New Ubuntu 18.04 build for Renegade Elite and Linux kernel 5.3 official

karendar

The firefly site has a new image for the Renegade elite. Build date is September, so worth checking out:
http://en.t-firefly.com/doc/download/page/id/51.html
Also, Linux Kernel 5.3 is now live. I saw lots of commits for RK3399, meaning we might be seeing some pretty decent builds from upstream linux: 
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/09/linux-5-3-kernel-release-features

karendar

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1yLZsDDjpckgTdqTpgCQiZFCmj-DUbbwb?usp=drive_open

Considering firefly site is down for me, here's the drive link directly

sunbeam

nice find @karendar
Looks like folks over at armbian are making some progress as well.

karendar

sunbeam said:

nice find @karendar
Looks like folks over at armbian are making some progress as well.

Right, was monitoring that thread too. Considering 5.3 is released, they should have what's necessary to get something running. Just wondering if u-boot has some particularities stopping them.

Zaf9670

This guy is also working on trying to get around the closed source blobs on the RockPro64 which is also rk3399 based.

https://stikonas.eu/wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-rockpro64/

karendar

Zaf9670 said:

This guy is also working on trying to get around the closed source blobs on the RockPro64 which is also rk3399 based.

https://stikonas.eu/wordpress/2019/09/15/blobless-boot-with-rockpro64/

Isn't that the purpose of putting RK3399 code upstream to avoid using Rockchip blobs? Or am I confusing things?