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    USB 3.1 Type-C (thunderbolt 3) as a multi port usb HUB

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    Plan to clean up this a bit later, but I thought for now I'd lay the topic down for the forum to address.
     
     
    Topic:
    USB 3.1 Type-C (thunderbolt 3) as a multi port usb HUB

    Regards:  (newer phones, laptops, sbc, routers etc?)
    Armbian / u-boot capable devices that currently can be powered by a type-c 3.1
     
    Reason: ?  Any thoughts on what someone would like to do with one of these? Reply with thoughts please!
     
    My thoughts: Armbian / and or Openwrt + the 8in1 adapters = OTG FTW
     
    Use Armbian core or friendlylywrt to plug n play managed  "smart" scripts.

    Diy, router /  switch managed
     
    or one script make an unmanaged transparent bridge with / tap
     
    o /SPAN / aka mirror port....
     
    Holy shit its a freakin HUB!

    I think its a basically a raspberry pi zero sized board with the chip/mod for passive networking via type-c host controller.

    With some freaking amazing chips. Heres the standard chips I found on my 8in1
     
    VIA-Tech-VL817-Q7-B0_C209756
    Parade-Technologies-PS176_C209703
    Genesys-Logic-GL3224-ONY04_C157358
    FE1.1s (B) Data Sheet 0.7
    1912111437_Southchip-Semicon-SC8721QFER_C429907
    P25Q40H-Puya
     
    Heres the one I bought, but I almost bet the inside are exactly the same.. for the 8in1s ( you can find much better prices than this. mine was $20 for some daily deal)
     
    https://www.amazon.com/Utaxo-Adapter-Ethernet-Charging-MacBook/dp/B07RWG8M15
     
     
     
    Would be neat if the SBC could appear as a USB ethernet gadget. you can connect a raspberry pi 4 to an iPad pro via USB C like this. Would be good to do in Armbian as well.

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    ROC-RK3399-PC (Renegade Elite)

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    If only firefly/loverpi/libre were of any help. I'll post it on their forum and hope for the best.
    They have been really quiet, they still have 2 or 3 boards they were going to launch last year that never launched on Indiegogo or Kickstarter. Maybe because of problems/negative feedback from the renegade elite, and long delays on la frite as well?

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    ROC-RK3399-PC (Renegade Elite)

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    If you're building 5.4.y, try tag:v5.4.6 instead. I couldn't get latest master to boot properly on this board.
    Mine booted with 5.5rc2 but had a crash when starting openSSH with 5.5rc3, and rc4+, not sure if it's because I didn't make clean. make dtbs-install copies the dtb files to /boot/dtbs/(kernel version/rockchip
    My installed uboot seems to expect the dtb to be /boot/dtb/rockchip. Now it won't power on at all, I assume it's because I pulled the power lead out at the wrong time so I'm building a new image file to flash onto the SDcard.
    I haven't used make dtbs-install before so don't know if that's new behaviour or not.

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    ROC-RK3399-PC (Renegade Elite)

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    Successful booting mainline atf, u-boot, kernel from eMMC, rootfs on NVME.
    U-Boot TPL 2020.01-rc5-00066-g28aa6dc29a (Jan 03 2020 - 09:54:11)Channel 0: LPDDR4, 50MHzBW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=15 CS1 Row=15 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=2048MBChannel 1: LPDDR4, 50MHzBW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=15 CS1 Row=15 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB256B stride256B stridelpddr4_set_rate: change freq to 400000000 mhz 0, 1lpddr4_set_rate: change freq to 800000000 mhz 1, 0Trying to boot from BOOTROMReturning to boot ROM...U-Boot SPL 2020.01-rc5-00066-g28aa6dc29a (Jan 03 2020 - 09:54:11 +0100)Trying to boot from MMC2U-Boot 2020.01-rc5-00066-g28aa6dc29a (Jan 03 2020 - 09:54:11 +0100)Model: Firefly ROC-RK3399-PC BoardDRAM:  3.9 GiBPMIC:  RK808MMC:   dwmmc@fe320000: 1, sdhci@fe330000: 0Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environmentIn:    serial@ff1a0000Out:   serial@ff1a0000Err:   serial@ff1a0000Model: Firefly ROC-RK3399-PC Boardrockchip_dnl_key_pressed: adc_channel_single_shot fail!Net:Error: ethernet@fe300000 address not set.No ethernet found.Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0switch to partitions #0, OKmmc0(part 0) is current deviceScanning mmc 0:4...Found /extlinux/extlinux.confRetrieving file: /extlinux/extlinux.conf672 bytes read in 20 ms (32.2 KiB/s)1:      mainline-kernel-5.4Retrieving file: /Initrd15692480 bytes read in 1522 ms (9.8 MiB/s)Retrieving file: /Image12347904 bytes read in 1211 ms (9.7 MiB/s)append: earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xff1a0000 console=tty1 console=ttyS2,1500000 swiotlb=1 root=/dev/nvme0n1p1 rootwait rw rootfstype=ext4 init=/sbin/init mitigations=offRetrieving file: /rk3399-roc-pc-mezzanine.dtb57549 bytes read in 22 ms (2.5 MiB/s)## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 06000000 ...  Image Name:   initramfs  Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (uncompressed)  Data Size:    15692416 Bytes = 15 MiB  Load Address: 00000000  Entry Point:  00000000  Verifying Checksum ... OK## Flattened Device Tree blob at 01f00000  Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1f00000  Loading Ramdisk to f502a000, end f5f21280 ... OK  Loading Device Tree to 00000000f5018000, end 00000000f50290cc ... OKStarting kernel ...[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd034][    0.000000] Linux version 5.5.0-rc2-next-20191220-00003-g7380ee666901 (root@roc) (gcc version 9.2.1 20191130 (Debian 9.2.1-21)) #65 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 3 09:50:21 CET 2020[    0.000000] Machine model: Firefly ROC-RK3399-PC Mezzanine Board

     

    Did you build linux 5.5-rc2 with the armbian build script?

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    ROC-RK3399-PC (Renegade Elite)

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    Maybe I was looking bad, but I did not find the information, how much is the delivery of this model in Russia, if you order on the official website of Libre Computer ?
     
    The libre.computer website purchase page has links to LoveRPI.com and Amazon USA, which website are you looking at?

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    ROC-RK3399-PC (Renegade Elite)

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    As stated, the 12V rail (feeds the mezzanine) is run by a buck/boost converter with no mainline driver, so it sits at 5V instead of 12.  (4.67 volts, in my case).  The board would always boot with a large enough "dumb" supply, but a USB- power delivery supply would default to ~400 mA and fail. 
    I'm booting with it powered by Poe though, it has another converter on the mezzanine I think. Which then feeds the board?

    No idea how it is wired so that quite probably goes to buck boost converter on board as well.

    The Poe switch says it's drawing about 70mA at 50+ volts DC, the switch can power at 24v or 48v.

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    ROC-RK3399-PC (Renegade Elite)

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    I have it running with the poe mezzanine, with an Armbian image built with the docker ubuntu method and it seems to be running okay.  When I did an apt-get upgrade it downgraded the kernel to 5.3, so I rebuilt a current 5.4 kernel image with the docker ubuntu method and with both kernels there is no pci express as the m.2. ssd is not being recognised.

     

    I tried again with custom kernel config but Rockchip pcie is already being compiled but I can't find any kernel messages about pci express.

     

    The only difference is with the 5.3 kernel and 5.4 kernel I can see is a green led comes on the mezzanine when 5.4 is running.

     

    Is the mezzanine pci express?

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