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@A.Rahman - this is the armbian forum here and thus the wrong place to discuss this, so if you want to discuss something about my (non armbian) images, then please better open a github issue or discussion in the repo of those images

@jock - are you aware of https://github.com/jefflessard/tm16xx-display/ via ?

@MMorales - be careful with using the original android as some of those boxes are full of malware - see: https://github.com/DesktopECHO/T95-H616-Malware best wishes - hexdump

@embedder_dev - there is no proper u-boot for s805 and the u-boot (plus other bootloader parts) are somewhere in the middle of the emmc (if it even is emmc and not nand) - so better do not touch the emmc if you are not very familiar with such topics and stay on the sd card to avoid accidently bricking the box

@Bartel Eerdekens - just pure guessing as all this was quite some time ago: i think it does not matter as the chainloaded u-boot will be just loaded to some other address and when executed there via "go" command of the legacy u-boot it will relocate itself to where it is supposed to live and the legacy u-boot does not play any role anymore at that point - but all this might also be completely wrong ...

@embedder_dev - if you want to seriously put some work into making armbian work with those, maybe have a look at the xdarklight tree: https://github.com/xdarklight/linux - the branch meson-mx-integration-6.2-20221226 is quite close to v6.1-lts (see: https://github.com/hexdump0815/linux-mainline-and-mali-generic-stable-kernel/blob/lts-v6.1/misc.m8x/patches/xdl-vs-mainline-v6.1.49.patch ) or you try to get one of the latest branches working - this tree even has hdmi support for the old meson8 socs and might be a good start for bringing up armbian support for those socs if case you want to invest some time into it - good luck

one thing to keep in mind is that the warpme tree and its patches on github has not been updated for a few months now except for the changelog and readme changes - all other changes which are in the last miniarch images are not available online so far ...

@Gunjan Gupta - there was some effort to adjust an existing mainline driver to support xr819 as well two years ago or so - it started about here: https://oftc.irclog.whitequark.org/linux-sunxi/2021-06-22#30028495 and then moved on over the next days etc. - seaching for cw1200 seems to bring up more - maybe it might be more useful to look into this direction instead of bsp sources ... maybe it is interesting/helpful to read through that a bit update: this seems to be some tree with the changes discussed on irc back then: https://github.com/jernejsk/linux-1/commits/h616-test best wishes - hexdump

@jock - that not booting with a clean emmc reminds me a bit on the rk3328 box i have which has the sd card connected to the wrong mmc port and thus cannot boot from sd card - it works with a workaround to install some special u-boot in emmc which then boots from sd card via extlinux.conf or boot.scr ... can it be that those rk3528 boxes are similar?

ok - typical tv box hardware then - you never know what you really get

you never know what you really get with tv box hardware, but the q+ so far was allwinner h6 and not h616, so maybe you are trying the image for the wrong soc in the end. also there is no need to press the button inside the av port - allwinner devices boot by default from sd card, so just write the image to an sd card, insert it and power on the box and then it should either boot (if everything is fine) or not (if not) ... good luck

there is no open source support for rk3528 there yet, so no chance to get anything working - warpme has started to work on it for the minimyth2 project, but even that is in very early stages and i think still very far to be really useable ... so no way to run armbian or linux on such boxes currently ...

@adrian0541 - s905x3 is sm1, s905x2 is g12a, s905x is gxl and so on ...

i think "ipv6.disable=1" added to the kernel cmdline should work

not sure if it is related, but there was something similar in the past - see: