Rockpro64

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TL;DR - Mainline BSP bring-up guide for this board — covering U-Boot, Linux kernel, Buildroot/Yocto build from source with SD/flash boot, serial console access, and device tree configuration. - Part of Amarula Solutions’ upstream-first BSP documentation.

This tutorial will show the details of RockPro64 board mainline support.

Hardware details and wiki RockPro64

How do you access the hardware?

How do you build the BSP?

How do you build ATF?

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$ git clone https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware.git $ cd /path/to/arm-trusted-firmware $ make realclean $ make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- PLAT=rk3399 bl31 $ cp /path/to/arm-trusted-firmware/build/rk3399/release/bl31/bl31.elf /path/to/u-boot

How do you build U-Boot?

$ git clone https://github.com/amarula/u-boot-amarula
$ cd u-boot-amarula
$ git checkout -b rockdev origin/rockdev
$ make rockpro64-rk3399_defconfig
$ make
$ make u-boot.itb

How do you build the Linux kernel?

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
$ cd linux-next
$ make mrproper
$ ARCH=arm64 make defconfig
$ ARCH=arm64 make Image dtbs -j 4

How do you build with Buildroot?

How do you boot from SD card?

Create Single partition and Insert the SD on host

$ cd /path/to/u-boot
$ ./tools/mkimage -n rk3399 -T rksd -d ./tpl/u-boot-tpl-dtb.bin out
$ cat ./spl/u-boot-spl-dtb.bin >> out;
$ sudo dd if=out of=/dev/sda seek=64;
$ sudo dd if=u-boot.itb  of=/dev/sda seek=16384
$ sync

Put this SD (or micro-SD) card into your board and reset it. You should see something like:

U-Boot 2019.04-rc4 (Apr 25 2019 - 16:58:42 +0530)

Model: Pine64 RockPro64
DRAM:  3.9 GiB
MMC:   dwmmc@fe310000: 2, dwmmc@fe320000: 1, sdhci@fe330000: 0
Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In:    serial@ff1a0000
Out:   serial@ff1a0000
Err:   serial@ff1a0000
Model: Pine64 RockPro64
Net:
Error: ethernet@fe300000 address not set.
eth-1: ethernet@fe300000
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0(part 0) is current device
** No partition table - mmc 0 **
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc1 is current device
Scanning mmc 1:1...
Found /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
151 bytes read in 3 ms (48.8 KiB/s)
1:      NanoPc T4
Retrieving file: /boot/Image
21027328 bytes read in 948 ms (21.2 MiB/s)
append: earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xff1a0000 root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 rootwait
Retrieving file: /boot/rk3399-rockpro64.dtb
57825 bytes read in 5 ms (11 MiB/s)
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 01f00000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1f00000
   Loading Device Tree to 00000000f5f17000, end 00000000f5f281e0 ... OK

Starting kernel ...

[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd034]
[    0.000000] Linux version 5.1.0-rc1-dirty (jagan@jagan-XPS-13-9350) (gcc version 6.3.1 20170109 (Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.02)) #13 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 30 1
6:43:34 IST 2019
[    0.000000] Machine model: Pine64 RockPro64
[    0.000000] earlycon: uart8250 at MMIO32 0x00000000ff1a0000 (options '')
[    0.000000] printk: bootconsole [uart8250] enabled
[    0.000000] efi: Getting EFI parameters from FDT:
[    0.000000] efi: UEFI not found.
[    0.000000] cma: Reserved 32 MiB at 0x00000000f6000000
[    0.000000] NUMA: No NUMA configuration found
[    0.000000] NUMA: Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x00000000f7ffffff]
[    0.000000] NUMA: NODE_DATA [mem 0xf57db840-0xf57dcfff]
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   DMA32    [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x00000000f7ffffff]
[    0.000000]   Normal   empty
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x00000000f7ffffff]
[    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x00000000f7ffffff]
[    0.000000] psci: probing for conduit method from DT.
[    0.000000] psci: PSCIv1.1 detected in firmware.
[    0.000000] psci: Using standard PSCI v0.2 function IDs
[    0.000000] psci: MIGRATE_INFO_TYPE not supported.
[    0.000000] psci: SMC Calling Convention v1.1
[    0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from start_kernel+0xac/0x46c with crng_init=0
[    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 23 pages/cpu @(____ptrval____) s56984 r8192 d29032 u94208
[    0.000000] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU0
[    0.000000] CPU features: detected: ARM erratum 845719
[    0.000000] CPU features: detected: GIC system register CPU interface
[    0.000000] Speculative Store Bypass Disable mitigation not required
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 999432
[    0.000000] Policy zone: DMA32
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xff1a0000 root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 rootwait

Tip

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