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This is just a few hints how I persuaded mine helios64 to run stable with armbian 24.11 and linux 6.12.1-edge. I have been stressing it several days now and haven't encountered any issue/crash/kernel oopsie.

 

1) created custom device tree with higher cpu voltage:

  • big cores up to 1800Mhz@1.3V
  • small cores up to 1400Mhz@1.15V
  • also the clock-latency-ns was bumped from 40000 to 50000

 

2) set up the cpufrequtils service to use big.LITTLE architecture

 

3) created the /etc/default/cpufrequtils-bl config for the cpufrequtils service

 

I run the big cores 408Mhz@0.85V - 1608Mhz@1.2V and the small cores 408Mhz@0.85V - 1200Mhz@1.025V

I prefer to run the cores slower than absolute max freq. I do not recommend running them at 1800Mhz@1.3V (1.3V is absolute max voltage recommended in rk3399 datasheet).

 

My feeling is that the most problematic was the rate_limit_us. It was set to 75/93 out of the box. The cpufrequtils service sets it hard to 20000, which might be too conservative, but whatever.

 

So, If someone is willing to give this a go, this is how to set it up. Hope this helps someone, also looking forward to any feedback.

 

# backup the original device tree first
cp /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3399-kobol-helios64.dtb rk3399-kobol-helios64.dtb.bak
# copy new device tree instead of the original
# if you're using some custom overlays, you might wanna get rid of them
cp <downloaded rk3399-kobol-helios64.dtb> /boot/dtb/rockchip/

# then set up the cpufrequtils service, which uses the /etc/default/cpufrequtils-bl config
# cpufrequtils should be installed
apt install cpufrequtils
# backup the original cpufrequtils service and cpufrequtils-bl config
cp /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils.bak
cp /etc/default/cpufrequtils-bl /etc/default/cpufrequtils-bl.bak
# copy the files in place of the old ones
cp <downloaded cpufrequtils> /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils
cp <downloaded cpufrequtils-bl> /etc/default/cpufrequtils-bl
# start/restart and enable the cpufrequtils service and reboot to use the new device tree
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart cpufrequtls
systemctl enable cpufrequtls
reboot
  
# after reboot, check the cpu settings, this is how mine runs:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
1200000
1200000
1200000
1200000
1608000
1608000
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq
408000
408000
408000
408000
408000
408000
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
schedutil
schedutil
schedutil
schedutil
schedutil
schedutil
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_transition_latency 
50000
50000
50000
50000
62000
62000
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/schedutil/rate_limit_us 
20000
20000
20000
20000
20000
20000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

rk3399-kobol-helios64.dtb cpufrequtils cpufrequtils-bl

Edited by Vaclav Rada
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Hi,
I just loaded your dtb files and I'm starting my testing.
First thing that I noticed is that 1GBE interface received different MAC address that originally. CPU is a bit slower, Frigate (ffmpeg) consumes noticeable more percentage (~4%) of CPU to do its job but we will see how stable it is.
My kernel: 6.12.11-current-rockchip64

I hope you're aware of the similar topic here:

 

Edited by fri.K

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