Hey, I recently purchased a beautiful Radxa Rock 5B [1] to replace my ageing RPi4 Home server. Since we have a Tumbleweed image for the Radxa Zero [2], I was having some hopes, that we might also have images for the Rock 5B. Is there something known about it? Best, phoenix [1] https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/5b [2] https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Radxa_Zero
On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 10:59 AM Felix Niederwanger < felix.niederwanger@suse.de> wrote:
Hey,
I recently purchased a beautiful Radxa Rock 5B [1] to replace my ageing RPi4 Home server.
Since we have a Tumbleweed image for the Radxa Zero [2], I was having some hopes, that we might also have images for the Rock 5B. Is there something known about it?
Best, phoenix
[1] https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/5b [2] https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Radxa_Zero
I with Felix, I have 5B/5A, I love to get tumbleweed on them as well. -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 openSUSE Community Member since 2008.
I managed to get MicroOS running on the weekend :-) TL;DR: Put the custom UEFI firmware from https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588 on a SD-Card and you will be able to boot our TW/MicroOS ISO images. Leap doesn't work. Thanks to the custom EDK2 UEFI firmware from https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588, the board can boot our aarch64 UEFI images. I could install MicroOS from the ISO image on the NVME disk. The board boots and in general behaves and acts just fine. I could not yet get the eMMC to work in MicroOS. It doesn't show up in lsblk nor in the installer but I didn't had the time to look deeper into this. Perhaps the driver is not yet upstream, but I wouldn't know for sure as of now. The UEFI firmware currently runs on a SD-Card and that works fine. I'm not yet planning to flash the internal SPI just yet because it just works and I still want to get some confidence that everything is fun. I also tried to boot Leap Micro 5.5. Grub shows up, but after selecting "Installation" it remains stuck at a cursor. I guess the kernel is too old and the Radxa patches are not yet present there but that's just a guess. In short: Fun little board to play with. I will keep exploring this little fella a bit more but it makes me already pretty happy that Tumbleweed works once you use the custom UEFI firmware. Best, phoenix On 02/10/23 17:02, Chuck Payne wrote:
On Mon, Oct 2, 2023 at 10:59 AM Felix Niederwanger <felix.niederwanger@suse.de <mailto:felix.niederwanger@suse.de>> wrote:
Hey,
I recently purchased a beautiful Radxa Rock 5B [1] to replace my ageing RPi4 Home server.
Since we have a Tumbleweed image for the Radxa Zero [2], I was having some hopes, that we might also have images for the Rock 5B. Is there something known about it?
Best, phoenix
[1] https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/5b <https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/5b> [2] https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Radxa_Zero <https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Radxa_Zero>
I with Felix, I have 5B/5A, I love to get tumbleweed on them as well.
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Used the same method of installing as Felix but chose the DVD image for Tumbleweed instead. The system is located on a NVME SSD, and I'm quite happy with the computer. Trying to understand more about the tiny device I wanted to see if the input voltage of the USB-c socket was available from the OS side of things. I asked the Radxa forum and they said that yes, it is possible. But their suggestions don't seem to work on my Tumbleweed system. To sum things up I've failed to get the input voltage as the process seems to be a bit more complicated than I thought. It seems it all depends on how the sensors are accessed and the system that keeps track of the sensor readings. The thread about it can be found at: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/does-the-os-know-what-voltage-the-sbc-gets/173... and at: https://forum.radxa.com/t/does-the-os-know-what-voltage-the-sbc-gets/20510 How do I see the input voltage from the PD in Tumbleweed? --hukka
A recent U-Boot will serve as well to get the board running, and meanwhile the Leap installer got updated to recognise the SD card. Regarding the supply voltage I can only confirm that a USB power supply with working PD runs fine here after one without PD failed (reboot loops). Beyond that I didn't have to tune anything. The actual voltage is available as VIN6 to the SARADC (Schematics p29, R95132 and R95133 right hs down). The only remaining downside is that the screens stay black, because the DT does not show anything connected to the display engines yet. WiP. I've created an HCL page: https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:ROCK_Pi_5 Torsten
Hello Torsten I will flash U-boot to the SPI as soon as I feel confident enough. Having the stuff on a SD-card seems to work fine for now, although admittedly, it is a bodge. My 60 watt PD seems to combine well with the Rock 5 and so far there have been no issues. I'm not trying to trouble-shoot anything as things work well. It was just my curiosity that got triggered. "What voltage do I get?" A side effect of that simple question is that I now am trying to understand why I can't get the answer to the seemingly simple voltage question. You've created a HCL page: https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:ROCK_Pi_5 I did see the page but... Could I humbly suggest some changes? https://forums.opensuse.org/t/does-the-os-know-what-voltage-the-sbc-gets/173... (Please, I'm trying to be clear, not harsh). About the sensors... The users at the Radxa forum suggested that it might have something to do with the fact that my Tumbleweed system uses ACPI. If so, then how do I make the OS recognize the sensors? ...like the SARADC unit? Friendly greetings --hukka
On Mon, 8 Apr 2024 21:26:50 +0200 Felix Niederwanger <phoenix@feldspaten.org> wrote:
On 04/04/24 17:24, Torsten Duwe wrote:
A recent U-Boot will serve as well to get the board running, and meanwhile the Leap installer got updated to recognise the SD card.
Do you mean the 15.5 installer or the upcoming 15.6 one?
15.6. https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221603
Do we already have builds for 15.6?
Once a proper U-Boot is in the Flash, there's no more need for specialised builds, https://get.opensuse.org/leap/15.6/ -> e.g. https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/iso/openSUSE-Leap-15.6-... will just work fine ( serial console only, see above )-: HTH, Torsten
On 4/9/24 11:53, Torsten Duwe wrote:
https://get.opensuse.org/leap/15.6/ -> e.g.
https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.6/iso/openSUSE-Leap-15.6-...
will just work fine ( serial console only, see above )-:
HTH, Torsten
Thanks, kinda inclined to give it a try. I have a eMMC module attached to my Rock5B which never got recognized, neither on Leap (Micro) nor on MicroOS. It is recognized by the recommended Debian image however. Is there something known about this issue? Also sorry for hijacking the thread :-D
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