How To get your brand new RK3399 to actually boot linux.

phi

HI Rpk
Just ordered a Firefly-RK3399 , I guess it will takes sometime to get it, but as soon as I get it I will try to load debian/ubuntu on it... will see
Cheers

This post is useless, I try it here to see how this forum works

phi

Ok it works

phi

rpk.firefly Posted at 5/25/2018 06:34
Hi phi,

feel free to ask questions if you run into problems and I'll help if I can.

Hi Rpk,
Cool, I will volunteer to review your install process and may be add some infos to it

If you want to send me preview, or if you have a git repos don't hesitate to send at
phi dot debian at gmail dot com

Cheers,
Phi

phi

Hi Rpk and All

Well, I am hitting the same wall, bought this board with linux in mind (ubuntu is fine), don't care about android and my host is an ubuntu 16.04 with a valid cu(1) connection to the senial usb (dunno if I need that)

I can't find what image to download for ubuntu I did grab that
https://drive.google.com/drive/f ... gAqAdXBsaG9NMEl5bm8

This is an ubuntu image unable to say if it is an update image or a partition image.

I don't really know how to proceed from there, the RK3399 page seems to say  

You can download firmwares on [compiled update.img], uncompress them after download.
with [complied update.img] pointing to http://en.t-firefly.com/en/firenow/Firefly_RK3399/download/
But it goes cockoo and redirect to some marketing things.

So basically I am stuck there, still browsing the net to find out how to install ubuntu on this board.

Any pointers appreciated

Cheers,
Phi

phi

Hi All,

I succeeded to load ubuntu from RPK receipe

Got the kernel here
https://drive.google.com/drive/f ... gAqAdXBsaG9NMEl5bm8

update_tool with symlink didn't worked for me so ran it with the real name
sudo ./upgrade_tool uf ../Firefly-RK3399-ubuntu16.04-20180416112819.img

Then the USB type C I used my samsung T5 cable for that, and did the recov/reset sequence.

So from there I can work.

Cheers,
Phi