gnthibault

You'll see here the state of 4.55 images of Balbes:
In my case I only test successfully debian stretch server image.
 
@Didi, don't forget to use aml_autoscript.zip to update your bootloader (see 1rst post of s905 topic) so that it tries first to boot to sd card. If your dtb file isn't good, you'll not be able to boot even in android if your sdcard is plugged in.

http://www.linux-meson.com/doku.php
 
 

You should change PART_ROOT="/dev/mmcblk0" . These I am not sure but I would try to  replace /dev/boot to /dev/mmcblk0boot0 and /dev/dtb to /dev/mmcblk0boot1. Try to mount them and inspect the content.   Or I am totally wrong, google and try yourself. I feel that it is a bad idea to use the emmc partition. Resale will be easier in a original condition and dual boot android/linux is a bonus. There is no accelerated Linux gpu driver for S912 but android does have.
 
The script copies folder by folder to the emmc, so a  64 GB sdcard is not a problem if the card works fine with ext4. Mine chinese 7 usd class 10 64 GB card does have reading errors and got money back from a ebay shop. I use my Samsung Evo 32GB class 10 card happily with Sunvell T95Z Plus.
 

And what hinders to try existing images ?
You do not make any changes in the contents of the internal memory and try to start Armbian from SD card.
To capture the image and rename the file s905_autoscript in aml_autoscript (to replace existing). To connect to the TV box and use the toothpicks. At startup the system will attempt to run an external Armbian (without enabling multi-boot).

There could be some throttling at temps close to 80 but the main problem seems to be single-core performance. I didn't expect any difference between those boxes there, and yet, it looks like that H96 could be underclocked. For example 8-core performance scaled as if the frequencies never reached 1.5Ghz. 
 
 A repeat on a GT1 would be interesting; even my MX3 is palpably heavier (same cooling solution) and runs much cooler at idle.
 
As for the fan, no idea, have a look at some board photos in the freaktab threads.
 
 
After installing phoronix-test-suite and php, you can simply do:
$  ./phoronix-test-suite benchmark java

Ok, the borrowed Alfa is almost certainly a DDR3 box and it looks like it has some single-threaded and memory performance issues (hopefully due to the dtb file used):
 
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1704102-RI-1609084HA38
 
and a most suspicious memory performance result:
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1704107-RI-1702269RI77
 
It also gets as hot as 80 deg. Celsius during 8-core operation. More results will be added retroactively to this post.
 
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1704101-RI-1609236LO94
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1704103-RI-1703186RI71
 
 
 
 

@gnthibault I have 2GB of ram with 32GB rom. (Yoka TV KB2)
First time I tried with nand-sata-install, but it was a bad move, because bootloader was rewritten, I had to restore official image of my device.
After a little search I found /root/install.sh script and it worked perfectly.

@balbes150
I've tried all possibilities but none worked. Every change that I've made in /etc/network/interfaces for static ip was resulting in no ip at all, eth0 didn't wanna start.
Also tried in webmin, same situation, so I figured that may be a bug related to my hardware. I can live with that though.
I didn't try wifi settings because I use only cable.

P.S. I'm using Armbian_5.27_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_server_20170323 image

Hi, I want to thank balbes150 and armbian for the opportunity to install linux on s912 devices.
I've installed armbian 5.27, and run it as a complete webserver, with Nextcloud
I've put it on internal memory with an external HDD that serves as Home partition and no issue so far, except I cannot change settings to static ip, right now I'm on dhcp with ip reserved in router.
All and all, you did a great job!

Ouch, during buildroot build, it looks like one has also to download http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/deploy/arc-4.8-amlogic-20130904-r2.tar.gz, which can take some time.
Edit : looks like someone had a spare : https://gitlab.com/ember-dev/deploy/blob/master/deploy_ubuntu_14.04.sh :
 
wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/tkvnj4n6klrb3pw/CodeSourcery.tar.gz
wget  https://www.dropbox.com/s/rvved2rwjptibfb/gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.gz 
gunzip  gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.gz 
wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/5pn69t7gcthuqf0/arc-4.8-amlogic-20130904-r2.tar.gz
 
Also had to download (and bypass sha256)
wget http://sources.buildroot.net/DirectFB-1.7.7.tar.gz
 
I can share the various buildroot utilities (including buildroot-openlinux-20170310.tar.gz) on amazon if someone is interested.
 
Looks promising anyway, but I have seen that default kernel is 3.14, although 4.9 seems to be included. I'll report my build results when I will be done

I just started to understand. Inside there is such a folder:
buildroot-openlinux-20170310/hardware/aml-3.14/arm/gpu/t83x/kernel/drivers/gpu/arm/midgard
 
Unzip buildroot-openlinux-20170310.tar.gz to /home
A folder is created: /buildroot-openlinux-20170310
 
$ cd ~/buildroot-openlinux-20170310
$ source buildroot/build/setenv.sh
You're building on Linux
Lunch menu...pick a combo:
1. mesongxl_p212_32_kernel49_release
2. mesongxl_p212_kernel49_release
3. mesongxm_q200_32_kernel49_release
4. mesongxm_q200_kernel49_release
5. mesongxb_p200_release
6. mesongxb_p200_32_release
7. mesongxb_p201_release
8. mesongxb_p201_32_release
9. mesongxl_p212_release
10. mesongxl_p212_32_release
11. mesongxl_p230_release
12. mesongxl_p230_32_release
13. mesongxm_q200_release
14. mesongxm_q200_32_release
15. meson8_k200_release
16. meson8_k200b_release
17. meson8b_m200_release
18. meson8b_m201_release
19. meson8m2_n200_release
 
Which would you like? [5] 13
 
(Note: mesongxm_q200 is board on Amlogic S912
Q200:
•   Amlogic S912 CPU
•   2GB DDR3
•   HDMI out x 1
•   TF Card x 1
•   Ethernet 100M x 1, 1000M x 1
•   SDIO WIFI/BT (AP6356S) x 1
•   SPDIF x 1
•   USB hub x 2
•   USB otg x 1
•   EMMC x 1
end Note)
 
#TARGET_BOARD=q200
#BUILD_TYPE=64
#OUTPUT_DIR=output/mesongxm_q200
#CONFIG=mesongxm_q200_release_defconfig
 
…
…
#
# configuration written to /home/buildroot-openlinux-20170310/output/mesongxm_q200/.config
#
$ make menuconfig
The buildroot window opens
In the bookmark KERNEL there is such an item
 
[*] amlogic gpu driver git repo │ │
│ │ (r6p1) amlogic gpu branch
 
[*] amlogic gpu driver local
│$(TOPDIR)/../hardware/aml-3.14/arm/gpu
 
I chose package gstreamer1
Started the assembly..
$ make
Let's look :-)

It seems transition to repo correctly is imminent,  but for now one can still download from
http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/download/ARM/filesystem/buildroot-openlinux-20170310.tar.gz
Then one can go from step:
% source buildroot/build/setenv.sh
no password needed.
I am doing this right now...