uboot-orangepi-rk3399

Works on the Orange Pi RK3399 and Orange Pi 4.

Installation

Based on installation instructions from Arch Linux ARM.

Replace sdX in the following instructions with the device name for the SD card as it appears on your computer.

1. Zero the beginning of the SD card: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M count=32

2. Start fdisk to partition the SD card: fdisk /dev/sdX

3. At the fdisk prompt, create the new partition: a. Type o. This will clear out any partitions on the drive. b. Type p to list partitions. There should be no partitions left. c. Type n, then p for primary, 1 for the first partition on the drive, 32768 for the first sector, and then press ENTER to accept the default last sector. d. Write the partition table and exit by typing w.

4. Create the ext4 filesystem: mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX1

5. Mount the filesystem:

   mkdir root
   mount /dev/sdX1 root
   

6. Download and extract the root filesystem (as root, not via sudo):

   wget http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-aarch64-latest.tar.gz
   bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-aarch64-latest.tar.gz -C root
   

7. Download a pre-built u-boot package, and copy to the SD card

   wget https://github.com/jakogut/uboot-orangepi-rk3399/releases/download/2019.10-1/uboot-orangepi-rk3399-2019.10-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst
   cp uboot-orangepi-rk3399-2019.10-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst root/home/alarm/
   

8. Install qemu-user-static-bin from the AUR, and copy qemu-aarch64-static to the SD card cp /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static root/bin

9. Install the u-boot package in the new root

   arch-chroot /mnt pacman -U /home/alarm/uboot-orangepi-rk3399-2019.10-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.zst
   

   When asked, don't attempt to flash the new version of u-boot onto the card.

10. Manually flash u-boot to the SD card:

    arch-chroot /mnt dd if=/boot/idbloader.img of=/dev/sdX seek=64 conv=notrunc
    arch-chroot /mnt dd if=/boot/uboot.img of=/dev/sdX seek=16384 conv=notrunc
    arch-chroot /mnt dd if=/boot/trust.img of=/dev/sdX seek=24576 conv=notrunc
    

11. Insert the micro SD card into the board, connect ethernet and apply power.

12. Use the serial console or SSH to the IP address given to the board by your router.

    • Login as the default user alarm with the password alarm.
    • The default root password is root.

13. Initialize the pacman keyring and populate the Arch Linux ARM package signing keys.

    pacman-key --init
    pacman-key --populate archlinuxarm
    

Building

1. Install and boot as above

2. Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/jakogut/uboot-orangepi-rk3399

3. Build and install cd uboot-orangepi-rk3399 && makepkg -si