I wouldn't mind open source but the problem is their prices got bumped up because of the ram and storage shortages. It's why I'm asking if someone has managed to get armbian running on this specific Tv box model or a similar one that has an allwiner H618 chip at the very least.

Bump to uboot 2026.04 tested with kernel 7.0.5 no mods, just pure mainline Boot Logs: https://paste.armbian.com/ujumalanuc Github Pull request: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/9804

Wrote a PR to remedy the situation https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/9800

@humanus I took a second look at the log, I think it's probably due to the enabled eMMC. EDIT: I added the emmc part to my A7Z dts, it also crashes... So that's definitely the root cause. I disable it for A7S in my repo for now, you can compile it yourself with a Linux 6.18 kernel or wait for Nick. By the way A733 eMMC seems to use the same eMMC driver as A523, so probably mainline already supports it.

Wait for a few hours and see if it appears. My other theory, is that I removed the BCMHD DKMS driver and now the wifi is in a wrong state and hassling the CPU.