Arch Linux on Rockpro64

[ali]

Do you guys had any success installing Arch Linux ARM on Rockpro64? Ayufan's debian is working fine for me but for Arch Linux ARM, it didn't even boot the OS.
I followed installation instructions on this page, but hadn't got any luck.

[dukla2000]

Do you guys had any success installing Arch Linux ARM on Rockpro64? Ayufan's debian is working fine for me but for Arch Linux ARM, it didn't even boot the OS.
I followed installation instructions on this page, but hadn't got any luck.

Hopefully you were using RockPro64 uboot & DTB? These guys seemed to be OK a couple of months back.

[Yoast]

Installing Arch Linux ARM as described on the Rock64 page you link to, is not available for the RockPro64 (yet). There are alternatives to get a working Arch disto. All rely on installing one of the existing images and removing all but the kernel (boot folder) and u-boot. I followed these instructions and got a pretty stable set-up (NAS mostly):

Code:

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Arch Linux ARM"
ID=archarm
ID_LIKE=arch
PRETTY_NAME="Arch Linux ARM"
ANSI_COLOR="0;36"
HOME_URL="http://archlinuxarm.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://archlinuxarm.org/forum"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/issues"

and

Code:

$ uptime
21:19:28 up 42 days, 30 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.08

[ali]

Hopefully you were using RockPro64 uboot & DTB? These guys seemed to be OK a couple of months back.

Installing Arch Linux ARM as described on the Rock64 page you link to, is not available for the RockPro64 (yet). There are alternatives to get a working Arch disto. All rely on installing one of the existing images and removing all but the kernel (boot folder) and u-boot. I followed these instructions and got a pretty stable set-up (NAS mostly):

Code:

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Arch Linux ARM"
ID=archarm
ID_LIKE=arch
PRETTY_NAME="Arch Linux ARM"
ANSI_COLOR="0;36"
HOME_URL="http://archlinuxarm.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://archlinuxarm.org/forum"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/issues"

and

Code:

$ uptime
21:19:28 up 42 days, 30 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.10, 0.09, 0.08

The HDMI port isn't going to work nicely with vanilla Arch, right? I guess I should stick with ayufan's Debian... at least for now

[elatllat]

HDMI did work out of the box last time I used Arch on RK3399. (kernel from Debian)

[ali]

HDMI did work out of the box last time I used Arch on RK3399. (kernel from Debian)

have you managed HDMI to work? If it worked, how?

[elatllat]

"out of the box" means it just worked

[ali]

"out of the box" means it just worked

ouch my bad... I misread your post. Thanks! I will try to install Arch then.

[ali]

Right now I'm using Arch on my rockpro64 to post this.
How to get hardware acceleration working? Does the driver exist for linux?

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HDMI did work out of the box last time I used Arch on RK3399. (kernel from Debian)

But HDMI didn't work if I use vanilla archlinux ARM kernel