Hi Community,

The project I am working on requires SCTP protocol support on the Rock64, which I believe is not configured for the current mainline kernel (although perhaps compiled as a module?). I test the SCTP support using the checksctp function from lksctp-tools package.

I have attempted to compile and flash the kernel through the supplied Debian platform, but unfortunately the device no longer boots. 

Perhaps I am being a little simplistic in my steps for achieving a custom kernel:

-- edit config (CONFIG_IP_SCTP=y amongst various others required for SCTP)
-- build kernel on-device for ARM64 architecture 
-- sudo make install

Is it preferable to build the kernel using the linux-build branch (in conjunction with uboot)? 

Thanks

Hey guys after a lengthy search for my first single board I settled on the Rock64 mostly because of the 4gb ram. I wish that it had wifi but a dongle works just as well and gives it a little more character. Anyways I just wanted to say hey and thank you for this board. 
It has been many years since I have used linux so I have some reading to do tonight. The wiki seems very informative.  Also I have some future plans to bring many more people into the single board world and I hope that this community will help and welcome them. 

I do have one question right now. I flashed my 64gb SD with jessie-minimal-rock64-0.5.15-136-arm64.img however it has no desktop enviroment. What is the easiest way for me to get a pretty looking and easy to use linux up and running quickly? Also security is a major issue. It must be safe. 

Thanks,
J

Hello all.

I've made a review video about the Rock64.
If you have any advice, please let me know.

Here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oX7TabSROw

Have a nice day.

NicoD

whenever i try to use scp to transfer a large file this happens:

sftp> put configs_all.tar.gz
Uploading configs_all.tar.gz to /home/rock64/configs_all.tar.gz
Failed to set the permissions or timestamp on the destination file: The operation was aborted because the channel closed. 
The sftp operation was aborted.

does not happen with small files

tried restarting sshd 
service sshd restart

but get same error

Here's a 3D printable case I made for the H64.  It's not perfect but it works.
Free for anyone to use/modify/distribute.

  PinerH64Case.zip (Size: 34.05 KB / Downloads: 709)
   
   

Does RockPro64 support UHS speed?
It seems that not many SBC have support the high speed SD bus due to the lower voltage requirement requires extra hardware to detect the type of card to switch to lower voltage and directly using lower voltage will breaking backward compatibility.

However, for a competent hardware like RockPro64 (2Ghz CPU, PCI-E, etc.), not having a fast SD card bus seems a bit of shame.

 Yesterday I installed bionic Linux 0.6.31 from ayufan, then I installed the desktop mate, I tried to play the video and noticed that it is possible to watch the video with hardware acceleration only through the rkmpv, but it works only in fullscreen mode and it is impossible to roll it into the window. Are there any plans for further work to improve video playback ?

Dear Pine64 community,

We are happy to announce that as of today, we are starting to distribute Rock64 SBC.

Rock64 is now available for purchase in Canada (www.ca.diigiit.com/pine64) and will soon be available in France (www.eu.diigiit.com/pine64).

For any question or associated product you would like to see in our store, please send an email at sales@diigiit.com

So i have a problem ...

My rock is on 24/7, some weeks ago i had every day the next error when i wanted to execute a sudo command

Back in August, I reviewed a Pine A64+ 2BG board, comparing it to the Raspberry Pi 3.  For most of the hardware, the Pine A64+ was better than the Pi.  Unfortunately, when it came to software availability, the Pine A64+ was behind the curve ... way behind.  At that time, I thought that this problem would be fixed "soon".  Based on what I'm seeing here, none of the "problems" that were noted in that review have been resolved.

http://www.accs.com/p_and_p/A64/index.html

Unfortunately, there's still no distribution with a modern (4.0+) Linux kernel linked from the download site ( http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pine_A6...re_Release ).  What's the holdup here?  Is there ANY release that supports the 4.0+ kernel?  I'd be willing to get it from elsewhere, but I really want something current to work with.

It appears to me that they're still waiting for the GPU driver, although there could be other issues.  Until the necessary code has been integrated into the Linux mainline, these computers will have limited usefulness.  Once the product owners can offer a current Linux solution, with repositories, this excellent hardware will be in a position to gain market share.

Is there any update on the overall software situation?