Collabora + Flipper: Opening up the RK3576
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Posted on 21/05/2026 by Sjoerd Simons
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Collabora + Flipper: Opening up the RK3576
Posted on 21/05/2026 by Sjoerd Simons<br>--><br>Sjoerd Simons<br>May 21, 2026
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Collabora is proud to share that we've partnered with Flipper Devices to work together on building an open Linux platform for hardware hackers. The long-awaited Flipper One will be built on the Rockchip RK3576, and Flipper has chosen Collabora as its Open Source software partner to make it happen.
Their previous, much-loved Flipper Zero: a pocket-sized multi-tool for hardware hackers, with a focus on access control systems, made plenty of noise and proved that Open Source and curious minds can work wonders. The new Flipper One operates at a fundamentally different layer of the stack, demands high-performance computing, and brings a whole new set of challenges.
Why the Rockchip RK3576, and why now?
Choosing a silicon platform for a Linux-first product is not just a hardware decision. It is a long-term bet on software maturity, community health, and the ability to ship and maintain a product without being held hostage to a vendor BSP that goes stale the moment the ink dries on the purchase order.
That is precisely why the RK3576 makes sense for the Flipper One, and why Collabora's upstream work on this platform was a decisive factor in Flipper Devices' choice.
Over the past several years, Collabora engineers have invested heavily in bringing the Rockchip ecosystem into the mainline Linux kernel. From graphics and display pipelines to multimedia acceleration and power management, the work has been done in the open, reviewed by the broader community, and merged where it belongs: upstream. The foundational SoC enablement, display stack, GPU, VPU and so much more of the RK3576 are already upstream or on their way to make a product like the Flipper One viable without a mountain of out-of-tree patches.
For Flipper Devices, this matters enormously. The Flipper One will be a platform that keeps up with the world. That is only possible when the hardware is properly supported upstream.
The leap in capability is also hard to overstate. The Flipper Zero is built around an STM32WB55 microcontroller, a dual-core Arm Cortex-M4 running at 64 MHz, with 256 KB of SRAM and 1 MB of flash. The Flipper firmware team has done impressive things within those constraints. But it is a microcontroller. The Flipper One, by contrast, will be built around the RK3576: an octa-core application processor with gigabytes of RAM, a Mali GPU with full Open Source driver, hardware-accelerated video decode, and an NPU for on-device inference workloads.
Heading to Embedded Recipes in Nice next week? We'll have a working prototype of the Flipper One at our table on May 28. Stop by for a hands-on look!
Open Source as a product strategy
Collabora's "Open First" philosophy aligns naturally with what Flipper Devices has built its Flipper Zero on: transparency, community, and hardware that its users can actually understand and extend. The Flipper Zero spawned a thriving ecosystem of third-party firmware and tools precisely because the platform was open. The Flipper One, built on a fully mainlined Linux stack, takes that ethos further.
With upstream support in place, Flipper One users and the broader community can contribute, audit, and build on a foundation that is not going anywhere. Security researchers in particular will appreciate a platform where the software stack is as open to inspection as the hardware itself.
What this means for OEMs considering the RK3576
The Flipper One is a compelling proof point for any OEM evaluating the RK3576. Collabora's upstream investment means that the cost of bringing a new product to market on this platform is substantially lower than it would be on silicon without mature mainline support. There is no need to maintain a private kernel fork, no scramble to rebase vendor patches on every LTS release, and no dependency on a chipmaker's support lifecycle that may not match your product's.
If you are building a Linux-based product and want a platform with real upstream momentum behind it, we would be glad to talk.
Current status of RK3576 Mainline Kernel support
RK3576 mainline support is already in pretty good shape — all the major components are working. Right now we're focused on power management and USB DP Alt-mode support. Hardware video decoding and the NPU aren't fully...