We bought this board with a grant from EthKipu.
Tested on march 14th, 2025
Installation
Download the Radxa OS image:
wget https://github.com/radxa-build/rock-5b/releases/download/rsdk-b5/rock-5b_bookworm_kde_b5.output.img.xz
Get an sdcard, an adapter, and connect it to the machine.
Copy the image to the sdcard:
$ unxz rock-5b_bookworm_kde_b5.output.img.xz
$ sudo dd if=rock-5b_bookworm_kde_b5.output.img of=<device> bs=16M status=progress oflag=sync
Move the sdcard to the board.
Connect it to the power and to an HDMI monitor.
Login with user radxa and password radxa.
Open a terminal.
Enable ssh:
sudo systemctl enable --now ssh
Now I can move it to the rack and login with ssh.
Login with user rock and password rock.
Rename the radxa user:
$ sudo usermod --login agami radxa
$ exit
Login with user agami, password radxa.
Change the password:
$ passwd
Delete the rock user:
$ sudo deluser --remove-home rock
Install software for administration:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install emacs-nox byobu
Enable ssh public key authentication:
$ mkdir --mode 700 ~/.ssh
Add my user public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
Adjust the permission of this file.
$ chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
Disable ssh password autentication:
Edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config, uncommenting and setting:
PasswordAuthentication no
$ sudo systemctl reload sshd
Change the hostname:
$ sudo hostnamectl set-hostname tabechaka-06
Also edit the file /etc/hosts to replace raspberrypi with tabechaka-06.
Reboot:
$ sudo systemctl reboot
System information
tl;dr:
Processor ARM i5 Rockchip RK3588, 64 bits, 16GB of memory, Debian 12
$ lsb_release --all
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Release: 12
Codename: bookworm
$ uname --all
Linux tabechaka-06 6.1.43-15-rk2312 #3176a44da SMP Wed Jul 31 04:27:40 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux
$ lscpu
Architecture: aarch64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 8
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
Vendor ID: ARM
Model name: -
Model: Rockchip RK3588
Thread(s) per core: 0
Core(s) per socket: 0
Socket(s): 0
Stepping: 0x2
BogoMIPS: 48.00
Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
Model name: -
Model: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 23%
CPU max MHz: 1800.0000
CPU min MHz: 408.0000
BogoMIPS: 48.00
Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
Model name: -
Model: Rockchip RK3588
Thread(s) per core: 0
Core(s) per socket: 0
Socket(s): 0
Stepping: 0x2
Model name: -
Model: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 23%
CPU max MHz: 1800.0000
CPU min MHz: 408.0000
BogoMIPS: 48.00
Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
Model name: -
Model: Rockchip RK3588
Thread(s) per core: 0
Core(s) per socket: 0
Socket(s): 0
Stepping: 0x2
Model name: -
Model: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 23%
CPU max MHz: 1800.0000
CPU min MHz: 408.0000
BogoMIPS: 48.00
Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
Model name: -
Model: Rockchip RK3588
Thread(s) per core: 0
Core(s) per socket: 0
Socket(s): 0
Stepping: 0x2
Model name: -
Model: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 23%
CPU max MHz: 1800.0000
CPU min MHz: 408.0000
BogoMIPS: 48.00
Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
Model name: -
Model: Rockchip RK3588
Thread(s) per core: 0
Core(s) per socket: 0
Socket(s): 0
Stepping: 0x4
Model name: -
Model: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 18%
CPU max MHz: 2304.0000
CPU min MHz: 408.0000
BogoMIPS: 48.00
Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
Model name: -
Model: Rockchip RK3588
Thread(s) per core: 0
Core(s) per socket: 0
Socket(s): 0
Stepping: 0x4
Model name: -
Model: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 18%
CPU max MHz: 2304.0000
CPU min MHz: 408.0000
BogoMIPS: 48.00
Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
Model name: -
Model: Rockchip RK3588
Thread(s) per core: 0
Core(s) per socket: 0
Socket(s): 0
Stepping: 0x4
Model name: -
Model: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 17%
CPU max MHz: 2352.0000
CPU min MHz: 408.0000
BogoMIPS: 48.00
Flags: fp asimd evtstrm aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 atomics fphp asimdhp cpuid asimdrdm lrcpc dcpop asimddp
Model name: -
Model: Rockchip RK3588
Thread(s) per core: 0
Core(s) per socket: 0
Socket(s): 0
Stepping: 0x4
Model name: -
Model: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 17%
CPU max MHz: 2352.0000
CPU min MHz: 408.0000
Caches (sum of all):
L1d: 384 KiB (8 instances)
L1i: 384 KiB (8 instances)
L2: 2.5 MiB (8 instances)
L3: 3 MiB (1 instance)
Vulnerabilities:
Itlb multihit: Not affected
L1tf: Not affected
Mds: Not affected
Meltdown: Not affected
Mmio stale data: Not affected
Retbleed: Not affected
Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Spectre v1: Mitigation; __user pointer sanitization
Spectre v2: Mitigation; CSV2, BHB
Srbds: Not affected
Tsx async abort: Not affected
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
mtdblock0 31:0 0 16M 0 disk
mmcblk1 179:0 0 28.9G 0 disk
├─mmcblk1p1 179:1 0 16M 0 part /config
├─mmcblk1p2 179:2 0 300M 0 part /boot/efi
└─mmcblk1p3 179:3 0 28.6G 0 part /
zram0 253:0 0 7.8G 0 disk [SWAP]
nvme0n1 259:0 0 1.8T 0 disk
└─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 1.8T 0 part
$ free --human
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15Gi 576Mi 14Gi 29Mi 530Mi 15Gi
Swap: 7.8Gi