Adding RK3588/RK3588S support?

LE will support them once the upstream kernels we are based upon support core essentials like HDMI, Ethernet, mesa for GPU, and all the hardware decoders which are almost the same as existing chips (but enough different to need some work). There is quite a lot of activity from some of the professional development shops and Rockchip community sources (including some of our own contributors). All the media folks poking code are people we know (and who know us) so once things start to progress I'm sure we'll start taking a closer interest.

NB: It's probably possible to frankenstein an image today using the downstream vendor kernel and mali blobs etc. That's fine for desktop and industrial focussed distros like Manjaro and Armbian but "all the media stuff needs to work" for LE support and this is always the weakness in downstream kernels. It will be a fairly simple to get the basics for an image, but a large effort to get right, and all that effort will be superseded once upstream support kicks in, and we already have plenty of things to work on with existing RK SoCs .. so best to be patient.

Thanks you very much for answer

This posting from "Feb 2023". Is there any update I missed?

thanks

Current state of upstream is being tracked here:

mainline-status.md · main · hardware-enablement / Rockchip RK3588 upstream enablement efforts / Notes for Rockchip 3588 · GitLab

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HDMI exists in downstream kernels but wasn't reworked and submitted upstream yet, and there are media codec bits missing. AV1 was submitted (to asssist completion of a work package for Mediatek SoCs) but other codecs are still missing. As usual there's a reasonable amount of inheritance from earlier generations but always some changes to work though, and because the primary interest on these SoCs in the Linux world is industrial/IoT applications the media stuff is nearly always done last.

TL/DR; previous statements are still valid

thank you and a happy weekend

Hello,

pardon my ignorance but I am wondering if there is any update here?

HDMI was submitted last week. That opens up the option for LE to create an image that software decodes all media, which will be quite usable as RK3588 has a strong CPU. Otherwise we now need to wait for codecs. That's always the tricky bit that takes ages for developers to get done (and get right). Meanwhile .. time passes.

Codec work is progressing faster than I'd hoped, thanks to collabora.

mainline-status.md · main · hardware-enablement / Rockchip RK3588 upstream enablement efforts / Notes for Rockchip 3588 · GitLab

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AV1 has been in mainline since 6.7, and the usual codecs minus H.265 have been submitted upstream, and the armbian edge kernel has them included. Hopefully with the rkvdec2 support that as added as part of the H.264 patchset, H.265 won't be too far behind.

Hopefully someone also starts work on audio. Silent movies went out of fashion with Mr Chaplin.

Kernel 6.15 will include support for RK3588 HDMI audio and some other features (like the 2nd HDMI port and 4K resolution). Support for hardware decoders for H264 and H265 still isn't there yet.

Would current HDMI state make it possible to build some usable LE images for RK3588?

Hi!

With the recent release of 6.15, is there any way to get LE working (properly) on the Opi 5 plus?

There's enough upstream in the kernel and u-boot to start exploring an image. There's also an existing pull-request on GitHub to add support that needs updating and rebasing; the unknown being when Kwiboo will get around to doing it. I've also asked some of the usual vendors to send me board samples, although so far I've had zero response which is a little disappointing.

Disappointing I'll bet, my late response does not help either I'm afraid. But its very much appreciated, like all the other work you guys have been doing.

One of them replied .. delayed response due to some public festival/holiday in China. It'll be enough to get things in-motion.