Buildroot For NanoPi NEO4 RK3399 SBC

NanoPi NEO4 is the smallest and cheapest RK3399 board so far, featuring the hexa-core processor into a $45 60×45 mm single board computer. FriendlyELEC usually provides decent documentation and software support for their boards, but Flatmax was not satisfied with the build system provided by Rockchip / FriendlyELEC. So he took the matter into his own hands, worked on and released a buildroot external tree for building NanoPi NEO4 SD card images.
Flatmax mentioned this is the first completely contained build system for the NanoPi NEO4. The build process is explained on Github, and basically goes like this:

Clone buildroot

Shell

git clone git://git.busybox.net/buildroot buildroot.neo4

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git clone git://git.busybox.net/buildroot buildroot.neo4

Install dependencies

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential gcc g++ autoconf automake libtool bison flex gettext
sudo apt-get install -y patch texinfo wget git gawk curl lzma bc quilt

1 2	sudo apt-get install -y build-essential gcc g++ autoconf automake libtool bison flex gettext sudo apt-get install -y patch texinfo wget git gawk curl lzma bc quilt

Clone NEO4 buildroot external tree

Shell

git clone git@github.com:flatmax/NanoPi.Neo4.buildroot.external.git NanoPi.Neo4

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git clone git@github.com:flatmax/NanoPi.Neo4.buildroot.external.git NanoPi.Neo4
Build the system

Shell

. NanoPi.Neo4/setup.sh yourPath/buildroot.neo4 mkdir yourPath/buildroot.dl make

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. NanoPi.Neo4/setup.sh yourPath/buildroot.neo4
mkdir yourPath/buildroot.dl
make
Flash it to the micro SD card

Shell

sudo ./output/images/sd-fuse-rk3399/fusing.sh /dev/sdX buildroot

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sudo ./output/images/sd-fuse-rk3399/fusing.sh /dev/sdX buildroot

Just replace /dev/sdX with your actual SD card device.

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.