WARNING:  RK3328 internal 10|100 PHY requires magjack hardware for operation.


The RK3328 internal PHY for the 10|100 ethernet link requires additional hardware to function.  While this is obvious to many of our number, it may not be clear to all of you, including me.

The 10|100 ethernet connection requires not only the internal PHY on the RK3328 chip, but also requires what is called a "magjack"  (the RJ45 connector jack)  which includes a fairly sophisticated isolation transformer "inside" the jack housing !  The magjack is relatively inexpensive and may be obtained from various sources;  the Pine store carries a DAC board for the Rock64 which contains a correct magjack, so if you will be using the DAC the magjack tails along for the ride!

Below I have listed a couple of examples from some suppliers including Sparkfun and Digikey;  as well I have included a sample datasheet so that you can see the internal schematic of a typical magjack. The two that I am highlighting have built-in LED(s) for link and speed which are optional but very handy.

DO NOT  try to wire Rx+ Rx- Tx+ Tx- differential pairs directly to the RK3328 Rock64 board without the isolation transformer found in the magjack !

Magjack from Digikey

Magjack from Sparkfun

Datasheet for the Digikey Magjack

Rock64 DAC with Magjack

Rock64 DAC Schematic (shows magjack connections)

With all the buzz of the new board, I thought it be fun to find out what everyone plans to do with their board. I'm thinking of using it to study becoming a DBA, or retro gaming

Just a heads up, a new pre-release from ayufan. For those who wish to make a clean install rather than an upgrade, its worth noting that you will benefit from having the GUI updater working without having to expand /boot partition manually.

i am not very informed on the operation on all lcd screens but i am curious if the rock64 may have support for a touch screen via hdmi input.  i dont think there is a port on the board for this?  thanks for any response.

The additional cpu performance and 4Gb of ram would be extremely useful in a module form factor.

Is creating a module for this cpu / ram a thought at all?

Hi All,
I registered here to suggest Fedora as a potential distro for whomever makes images for the Rock64.  I don't have the skills to create my own ARM images from scratch for new boards, but I'm really hoping that one appears for Fedora 25+

Fedora does a great job of publishing generalized images for the ARM architecture here:  https://arm.fedoraproject.org/

Looking forward to 4GB of RAM on a SoC!

At present my pine64 2gb board is working a treat for a nice intranet, cloud and plex media server. The only gripe I have is .avi files can't be played via the pine to my firetv stick as it hasn't the oomph to transcode on the fly. I am looking for something I can load onto the pine to run on schedule to convert .avi files to mp4 etc to be playable.

Does anyone know of anything and have experience with said thing?

Hi every body
Does any one designed any custom board based on the PINE64 schematic so far? any source to buy RK3368?

Thank you

I received my pinebook two weeks ago. But my pinebook LCD was cracked. I opened a ticket with support immediately. It has been 14 days but, there is no response. Is anyone else sucessfull with getting help with their pinebook defects so far?

Second release of Anarsoul's Arch with mainline kernel for A64 devices can be found here 


Here's Archlinux image for Pinebook (and Pine64, SOPINE - but beware - these are not tested, I tested only Pinebook image)

2017-07-08: Initial release

Credentials: alarm/alarm, root/root

https://github.com/anarsoul/linux-build/...g/20170708

You can use nmtui to connect to your WiFi network.