Cool thx! Will try with latest Armbian then - I did read the bit about permissions but wasn't sure what to do (assumed something in /etc/udev/rules.d/ but like I said no clue about mali, fbturbo whatever those are). Thanks.
I tried this as well as the ArchLinux KODI builds - on the Khadas VIM Pro (2/16) I have framebuffer issues when running Kodi - I can see Kodi rendered momentarily then have some framebuffer and artifacting issues. I can send a pic if it would be helpful...
LOL OK I should note that I got a binary for the firmware/brcm/fw_bcm43455c0_ag.bin from somewhere... Time to go back through my bash history as I'd like to keep this documented a bit myself...
Thanks! Just getting my bearings - compiled u-boot and 3.14.29 kernel using the khadas github's Ubuntu branches a few days ago - so luckily I had created a bootable SD already using dd. I have been running Armbian_5.27_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20170619 from SD so I already enabled multiboot as well. WOW this things runs great...
Will play with this image today.
Oh also to get the firmware for Khadas VIM Wifi working I edited a couple files per these patches I found:
https://github.com/khadas/LibreELEC.tv/blob/Vim-devel/packages/linux-firmware/wlan-firmware/patches/wlan-firmware-03-AP6212A-AP6255-firmware-auto-select.patch
https://github.com/khadas/LibreELEC.tv/blob/Vim-devel/packages/linux-firmware/wlan-firmware/patches/wlan-firmware-04-AP6212-firmware-auto-select.patch
I have the Pro (2GB/16GB EMMC) which uses AP6255 - but brought in support for AP6212 too. After this running
sudo modprobe dhd
Got the wifi up and running