HCL:Rho Board

The Futarque Rho Board is a single-board computer, originally shipping with Android.

Technical details

• Mstar MSO9280PBM SoC
  • 4x ARM Cortex-A7 CPU @ 1.4 GHz
  • ARM Mali-450 GPU
• 1 GB RAM
• 4 GB eMMC
• Raspberry Pi compatible 40-pin header

Manual installation

The initially shipping firmware uses secure boot, not allowing to boot custom kernels. A firmware update with a solution was promised.

The bootloader or Android kernel does not seem to emit any serial output (pins configured as input?).

Connecting via Ethernet with adb connect fails.