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I'm looking into them. I know they advertised as being an open source competitor to the Broadcom chips in the Raspberry π. The Rπ only has a partial peripherals datasheet available.

As far as I know, no current hardware has documented tape outs or fab level process documentation. So do any of you know the level of total documentation for the RockChip stuff? Any comments on hardware? Any recommendations on dev boards, tablets, netbooks, bootloader or kernel stuff?

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I know that they are open source to some extent. I'm 99% sure that this quote has not been updated to include the 3588, but this is on Wikipedia:

Rockchip provides open source software on GitHub[19] and maintains a wiki Linux SDK website[20] to offer free downloads of SoC hardware documents and software development resources as well as third-party development kits info. The chipsets available are RK3399, RK3288, RK3328 and RK3036.

Here is their stuff:
https://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Main_Page

Here is the toolkit for converting AI stuff to work on their NPU. It looks like they support several 2-3b models including multimodal qwen v2: https://github.com/airockchip/rknn-toolkit2/
https://github.com/airockchip/rknn-llm

Their own documentation says they do not provide source for ATF (arm trusted firmware). So it is probably just as bad as the Intel/AMD Management Engine fascist takeover junk running in the background.

Their main document is the TRM PDF. The one for the newest RK3588 is on gitlab along with the regular mechanical and pinout documentation. At a tertiary glance, it looks comprehensive with over three thousand pages of registers, addressing, and peripherals with timing diagrams. It is way over my head to say how complete or useful it is.

https://gitlab.com/rock-chips/rk3588/rk3588-doc