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AndroidIntermediate

Android Kiosk Mode on Rockchip Devices (Lock Task, Device Owner, Boot to App)

Turn a Rockchip Android board into a single-purpose kiosk: device-owner provisioning, lock-task mode, booting straight into your app, and what to bake into the ROM instead.

6 min read · RK3588, RK3588S, RK3576
LinuxIntermediate

Build Mainline U-Boot for Rockchip (RK3588, RK3568, RK3399)

Build a mainline U-Boot image with TF-A and the Rockchip DDR blob, then write it to SD, eMMC or SPI flash.

7 min read · RK3588, RK3588S, RK3568
LinuxIntermediate

Build the Rockchip Linux Kernel (Vendor BSP and Mainline)

Cross-compile a Rockchip kernel on an x86 host, install the Image, DTB and modules, and know when to choose the vendor BSP or mainline.

8 min read · RK3588, RK3588S, RK3576
LinuxBeginner

Configure GPIO on Rockchip: Pin Numbering, Device Tree and libgpiod

Convert GPIO3_B5-style names to Linux line numbers, drive pins with libgpiod, and describe them properly in the device tree with pinctrl and overlays.

7 min read · RK3588, RK3588S, RK3576
AI & NPUIntermediate

Convert YOLO to RKNN and Run It on the RK3588 NPU

Export YOLO to ONNX, quantise and convert it to .rknn with RKNN-Toolkit2 on an x86 host, then run it on the board with RKNN-Toolkit-Lite2, using all three RK3588 NPU cores.

10 min read · RK3588, RK3588S, RK3576
BeginnerBeginner

Flash Any Rockchip Board with rkdeveloptool (Linux & macOS)

Build rkdeveloptool from source, set up udev permissions, and flash raw images, partitions and SPI flash on Rockchip boards.

6 min read · All SoCs

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