NetBSD supports several boards based on RockChip SoCs. Starting with NetBSD 9.0, FDT is used to configure devices. As a result, a large number of boards and configurations can be supported with a single kernel.

Supported SoCs

SoC	NetBSD version	Example boards	Notes
RK3328	9.0	PINE64 Rock64
RK3399	9.0	PINE64 RockPro64, PINE64 Pinebook Pro
RK3288	9.99.93	Asus Tinker Board
RK356X	9.99.94	PINE64 Quartz64
RK3588	9.99.100

Other systems may work, but they have not been tested.

Supported hardware

Please refer to the GENERIC64 (64-bit) kernel configs for the most up-to-date list of supported hardware.

Device	Supported	Notes
Audio codec	Yes
CSRNG (RK3399)	Yes
DisplayPort (RK3399)	Yes
Framebuffer	Yes	Uses simplefb configured by bootloader
Gigabit Ethernet	Yes
GPIO	Yes
GPU	-
I2C	Yes
I2S/PCM	Experimental
NAND	Yes
P2WI/RSB	Yes
PCIe	-
PWM	Yes
RTC	Yes
SATA	Yes
SD/MMC	Yes
SMP	Yes
SPDIF	-
SPI	Yes
SPI Flash (RK3328)	Yes
Thermal sensors	Yes
UART	Yes
USB 2.0	Yes
USB 3.0	Yes
Watchdog timer	Yes

Installation

• Download or build arm64.img (64-bit) from NetBSD 9.0 or later
• Write the image to disk: dd if=arm64.img of=/dev/rld0d bs=1m conv=sync
• Install a board-specific U-Boot from pkgsrc to the SD card dd if=/usr/pkg/share/u-boot/<boardname>/rksd_loader.img of=/dev/rld0d seek=64 conv=sync

If your SoC has a SATA controller and you would like to install on an hard disk and use a SD card only for u-boot please give a look to NetBSD/evbarm install via sysinst(8) on a SATA hard disk, USB stick or (u)SD card.

The PINE64 Quartz64 boots from UEFI. Flash NetBSD and the UEFI firmware to separate storage devices, or replace the contents of the boot partition on arm64.img.

Tips and tricks

Links

• NetBSD/evbarm install via sysinst(8) on a SATA hard disk, USB stick or (u)SD card