Re: [PATCH 0/4] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add HINLINK H66K/H68K

[Erik Beck <xunil@tahomasoft.com>]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:54:40 +0200
Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:00:05 +0800, Chukun Pan wrote:
> > The HINLINK H66K and H68K are development boards with the Rockchip
> > RK3568 SoC. These boards are all SoM plus expansion board structures.
> > 
> > Both boards can be booted from eMMC or SD-card using the
> > U-Boot 2025.07 generic-rk3568 target.
> > 
> > The SoM board has CPU, RAM, eMMC and RK809 PMIC.
> > There is no schematic for this part.
> > 
> > [...]  
> 
> Applied, thanks!

Hi, apologies in advance if I'm going against protocol, but I'm still really
new at the techniques for Linux patch development.

As you may recall, I've been working on a similar patch for the nearly
identical SeeedStudio LinkStar H68K (v1). I found this recent work from
Chukun earlier today; my work, in part, relied on an offshoot of Chukun's
work from circa 2022 and other inspirations from other rk3568 boards. 
(See
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/20250723135008.1077970-1-amadeus@jmu.edu.cn/
for example.)

Chukun's work from 18 August 2025 is better and more complete than where my
code currently is, with one exception: the gmac0/1 phy-modes.

As I worked on my dts, I discovered that the 1Gb ethernet ports, using an
RTL8211, don't support rgmii-id mode; only rgmii.
(https://www.realtek.com/Product/Index?id=3976&cate_id=786). 

Changing this makes a huge difference in the ethernet throughput speed. With
rgmii-id mode specified, throughput is about 6.5 Mbs. Changing this to rgmii
mode increases throughput to about 960 Mbs. 

I tested this on Chukun's code by making that change, and essentially
backporting to my OpenWRT testing profile, using kernel 6.12 and U-Boot 25.04
(also backporting the Hinlink dts to U-Boot).

I saw this over 100x speed difference both with my tree and Chukun's. 

I'll make a note of this in Chukun's patch email for the dts shortly.

I'd like to help support further development of the HinLink/Linkstar patches,
and am happy to base whatever assistance I can provide off Chukun's work. 

Please advise on how I can best contribute.

Regards,

Erik

> 
> [1/4] dt-bindings: vendor-prefixes: Add HINLINK
>       commit: 7d11b8c260ea68ce8f420ad467b04b21ea34b011
> [2/4] dt-bindings: arm: rockchip: Add HINLINK H66K / H68K
>       commit: 4bef07b79ab1ef7d963eaa2c37948030e418d538
> [3/4] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add HINLINK H68K
>       commit: 86a504b82f8d0e34f99ab9607712e7942c919fa3
> [4/4] arm64: dts: rockchip: Add HINLINK H66K
>       commit: bb9ef44f05c9558d58e3c9da141e93af1aa11c1f
> 
> Best regards,