ROCKPro64 Hardware compatibility

Hardware accessory compatibility for the ROCKPro64. Please contribute to the hardware compatibility page, which lists hardware which has been tested with the rockpro64, whether successful or not.

Hardware compatibility

PCIe devices

Type	Make/Model	Hardware IDs	Kernel	Result	Notes	Tester
NIC	Intel I350 Dual Port		Mainline-5.4	good	SR-IOV fails
NIC	Intel I350 Quad Port			?
NIC	Intel X520 Dual Port	8086:10fb	Mainline-5.6	good	SR-IOV fails
NIC	Intel X550-T2 Dual Port	8086:1563	5.15.0-trunk-arm64 (Debian)	good	netperf throughput in FW mode, 20 streams: between 4136-6613mb/s across use cases.
NIC	Intel 82571EB Dual Port (HP NC360T)		Mainline-5.6	crash	kernel crash on boot
NIC	Intel 82575EB Dual Port (AOC-SG-I2)		Mainline-5.10	crash	kernel crash on boot
NIC	Intel 82575/82576	8086:1521	OpenWrt 21.02-rc1 ; 5.4.111-1	good	opkg: kmod-igb ; OpenWrt 21.02-rc1 5.4.111-1 ; ~92.8 KB ; Kernel modules for Intel(R) 82575/82576 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet adapters.
NIC	Aquantia 10GBps AQC107	1d6a:07b1	Mainline 5.16	good	Works perfectly out of the box.
GPU	nVidia GTX-645		Mainline-5.4	crash	BAR size too small, triggers PCIe error handling bug
PCIe Switch	PCIE-EUX1-04 Ver.002		Mainline-5.4	good
SATA Controller	ASM1062 4-Port		Mainline-5.6	good	tested only with one disk attached
SATA Controller	ASM1062 (rev 02) 4-Port	1d87:0100	Ayufan-4.4.190	good	tested with four disks, 3 in raid 5
SATA Controller	IOCrest (Same as Syba?) SI-PEX40063 4-port, Marvell 88SE9235 chip	1b4b:9235	Debian unstable 5.7, 5.8	good	Tested with two disks. SATA errors occurred with a WD Red drive in a cheap enclosure; resolved by connecting the same drive directly to the card.
SATA Controller	Ziyituod SATA Card ASM 1062+1093 6-Port	1b21:0625	Mainline-4.4 (armbian)	good	tested with 6 disks
SATA Controller	BEYMEI RAID 4-Port, Marvell 88SE9230 chip	1b4b:9230	Ayufan-5.6.0-1137	good	Tested with 3 disks in RAID 5. I added pci=nomsi to /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf kernel parameters and an udev rule before the disks were recognized: ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTR{vendor}=="0x1b4b", ATTR{device}=="0x9230", RUN+="/bin/bash -c 'echo %k > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ahci/bind'"
SATA Controller	BEYIMEI SATA Card 6-Port, ASM1166 chip		5.10.0-16-arm64 (Debian)	good	Tested with 4 disks. Built 2 separate software RAID-1 arrays without errors. Performance seems good enough for a NAS on gigabit LAN.
SATA Controller	PCE8SAT-A02 VER006S 2 Lanes, 8-Port, ASM1166 chip Odd because chip got only 6 ports?	1b21:1166	6.1.50-current-rockchip64 Armbian 23.8.1 Bookworm	unstable	Tested with 3 disks in SW-RAID 5. After 10 hours of burn in test one disk dropped from system *and* RAID. Hotplug does not work.	JPT
SATA Controller	BEYIMEI SATA Card 2-Port, ASM1062 chip	1b21:0612	5.10.0-19-arm64 (Debian)	good	Using with 2 SSDs in a software RAID-1 array (~190MB/sec for reading and writing)
SATA Controller	QNINE 4-Port, Marvell 88SE9215 chip		Ayufan-5.6.0-1137	very slow	Tested with 3 disks in RAID 5. Top speeds were around 50 MiB/s but quickly dropped to below 2 MiB/s due to SATA CRC errors
SATA Controller	DELOCK 90498, JMicron Technology Corp. JMB58x AHCI SATA controller	197b:0585	5.18.0-0.bpo.1-arm64 (Debian bullseye + backports)	good, but…	Tested with 3 disks, two in RAID1, one standalone. u-boot-rockchip_2023.07 cannot initialize the controller to boot off it.	Lrissman? ChriChri(u-boot)
Host Bus Adapter	LSI SAS 9211-4i SAS2008 chip, 4-Port SAS/SATA, PCI 2.0, 8 lanes	1000:0070	Ayufan-4.4.197	good	tested with four disks attached
Host Bus Adapter	Fujitsu SAS MEGARAID LSI 2008B2 SAS2008 chip, 8-Port SAS/SATA, PCI 2.0, 8 lanes	TODO	6.1.50-current-rockchip64 Armbian 23.8.1 Bookworm	TODO	needs special MicroSAS cables. Must be flashed to HBA mode? ordered, not yet received	JPT
Host Bus Adapter	LSI SAS 9211-8i 8-Port SAS/SATA, PCI 2.0 x8		Kernel 6.1, 6.10 from Debian	boot fails	causes asynchronous SError during kernel PCIe enumeration	flying-kestrel
USB Controller	ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1142 USB 3.1 Host Controller	1b21:1242	Mainline-5.15.0-rc5	good
DTMB Quad Tuner	TBS Technologies	TSS6514	Mainline-5.10.21	good	TV -> LAN streaming server, 7W idle, 8-10W with one FHD channel streaming
DVB-T2/C Quad Tuner	TBS Technologies	TBS6205	5.10.0-16-arm64 (Debian)	good	Working well with Tvheadend
DVB-S2 Dual Tuner	Digital Devices	Octopus CI S2 Pro	6.1.42-rockchip64 (armbian)	good	All features are working flawlessly with the latest drivers from Digital Devices
Audio interface	MARIAN GmbH	Clara E	Armbian 23.8.3, Kernel 6.1	?	Dante interface. Manufacturer driver page claims it is tested on ROCKPro64/Armbian

NVMe SSD drives

Type	Make/Model	Size	Hardware IDs	Kernel	Result	Notes	Power options Active only	Save power setting?
NVMe	Samsung 970 Evo	500 GB		Mainline 5.6	good	-	defaults	defaults
NVMe	Samsung 960 Evo	500 GB	144d:a804	Mainline 5.13-rc4	doesn't work	Likely due to 64/32 BAR mismatch issue on Linux 5.11+	defaults	defaults

USB hardware

Type	Make/Model	Hardware IDs	Kernel	Result	Notes	Tester
Zigbee Bridge	Conbee II	1cf1:0030	6.1.50-current-rockchip64 Armbian 23.8.1 Bookworm	good	seems to work fine	JPT (talk)

USB C alternate mode DP

Note that only USB C alternate mode Display Port will pass video. Any HDMI, DVI or VGA port must be converted internally by the device from Display Port - or the device won't work for video.

Type	Make/Model	Hardware IDs	Kernel	Result	Notes

eMMC / SD drives

Type	Make/Model	Hardware IDs	Kernel	Read Speed	Write Speed	Result	Notes

Other hardware

Type	Make/Model	Hardware IDs	Kernel	Result	Notes

Limitations

Older firmware overwrites actively used memory

Some people get system freeze when:

• use SATA disk with ROCKPro64 PCIe card. (maybe on newer PCIe card ASM1062 vs ASM1061)
• or do read or write 4GB to the flash. (not using PCIe)

If you connect the serial console you will see a Linux kernel oops: (a)synchronous external abort.

Both issues are in fact the same software BUG. There is no hardware problem. Currently, most OS do use uboot with a rockpro blob FW which use memory that Linux kernel is not aware of.

People are currently fixing this BUG, but it may take some time. In the mean time, you can fix it manually.

The latest u-boot can boot the rockpro64 without any blobs from rockchip.

Install first arm-none-eabi-gcc and aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc compiler, then run the following commands:

Prerequisite packages (Debian/Ubuntu): device-tree-compiler python gcc-arm-non-eabi flex bison gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu gcc make

git clone https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware.git atf
make -C atf CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- PLAT=rk3399 bl31
git clone https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git u-boot
cd u-boot/
git checkout v2020.01-rc5
make rockpro64-rk3399_defconfig
BL31=../atf/build/rk3399/release/bl31/bl31.elf make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-

Which gives you idbloader.img and u-boot.itb. Copy them to the rockpro64, and run the following: (Or put your SD card into your PC)

sudo dd if=idbloader.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=64
sudo dd if=u-boot.itb of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=16384
sync

PCIe Controller Hardware Error Handling Bug

There is an issue with the rk3399 pcie controller that is currently unmitigated:

• LKML Original Thread
• LKML Additional Information

The rk3399 pcie controller throws either a synchronous abort or a SError when a pcie device sends an unknown message.

The error type is determined by which cpu cluster handles the message.

Virtualization

The PCIe controller on the rk3399 is not behind an IOMMU. This means it is not possible to safely pass through PCIe devices to a virtual machine.