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Well, a 5-year-old chip may not count as "recent" but the RK-3588 boot chain is "almost fully open-source" [1]. And it seems like it took a major amount of effo
by msgilligan 11mo ago
Well, a 5-year-old chip may not count as "recent" but the RK-3588 boot chain is "almost fully open-source" [1]. And it seems like it took a major amount of effort (from Collabora, others) to get it this far. I don't know of any equivalent or newer chips that are "more" open, but would love to hear if there are.
[1] https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2024/02/21/almost-a-fully-open-source-boot-chain-for-rockchips-rk3588/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2024/02/21/almo...
- aurintex 11mo agoAnd the NPU part is also in the mainline kernel https://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2025/07/rockchip-npu-update-6-we-are-in-mainline.html#:~:text=The%20kernel%20portion%20of%20the,over%20for%20review%20and%20merging. https://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2025/07/rockchip-npu-update-6-w...
- zokier 11mo agoYeah, Collabora has done good job on rk chips, but even then there are still missing bits and pieces. At least for rk3588 they are documented nicely: https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-35...