Rockchip ITX Arm boards

ZioMario · Sunday at 8:16 AM

Who can say to does not fall in "love" with this board ?

【Pre-order】Radxa Orion O6-World's first Open Source ARM V9 Motherboard

Mini PCs, Single Board Computers, Gaming, Gadgets and Fun.

arace.tech

ZioMario · Monday at 11:39 AM

I would like to read some opinions about that board,that sounds VERY cool and on the ML I see some degree of support for FreeBSD.

Phishfry · Monday at 9:38 PM

We need to create a new thread for ITX Arm boards. Mario is asking about ITX Arm Board in the wrong thread..

So Lets start with my two finds. Rock5 ITX and FriendlyElec

ITX-3588J 8K AI Mini-ITX Mainboard

Powered by Rockchip RK3588 new-gen 8-core 64-bit processor, the mainboard can be configured with up to 32GB RAM. Capable of 8K video encoding and decoding, it provides abundant interfaces supporting multiple hard disks, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi6, 5G/4G expansion and a variety of video input and...

en.t-firefly.com

Radxa ROCK 5 ITX

Your 8K Arm Personal Computer

radxa.com

Will they run FreeBSD?

Phishfry · Monday at 9:39 PM

I am going to ask that admins move the above posts to a new more revelant topic.

This is for Zero Boards and Like.

tingo · Tuesday at 5:20 PM

So, the Firefly board starts at USD 489.- (4 GB RAM)
and the Radxa with 16 GB RAM is USD 160.- and with 32 GB RAM it is USD 240.-
not worth it IMHO.

Phishfry · Tuesday at 11:30 PM

More or less. They will only work with EDK2 on FreeBSD if at all.

GitHub - edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588: EDK2 UEFI firmware for Rockchip RK3588 platforms

EDK2 UEFI firmware for Rockchip RK3588 platforms. Contribute to edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588 development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

There were previous boards like MochaBin. They cost more.

_martin · 2025-01-22T23:05:50+0000

Phishfry said:
We need to create a new thread for ITX Arm boards. Mario is asking about ITX Arm Board in the wrong thread..

So Lets start with my two finds. Rock5 ITX and FriendlyElec

ITX-3588J 8K AI Mini-ITX Mainboard

Powered by Rockchip RK3588 new-gen 8-core 64-bit processor, the mainboard can be configured with up to 32GB RAM. Capable of 8K video encoding and decoding, it provides abundant interfaces supporting multiple hard disks, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi6, 5G/4G expansion and a variety of video input and...

en.t-firefly.com

Radxa ROCK 5 ITX

Your 8K Arm Personal Computer

radxa.com

Will they run FreeBSD?

Both those boards are based on RockChip's RK3588 - FreeBSD has no support for it. At least wiki doesn't mention it. main src doesn't have much there either.
Based on that I'd say they will not run FreeBSD.

I never really played too much with these boards but I'm more curious nowadays. I bought orangepi5 max to have some fun there. Just two weeks ago somebody submitted dts patch for it (Linux). Copied it over to uboot, made it boot successfully, even eager to PXE boot:

Code:

U-Boot 2025.01-00873-g2eed5a1ff362-dirty (Jan 22 2025 - 23:35:52 +0100)

Model: Xunlong Orange Pi 5 Max

Recently I had to spawn ppc VM, used this board. It was performing better than my older odroid h2 (I know, age difference). True, it's not 40-50EUR board but with today's prices it's not that bad either. I won't go out to eat and spare some money for fun project.