[Armbian for H313 X96-Q LPDDR3 TV-Box]

I have a TV box with 1.5 GB lpddr3 that has been running Manjaro Arm without any problems for a long time.
I used this TV box to add lpddr3 support to the dram driver many years ago. You can get the latest patch for 6GBIT lpddr3 support here:

https://github.com/iuncuim/manjaro-h616/blob/main/uboot-t98-h2b-lp3/0007-shrink-ram.patch

[OPI 4A - Allwinner T527]

I added a patch that activates the gpu. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sunxi/20250706025625.2707073-1-iuncuim@gmail.com

A ready to install kernel is available for manjaro. But it's worth realizing that without output it will be useless at the moment.

[OPI 4A - Allwinner T527]

@Marvin-03 I will post patch in few days

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[How to install armbian in h618?]

@Kajen Let me know if you find anything. I also have one device that does not respond to HDMI HPD

[How to install armbian in h618?]

Owners of h616/h618 boxes can try warpme's miniarch (from github), its distribution contains the necessary patches for h616/h618, like ddr3/lpddr3/lpddr4 support, hdmi, audio, 100mbps ethernet and etc

[Orange Pi Zero 3]

I also made a manjaro image for zero3 based on the warpme patches.

If anyone wants to compare with armbian and use something for it, there is a link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10z1Kq6_7NXE4p3n8QfV8MWFcKlicx_9t/view

From the very beginning, many things will not work, you need to update the kernel with the command sudo pacman -U ./linux-blahblah.zst : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rv7NS364Pc8ZCgyEuN-nnwuI2lINR5W4/view?usp=sharing

After the update the kernel mostly things works.

For wifi to work, you additionally need to download firmware files.

GTA Vice City (PC version) game video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10WkmibRqYXEb6IzarZRU6FPXSl8BxT-c/view?usp=drive_link

[Orange Pi Zero 3]

18 minutes ago, pixdrift said:

CPU Frequency appears to be an omission, but I may not have found it yet

Here: https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/blob/master/script/kernel/linux-6.6/files/0630-arm64-dts-allwinner-h616.dtsi-add-ths-audio-hdmi.patch

I think, that warpme has the most comprehensive patches discussed on #linux-sunxi, including testing new things like a driver for LPDDR3 or LPDDR4 for h616/h618

[Orange Pi Zero 3]

10 minutes ago, pixdrift said:

Do you know if there is similar forum discussion in the Arch space for the attached github repository? and do you know if anyone is building full Orange Pi images with Arch using this modified/patched kernel? It would be great to compare capabilities of different images when we identify issues in development builds.

Here images: https://github.com/warpme/miniarch/releases

Quick start guide: https://github.com/warpme/miniarch#quick-start

There is no specific forum, since this project is led by one person. I only know about it from the #linux-sunxi developer channel.

[Orange Pi Zero 3]

18 minutes ago, Gunjan Gupta said:

We are aware of it. The HDMI patch that we are trying to integrate is from Jernej's tree as well. What you need to understand is that we have a generic kernel for all 64-bit allwinner SoCs, which means we have patches that can conflict changes that are done simply on top of mainline tree.

I just warned against wasting time on work that has already been done.

Having a reference that already works and has been tested is also useful.

[Orange Pi Zero 3]

There is a warpme development with arch, which contains all the necessary patches, including many test things that have not yet made it to the mainline, but are being tested in linux-sunxi. Support for Zero2 and zero3 was added a very, very long time ago. https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/tree/master/script/kernel/linux-6.6

HDMI support and everything related to it is handled by jernej, last effort is branch h616-var: https://github.com/jernejsk/linux-1/tree/h616-var