Dmitriy Geels

What a horrible forum engine. Tried to edit reply text -- and it won't let you! Wanted to add: - Vontar h618 miniarch image boots for me - It has same problems as armbian: no hdmi output, no sound, no wifi, no bluetooth, but also mmc i/o problems - difference between miniarch images is single line in `/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf`: FDT /dtbs/allwinner/sun50i-h618-vontar-h618.dtb change it to use different DT. Need to make a proper uart connector to debug further...

Pacman hangs because of mmc problems. Trying to resolve these, I believe the reason is: [ 1.315833] sun50i-h616-pinctrl 300b000.pinctrl: supply vcc-ph not found, using dummy regulator [ 1.330686] sun50i-h616-pinctrl 300b000.pinctrl: supply vcc-pg not found, using dummy regulator [ 1.564426] sun50i-h616-pinctrl 300b000.pinctrl: supply vcc-pf not found, using dummy regulator [ 1.565408] sun50i-h616-pinctrl 300b000.pinctrl: supply vcc-pc not found, using dummy regulator pinctrl@300b000 have no regulators defined. Also, it seems miniarch has less kernel patches, then armbian. @Nick A can you share, how you test DT changes? I tried making overlays, but it seems dtc doesn't like path references inside values. With recompiled full tree, armbian doesn't boot -- it seems I need the source, not decompiled dtb.

Nothing found in boot_a, but a big one in vendor_boot_a. 01_dtbdump_,sun50iw9.dts.gz

Yes, it just takes more effort. Interesting... Will go over other partitions. No. You can find a boot script In the u-boot variables -- it just probes usb and both mmcs, likely controlled by some flag, which is set with toothpick. During my first experiments, I managed to boot from USB the same way.

Ok, here are my boot log and DTS. Btw, better tool for extraction: https://github.com/PabloCastellano/extract-dtb dmesg.log.gz my.dts.gz Noticed an interesting thing: Reboot action from android with SD card inserted boots from this SD, no toothpick needed.

It identifies itself as H618. And I remember seeing 'AXP806' in the dtbo_a partition... I'll get logs and take chip pictures a bit later. BTW Nick, do you plan to update your repo? I tried to rebase -- hundreds of conflicts.

Thanks Nick A, that was an unclear part of reboot magic. After playing with installation, I noticed that: bluetooth doesn't work (looks like a bug you mentioned), HDMI doesn't detect the tv, hdmi sound also doesn't work, wifi doesn't even appear in kernel log. I boot minimal image, without xfce. Is there any difference?

Manged to boot latest armbian on Transpeed T98 6K clone. Don't quite understand actions needed to boot from SD card, but investigating uBoot setup I noticed, that it can also boot from USB stick. I'd like to join the development. Device looks promising.