrapping¶
The RK3568 can be bootstrapped via USB for which the rk-usb-loader tool in the barebox repository can be used. The tool takes the same images as written on SD cards:
./scripts/rk-usb-loader images/barebox-rk3568-evb.img
Note that the boot order of the RK3568 is not configurable. The SoC will only enter USB MaskROM mode when no other bootsource contains a valid bootloader. This means to use USB you have to make all other bootsources invalid by removing SD cards and shortcircuiting eMMCs. The RK3568 EVB has a pushbutton to disable the eMMC. On the Quartz64 boards, remove the eMMC module if present.
