Difference between revisions of "Rockpi4/install"

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Installation

Choose and install an operation system on your ROCK Pi 4. To appropriately follow this installation guide you will need to:

Choose an installation method
Download necessary files
Choose host machine
Follow flashing instructions

Methods of Installation

In most cases, you will be presented with two options when installing your new operating system onto your ROCK Pi 4:

eMMC USB upgrade Method
- The firmware will be downloaded from the USB to the ROCK Pi 4 on board eMMC storage
Running on SD Card Method
- The firmware will be written on a SD Card that will lately be inserted onto ROCK Pi 4.

Each Method has its own benefits and requires different levels of experience.

eMMC USB upgrade Method

Rockusb is a custom USB protocal from Rockchip supported by ROCK Pi 4 and can be used for firmware installation(USB to eMMC). This method applies to advanced users who are most familiar with command line tools or modified/custom source code and need to download such updates to the board for testing/execution.

This method requires the following hardware:

ROCK Pi 4 board with power supply
Host machine (Linux/Mac)
USB Type-A to Type-A cable
USB serial to TTL cable(not required to perform flash)
USB Mouse and/or keyboard (not required to perform flash)
HDMI Monitor with full size HDMI cable (not required to perform flash)
Ethernet cable (not required to perform flash)

Go to the [Download page] to get your system

Choose host machine

Linux
- Step 1: Make sure rkdeveloptool or upgrade_tool are set up on host computer
- Step 2: Download all necessary images
- Step 3: Boot device into maskrom mode
- Step 4: Prepare the flash environment
- Step 5: Flash images onto ROCK Pi 4 eMMC and reboot

Mac

Running on SD Card Method

Running on SD card method allows you to place a microSD card into a ROCK Pi 4 to automatically boot and run.

This method required the following hardware

ROCK Pi 4 board with power supply
Host machine (Linux/Mac/Windows)
MicroSD card with 8GB or larger of storage
USB Mouse and/or keyboard
HDMI Monitor with full size HDMI cable
Ethernet cable

Go to the [Download page] to get your system

Choose host machine

Linux/Mac/Windows

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 * HDMI Monitor with full size HDMI cable (not required to perform flash)
 * Ethernet cable (not required to perform flash)
+===== Go to the [Download page] to get your system =====
 ===== Choose host machine =====
+* Linux
+** Step 1: Make sure rkdeveloptool or upgrade_tool are set up on host computer
+** Step 2: Download all necessary images
+** Step 3: Boot device into maskrom mode
+** Step 4: Prepare the flash environment
+** Step 5: Flash images onto ROCK Pi 4 eMMC and reboot
+* Mac
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 ==== Running on SD Card Method ====
+Running on SD card method allows you to place a microSD card into a ROCK Pi 4 to automatically boot and run.
+===== This method required the following hardware =====
+* ROCK Pi 4 board with power supply
+* Host machine (Linux/Mac/Windows)
+* MicroSD card with 8GB or larger of storage
+* USB Mouse and/or keyboard
+* HDMI Monitor with full size HDMI cable
+* Ethernet cable
+===== Go to the [Download page] to get your system =====
+===== Choose host machine =====
-The Rockchip RK3399 Soc used in ROCK Pi 4 includes 64bits hexa core processor with dual 1.8GHz Cortex-72 and qual 1.4GHz Cortex-A53, Mali T860MP4 graphics processing unit (GPU) and Internal SRAM. It has a level 1 (L1) cache and a level 2 (L2). For level 1 cache, 48KB Icache and 32KB Dcache is for each A72. 32KB Icache and 32KB Dcache is for each A53. For level 2 cache, 1024KB cache is for big cluster and 512KB cache is for little cluster.
+* Linux/Mac/Windows