November 18, 2023
The Quartz64 has a M.2 PCIe slot, and it works with NVMe drives. However, you have to do some configuration to get the RK3566 to actually boot from this source.
The steps here assume that you already have a Quartz64 with a functional Plebian root filesystem on an SD card or eMMC drive. I also just blindly copy the rootfs onto the NVMe drive, so the first drive has to be smaller than the NVMe. If you're running another distro, things might be different!
You can do this from another computer and it'll be faster, but I did this from the Quartz. As mentioned, I am running Plebian on a Quartz64 Model B, so if you're doing anything different, you should definitely check the real instructions.
$ sudo apt install device-tree-compiler build-essential gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu \
binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu make python3 python3-dev libssl-dev python3-pyelftools python3-setuptools \
swig git bison flex mtd-utils
$ git clone https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot.git
$ git clone https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin.git
$ cd u-boot
$ export ROCKCHIP_TPL="$(ls ../rkbin/bin/rk35/rk3566_ddr_1056MHz_v*.bin | sort | tail -n1)"
$ export BL31="$(ls ../rkbin/bin/rk35/rk3568_bl31_v*.elf | sort | tail -n1)"
$ make quartz64-b-rk3566_defconfig
$ make -j4
The U-Boot build produces several files, but the one we're
interested in
is u-boot-rockchip-spi.bin. Kwiboo's
U-Boot build instructions describe how to flash this to
locations: for the SPI flash run
$ sudo flashcp -v -p u-boot-rockchip-spi.bin /dev/mtd0
flashcp is found in the mtd-utils
package (on Debian) installed earlier.
Boot the Quartz64 from the SD or eMMC with the NVMe drive
inserted. Modify the partition table to whatever you want, and
make a partition of the type Linux filesystem
(fdisk name). Copy your entire rootfs with
$ sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p2 of=/dev/nvme0n1p1 bs=4M status=progress
There's probably a smarter way to do this! Also note that your partition numbers might be different. Once the copy finishes, run:
$ sudo e2fsck -f /dev/nvme0n1p1
$ sudo resize2fs /dev/nvme0n1p1
to resize the filesystem to fill the partition.
Shut down the Quartz and remove all storage devices except for the NVMe drive. Power it on again and U-Boot should detect the drive, then boot from it!