LE13 on Radxa ROCK 5B+

atirage21 · June 13, 2026 at 10:24 PM

I tired install LE 13 at NVME? but i though that is not supported with this unique spi image of Radxa rock 5b+: https://dl.radxa.com/rock5/sw/image…-5b%2B/release/

I tried many posibilieties, but always it was needed delete spi with zeros.

https://paste.libreelec.tv/undoughty-arielle.log

hastebin

https://paste.libreelec.tv/nonloving-yair.log

https://paste.libreelec.tv/embowed-bruna.log

Maybe these logs it help, because also e..g. dont goig sensor of temperature for cpu (it is going at kodi only information about temperature of GPU)

**chewitt** · June 14, 2026 at 11:32 AM

I don't have the bandwidth to investigate and attempt compatibility with the random vendor u-boot versions that Radxa and others come up with so the general rule is you'll need to exorcise vendor u-boot from SPI or eMMC to allow LE to boot its own u-boot from SD card and then install the image to internal storage. I'm not aware of anything that should prevent install to NVME storage but I don't have a 5B+ board to look into. You might need to look into the state of the upstream device-tree file; in the Rockchip universe core features seem to enabled ad-hoc/per-board rather than the all-boards approach taken with other SoC platforms.

atirage21 · June 14, 2026 at 7:54 PM

I found some information at armbian. Maybe is it only about add posibility to dtb ?

build/config/boards/rock-5b-plus.conf at main · armbian/build

The official build framework for the Armbian Linux distribution. This repository contains the complete toolchain and scripts required to compile custom OS…

github.com

Radxa rock 5b+ have feature for booting from nvme through spi boot.

atirage21 · June 18, 2026 at 4:38 PM

Big thank for updated realease of build for device Radxa Rock 5b+.

I put only outputs as feedback of system:
[ 20.414896] rockchip-drm display-subsystem: [drm] *ERROR* POST_BUF_EMPTY irq err at vp0
LibreELEC:~ # [ 18.006587] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 sh: missing ]

https://paste.libreelec.tv/gonophoric-jordan.log

Also i saw output from retroarch:

Code

WARN] [GameMode]: GameMode cannot be enabled on this system ("dlopen failed - libgamemode.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.") https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode needs to be installed.
[WARN] [Config]: GameMode unsupported - disabling..
[INFO] RetroArch 1.21.0 (Git baee906)
[INFO] === Build =======================================
[INFO] CPU Model Name: ARMv8 Processor rev 0 (v8l)
[INFO] Schopnosti: ASIMD 
[INFO] Version: 1.21.0
[INFO] Git: baee906
[INFO] Built: Jun 10 2025
[INFO] =================================================
[INFO] [Input]: Found input driver: "udev".
[INFO] [Environ]: SET_PIXEL_FORMAT: RGB565.
[INFO] [Core]: Version of libretro API: 1, Compiled against API: 1
[INFO] [Core]: Geometry: 320x240, Aspect: 1.333, FPS: 60.00, Sample rate: 48000.00 Hz.
[INFO] [Video]: Set video size to: fullscreen.
[INFO] GLES version = 2.
[INFO] [EGL] Falling back to eglGetDisplay
[INFO] [EGL]: EGL version: 1.5
[ERROR] [EGL]: No EGL configs with appropriate attributes.
[ERROR] [EGL]: #0x3000, EGL_SUCCESS
[INFO] [GL]: Found GL context: "null".
[INFO] [GL]: Detecting screen resolution: 320x240.
[INFO] [GL]: Vendor: (null), Renderer: (null).
[INFO] [GL]: Version: (null).
[ERROR] [Video]: Cannot open video driver.. Exiting..
[ERROR] Fatal error received in: "video_driver_init_internal()"
[INFO] [Core]: Content ran for a total of: 00 hours, 00 minutes, 00 seconds.
[INFO] [Core]: Unloading core..
[INFO] [Core]: Unloading core symbols..

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diederik · June 19, 2026 at 12:13 PM

Quote from atirage21

Radxa rock 5b+ have feature for booting from nvme through spi boot.

Rockchip SoCs can boot from SPI, eMMC and SDcard (in that order).

From there it can load the rest of the system from (f.e.) NVMe.

Booting from SPI/eMMC/SDcard to NVMe should/could work for any Rockchip SoC. It may be that you need to have some options enabled in U-Boot though. I don't know which those are and whether they are enabled.

atirage21 · June 20, 2026 at 6:01 AM

After 3 days of trying of installation at SPI, i was succesfull with Batocera linux. Now i would trying at libreeelec.

**chewitt** · June 20, 2026 at 8:58 AM

Clear SPI and boot LE from SD card. Establish that you can see the NVME drive, i.e. the kernel modules and device-tree stuff is there to support that function. Format the NVME drive with a single EXT4 partition 100% sized with a unique disklabel. (re)Mount /flash as writeable and reconfigure /flash/extlinux/extlinux.conf so disk=label=STORAGE points to the NVME disklabel instead. It will boot from SD card, but Kodi effectively runs form NVME so you see the benefit of faster I/O access.

atirage21 · June 20, 2026 at 9:40 AM

Now in picture yet is without sd card at Batacore Linux. I would like have "manual dual boot" for using both systems. Trouble of libeeelec is that booting from sd card is not start at my device with spi (spi block image of libreelec and spi is needed for starting system direct from nvme). At internet i found this documentation from 2025: https://rockchip.fr/RK3588%20datasheet%20V2.2.pdf

atirage21 · June 21, 2026 at 7:33 AM

OK, so "manual dualboot" works include LE at sd card with community SPI installed through Armbian 26.2.6 (not same SPI as from Radxa)

atirage21 · June 25, 2026 at 4:10 AM

In LE 13 was not work automatic updates.

Here are general logs for development:

atirage21 · June 28, 2026 at 4:18 PM

Here are picture from terminal to a ( in GUI of Kodi missing) temperature of cpu and fan control of Radxa Rock 5b+