Radxa Rock 5B+ compatible with Radxa Rock 5B images?

[jrd6g]

Hey Everyone, I'm sorry if this has been answered elsewhere. I recently purchased a Radxa Rock 5B+ and I installed the debian bookworm test build provided by radxa on there getting started page.

 

https://docs.radxa.com/en/rock5/rock5b/getting-started/install-os/boot_from_sd_card

https://github.com/radxa-build/rock-5b-plus-6_1/releases/download/rsdk-t4/rock-5b-plus-6_1_bookworm_kde_t4.output.img.xz

 

I was mainly intent on using the HDMI with gstreamer using custom resolutions, but found that when using custom resolutions they cannot use the YCrCb pixel format only RGB8.

It seems based on the following comment that RGB8 videoconvert hardware acceleration is missing from the default GPU drivers so one needs custom drivers.

 

https://forum.radxa.com/t/hdmi-input-on-rock-5b/16242/4

https://forum.radxa.com/t/rk3588-kodi-rkmpp-accelerated-decoding-working-out-of-box/12785

 

Looking at the ppa they want you to add it seems like it only supports ubuntu and reading more they recommend you install armbian jammy on the rock 5B.

I did find one github repo that appears to have the raw scripts related to rockchip-multimedia-config and a folder called debian

 

https://github.com/amazingfate/rockchip-multimedia-config

 

But looking at the files it seems like it relies on the device-tree files, which I feel may be different between the 5B and 5B+.

 

So my two questions are

1) is there a working build of armbian ubuntu jammy or noble, that will install on the Rock 5B+ and work as well as it does for the Rock 5B.

2) Does anyone know if the rockchip-multimedia-config ppa with custom drivers will work on the Rock 5B+ ?

 

Any other  tips you all may have would be much appreciated. If I can provide any more details from my end just let me know.

Edited July 31 by jrd6g
grammatical errors

[jrd6g]

I Just tried the "Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble)Gnometrunk MESA / VPUSHA   ASC1.3GB" Image from "May 25, 2024" and it didn't work.

 

https://dl.armbian.com/rock-5b/archive/Armbian_24.5.1_Rock-5b_noble_vendor_6.1.43_gnome-oibaf_desktop.img.xz

 

EDIT:

I also tried the latest nightly "Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble)Gnome MESA / VPUstable6.1.75SHA  ASC1.4GB" and it gave me the same error "Blutooth: hc11: BCM: Reset failed (-110)"

https://github.com/armbian/os/releases/download/24.8.0-trunk.488/Armbian_24.8.0-trunk.488_Rock-5b_noble_vendor_6.1.75_gnome-kisak_desktop.img.xz

 

I guess I will need to wait for a 5B+ specific image. If you guys are beta testing one let me know where I can download it and I'll be happy to give it a go.

Edited July 31 by jrd6g
tested one other image and it didn't work

[jrd6g]

Alternatively if there is no working armbian image planned for the 5B+, is there anyway to apply the same "rockchip-multimedia-config" path to the debian bookworm release for the 5B+?

[NicoD]

Hi. I'm not sure if anyone has this 5B+. 
Might be there's a dtb file for it. You need to adjust /boot/armbianEnv.txt
To point to a dtb that's for your device. I just don't know/think there's one yet for that.
They make way too many versions of the same what makes supporting it all a hell. 

[jrd6g]

I got a reply on the radxa forum saying they should be sending a board to a maintainer and support should be added, they just don't know when.

https://forum.radxa.com/t/armbian-the-best-option/14979/21

I agree there are so many of them it is impossible to keep up....