Re: [yocto] looking for YP-supported Rockchip RK3588-based eval board

On Wed, 5 Nov 2025, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   (caveat: i have *no* experience with rockchip processors so i am
> entirely at the mercy of people who want to make recommendations.)
>
>   a friend wants me to advise on a good choice for a RK3588-based
> evaluation board, and has already purchased a banana pi bpi-w3:
>
>   https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009156110477.html
>
>   that looks like a decent and fairly powerful baord, but i notice
> that the banana pi is not a supported MACHINE in meta-rockchip:
>
>   https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-rockchip/tree/conf/machine
>
> so can anyone suggest something equivalent in terms of pure horsepower
> that would be equivalent and has solid YP support? i am totally open
> to good advice.

  i will also point out that i see some mention that the RK3588 is not
fully open source, while the earlier RK3399 is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40497232

so there's that, too.

rday