talos-sbc-rk3588

Talos overlay and custom kernel for Rockchip RK3588 ARM64 single-board computer (SBC) devices such as the Radxa Rock 5 series.

Why does this exist?

Currently, mainline support for the RK3588 chipset is still evolving and requires a newer kernel than the 6.6 LTS available in upstream Talos Linux. Additionally, not all patches have been merged.

This project relies on the forks of U-Boot and Linux kernel for RK3588 maintained by Collabora.

Device Support

• Rock 5B
• Rock 5A

Install

Flashable images are available from the releases.

You can write this to your eMMC/SD card using dd, Balena Etcher, etc. (I prefer Caligula.)

Machine Configuration

Use the ghcr.io/milas/talos-rk3588 images instead of the upstream Talos Linux images. These include a device appropriate U-Boot and kernel with RK3588 hardware support.

machine:
  install:
    # for eMMC, use /dev/mmcblk0
    # for SD card, use /dev/mmcblk1
    disk: /dev/mmcblk0
    image: ghcr.io/milas/talos-rk3588:v1.7.4-rk3588.alpha.4-rock-5b
    wipe: false

Resources

• Collabora RK3588 upstreaming
• siderolabs/talos
• milas/rock5-talos - forked version of Talos v1.4 using BSP kernel

Disclaimer

This is NOT supported or endorsed by Rockchip, Radxa, Sidero Labs, or Collabora - please do not go to them with support requests!