ASUS Tinkerboard support

[Jeffrey Walton]

Hi Everyone,

I've got a ASUS Tinkerboard. I like ASUS motherboards, but I am not
happy with the Debian 9 image and its performance. MySQL performance
blows, and takes over 2 minutes to create 4 tables.

I'd like to try a Fedora image if possible. I found some past posts
about Fedora for the board, like [1], but I can't tell if it is
supported.

[1] https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/119755/fedora-27-pi-working-on-asu...
[2] https://tinkerboarding.co.uk/forum/archive/index.php/thread-1826.html

Does Fedora support the Tinkerboard?

Jeff

[Nigel Sollars]

I would think its supported since the RK3328 BSP has been available for
quite some time, as of Linux 5 its all but 100% supported now.

Nige

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 9:47 AM Jeffrey Walton  wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've got a ASUS Tinkerboard. I like ASUS motherboards, but I am not
> happy with the Debian 9 image and its performance. MySQL performance
> blows, and takes over 2 minutes to create 4 tables.
>
> I'd like to try a Fedora image if possible. I found some past posts
> about Fedora for the board, like [1], but I can't tell if it is
> supported.
>
> [1]
> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/119755/fedora-27-pi-working-on-asu...
> [2] https://tinkerboarding.co.uk/forum/archive/index.php/thread-1826.html
>
> Does Fedora support the Tinkerboard?
>
> Jeff
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[Stefan Wahren]

Am 22.03.19 um 16:36 schrieb Nigel Sollars:
> I would think its supported since the RK3328 BSP has been available
> for quite some time, as of Linux 5 its all but 100% supported now.

It's not possible to conclude from the availability of a BSP to actual
mainline support.

Recently Wifi support was submitted [1] (should be in Linux 5.2), but
it's still lacking Bluetooth support.

Regards Stefan

[1] -
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?...
> Nige

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 6:12 AM Stefan Wahren  wrote:
> Am 22.03.19 um 16:36 schrieb Nigel Sollars:
> > I would think its supported since the RK3328 BSP has been available
> > for quite some time, as of Linux 5 its all but 100% supported now.
>
> It's not possible to conclude from the availability of a BSP to actual
> mainline support.
>
> Recently Wifi support was submitted [1] (should be in Linux 5.2), but
> it's still lacking Bluetooth support.

Yeah, I was not successful with the latest Workstation image from
https://arm.fedoraproject.org/.

The board did not appear to boot, and there was no HDMI so I could not
see how far along things progressed.

Jeff

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 1:47 PM Jeffrey Walton  wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've got a ASUS Tinkerboard. I like ASUS motherboards, but I am not
> happy with the Debian 9 image and its performance. MySQL performance
> blows, and takes over 2 minutes to create 4 tables.
>
> I'd like to try a Fedora image if possible. I found some past posts
> about Fedora for the board, like [1], but I can't tell if it is
> supported.
>
> [1] https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/119755/fedora-27-pi-working-on-asu...
> [2] https://tinkerboarding.co.uk/forum/archive/index.php/thread-1826.html
>
> Does Fedora support the Tinkerboard?

I've had reports it works but it's not a device we directly test. The
biggest issue with the Rockchips devices is around U-Boot, I need to
do some bits around polishing up how we deal with it for these devices
but I've not had the time to do that. Mostly their offsets are insane
so it ends up splatting itself over the first 32 Mb of the disk rather
than the first 2Mb like all the other SoCs U-Boot do. Kernel/userspace
wise I believe it should be all fine, I have Fedora running unmodified
on a number of aarch64 rockchips devices without issues.

Peter