Hi folks,
I have one of those cheap boxes based off Amlogic S905X, and while ARMbian boots properly, I really wanted OpenGL support and 2D and 3D acceleration in Xorg. After looking for a while I found Amlogic's buildroot package , which has full wifi, hdmi, and full mali support including GL, and cross compiled an image based off gcc-linaro-6.3.1, uboot-2015-next, and kernel 4.9. I managed to build the whole thing with no major issue, and flashed it using USB Burning Tool. But the box was then stuck in an infinite reset loop. I connected the serial console, and this is the output:
The problem is with the Synchronous Abort at the end, but I have never seen that before, and I cannot figure out what is causing it. I know this has nothing to do with Armbian per se, but seeing as it is a u-boot issue, I was wondering if anyone ran into this issue before, and how I can figure it out?
While the box was stuck in infinite reset, the USB burning tool couldn't connect at all, and uboot wasn't configured to boot from SD card... I managed to get out of the loop and reprogram via USB by shorting pins 31 and 32 on the eMMC during bootup, and reflashed the stock firmware. Everything is now back to Android and behaving normally, but I really would love to be able to boot that image that took me roughly 6 hours to compile...
Thanks for any help!