Hello all,
First I would like to thank Balbes150 for his amazing work. I am using his Armbian images on the five various Amlogic S9XXX TV boxes I have.
Thank you very much, Oleg! Fantastic work!
What I have right now on my workbench:
1) MXQ Pro 4k, S905, 1GB/8GB RAM/ROM, running Armbian Ubuntu 18.04 server 5.67 with kernel 4.19.7. I am using meson-gxbb-p201.dtb.
2) M9C Max 4k, S905X, 2GB/16GB RAM/ROM, also running Armbian Ubuntu 18.04 server 5.67 with kernel 4.19.7. I am using meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb.
3) 3 x Mecool KM8 P, S912, 1GB/8GB RAM/ROM, running Armbian Ubuntu 18.04 server 5.44 with kernel 3.14.29. I am using gxm_q201_1g.dtb. These boxes are used as a distcc build farm, which I have documented here: http://wiki.loverpi.com/specs:sbc:distcc-kernel-compile
I can get the kernel to compile in just under 17 minutes on the build farm, instead of 44 minutes on a single S912 box or more than an hour on the S905/S905X boxes!
All TV boxes are booting from Samsung EVO micro SD cards, and yes, it's important to use good SD cards, as repeatedly suggested in the Armbian documentation.
I have a USB serial cable soldered to my MXQ Pro 4k TV box, this has been very helpful to play around with u-boot.
I have a question for anybody who also has a Mecool KM8 P S912 box: have you been able to boot any Armbian image with a 4.xx Linux kernel? What dtb file did you use? I have been unable to boot anything other than the 3.14.29 kernel on these S912 boxes. Thanks for any answer on this issue.
