LibreELEC

[Luke]

Hopefully someone will tell me other images have managed to get an image working without that horrible VM pipe LVM driver but for me this is a first.

Yep. Long way to go tho.

So you guys have got it working in your emulator image?
I only have 1080p to check on but the LibreElec guys seem to have it pretty much operational, the interface is now rapid and the cpu is hardly being tickled on a single core.
Its been a while since I had a look at the Rock64 and sort of gave up because of the poor mali drivers and OpenGL ES problems & performance.
The LibreElec image is a first with OpenGL ES running and wondering why this is not in bionic or other 4.4 kernels? I will check some of the other images but pretty sure Xserver is running under that LVMpipe disaster.

The boot on LibreElec on a RockPro64 from what I have seen before seems sensationally fast and hope the full addon repo will available on full release.

Yes, and its performing beyond my expectations on very conservative CPU/GPU freqs. Things are progressing quickly, so its highly likely that you'll get a chance to try it and judge for yourself later this month / beginning of October.