ROCKCHIP

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This document describes the information about Rockchip supported boards and it’s usage steps.

Rockchip boards

Rockchip is SoC solutions provider for tablets & PCs, streaming media TV boxes, AI audio & vision, IoT hardware.

A wide range of Rockchip SoCs with associated boardsare supported in mainline U-Boot.

List of mainline supported rockchip boards:

  • rk3036
    • Rockchip Evb-RK3036 (evb-rk3036)
    • Kylin (kylin_rk3036)
  • rk3128
    • Rockchip Evb-RK3128 (evb-rk3128)
  • rk3229
    • Rockchip Evb-RK3229 (evb-rk3229)
  • rk3288
    • Rockchip Evb-RK3288 (evb-rk3288)
    • Firefly-RK3288 (firefly-rk3288)
    • MQmaker MiQi (miqi-rk3288)
    • Phytec RK3288 PCM-947 (phycore-rk3288)
    • PopMetal-RK3288 (popmetal-rk3288)
    • Radxa Rock 2 Square (rock2)
    • Tinker-RK3288 (tinker-rk3288)
    • Google Jerry (chromebook_jerry)
    • Google Mickey (chromebook_mickey)
    • Google Minnie (chromebook_minnie)
    • Google Speedy (chromebook_speedy)
    • Amarula Vyasa-RK3288 (vyasa-rk3288)
  • rk3308
    • Rockchip Evb-RK3308 (evb-rk3308)
    • Roc-cc-RK3308 (roc-cc-rk3308)
  • rk3328
    • Rockchip Evb-RK3328 (evb-rk3328)
    • Pine64 Rock64 (rock64-rk3328)
    • Firefly-RK3328 (roc-cc-rk3328)
    • Radxa Rockpi E (rock-pi-e-rk3328)
  • rk3368
    • GeekBox (geekbox)
    • PX5 EVB (evb-px5)
    • Rockchip Sheep (sheep-rk3368)
    • Theobroma Systems RK3368-uQ7 SoM - Lion (lion-rk3368)
  • rk3399
    • 96boards RK3399 Ficus (ficus-rk3399)
    • 96boards Rock960 (rock960-rk3399)
    • Firefly-RK3399 (firefly_rk3399)
    • Firefly ROC-RK3399-PC
    • FriendlyElec NanoPC-T4 (nanopc-t4-rk3399)
    • FriendlyElec NanoPi M4 (nanopi-m4-rk3399)
    • FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO4 (nanopi-neo4-rk3399)
    • Google Bob (chromebook_bob)
    • Khadas Edge (khadas-edge-rk3399)
    • Khadas Edge-Captain (khadas-edge-captain-rk3399)
    • Khadas Edge-V (hadas-edge-v-rk3399)
    • Orange Pi RK3399 (orangepi-rk3399)
    • Pine64 RockPro64 (rockpro64-rk3399)
    • Radxa ROCK Pi 4 (rock-pi-4-rk3399)
    • Rockchip Evb-RK3399 (evb_rk3399)
    • Theobroma Systems RK3399-Q7 SoM - Puma (puma_rk3399)
  • rv1108
    • Rockchip Evb-rv1108 (evb-rv1108)
    • Elgin-R1 (elgin-rv1108)
  • rv3188
    • Radxa Rock (rock)

Building

TF-A

TF-A would require to build for ARM64 Rockchip SoCs platforms.

To build TF-A:

git clone https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware.git
cd arm-trusted-firmware
make realclean
make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- PLAT=rk3399

Specify the PLAT= with desired rockchip platform to build TF-A for.

U-Boot

To build rk3328 boards:

export BL31=/path/to/arm-trusted-firmware/to/bl31.elf
make evb-rk3328_defconfig
make

To build rk3288 boards:

make evb-rk3288_defconfig
make

To build rk3368 boards:

export BL31=/path/to/arm-trusted-firmware/to/bl31.elf
make evb-px5_defconfig
make

To build rk3399 boards:

export BL31=/path/to/arm-trusted-firmware/to/bl31.elf
make evb-rk3399_defconfig
make

Flashing

1. Package the image with U-Boot TPL/SPL

SD Card

All rockchip platforms, except rk3128 (which doesn’t use SPL) are now supporting single boot image using binman and pad_cat.

To write an image that boots from an SD card (assumed to be /dev/sda):

sudo dd if=u-boot-rockchip.bin of=/dev/sda seek=64
sync

eMMC

eMMC flash would probe on mmc0 in most of the rockchip platforms.

Create GPT partition layout as defined in configurations:

mmc dev 0
gpt write mmc 0 $partitions

Connect the USB-OTG cable between host and target device.

Launch fastboot at target:

fastboot 0

Upon successful gadget connection,host show the USB device like:

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 020: ID 2207:330c Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Company RK3399 in Mask ROM mode

Program the flash:

sudo fastboot -i 0x2207 flash loader1 idbloader.img
sudo fastboot -i 0x2207 flash loader2 u-boot.itb

Note: for rockchip 32-bit platforms the U-Boot proper image is u-boot-dtb.img

SPI

Generating idbloader for SPI boot would require to input a multi image image format to mkimage tool instead of concerting (like for MMC boot).

SPL-alone SPI boot image:

./tools/mkimage -n rk3399 -T rkspi -d spl/u-boot-spl.bin idbloader.img

TPL+SPL SPI boot image:

./tools/mkimage -n rk3399 -T rkspi -d tpl/u-boot-tpl.bin:spl/u-boot-spl.bin idbloader.img

Copy SPI boot images into SD card and boot from SD:

sf probe
load mmc 1:1 $kernel_addr_r idbloader.img
sf erase 0 +$filesize
sf write $kernel_addr_r 0 ${filesize}
load mmc 1:1 ${kernel_addr_r} u-boot.itb
sf erase 0x60000 +$filesize
sf write $kernel_addr_r 0x60000 ${filesize}

2. Package the image with Rockchip miniloader

Image package with Rockchip miniloader requires robin [1].

Create idbloader.img

cd u-boot
./tools/mkimage -n px30 -T rksd -d rkbin/bin/rk33/px30_ddr_333MHz_v1.15.bin idbloader.img
cat rkbin/bin/rk33/px30_miniloader_v1.22.bin >> idbloader.img
sudo dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/sda seek=64

Create trust.img

cd rkbin
./tools/trust_merger RKTRUST/PX30TRUST.ini
sudo dd if=trust.img of=/dev/sda seek=24576

Create uboot.img

rbink/tools/loaderimage --pack --uboot u-boot-dtb.bin uboot.img 0x200000
sudo dd if=uboot.img of=/dev/sda seek=16384

Note: 1. 0x200000 is load address and it’s an optional in some platforms. 2. rkbin binaries are kept on updating, so would recommend to use the latest versions.

TODO

  • Add rockchip idbloader image building
  • Add rockchip TPL image building
  • Document SPI flash boot
  • Add missing SoC’s with it boards list

[1] https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin