orange-pi5-packages

What's here:

linux-rockchip-rk3588-bin

AUR package with pre-build armbian kernel. Modified to allow DKMS to work.

orange-pi5-board-package

Script and configs adapted from armbian. Includes script to generate uBoot image and boot.scr

mesa-panfork-git

Clone of AUR package with disabled gallium-nine and unrelated drivers.

8188eu-dkms-git

DKMS module for random USB wifi dongle I had around. Modified so it builds.

Howto

• Download Armtix tarball of your favorite flavour
• Install on PC, not on Orange PI, either:
  • qemu-user-static and qemu-user-static-binfmt
  • or qemu-user and qemu-user-binfmt
• Grab reasonably big SD card (4GB seems to be minimum)
• Partition SD card and format it as such:

partition table type: GPT
/dev/sdX1: ext4, type=linux extended boot, name=bootfs, start=32768, 512MB
/dev/sdX2: ext4, type=linux filesystem, rest of card

(notice 1st partition starts at offset 32768)

• install uboot boot loader onto sdcard

# wget https://notabug.org/not_tom/orange-pi5-packages/raw/master/uboot-files/{idbloader.img,u-boot.itb}
# dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/sdX conv=notrunc seek=64
# dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/sdX conv=notrunc seek=16384

Make ABSOLUTELLY sure you are getting /dev/sdX correct here. You may blow up your system otherwise.

• (you may want to sync, eject sdcard and put it back to make sure partitions are still intact after above step)
• mount /dev/sdX2: mount /dev/sdX2 /tmp/sdcard (make sure to replace X in sdX2)
• extract tarball cd /tmp/sdcard && tar xvf <PATH_TO_TARBALL>
• mount /def/sdX1 as /boot of sdcard: mount /dev/sdX1 /tmp/sdcard/boot/ (make sure to replace X in sdX1)
• copy resolv.conf to sdcard: cp -v /etc/resolv.conf /tmp/sdcard/etc
• mount /dev and /proc:

# mount -t devtmpfs none /tmp/sdcard/dev
# mount -t proc none /tmp/sdcard/proc

• chroot into 'installation': chroot /tmp/sdcard/ /usr/bin/bash (this is what you need qemu-* packages for)
• remove kernels: pacman -R linux-aarch64 linux-aarch64-headers linux-aarch64-lts linux-aarch64-lts-headers (please, make sure you are doing this in chroot)
• update everything else, install required packages: pacman -Syu && pacman -S git fakeroot uboot-tools make gcc flex bison
• switch to default armtix user (so makepkg can be used): su -l armtix
• clone this repository: git clone https://notabug.org/not_tom/orange-pi5-packages.git && cd orange-pi5-packages
• build kernel package: cd linux-rockchip-rk3588-bin && makepkg
• build board package: cd ../orange-pi5-board-package/ && makepkg
• drop back to root account (exit) and install built packages:

# pacman -U  ~armtix/orange-pi5-packages/orange-pi5-board-package/*.tar.xz ~armtix/orange-pi5-packages/linux-rockchip-rk3588-bin/*.tar.xz

• exit chroot (exit) and check that /boot on sdcard is populated correctly

# ls -la /tmp/sdcard/boot/
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      212 Jan 22 18:52 armtixEnv.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     3249 Jan 22 18:49 boot.scr
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        4 Jan 22 18:49 dtb -> dtbs
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     4096 Jan 22 18:51 dtbs
-rw-------  1 root root  9505049 Jan 22 18:52 initramfs-linux-rockchip-rk3588.img
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       29 Jan 22 18:49 Image -> vmlinuz-linux-rockchip-rk3588
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       29 Jan 22 18:49 uInitrd -> uInitrd-linux-rockchip-rk3588
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  9505113 Jan 22 18:52 uInitrd-linux-rockchip-rk3588
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 33020416 Jan 22 18:51 vmlinuz-linux-rockchip-rk3588

• fix UUID in armtixEnv.txt which couldn't be detected in chroot (make sure to replace X in sdX2)

# sed -i  's|rootdev=.*|rootdev=UUID='$(lsblk /dev/sdX2 -o uuid | tail -1)'|' /tmp/sdcard/boot/armtixEnv.txt
# cat /tmp/sdcard/boot/armtixEnv.txt | grep rootdev && lsblk /dev/sdX2 -o uuid

(check that above command outputs two UUIDs, both same)

• umount everything and sync to make sure it's safe to remove sdcard

# for x in /tmp/sdcard/dev /tmp/sdcard/proc /tmp/sdcard/boot /tmp/sdcard ; do umount $x ; done
# sync

• put sdcard into Orange PI 5 and boot from it