Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] configs/rockpro64: update U-Boot, TF-A, Kernel

["Vincent Stehlé" <vincent.stehle@arm.com>]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 05:04:41PM +0100, Julien Olivain wrote:
> This commit:
> - updates the Kernel from 6.10.14 to 6.18.4
> - updates arm-trusted-firmware from v2.11 to v2.14
> - updates U-Boot from 2024.10 to 2026.01
> - switches to Bootlin external glibc stable toolchain
> - removes hash for linux-headers (no longer needed)
> 
> In order to reduce the differences with the rockpro64_ebbr_defconfig,
> this commit also:
> - slightly increases the rootfs size from 120M to 128M,
> - unsets the rootfs tar archive which is not needed,
> - removes rootfs.tar from board/pine64/rockpro64/readme.txt
> 
> Tested on board Rockpro64_V2.1 2018-07-02.

Hi Julien,

Thanks for this update to the rockpro64_defconfig; it works fine on my
side, therefore for this second patch feel free to add (or not):

Tested-by: Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle@arm.com>

Best regards,
Vincent.

> 
> Cc: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
> ---
>  .../arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware.hash  |  2 +-
>  .../patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash        |  1 -
>  board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux/linux.hash     |  2 +-
>  board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/uboot/uboot.hash     |  2 +-
>  board/pine64/rockpro64/readme.txt                   |  1 -
>  configs/rockpro64_defconfig                         | 13 ++++++++-----
>  6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 120000 board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash
> 
> diff --git a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware.hash b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware.hash
> index 8b77e1f165..0bf70b5542 100644
> --- a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware.hash
> +++ b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/arm-trusted-firmware/arm-trusted-firmware.hash
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
>  # Locally calculated
> -sha256  c0f23ccc71c49989e9ad238acf334473c17b7c88f79a20c829c3d443e3794a22  arm-trusted-firmware-v2.11-git4.tar.gz
> +sha256  6fd749e53c455aec3418288630544e7552bbffab4442ddc48b20ebef9aee87ff  arm-trusted-firmware-v2.14-git4.tar.gz
> diff --git a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash
> deleted file mode 120000
> index 5808d92afe..0000000000
> --- a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux-headers/linux-headers.hash
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1 +0,0 @@
> -../linux/linux.hash
> \ No newline at end of file
> diff --git a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux/linux.hash b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux/linux.hash
> index 396c18dd5c..5810d3d580 100644
> --- a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux/linux.hash
> +++ b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/linux/linux.hash
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
>  # From https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/sha256sums.asc
> -sha256  55e5bcbc68d66776fc46896291f0a24844beb57817345a854d65e3d055fa423e  linux-6.10.14.tar.xz
> +sha256  f850139ca5f79c1bf6bb8b32f92e212aadca97bdaef8a83a7cf4ac4d6a525fab  linux-6.18.4.tar.xz
> diff --git a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/uboot/uboot.hash b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/uboot/uboot.hash
> index 904fa56c02..b6a925ea4e 100644
> --- a/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/uboot/uboot.hash
> +++ b/board/pine64/rockpro64/patches/uboot/uboot.hash
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
>  # Locally calculated
> -sha256  b28daf4ac17e43156363078bf510297584137f6df50fced9b12df34f61a92fb0  u-boot-2024.10.tar.bz2
> +sha256  b60d5865cefdbc75da8da4156c56c458e00de75a49b80c1a2e58a96e30ad0d54  u-boot-2026.01.tar.bz2
> diff --git a/board/pine64/rockpro64/readme.txt b/board/pine64/rockpro64/readme.txt
> index de86970104..d2a865670a 100644
> --- a/board/pine64/rockpro64/readme.txt
> +++ b/board/pine64/rockpro64/readme.txt
> @@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ output/images
>  ├── rk3399-rockpro64.dtb
>  ├── rootfs.ext2
>  ├── rootfs.ext4 -> rootfs.ext2
> -├── rootfs.tar
>  ├── sdcard.img
>  ├── u-boot.bin
>  └── u-boot.itb
> diff --git a/configs/rockpro64_defconfig b/configs/rockpro64_defconfig
> index d6c217e946..c31365ca6b 100644
> --- a/configs/rockpro64_defconfig
> +++ b/configs/rockpro64_defconfig
> @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
>  BR2_aarch64=y
>  BR2_cortex_a72_a53=y
> -BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_LINUX_HEADERS_CUSTOM_6_10=y
> +BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL=y
> +BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BOOTLIN=y
> +BR2_TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_BOOTLIN_AARCH64_GLIBC_STABLE=y
>  BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR="board/pine64/rockpro64/patches"
>  BR2_DOWNLOAD_FORCE_CHECK_HASHES=y
>  BR2_TARGET_GENERIC_HOSTNAME="rockpro64"
> @@ -10,7 +12,7 @@ BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="support/scripts/genimage.sh"
>  BR2_ROOTFS_POST_SCRIPT_ARGS="-c board/pine64/rockpro64/genimage.cfg"
>  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
>  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
> -BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="6.10.14"
> +BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="6.18.4"
>  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_ARCH_DEFAULT_CONFIG=y
>  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CONFIG_FRAGMENT_FILES="board/pine64/rockpro64/linux.fragment"
>  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_SUPPORT=y
> @@ -19,17 +21,18 @@ BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_OPENSSL=y
>  BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON3=y
>  BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2=y
>  BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_4=y
> -BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_SIZE="120M"
> +BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_SIZE="128M"
> +# BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_TAR is not set
>  BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE=y
>  BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
> -BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="v2.11"
> +BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="v2.14"
>  BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_PLATFORM="rk3399"
>  BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_IMAGES=""
>  BR2_TARGET_ARM_TRUSTED_FIRMWARE_NEEDS_ARM32_TOOLCHAIN=y
>  BR2_TARGET_UBOOT=y
>  BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BUILD_SYSTEM_KCONFIG=y
>  BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
> -BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2024.10"
> +BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="2026.01"
>  BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BOARD_DEFCONFIG="rockpro64-rk3399"
>  BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_DTC=y
>  BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_NEEDS_PYLIBFDT=y
> -- 
> 2.52.0
> 
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