Hello everyone,
ayufan marked 0.7.8 as the new Linux release for Rock64.
As always you can upgrade to newest release:

Hello everyone,

ayufan marked 0.7.8 as the new Linux release for RockPro64.
It contains many improvements and enables many features that were missing in 0.6.44, so I strongly suggest everyone either upgrade (as per ayufan's instructions):

Hi,

is heatsink available in the store (https://www.pine64.org/?product=rock64pine-a64-heatsink) suitable for SOPINE A64 COMPUTE MODULE? The SOPINE boards will be installed on the clusterboard. Thank you.

Cheers!

Hey everyone just got my board in today had my sd card ready with android Oreo on it. Plugged everything up to (ie: HDMI,ethernet cable and remote dongle) plugged in the power supply I bought from them along with my board ........and nothing no lights no power nothing. This was for the initial start up need some help Pine family thanks

Hi all

After putting it off for months then waiting weeks for it to arrive from the US (I live in England) my rock64 arrived today!

One of the biggest draws for me of the rock64 over the RPi3 etc is the ability to decode and play UHD and 4K h264 in hardware. I've already verified this works with my UHD h264 videos under LibreELEC but I found LibreELEC to be very unstable and I really want to use 'desktop linux' with mpv as it is a superior video player. The only 'proper' Linux distro I have tried so far on my r64 has been bionic-lxde-rock64-0.6.44 but when I try playing my h264 files (that play fine under LibreELEC) using rkmpv I get lots of horizontal green lines and a very poor, jerky frame rate.

So, which version of which distro has the best HW accelerated video playback under mpv? Does HW video decoding (and OGLES 2 3D accel) work under armbian xenial? How about arch?

I found this guide useful, if incomplete:

https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-b...layback.md

Hi all,

I got a Rock64 and I want to run Twonky Server on it.
Currently I am using Openmediavault, but I am not limited to it - any available Linux is okay.
However from the Twonky downloads page I tried several, but could not succeed in running anyone.
I tried those around Linux Arm LE and Armv8.
I wonder if anyone succeeded or can advise which one could run under which environment...
TIA.

BR
Pablo

Hi all

Just received my RockPro64 and high power PSU from Pine64 shop. The PSU connection between the barrel connector on the PSU lead and the barrel connector on the RockPro64 board seems really intermittent on mine - with it proving very tricky to get the green power LED to stay on and boot to start. I have managed it a couple of times but it's really tricky.

Am I doing something obviously wrong?

Have raised a support ticket with Pine 64 - but thought I'd ask around here if there were any known issues?

Hello,
I'm looking for any information about running exagear x86 emulation on the Rock64.
I'm using ayufan's ubuntu 18.04 image and I'm wondering if I can run Homeworld on it.
So far I've tried Qemu and get 1fps on Windows 2000.
I'm wondering if anything better can be done, or if this is the end of the line for the idea.

Exagear states they support Pine64 as well as ODROID C2 (same chip as the R64), so maybe this can work?

I've tried contacting them in the website chat, but since its Sunday it'll obviously take a while.

Again, any info/experiences are welcome.

Hello All,

I wan to learn boot media order of A64 SOC on Pine64 LTS board.
I searched user manual and datasheet, but found nothing.
As of now I am booting firmware with SD card, but planning it to boot from SPI NOR flash.

Will A64 SOC try to boot from order e.g. SD -> EMMC ->  SPI?
if yes what offset address with SPI I have to flash firmware?

Regards,
Akash Gajjar

Hello.

I need to enable some addons in u-boot. Yesterday I resolved many problems/bugs/workarounds in simple enabling "usbkbd" in u-boot (with ayufan-rock64/linux-u-boot (rockchip-master)).

Actual (few) versions u-boot:
upstream
   - with independent rockchip development ?
   - missing support for Rock64
  -> fork rockchip-linux/u-boot
         - "release" branch - pulling randomly from upstream (actively developed) ?
         - missing support for Rock64
    -> fork ayufan-rock64/linux-u-boot
         - "rockchip-master" branch - last rebased/merged 12/2017 (actively developed)
         - "rebased-all-changes-on-release" branch - last rebased 04/2018 + summary commit 06/2018  
         - "mainline-master" branch - last rebased 06/2018 from upstream (not from rockchip-linux)

What is the best u-boot fork/branch for Rock64 ?
How many features/bugfixes are missing from u-boot upstream in rockchip-linux/u-boot fork and vice-versa ?
Is there any chance to that Rockchip joins u-boot upstream ?

For example differences in ehci-generic.c (used in Rock64):
upstream (+2/-1 patches) X rockchip-linux/u-boot (release) (+1/-2 patches)  X ayufan-rock64/linux-u-boot (rockchip-master) (-3 patches)