thewiseguyshivam

Hi! Great, that's a good starting point. So where could I find a reference file I can edit and align with my tablet? And where should I place this file? How would this file (possibly) connect to some dts? (This is just for my curiosity) Thank you!

Hi! I have an old Allwinner A10 based tablet that runs on Android. I want to install some other OS on it. I tried the instructions on linux-sunxi.org and created a page for the tablet: https://linux-sunxi.org/Softwinners_crane I extracted the FEX file from an image I got from the manufacturers a long time ago: http://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-boards/pull/72/files The linux-sunxi mailing list pointed out that my tablet is similar to Topwise A721, so I used that dts file to compile u-boot and the kernel, and tried to boot it through an SD card. Trying to boot that, u-boot starts, and then gets stuck at "Starting kernel..." Then I found this: After following this and building armbian, I realised that there is no script.bin to replace anymore (I'm guessing because now we use device trees?), so unable to boot this as well. What should I do to make this work with armbian? My guess is that I need to create a new dts or correct the Topwise A721 dts (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/arm/boot/dts/allwinner/sun4i-a10-topwise-a721.dts) and then try again. The only problem is that I have no experience with device trees. Would really appreciate help on getting this to work, thanks! :)