Searching for forum for help on dts devel for RK3568 board

Searching for forum for help on dts devel for RK3568 board

[Erik Beck]

Hi all,

I am working on initial support for an RK3568 board, the LinkStar
H68K-1421v1. I've made some progress, but can't get past turning on one
of the two PCIe3 Host bridges (pcie3x1 pcie@fe270000) without breaking
the boot.

Is this the right location to ask for help? If not, where might be?

Thanks,

Erik

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Re: Searching for forum for help on dts devel for RK3568 board

[Heiko Stübner]

Hi Erik,

Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2025, 22:39:01 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Erik Beck:
> I am working on initial support for an RK3568 board, the LinkStar
> H68K-1421v1. I've made some progress, but can't get past turning on one
> of the two PCIe3 Host bridges (pcie3x1 pcie@fe270000) without breaking
> the boot.
> 
> Is this the right location to ask for help? If not, where might be?

The mailinglist mostly has patches on it, so I don't really know if
people are expecting non-patch mails.

If in doubt the #linux-rockchip channel on the libera.chat IRC network [0]
might help more. (people in different timezones, so probably no immediate
answers)



For the multi-pci case I guess you could start by looking at other rk3568
board doing similar things, like the Qnap-TS433 [1], Radxa E25 [2] or
Nanopi-R5S [3].

Generally board designers often follow reference designs, so things might
be similar.

Similarly, you might want to push your current in progress work on some
github thing, so people can take a look.


It also looks like the H68KV2 variant of the device has schematics
available as linked from the bottom of [4], not sure how that relates
to your device though.


Heiko


[0] https://libera.chat/
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-qnap-ts433.dts
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-radxa-e25.dts
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-nanopi-r5s.dts
[4] https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/wiki-documents/blob/docusaurus-version/docs/Network/RK_Devices/H68K_V2/H68KV2_install_system.md



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Re: Searching for forum for help on dts devel for RK3568 board

[Erik Beck]

Hi Heiko,

Thanks for the fast response!

I'll give libera.chat a try.

I've been looking at the schematics, and they have helped somewhat, but
not getting me unstuck at the moment. The V2 should be pretty similar
to the V1, but there might be an important difference I'm overlooking.

I'll give a look at those boards you mentioned. I've been using the
BPI-R2-Pro for inspiration. It has also helped, but there might be
something in the other boards relating to the PCIe bus that might help.

I've been putting the work up onto github; current branch is:
https://github.com/TahomaSoft/openwrt-openwrt/tree/ExpDev-WIP7

Direct link to the DTS is:
https://github.com/TahomaSoft/openwrt-openwrt/blob/ExpDev-WIP7/target/linux/rockchip/patches-6.6/036-arm64-dts-rockchip-linkstar-minimal.patch

Thank you/Danke,

Erik
~~~
On Sun, 01 Jun 2025 23:11:56 +0200
Heiko Stübner <heiko@sntech.de> wrote:

> Hi Erik,
> 
> Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2025, 22:39:01 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
> schrieb Erik Beck:
> > I am working on initial support for an RK3568 board, the LinkStar
> > H68K-1421v1. I've made some progress, but can't get past turning on
> > one of the two PCIe3 Host bridges (pcie3x1 pcie@fe270000) without
> > breaking the boot.
> > 
> > Is this the right location to ask for help? If not, where might be?
> >  
> 
> The mailinglist mostly has patches on it, so I don't really know if
> people are expecting non-patch mails.
> 
> If in doubt the #linux-rockchip channel on the libera.chat IRC
> network [0] might help more. (people in different timezones, so
> probably no immediate answers)
> 
> 
> 
> For the multi-pci case I guess you could start by looking at other
> rk3568 board doing similar things, like the Qnap-TS433 [1], Radxa E25
> [2] or Nanopi-R5S [3].
> 
> Generally board designers often follow reference designs, so things
> might be similar.
> 
> Similarly, you might want to push your current in progress work on
> some github thing, so people can take a look.
> 
> 
> It also looks like the H68KV2 variant of the device has schematics
> available as linked from the bottom of [4], not sure how that relates
> to your device though.
> 
> 
> Heiko
> 
> 
> [0] https://libera.chat/
> [1]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-qnap-ts433.dts
> [2]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-radxa-e25.dts
> [3]
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-nanopi-r5s.dts
> [4]
> https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/wiki-documents/blob/docusaurus-version/docs/Network/RK_Devices/H68K_V2/H68KV2_install_system.md
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Searching for forum for help on dts devel for RK3568 board

[Heiko Stübner]

Hi Erik,

Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2025, 23:52:14 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Erik Beck:
> Hi Heiko,
> 
> Thanks for the fast response!
>
> I'll give libera.chat a try.
> 
> I've been looking at the schematics, and they have helped somewhat, but
> not getting me unstuck at the moment. The V2 should be pretty similar
> to the V1, but there might be an important difference I'm overlooking.
> 
> I'll give a look at those boards you mentioned. I've been using the
> BPI-R2-Pro for inspiration. It has also helped, but there might be
> something in the other boards relating to the PCIe bus that might help.
> 
> I've been putting the work up onto github; current branch is:
> https://github.com/TahomaSoft/openwrt-openwrt/tree/ExpDev-WIP7
> 
> Direct link to the DTS is:
> https://github.com/TahomaSoft/openwrt-openwrt/blob/ExpDev-WIP7/target/linux/rockchip/patches-6.6/036-arm64-dts-rockchip-linkstar-minimal.patch

The the big neon sign on first glance is the missing lane-limitation.

pcie3x2 and pcie3x1 share their lanes, so depending on the board wiring
you can either do pcie3x2 with 2 lanes, or both with 1 lane each.

See the
	num-lanes = <1>;
lines in the devicetrees using both pcie controllers.


Heiko


> Thank you/Danke,
> 
> Erik
> ~~~
> On Sun, 01 Jun 2025 23:11:56 +0200
> Heiko Stübner <heiko@sntech.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Erik,
> > 
> > Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2025, 22:39:01 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
> > schrieb Erik Beck:
> > > I am working on initial support for an RK3568 board, the LinkStar
> > > H68K-1421v1. I've made some progress, but can't get past turning on
> > > one of the two PCIe3 Host bridges (pcie3x1 pcie@fe270000) without
> > > breaking the boot.
> > > 
> > > Is this the right location to ask for help? If not, where might be?
> > >  
> > 
> > The mailinglist mostly has patches on it, so I don't really know if
> > people are expecting non-patch mails.
> > 
> > If in doubt the #linux-rockchip channel on the libera.chat IRC
> > network [0] might help more. (people in different timezones, so
> > probably no immediate answers)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > For the multi-pci case I guess you could start by looking at other
> > rk3568 board doing similar things, like the Qnap-TS433 [1], Radxa E25
> > [2] or Nanopi-R5S [3].
> > 
> > Generally board designers often follow reference designs, so things
> > might be similar.
> > 
> > Similarly, you might want to push your current in progress work on
> > some github thing, so people can take a look.
> > 
> > 
> > It also looks like the H68KV2 variant of the device has schematics
> > available as linked from the bottom of [4], not sure how that relates
> > to your device though.
> > 
> > 
> > Heiko
> > 
> > 
> > [0] https://libera.chat/
> > [1]
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-qnap-ts433.dts
> > [2]
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-radxa-e25.dts
> > [3]
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-nanopi-r5s.dts
> > [4]
> > https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/wiki-documents/blob/docusaurus-version/docs/Network/RK_Devices/H68K_V2/H68KV2_install_system.md
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org
> > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-rockchip
> 
> 





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Re: Searching for forum for help on dts devel for RK3568 board

[Erik Beck]

Hi Heiko,

You were right about the num-lanes = <1> for each pcie3!

Made that change to the dts and now both pcie3 bridges come up along
with the pcie2 bridge!

Next step is for me to figure out why the rtl8125-based chips attached
to each pcie3 bridge don't come up like the mt7921e "card" attached to
the pcie2 bridge.

Thank you for your help!

Erik

On Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:10:12 +0200
Heiko Stübner <heiko@sntech.de> wrote:

> Hi Erik,
> 
> Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2025, 23:52:14 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
> schrieb Erik Beck:
> > Hi Heiko,
> > 
> > Thanks for the fast response!
> >
> > I'll give libera.chat a try.
> > 
> > I've been looking at the schematics, and they have helped somewhat,
> > but not getting me unstuck at the moment. The V2 should be pretty
> > similar to the V1, but there might be an important difference I'm
> > overlooking.
> > 
> > I'll give a look at those boards you mentioned. I've been using the
> > BPI-R2-Pro for inspiration. It has also helped, but there might be
> > something in the other boards relating to the PCIe bus that might
> > help.
> > 
> > I've been putting the work up onto github; current branch is:
> > https://github.com/TahomaSoft/openwrt-openwrt/tree/ExpDev-WIP7
> > 
> > Direct link to the DTS is:
> > https://github.com/TahomaSoft/openwrt-openwrt/blob/ExpDev-WIP7/target/linux/rockchip/patches-6.6/036-arm64-dts-rockchip-linkstar-minimal.patch
> >  
> 
> The the big neon sign on first glance is the missing lane-limitation.
> 
> pcie3x2 and pcie3x1 share their lanes, so depending on the board
> wiring you can either do pcie3x2 with 2 lanes, or both with 1 lane
> each.
> 
> See the
> 	num-lanes = <1>;
> lines in the devicetrees using both pcie controllers.
> 
> 
> Heiko
> 
> 
> > Thank you/Danke,
> > 
> > Erik
> > ~~~
> > On Sun, 01 Jun 2025 23:11:56 +0200
> > Heiko Stübner <heiko@sntech.de> wrote:
> >   
> > > Hi Erik,
> > > 
> > > Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2025, 22:39:01 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
> > > schrieb Erik Beck:  
> > > > I am working on initial support for an RK3568 board, the
> > > > LinkStar H68K-1421v1. I've made some progress, but can't get
> > > > past turning on one of the two PCIe3 Host bridges (pcie3x1
> > > > pcie@fe270000) without breaking the boot.
> > > > 
> > > > Is this the right location to ask for help? If not, where might
> > > > be? 
> > > 
> > > The mailinglist mostly has patches on it, so I don't really know
> > > if people are expecting non-patch mails.
> > > 
> > > If in doubt the #linux-rockchip channel on the libera.chat IRC
> > > network [0] might help more. (people in different timezones, so
> > > probably no immediate answers)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > For the multi-pci case I guess you could start by looking at other
> > > rk3568 board doing similar things, like the Qnap-TS433 [1], Radxa
> > > E25 [2] or Nanopi-R5S [3].
> > > 
> > > Generally board designers often follow reference designs, so
> > > things might be similar.
> > > 
> > > Similarly, you might want to push your current in progress work on
> > > some github thing, so people can take a look.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > It also looks like the H68KV2 variant of the device has schematics
> > > available as linked from the bottom of [4], not sure how that
> > > relates to your device though.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Heiko
> > > 
> > > 
> > > [0] https://libera.chat/
> > > [1]
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-qnap-ts433.dts
> > > [2]
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-radxa-e25.dts
> > > [3]
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-nanopi-r5s.dts
> > > [4]
> > > https://github.com/Seeed-Studio/wiki-documents/blob/docusaurus-version/docs/Network/RK_Devices/H68K_V2/H68KV2_install_system.md
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-rockchip  
> > 
> >   
> 
> 
> 
> 


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