Has anyone installed Trisquel on RockPi4? | single board computers

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sam-d16
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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.

sam-d16
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There are many more devices based on RK3399, such as NanoPI products:

NanoPi R4S ,NanoPC-T4 etc

https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?search=rk3399&submit_search=&category_id=0&route=product%2Fsearch&sub_category=true&description=true

Avron

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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.

sam-d16
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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