Patches have been posted for enabling the ROCK 5 ITX board for working with the mainline Linux kernel.

The Radxa ROCK 5 ITX is an ARM single board computer sized for the mini-ITX motherboard specifications. This allows running the board in a mini-ITX chassis. The ROCK 5 ITX is equipped with four Arm Cortex-A76 cores and four Arm Cortex-A55 cores. The RAM is soldered but with options of up to 32GB of LPDDR5 motherboard. The motherboard can be powered via an ATX power supply, a 12V DC line, or even Power over Ethernet.

This ITX board can also handle up to four SATA drives, M.2 storage, and dual 2.6GbE Ethernet. All in a fairly interesting ARM board particularly with being mini-ITX form factor. Unfortunately, we haven't been offered any review sample of this board for testing.

While not competing with high-end Intel/AMD CPUs, the Radxa ROCK 5 ITX looks like an interesting and versatile ARM single board computer for those wanting to run an ARM low-power system within a conventional ATX/ITX chassis.

Pricing on this mini-ITX ARM board starts out at $120 USD for having 8GB of RAM while the 32GB version with 8GB eMMC goes up to $240.

[1]This patch series gets the ROCK 5 ITX booting with the mainline Linux kernel. However, there are caveats as to the current support:

"As of yet unsupported display options consist of 2*HDMI, DP via USB-C, eDP + 2*DSI via PCB connectors."

This is already the second iteration of the patches in the past day and hopefully will be merged soon to the mainline Linux kernel.



[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240704095524.788607-1-heiko@sntech.de/