Re: ROCK64

On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 08:41:18PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> My suggestion is that you build yourself a serial-to-IP adapter that
> will allow you to access the console from your LAN.  I've
> successfully used ESP32 boards for this and am working on building
> one using a RPi Pico2W.  The 2 gotchas with the Rock64 console are
> that it's 3.3v (not 5v) and runs at 1.5 Mbps.

That is ... a very interesting project, thanks for the suggestion.

But, it would make much more sense for me if wifi were my primary mode
of networking.  It isn't, both my workstation and my Pi are on
Ethernet. So if I really need to look at the console I may as well go
with a serial-to-USB. Already working on that.

> The RTC should show up as:
> rk805_pmu0: registered as a time-of-day clock, resolution 1.000000s

> With a verbose boot, you should see something like:
> rk805_pmu0: Read RTC: 25-10-17 23:06:51
> rk805_pmu0: providing initial system time

Ok, I'll look for these next time I boot it up. Thanks.

-- 
Ian