10:34 <diederik> I'm trying maskrom mode on RockPro64 and while it seems to enter maskrom mode, ``rkdeveloptool test-device`` returns "Test Device failed!" and listing partitions also returns errors. Can someone confirm this on their RockPro64?

10:36 <diederik> I've tried it with Debian's 2025.01 and my self-compiled 2025.04 version and both give this issue

11:36 <CounterPillow> you need to upload the loader into ram with rkdeveloptool first

11:36 <CounterPillow> before that, basically all commands will fail

11:45 <diederik> ah ok, thanks :)

12:18 <Daanct12> is there any benefit in using rkbin miniloader over U-Boot SPL?

12:18 <diederik> which loader do I need? I have ``rk3399_miniloader_v1.30.bin`` from the rkbin repo, but it seems that there's also an artifact of an U-Boot build named rk3399_loader_<version> (which I didn't store and it looks like neither does the Debian package)

12:19 <diederik> The Debian package does have a ``u-boot-spl.bin`` in ``/usr/lib/u-boot/rockpro64-rk3399/``

12:41 <qschulz> diederik: you need to generate the db with boot_merger IIRC

12:42 <diederik> I don't think I've heard of boot_merger before ...

12:43 <qschulz> diederik: https://embedded.cherry.de/jaguar-sbc-rk3588-amr-user-manual/70-deploy-disk-image.html#compile-rkdeveloptool

12:43 <qschulz> see the miniloader part of the code block

12:43 <qschulz> and you can see in https://embedded.cherry.de/jaguar-sbc-rk3588-amr-user-manual/70-deploy-disk-image.html#flash-the-emmc

12:43 <qschulz> that we use something called rk3588_spl_loader_v* that the boot_merger generated

12:43 <diederik> My first experience with rkdeveloptool was with the PineNote, so this is all quite new to me

12:44 <qschulz> pinenote would need this too

12:44 <qschulz> though this is changing, as Kwiboo has added support for USB booting a full upstream U-Boot via rkdeveloptool db I believe

12:44 <qschulz> (at least TPL+SPL, I guess the rest may be uploaded via DFU but I'm not sure, I sadly haven't taken the time to look into this)

12:45 <diederik> AFAIK it's the only way to do it with the PineNote as it doesn't have an SDcard or eMMC which you can plug in

12:45 <qschulz> diederik: note that on rk3399 at the very least, you cannot erase the SPI-NOR from this spl_loader

12:46 <qschulz> and rockchip won't fix it (I reported it and they said "SoC too old, don't care" in substance

12:46 <diederik> Thanks for the links btw :)

12:47 <diederik> I'm (now) mostly trying to learn it to check whether it (already) work for the NanoPi R5S ...

12:59 <diederik> qschulz: \o/ ``tools/boot_merger RKBOOT/RK3399MINIALL.ini`` resulted in ``rk3399_loader_v1.30.130.bin`` :-D

13:04 <diederik> And now it indeed works :-D Thanks qschulz and CounterPillow, your help is much appreciated :)