* Support for Rock PI-4b @ 2025-09-26 14:07 Mostafa Saleh 2025-09-26 14:28 ` Sjoerd Simons 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Mostafa Saleh @ 2025-09-26 14:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: devicetree, moderated list:ARM SMMU DRIVERS, linux-rockchip, open list Cc: Rob Herring, krzk+dt, conor+dt, Heiko Stuebner Hi, I am trying to run Linux[1] on my Rock PI-4b, which I see is supported in the kernel in “rk3399-rock-pi-4b.dts”. However, compiling “defconfig” (ARM64) and flashing my Image doesn’t work, It just hangs before any console (even with earlycon), I tried to also use some of the vendor configs with no luck. I did some research and found that [2], which indicates that the upstream support has been broken for some years? Has anyone tried to flash a recent kernel successfully on it? or any tips are greatly appreciated. Otherwise, maybe it can be removed to avoid misleading other developers (I got this board to do some upstream kernel development on) [1] base: 4ff71af020ae59ae2d83b174646fc2ad9fcd4dc4 [2] https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/dev/kernel-mainline Thanks, Mostafa ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Support for Rock PI-4b 2025-09-26 14:07 Support for Rock PI-4b Mostafa Saleh @ 2025-09-26 14:28 ` Sjoerd Simons 2025-09-26 15:02 ` Mostafa Saleh 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Sjoerd Simons @ 2025-09-26 14:28 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Mostafa Saleh, devicetree, moderated list:ARM SMMU DRIVERS, linux-rockchip, open list Cc: Rob Herring, krzk+dt, conor+dt, Heiko Stuebner On Fri, 2025-09-26 at 15:07 +0100, Mostafa Saleh wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to run Linux[1] on my Rock PI-4b, which I see is supported in > the kernel in “rk3399-rock-pi-4b.dts”. > > However, compiling “defconfig” (ARM64) and flashing my Image doesn’t > work, > It just hangs before any console (even with earlycon), I tried to also use > some of the vendor configs with no luck. > I did some research and found that [2], which indicates that the upstream > support has been broken for some years? We've got the Rock 4b in our automated testing lab as part of kernelci and other efforts. Upstream works just fine on those boards, so it's likely an issue in your setup. See e.g https://lava.collabora.dev/scheduler/job/19978558#L525 for a recent upstream kernel boot. Regards, Sjoerd > > Has anyone tried to flash a recent kernel successfully on it? or any > tips are greatly appreciated. > Otherwise, maybe it can be removed to avoid misleading other developers > (I got this board to do some upstream kernel development on) > > [1] base: 4ff71af020ae59ae2d83b174646fc2ad9fcd4dc4 > [2] https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/dev/kernel-mainline > > Thanks, > Mostafa > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-rockchip mailing list > Linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-rockchip ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Support for Rock PI-4b 2025-09-26 14:28 ` Sjoerd Simons @ 2025-09-26 15:02 ` Mostafa Saleh 2025-10-03 13:17 ` Mostafa Saleh 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Mostafa Saleh @ 2025-09-26 15:02 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Sjoerd Simons Cc: devicetree, moderated list:ARM SMMU DRIVERS, linux-rockchip, open list, Rob Herring, krzk+dt, conor+dt, Heiko Stuebner On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 04:28:48PM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Fri, 2025-09-26 at 15:07 +0100, Mostafa Saleh wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to run Linux[1] on my Rock PI-4b, which I see is supported in > > the kernel in “rk3399-rock-pi-4b.dts”. > > > > However, compiling “defconfig” (ARM64) and flashing my Image doesn’t > > work, > > It just hangs before any console (even with earlycon), I tried to also use > > some of the vendor configs with no luck. > > I did some research and found that [2], which indicates that the upstream > > support has been broken for some years? > > We've got the Rock 4b in our automated testing lab as part of kernelci and other > efforts. Upstream works just fine on those boards, so it's likely an issue in > your setup. > > See e.g https://lava.collabora.dev/scheduler/job/19978558#L525 for a recent > upstream kernel boot. Thanks a lot for the quick response! I can see some differences between this log and my setup. 1- My uboot seems ancient U-Boot 2017.09-00026-g2431fa34678 Compared to U-Boot 2024.07-rc4 2- The board model in this log is not 4b as mine Model: Radxa ROCK Pi 4A while mine shows Model: Radxa ROCK Pi 4B 3- I am using LLVM not GCC (I don't think that matters though) 4- I am using MMC to boot and not TFTP I will try to look more into the differences, and update this thread in case I was successful. Thanks, Mostafa > > Regards, > Sjoerd > > > > > > Has anyone tried to flash a recent kernel successfully on it? or any > > tips are greatly appreciated. > > Otherwise, maybe it can be removed to avoid misleading other developers > > (I got this board to do some upstream kernel development on) > > > > [1] base: 4ff71af020ae59ae2d83b174646fc2ad9fcd4dc4 > > [2] https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/dev/kernel-mainline > > > > Thanks, > > Mostafa > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-rockchip mailing list > > Linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org > > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-rockchip ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Support for Rock PI-4b 2025-09-26 15:02 ` Mostafa Saleh @ 2025-10-03 13:17 ` Mostafa Saleh 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Mostafa Saleh @ 2025-10-03 13:17 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Sjoerd Simons Cc: devicetree, moderated list:ARM SMMU DRIVERS, linux-rockchip, open list, Rob Herring, krzk+dt, conor+dt, Heiko Stuebner On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM Mostafa Saleh <smostafa@google.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 04:28:48PM +0200, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > On Fri, 2025-09-26 at 15:07 +0100, Mostafa Saleh wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am trying to run Linux[1] on my Rock PI-4b, which I see is supported in > > > the kernel in “rk3399-rock-pi-4b.dts”. > > > > > > However, compiling “defconfig” (ARM64) and flashing my Image doesn’t > > > work, > > > It just hangs before any console (even with earlycon), I tried to also use > > > some of the vendor configs with no luck. > > > I did some research and found that [2], which indicates that the upstream > > > support has been broken for some years? > > > > We've got the Rock 4b in our automated testing lab as part of kernelci and other > > efforts. Upstream works just fine on those boards, so it's likely an issue in > > your setup. > > > > See e.g https://lava.collabora.dev/scheduler/job/19978558#L525 for a recent > > upstream kernel boot. > > Thanks a lot for the quick response! > > I can see some differences between this log and my setup. > > 1- My uboot seems ancient > U-Boot 2017.09-00026-g2431fa34678 Compared to U-Boot 2024.07-rc4 > > 2- The board model in this log is not 4b as mine > Model: Radxa ROCK Pi 4A while mine shows Model: Radxa ROCK Pi 4B > > 3- I am using LLVM not GCC (I don't think that matters though) > > 4- I am using MMC to boot and not TFTP > > I will try to look more into the differences, and update this thread in > case I was successful. > Update on this, in case someone have the same issue. After updating u-boot the same issue persisted. However, I was able to boot with eMMC instead of an SD card. Which is strange, as I could boot an older kernel on an SD card with no problem. Thanks, Mostafa > Thanks, > Mostafa > > > > > Regards, > > Sjoerd > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone tried to flash a recent kernel successfully on it? or any > > > tips are greatly appreciated. > > > Otherwise, maybe it can be removed to avoid misleading other developers > > > (I got this board to do some upstream kernel development on) > > > > > > [1] base: 4ff71af020ae59ae2d83b174646fc2ad9fcd4dc4 > > > [2] https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/dev/kernel-mainline > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Mostafa > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Linux-rockchip mailing list > > > Linux-rockchip@lists.infradead.org > > > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-rockchip ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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