Somewhat tangentially, I am in the beginning of working on a kernel
for the RK3308 (and learning kernel stuff along the way), but am
trying to go u-bootless and boot directly to 9 currently; this
invariably requires their blobs (at least I think it does) currently.
I only have a basic bare-metal UART going as of now (and, it was just
yesterday I discovered it was functionally an 8250..).

-Aidan