Quartz64 Software Releases

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Software releases

Warning: You are strongly encouraged to procure a 3.3V UART serial adapter capable of running at 1.5 mbauds, such as the woodpecker if you want to use a Quartz64, as some images' u-boot may have no video output on this chip.

Note: OS images are provided by the community, not by PINE64. Most community projects currently aim at getting mainline Linux running on the board, not some vendor provided kernel that will never be receiving updates. A mainline-first approach allows for the boards to continue receiving important updates, such as security updates, for years to come, as well as have higher quality code in the kernel as it underwent independent review, but does mean that not all aspects of the hardware work right out of the gate.

Arch Linux ARM (Unofficial)

See Quartz64 Installing Arch Linux ARM for detailed instructions.

Armbian

Armbian is a base operating system platform for single board computers

• Lightweight Debian or Ubuntu based Linux distribution specialized for ARM development boards
• Each system is compiled, assembled and optimized by Armbian Build Tools
• It has powerful build and software development tools to make custom builds

Download:

Note: This image appears to have issues detecting more than 2GB of RAM.It is strongly recommended to use a different distribution.

• latest, as fresh as possible, upon code change, images

Notes:

• Support on Armbian forums https://forum.armbian.com/forum/96-upcoming-hardware-wip/

DietPi

DietPi is a lightweight, yet easy to setup and feature-rich Linux distribution, based on Debian. To find out more about DietPi, please visit the official documentation. Discuss the Quartz64 build(s) on the PINE64 forum thread.

Download:

• Quartz64 Model A: Direct download from dietpi.com
• Quartz64 Model B: Direct download from dietpi.com
• SOQuartz: Direct download from dietpi.com

Default credentials
Root user	root/dietpi

Manjaro ARM

File:Manjaro.png

Manjaro ARM is a user friendly rolling release distribution, based on Arch Linux ARM.

• Images for Model A on GitHub
• Images for Model B on GitHub

Most of the hardware support is already available in the mainline kernel. If some devices doesn't work it is possible to swap to the linux-quartz64 kernel pacman -S linux-quartz64.

Following desktop options available:

• Gnome
• KDE Plasma
• Mate
• Sway
• XFCE

as well as minimal image without desktop.

pgwipeout's Quartz64 CI

pgwipeout provides continuously rebuilt set of images for Quartz64 devices which includes a Debian installer and a buildroot rescue environment. It is aimed at advanced users who generally know their way around a Linux system, and as a baseline for whether something is working or not. Works on both SD cards and eMMC, uses pgwipeout's patched kernel. Kernels aren't auto-updated on the installed system, so the user manually has to do this by mounting the actual correct boot partition.

Download: https://gitlab.com/pgwipeout/quartz64_ci/-/pipelines (Click the three dots on the right, download the merge-job archive.)

For Quartz64 Model A, flash rk3566-quartz64-a.dtb.img.xz. On Linux, you can for example do this as follows, assuming your target device is /dev/sdX:

sudo -i; xzcat /path/to/rk3566-quartz64-a.dtb.img.xz > /dev/sdX

For Quartz64 Model B, use rk3566-quartz64-b.dtb.img.xz instead.

For line by line instructions to boot Quartz64 CI on a microSD card and use it to install Debian onto an eMMC follow these instructions https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Installing_Debian_on_the_Quartz64

Plebian

Plebian stands for PINE64 Live Debian and aims to be a fairly vanilla live Debian image for Quartz64 and SOQuartz devices, based on Debian Bookworm.

• Download Release Images
• Read The Instructions

To flash, run (replace /dev/sdX with your target block device):

$ xzcat imagename.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=4M oflag=dsync status=progress

Some quick notes:

• You will be asked to change your password on first login (for what the default login is, read the instructions!)
• Root file system is grown to take up the entire space of your boot device
• NetworkManager is used instead of Debian's interfaces config to be more flexible with what adapters are plugged in and working
• An sshd is started on port 22 with freshly generated keys

NetBSD

NetBSD relies upon the UEFI support in Tianocore. Before NetBSD 10 is released, the latest version of NetBSD-current should be used:

• NetBSD daily builds top level from inside here, navigate to a date, and inside the images/ subdirectory are installable images. Use the one called "NetBSD-<version>-evbarm-aarch64-install.img.gz". This image can be written to a supported device, such as the eMMC interface, any USB storage device, NVMe, and PCIe AHCI SATA are all supported with builds after 2022-01-15.

• Currently this can not be shared with the EDK2 port, ie, microSD for EDK2 and some other media for NetBSD.

Tianocore EDK II port by jmcneill

This (as of 2021-12-30) is a work in progress to enable UEFI enabled systems, and is able to bring up SD, eMMC, USB, PCIe with SATA and NVMe, HDMI, thermal sensors, TRNG, as well as general Cortex A-55 features. Known to work with NetBSD -current, and the ESXi Arm fling version 1.8.

• jmcneill's Quartz64 UEFI Github

The sdcard image should be written to an microSD card and installed. Currently, using this card also for the OS may be problematic.

BSP Linux SDK

The BSP Linux SDK ver 4.19 for Quartz64 Model A SBC.

Download:

• Direct download from pine64.org (32.67GB, MD5 of the TAR-GZip file 24554419aec29700add97167a3a4c9ed)

Android SDK

Android 11 SDK for Quartz64 Model A SBC

• Direct Download from pine64.org
  • MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 77c2ff57ea3372fb04da7fb49e17d12b
  • File Size: 79.00GB
  • Just the boot blobs (<1MB): File:Rk35-blobs.tar.gz

Android 11 Production Test Build for Quartz64 model A SBC

Android 11 Stock Image [eMMC Boot] using DD method [20210604]

• DD image to eMMC module using USB adapter for eMMC module and boot. Highly recommend using Etcher
• This is test build that used during product testing
• Please allow 3-5 minutes boot up time on first time for initialization
• DD image for 8GB eMMC module
  • Direct download from pine64.org
    • MD5 (GZip file): e4365753e584d9fce1b8f10f095eede6
    • File Size: 819MB
• DD image for 16GB eMMC module
  • Direct download from pine64.org
    • MD5 (GZip file): 491c5f7744b0ca0b74ae76e607051836
    • File Size: 1.10GB
• DD image for 32GB eMMC module
  • Direct download from pine64.org
    • MD5 (GZip file): 47a6f0cdac8bad06cb920743849a8894
    • File Size: 846MB
• DD image for 64GB eMMC module
  • Direct download from pine64.org
    • MD5 (GZip file): 4e2fed6f5db0d55afdc8a142fc0c4fe1
    • File Size: 884MB

Android 11 Production Test Build for Quartz64 model A SBC [eMMC Boot] using ROCKChip tools method [20210604]

• Please unzip first and then using Rockchip Android tool ver 2.84 to flash in
• For Windows OS environment, please install the DriverAssistant v5.11 driver first
• This is test build that used during product testing
• The OTG port located at top USB 2.0 port on top of USB 3.0 port, needs USB type A to type A cable.
• Please allow 3-5 minutes boot up time on first time for initialization
  • Direct download from pine64.org
    • MD5 (GZip file): 800f867fdd0d1b2bd7822c156b6067e3
    • File Size: 812MB

Android 11 eink SDK for Quartz64 model A SBC

• The is the Android SDK build for 10.3" eink panel on Quartz64 model A SBC.
• Direct Download from pine64.org
  • MD5 (TAR-GZip file): 293a550584298de4fb95ceae18103672
  • File Size: 72.88GB
  • Just the boot blobs (<1MB): File:Rk35-blobs.tar.gz