Has anyone installed Trisquel on RockPi4? | single board computers
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Hello everyone.
Please tell me, has anyone installed or tried to install Trisquel on RockPi4 https://rockpi.org/rockpi4? (CPU: Rockchip RK3399)
As reported on the FSF website https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers:
Rockchip devices based on the RK3288 or RK3399 chips are usable with free software. Accelerated video encoding/decoding is supported with free software, with upstream support on-going via the "hantro" driver. These Rockchip devices have Mali GPUs supported via the free Lima and Panfrost drivers. Display out over type-C requires a proprietary firmware on RK3399, but HDMI may be used instead. Wake-on-word functionality with the RK3399 DSP may require a proprietary firmware. More recent Rockchip devices require nonfree blobs in order to boot.
There are many more devices based on RK3399, such as NanoPI products:
NanoPi R4S ,NanoPC-T4 etc
I found https://thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/how-build-trisquel-11-scratch-tpe-r1500-mail-server and https://thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/how-build-trisquel-11-image-scratch-tpe-r1500-easier-way that explain how to make a Trisquel 11 microSD card image for a Thinkpenguin product that is not being sold currently. Perhaps it is because the product is not ready yet.
The hardware seems to be the nanopi R4S. I used the "easy way" to make such a microSD card image and I can confirm that it boots successfully on a nanopi R4S. My motivation for getting a nanopi R4S was to install libreCMC, not Trisquel, so I have not used it much. However, when I did an "apt upgrade" and the kernel was upgraded, there was an error due to "Nanopi R4S" not being recognized by flash-kernel (or something like that, citing from memory now), so that I am not sure the system is still functional. So there might be some issues to fix.
I know that, unlike the nanopi R4S, the rockpro64 has official support from Debian, so it should not have such a problem. I had the idea to try the method described in https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/arm64-chromebooks-trisquel-installation i.e., install Trisquel from Debian. I started but I remember that at some point, u-boot said it could not find a btrfs file system, while I did not understand why it was so because the Debian install only used ext4. I can't remember the details now, unfortunately I did not write down anything, so I will have to retry and see.
Hello Avron.
Thank you very much for your answers, they are always informative!
I saw this manual for TPE-R1500 too https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/how-build-trisquel-11-image-scratch-tpe-r1500-easier-way,
it is the same as Nanopi R4S https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=284.
Great device that can be used as a wired router since there is no WI-FI and install LibreCMC https://librecmc.org/librecmc/downloads/snapshots/v6.3/targets/rockchip/armv8/librecmc-rockchip-armv8-thinkpenguin_tpe-r1500-squashfs-sysupgrade.img.gz.
Actually there is another very good company that makes routers is gl-inte
For example Beryl AX (GL-MT3000) DDR4 512MB but for OpenWRT there is a Wi-Fi 6 protocol
https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt3000/
I would like to understand what is the most powerful single board computer with RK3399 chip on the market now.
And if I understand you correctly, it is “Pine64 RockPro64” https://pine64.org/devices/rockpro64/.
- Rockchip RK3399 Hexa-Core (dual ARM Cortex A72 and quad ARM Cortex A53) processor
- MALI T-860 Quad-Core GPU
- eMMC slot
- microSD card slot
- 1 x USB 3.0 Type C
- 1x USB 3.0 type A
- 2x USB 2.0 Host
- Gigabit Ethernet
- PI-2 GPIO Bus
- eDP interface
- MiPi DSI interface
- Touch panel interface
- Stereo MiPi CSI interface
I see a large list for installing Linux Distro ..
RockPro64 OSes:
• Ubuntu
• Debian
• Armbian
• DietPi
• Arch Linux
• Slackware
• LibreELEC
• OpenMediaVault
• OpenBSD
• NetBSD
• Android
• Recalbox
• Batocera
https://www.electromaker.io/blog/article/pine64-rockpro64-review-a-beefy-single-board-computer