@jock Thank you for the opportunity.

Allwinner h616-h618: After this pull request pull/8086 the 6.13 EDGE core supports hardware decoding. You can use the instructions: repository-for-v4l2request-hardware-video-decoding-rockchip-allwinner Enjoy your viewing.

after many day of building and test I have found My TV Box Tanix Tx6 which I use build/patch/kernel/archive/warpme-6.12/0646-arm64-dts-allwinner-h616-add-Tanix-TX6s-axp313-TVbox.patch the Android DTS use different GPIO for bluetooth hex gpio 10 11 13 or dec gpio 16 17 19 (same as transpeed) but warmme patch uses gpio 6 5 4 for my Tanix Tx6 I need to edit to Note: &r_pio is gpio connected to CPU not sure if it makes a difference to use &pio

Thank you Werner. I'm not into Armbian enough to understand how the hardware is supported across all the kernel versions. The best I can do is to test different versions until I find the mininum support for the things I want to do. Till now, kernel 6.1.99-vendor-rk35xx works more or less, but SATA HDDs are not always detected at boot. OS is installed on a NMVE pcie drive, while the main storage is given by 2 4TB drives in RAID1. HDMI output doesn't work for me when kernel 6.12 is used (I have rock 5 ITX - Board version 1.12). Kernel 15-rc solves the SATA support, but audio doesn't work. I went throught many webpages to check if I can solve some issues here and there, but my limited knowledge doesn't allow me to really understand what's going on and the interactions between elements of the system. I have to rely on the hard work of the developers community, waiting for better support in the future, if any.

tl;dr; It a business support / donation deal between Armbian and SBC maker. We have some budget, we aim on at least positive zero, and we have some people behind those boards. This doesn't mean we will be able to resolve all problems and in real-time as budget is still too small and resources remain limited. Support is better https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Board-Support-Rules/ then on boards without.