First wanted to give a shout-out to the community devs who are working on this board; I think a lot of people see the price tag on the TinkerBoard 2 and assume it would have better linux OS support like other rk3399's before they buy it. Also just donated a little bit because this is the second time I bought an under-supported board (Libre Renegade rk3288) and armbian came to the rescue.
It seems like a lot of the problem with the TinkerBoard 2 is some kind of proprietary buck converter that Asus made specially for this board? Sorry if this is too off-topic but I am curious why Asus wouldn't document and publish the specs for this piece of the puzzle, since it seems low-risk that anyone would try to manufacture their own..
Considering the lack of documentation for this hardware, is there a way to figure out/map the correct regulator start-up that is more pragmatic than black-box reverse engineering Asus' design? I have tried a few guesses at porting the custom dtb and drivers from their old proprietary linux distro, but it hasn't been fruitful.