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    Is it required for X96 max+ to have firmware 8 to run Armbian?

    in Amlogic CPU Boxes

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    First off start by reading the two TV Box FAQ items:

    https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first

    https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus

     

    Then it would be helpful to provide any additional information you have.  Like what you are seeing happening when you boot with the armbian sd card and press and hold the reset button.

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    CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards

    in Rockchip CPU Boxes

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    13 minutes ago, Ngo Thang said:

    But why I check in CPU-Z app in its original Android firmware, CPU-Z still shows 4G/32G ?

    Sometimes disreputable manufacturers will modify the kernel in the android firmware to provide false information. (easy way to cut costs by not actually including the memory/storage advertized).

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    Help, can I install Armbian on tv box, with R329Q V3.0 board?

    in Rockchip CPU Boxes

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    5 minutes ago, Raulin said:

    Tengo una caja Tv Box, con esta placa queria saber si es posible instalar armbian...y si es asi como es el precedimiento de instalacion......gracias por su ayuda...

    "I have a Tv Box, with this board I wanted to know if it is possible to install armbian ... and if this is how the installation procedure is ...... thanks for your help ..."

     

    The armbian forums are in english.  Please use google translate.

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    Allwinner H6

    in Allwinner CPU Boxes

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    @drookie Welcome to the world of impossible to support tv boxes.  As you mention the hardware of these two otherwise similarly labeled tv boxes is different.  /The dtb file is what provides the mapping from the hardware to the linux kernel.  So what you really need are two different dtb files for the two different boxes.  But without the support of the tv box manufacturer providing the necessary information on their hardware it is very difficult to figure out the correct dtb for a box (let alone a hundred different boxes from different manufacturers all with slight differences in their hardware).  There isn't really anyone currently involved in this project that has the skills/time/desire to work on this nearly impossible problem.  This is why the TV Box FAQ item (https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first) says to set your expectations low.  It sounds like you do have a mostly functioning box so consider yourself better than many.  We could always use more contributors around here.  If you have the skills and time, you could learn a lot by trying to research and update the dtb for your hardware and contribute back to the community your work.

     

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    The kernel source of S905W - TX3 mini

    in General Chat

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    If you want help (and both jock and I are here to help you), you do need to provide some more information.  Things that would be helpful include:

    1) What are you trying to accomplish?  (people don't just change kernel config files and rebuild kernels for no reason)

      - what changes do you want to make and why?

    2) What experience do you have in building kernels?  Have you built an x86 kernel before?

      - knowing where you are starting from experience wise helps us give you the appropriate level of information

     

    I started a year or so ago about where I think you are.  My goal was to get more regular kernel updates following the linux mainline sources.  I spent a couple of months reading a lot of threads in these forums about others who had done similar things and over time built up my knowledge so that I am now able to build mainline kernels for both my test and production boxes. (I just this morning updated one of my test boxes to the just release 5.12.0 kernel).

    As jock mentioned above the overall process is more than just compiling and building a kernel image.  You also need to understand the boot process so that your kernel is correctly invoked by the boot process and then you also need to understand enough about dtb files so the kernel knows how to interact with your hardware.

     

    From some of my notes from last year here is a thread I found useful in my learning process:

     

     

     

     

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    Armbian on Gt-King Pro

    in Amlogic CPU Boxes

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    @cuker Some of the amlogic u-boots that were in balbes150 builds come from the work of hexdump. (I don't know if balbes150 further enhanced them or not).  Look at the following thread for hexdump's repositories and building instructions

    ;  https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16753-chainloaded-uboot-images-for-amlogic

    I have rebuilt some of these from source to see if I could, as I don't generally like using binary code that I don't know the origin of.

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    Can't boot MECOOL KM3

    in Amlogic CPU Boxes

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    @jacinto69 Please read the two TV Box Club FAQ items:  https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first and

    https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus

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    Then after being sure you are following the correct installation steps, please provide more details on your installation, like what dtb files you have tried, what u-boot.ext file you are using, etc.

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    Armbian for Amlogic S805 and S802/S812

    in Amlogic CPU Boxes

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    1 hour ago, Jackchen said:

    Hello, I am currently using your armbian 3.10.108 image, but I want to build Retroarch in it, and found that the Mali GPU driver is missing, I want to ask, is there any way to solve it

    Please read the FAQ entry: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first

    There are a couple of comments in that post that are relevant to your question.  1) balbes is no longer working on amlogic cpus, 2) the current state of the TV box code (espeucally for amlogic) is suitible for server use only, don't expect much graphical support to be working.  Also in a comment just a few posts ago, balbes expressed his opinion that he doesn't work with proprietary binary closed source code (like the legacy mali drivers).  The open source drivers are only becoming available on current kernels, so there isn't anything except closed source support for your 3.10 ancient kernel.

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    RK3288 and RK3188

    in Rockchip CPU Boxes

    Posted

    @cracker Have you checked and installed the armbian-firmware-full package?  The default armbian-firmware only has driver firmware for the supported boards and since TV boxes are not supported the firmware you need may exist in the more comprehensive armbian-firmware-full package.

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    Armbian for TV box rk3318

    in Rockchip CPU Boxes

    Posted

    I split this out into its own topic.  Even though the information is all derived from the thread "Armbian for TV box rk3328" I think it makes it easier from a forum search perspective if someone is looking for rk3318 information in a search to have a separate thread.

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    vontar x3 4gb 1000gb 128 emmc amlogic s9005x3

    in Amlogic CPU Boxes

    Posted

    The short answer is you can't.  The boot process for armbian and libreelec uses the native uboot installed on emmc to start the boot process.  So if your emmc isn't working you can't boot these from an sd card.  Theoretically it is possible if you have a complete proper uboot installed on the sd card, but such a thing doesn't exist around here as that hasn't been the approach to how we have supported amlogic based tv boxes.

    Are you sure your emmc is broken?  Have you tried to restore your android firmware to emmc?

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