revise: by-the-book Rockchip user-area boot approach (fixes bootloader) #4

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jez merged 1 commit from by-the-book-emmc-boot into main

2026-06-03 00:49:04 +00:00

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
BarnacleBoy	6347f49fca	revise: by-the-book Rockchip user-area boot approach - Switch from eMMC hardware boot partition (0x48) to user area (0x78) - p1 starts at sector 32768 to leave room for bootloader in GPT gap - Write idbloader at sector 64, u-boot.itb at sector 16384 - Add experimental findings explaining why first approach failed - Add verification steps (hexdump RKNS check, PARTITION_CONFIG check) - All references from actual docs (Rockchip wiki, Gentoo, Khadas, PINE64)	2026-06-03 00:34:20 +00:00

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BarnacleBoy

6347f49fca

revise: by-the-book Rockchip user-area boot approach

- Switch from eMMC hardware boot partition (0x48) to user area (0x78)
- p1 starts at sector 32768 to leave room for bootloader in GPT gap
- Write idbloader at sector 64, u-boot.itb at sector 16384
- Add experimental findings explaining why first approach failed
- Add verification steps (hexdump RKNS check, PARTITION_CONFIG check)
- All references from actual docs (Rockchip wiki, Gentoo, Khadas, PINE64)

2026-06-03 00:34:20 +00:00