Vanilla Minecraft on RK3588 ARM SoC using mainline kernel and drivers

By Autobot 4 Oct 2026 in cm0002 Original post by cm0002@europe.pub 4 Oct 2026 on opensource@programming.dev
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Vanilla Minecraft on RK3588 ARM SoC using mainline kernel and drivers

After 5 years, Minecraft: Java Edition (version 26.3+) can finally run out-of-the-box on the Rockchip RK3588 ARM SoC using a fully open-source graphics pipeline!

My setup:

  • Operating system: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion (Linux kernel 7.1)
  • Drivers: Mesa PanVK (Vulkan 1.4)
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3 comments

  • ThorrJo2

    This is great, I was actually planning to try running Minecraft on my nano form factor RK3588S desktop.

  • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f42

    Has anyone done anything cool with RK3568? I have these Odroid-M1 that are otherwise pretty useless.

    • ThorrJo1

      I have one of those in my combo edge router and NAS box. Works well enough serving data via NFS at 2.5Gbps from an external USB HDD. Interrupts do use a fair bit of horsepower when it's doing that. Tailscale was a tiny bit slow last I checked but nothing upsetting, and I'm pretty sure that has more to do with a need for further optimization of Tailscale on OpenWrt than with the hardware.