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TV boxes are Community supported. That means they are not supported by Armbian. It is up to community members like you to figure these things out and submit them back to the community through your contributions.

This is 88XXAU in the config. Yes, this driver allows you to see the device as a network device, the adapter gets a new interface name wlx<macaddress>, but it cannot connect to the network and does not receive a list of available networks.

Those builds are made by automation, once per week if nothing else goes wrong.

Armbian Development Highlights: June 2–9, 2025 This week’s Armbian updates focused on kernel improvements, bootloader modernization, and several core enhancements to the build infrastructure. Key work spanned platforms like Rockchip, Sunxi, and Odroid, emphasizing kernel stability and broader compatibility across boards. Kernel Upgrades Several boards received kernel updates: Rockchip 32-bit edge kernel bumped to 6.15 in PR #8262 by paolosabatino. SpacemiT platforms updated to 6.6.93 in PR #8274 by pyavitz. Odroid XU4 kernel upgraded to 6.6.93 via PR #8277 by belegdol. Patches also landed to adapt Wi-Fi drivers to 6.15-era changes, including fixes for xradio and uwe5622 on Sunxi, contributed by The-going: sunxi: xradio – Switch from del_timer_sync to timer_delete_sync uwe5622: Fix timer API changes for 6.15 Bootloader and U-Boot Work Improvements were made to bootloader support: Tinkerboard 2 now uses U-Boot v2025.04 (PR #8268 by hyx0329). RK3328 boards gained setexpr support in U-Boot v2022.04/07 (PR #8260 by djurny). Build System Changes Several build system enhancements landed this cycle: PR #8276 by Ayush1325 prevented unintentional conversion of built-in kernel drivers to modules. A new helper function chroot_sdcard_custom_with_apt_logic was introduced in PR #8245 by rpardini, streamlining SD card build logic. PR #8279 by igorpecovnik removed obsolete Trixie package references. Networking Improvements PR #8259 and commit cdf71df by djurny expanded DHCP configuration in netplan to automatically include interfaces matching lan* and wan*, simplifying initial setup across devices. Miscellaneous Signing key backward compatibility was preserved in PR #8282 and commit aa5526a by igorpecovnik. Commit 0f43036 reworked prepare-host.sh after review. Contributors This Week Ayush1325 The-going djurny igorpecovnik pyavitz belegdol hyx0329 rpardini paolosabatino The post Armbian Weekly Updates first appeared on Armbian. View the full article

Thanks I saw that patch but have no idea how to apply it or what to do with it or if it even works in this version? If someone could help that would be great!

Hi there! We have some good news, a guy from the 4pda forums figured out how to make the missing SD slot work. I've replicated that on my M9s box a few days ago and it works like a charm. You can see original post in Russian here. So, basically, this TV box uses the same reference design for that circuitry as Armsom Sige5 and other boards. You can check the diagrams for Sige5 to get an idea. You need two capacitors (10uF and 100nF, on the power line) on the SD slot side (two smaller pads) and a LPW5202ADB5F chip and some resistors and caps on the other side. LPW5202ADB5F is a power switch chip with current limiter, can be bought on Aliexpress for like $5-6 for 20 pcs, also need these components: 1x 10k resistor - controls current limiter (this value is for 0.7A according to data sheet, lower values for higher current, or 3.6k = 2A), 2x 10uF caps on power input/output lines 1x 100k - pull down resistor on the 'enable' contact 1x 2k - limiting resistor from the CPU to the 'enable' line 6x 22 Ohm resistors for the data lines between CPU and SD card slot In theory, it's possible to put a zero-ohm resistor between in and out instead of that switch chip, in that case SD slot will be powered all the time and won't have a current limiter.

Ok, try with this dts file /boot/overlay-user/bt_enable_clean.dts /dts-v1/; /plugin/; &pio { bt_en_pin: bt_en_pin { pins = "PH1"; // GPIO225 function = "gpio_out"; bias-pull-up; drive-strength = <20>; output-high; }; }; Compile it: sudo armbian-add-overlay /boot/overlay-user/bt_enable_clean.dts and enable it in /boot/armbianEnv.txt user_overlays=bt_enable_clean Then see if better on reboot.

Do you have idea with chip S928X-K in device Ugoos SK1 ? if you have Rom please share for me thank you so much

Here is the login prompt that failed: And about my SD Card, it is just a class 10 SanDisk Ultra card but does not say A1 anywhere. So next I tried the pre-built image for Cubieboard and it booted too! This is more stable than before, but as soon as I try to do downloads or file operations, I start seeing similar page state or mmc errors. I think this might be related to RAM frequencies as you mentioned. Is there a way I can change DRAM clock on a system after it boots? Adding to that, is there a way I can enable the display on this after it boots, or install drivers using an overlay? That would be great to test things out. I am trying to build again but it keeps failing at the same stage as last time, even after pulling the latest version. I think I should try either docker or a VM to build this, because it does not seem to be working on WSL. Thanks, Shivam

Thanks for your reply. You're right — the image I initially used came from the debmfc GitHub fork. I understand now that it's not officially supported by Armbian. I now tried the image from Armbian itself: Armbian 25.8.0-trunk.90 Bookworm Gnome However, I wanted to follow up on the CPU identification part, as you mentioned uncertainty about the S905M. I’ve opened up the stick and inspected the hardware. The SoC is clearly labeled as: Amlogic S905M Quad-Core Additionally: RAM: 2x Samsung K4B4G1646B (total 8GB DDR3) Storage: no internal NAND/eMMC, boots entirely from MicroSD Original SD card runs EmuELEC out-of-the-box I’ve attached pictures of the board below (top and bottom views), including close-ups of the SoC and RAM chips and screenshots of the partitions of the normal EMUELEC Emulator. I also tested your suggestion about verifying the CPU. It is definitely not an S905L or S905X2. This unit appears to be an Amlogic S905M I now tried the image from Armbian itself: Armbian 25.8.0-trunk.90 Bookworm Gnome and it still does not give any display output. I opened up the Game Stick and on the CPU iteself it says "@mlogic S905M

A little typo in the commands: patch -b sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dtso opi3lts-dtb.patch Should be: patch -b sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dts opi3lts-dtb.patch it should be .dts and not .dtso, its'n not an overlay. Sorry if that confused anyone.

Can you help me install a unlocked version of android.

The base device tree for the Renegade (roc-rk3328-cc) already includes a PWM2 device but armbian does not include the .dtbo to enable it. Thus, it is also unavailable through armbian-config. The Libre builds of Debian support it, but not armbian. I have copied the overlay from the Libre build of Debian for Renegade and it applies correctly on after I manually add it to the overlay directory: /boot/dtb-6.12.32-current-rockchip64/rockchip/overlay/rockchip-rk3328-pwm2.dtbo Note that as of today armbian-config is having a general issue with loading overlays via armbianEnv.txt. This can be bypassed by avoiding using armbian-config for overlays and editing armbianEnv.txt directly and adding the overlay name to the overlays= line minus the "rockchip-" prefix. FWIW - here's the overlay source: =========================== /dts-v1/; / { compatible = "libretech,roc-rk3328-cc\0rockchip,rk3328"; fragment@0 { target = <0xffffffff>; __overlay__ { status = "okay"; }; }; __fixups__ { pwm2 = "/fragment@0:target:0"; }; };

That's completely understandable. Given how long the A10 and A20 have been around, I wouldn't expect recent kernels to be thoroughly tested on them. Even from my perspective HDMI is more of a nice-to-have rather than a priority. I realize I might be an exception in this, but I prefer trying to fix issues myself rather than relying on someone else to do it. The only real barrier is my own lack of knowledge. That said, I believe I’ve firmly gotten to grips with device trees now. I acknowledge that I still have some way to go before I can confidently dig into driver development myself. I really appreciate the effort from you and others in making the build system so easy to use. Thanks to that, I’m able to apply my own fixes where needed with relatively minimal technical knowledge of the intricacies of Linux. I actually noticed the change today while browsing kernel.org. Exactly what I had in mind.

Did you make any progress with this? Also looking to build something with I2S.

Welcome! This question is a bit off topic here as general Armbian updates are not part of HA extension. As this is community supported hardware, stable BSP upgrades - where OS version is stored - might not be generated, while kernel and everything else is getting upgrades. tl;dr; Don't worry about this. For board related topics proceed here https://forum.armbian.com/forum/173-allwinner-sunxi/

Hey if it’s still available I will pay the shipments

@Igor Just tried with the latest image on https://dl.armbian.com/rock-5b-plus/Noble_vendor_gnome. This 100% works as I had tested, so either @armbuilder has a broken flash storage or had an error while writing to the storage medium. Gnome Desktop is working too

Thank you. I also can confirm this issue on Armbian 25.5.1 Bookworm, and that the suggest workaround works. For those interested, here is a more detailed explanation of what @Lars Christian Nygård said. Create a backup of original DTB. sudo cp /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dts /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts-orig.dts Decompile the DTB for the Orange Pi 3 LTS. sudo dtc -I dtb -O dts -o /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dts /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dtb Modify the decompiled DTS file according with your favorite editor, e.g. nano or vim. sudo nano /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dts Navigate to the "spi@5011000" section and modify it. Set "status" to "okay" and add the "spidev@0" section. spi@5011000 { compatible = "allwinner,sun50i-h6-spi\0allwinner,sun8i-h3-spi"; reg = <0x5011000 0x1000>; interrupts = <0x00 0x0b 0x04>; clocks = <0x06 0x53 0x06 0x51>; clock-names = "ahb\0mod"; dmas = <0x2e 0x17 0x2e 0x17>; dma-names = "rx\0tx"; pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <0x31 0x32>; resets = <0x06 0x20>; status = "okay"; #address-cells = <0x01>; #size-cells = <0x00>; phandle = <0x78>; spidev@0 { compatible = "armbian,spi-dev"; reg = <0x00>; spi-max-frequency = <0xf4240>; }; }; Save and compile the modified DTS file. sudo dtc -I dts -O dtb /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dts -o /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dtb Remove any previously configured overlay for SPI using "armbian-config" or editing the "/boot/armbianEnv.txt" file directly. No further modifications are needed to load our new recompiled DTB, since we directly modified the base DTB. Reboot when done.

Just plugged a M.2 M key to E key adapter with an Intel AX200 iwlwifi (installed the firmware) booted up and Wifi 6 is going without using a USB port. My project is one step closer!!! Just have to get that last USB-C port working.

Description fix build error with new compiler update uboot to v2024.04 ras314: fix sd-card regulator error How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build and Boot CLI/Gnome image on mba8mp [x] Build and Boot CLI/Gnome image on mba8mp-ras314 Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

Sounds good, thank you Werner! If anyone wants to share their favorite boards then please go ahead too 🙂

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Description Fix the peripheral aliases to ensure consistent allocation when enabled, so that kernel assignment matches the numbering convention of the SOC. This targets the Allwinner A10 and A20 and ensures, that for example if enabling UART2 exposes it correctly in userspace as ttyS2 rather than dynamically assigning it to the first avaliable ttySx slot. Secondly spidev overlays creates an instance of spidevX.Y based on the bus specified with armbianEnv.txt however it does not correctly configure the corresponding pins into spi mode. To resolve this the individual spi bus overlays have been include in the makefile. The desired bus must be enabled alongside spidev or seperately if using another spi device driver in order to be functional. I have also corrected the A10 spi overlays where they incorrectly target the A20. How Has This Been Tested? Built and tested on Pcduino 2 running 6.12.23-current-sunxi Built and tested on Pcduino 3 running 6.14.5-edge sunxi Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

hi , can i use these image to boot armbian to my s805X Amlogic soc.