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For something called the "Tinker Board" you'd expect there to be lots of documentation, and for the RK3288, it does not disappoint:

Datasheet: http://opensource.rock-chips.com/images/4/4e/Rockchip_RK3288...

Technical Reference Manual: http://rockchip.fr/RK3288%20TRM/

This is on par with what TI offers for its OMAP series, and a great deal better than anything Broadcom has ever released for its RPi SoCs.

I remember around a decade or so ago, Rockchip was one of the main producers of PMP SoCs, mainly the RK26xx and RK27xx series (Actions was the other popular one), and there was a community around firmware-modding those PMPs, including, appropriately enough, porting RockBox to run on them. It's interesting to see them "growing up" in the market.

4k60p too!

I'm working on a simply Yocto image that will autoplay a music video. It will serve as a nice test camera source for the medical device recorders I develop.

https://github.com/pauldotknopf/rockchip-camera-source

I still got to work out some kernel panics, but when it's done, I can just dd an image to an SD card. It beats the $10,000 medical camera I currently use :)

I am currently using a Yocto image for Raspberry Pi for 1080p60.

https://github.com/pauldotknopf/raspberry-pi-camera-source

What camera do you use with the Tinker?

Tinker only does 4k30, I need 4k60. I'm currently using a RaspPi for 1080p60, but I am configuring the ROCK64 now.

Also, in case you misunderstood, I'm not using a camera with these devices, I am using these devices as a camera. I plug the HDMI out directly into my capture device to test capture/rendering/encoding/etc. Previously, I had to use a real camera and point it at a move to get some nice motion and color. Now, I just power on my RaspPi and use the HDMI out. Our assembly line now also uses them to burn in our devices.

I think you mean to say you are using these devices to simulate a camera?

OP is probably talking about something like this:

http://www.lcdracks.com/racks/DLW/V-SG4K-HDI-signal-generato...

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