Also, did anyone hear of Lenovo #ThinkCentre #miniPC being DIY'd into a laptop form factor?

These things go quite cheaper second-hand than #Rock5 / #Rock5B, and seem beefier than #orangepi

#cyberdeck

Oh yes... getting there 🎉
Working HDMI on the #rock5b in #NetBSD

Hell yeah!!! Finally got HDMI output working under #NetBSD on the #rock5b 🎉
This was by far the hardest part of the hardware bringup (until now), as it requires correctly configuring the VOP2, HDMI-TX, and the HDMI PHY all at once, with no easy way to debug "in between".
Really satisfying though to see the display suddenly turn on for the first time.

Another update on the ongoing work around the #ROCK5B RK3588: USB 3.0 preliminary support in U-boot has now been added: https://col.la/r5usb3 #RK3588 #OpenSource

Prepared a bootable SD card image for #NetBSD on the #rk3588 based #rock5b:

https://sinyax.net/pub/netbsd/NetBSD-HEAD-aarch64-20230519-rock-5b.img.gz

Full "announcement" including details on what's supposed to work, can be found here:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2023/05/19/msg008257.html

Work continues on the Radxa #ROCK5B RK3588: Adding PCIe and RTL8125B networking in U-boot https://col.la/r5pci #RK3588 #OpenSource

Adding bootloader support for USB 2.0 Host for the Radxa #ROCK5B RK3588 board https://col.la/r5usb #RK3588 #OpenSource

Now the system does slow down when the CPU is under load, and as well optimised compiling Rust is, it does not help when it takes over while you actively work on your code.

Now I have two of these #Rock5B boards. I was initially thinking of setting one up as a gitlab runner. However, if you managed to get shared storage between two systems, You could probably get by with one board for development, and a second compiling. A very mini cluster.

So #linux 6.3 has been tagged. In it includes mainline support for the #rk3588 and #rock5b. I guess I now have another distraction. But it will be good if I can get it working on my rock5b considering the armbian image I'm using is still on 5.10

So I dont really want to run ubuntu on my #Rock5B . had too many issues in the past. Debian is also supported but I got thinking. And as it turns out there is a community supported image of #nixos for the rock5b. Am I going nix finally?

Thx #OKdo for supporting #opensource projects with the "rock engineering challenge"!

@radxa #rock5b

BENCHMARKFEST 2023 UPDATE

Le Potato testing is complete as is retesting of the Inovato Quadra and Rock 5B. Still waiting to hear back about a possible trade to acquire a Raspberry Pi 4B. Retesting of Mini PCs will commence later tonight.

#techaddressed #homelab #raspberrypi #lepotato #rock5b #inovatoquadra

"IS RADXA'S RK3588 BASED ROCK 5B A RASPBERRY PI KILLER?"

This review's been a few month's in the making - with the holidays and some unforeseen delays - it's finally done.

If you've been interested in the Rock 5B or any RK3588 based SBC, you should give this review a read.

https://www.techaddressed.com/reviews/radxa-rock-5b-raspberry-pi-killer/

#techaddressed #review #rock5b #raspberrypi #homelab #arm

Has anyone built a #kali image for the #radxa #rock5b yet or will I have to setup a build system to try to do it myself?

Some more photos :) Saving me some power and keeping my room cooler this summer! #armbian #arm #rock5b

Won't this #rock5b with 16gb ram be an excellent #vmware #esxi host for multiple vm's to play with at home?
#r raspberrypi replacement
https://ameridroid.com/products/rock5-model-b?variant=39918166573090

@makerbymistake I'm pretty interested in your conclusion on this product.

After you mentioned it I got curious and looked into what #Radxa has to offer. I'm considering purchasing #Rock5B later, as I'm interested in what can be done with its micro HDMI input, along with all the other features.

Got the Rock 5B booted via micro-sd easy enough. Getting it to boot via NVMe is going to take a little more work ... but it's late so that's a project for later.

#Rock5B #ARM #hardware #computer #homelab

#ExplainingComputers #Rock5B
Kijk 'Rock 5B: Powerful RK3588 SBC' op YouTube
https://youtu.be/w85QTDPp-4Q