Armbian for Amlogic S905X3

SteeMan · March 28, 2020

5 hours ago, gabe5000 said:

Now I'd like to install the system on the eMMC. I started to follow the Armbian documentation, but the 'nand-sata-install' command is not recognized.

Could you please help me what to do?

For the Armbian TV box builds, there is a script in the /root folder that you need to run to install into emmc. There will likely be multiple scripts in this directory, you run the one named appropriately for your device.

gabe5000 · March 28, 2020

I haven't found that script.

But I ran into an error after apt upgrade:

The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-image-current-arm-64
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 28.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 4,512 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 https://apt.armbian.com bionic/main arm64 linux-image-current-arm-64 arm64 20.05.0 [28.5 MB]
Fetched 28.5 MB in 8s (3,743 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 79635 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-current-arm-64_20.05.0_arm64.deb ...
update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-5.6.0-rc6-arm-64
Unpacking linux-image-current-arm-64 (20.05.0) over (20.05.0) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-current-arm-64_20.05.0_arm64.deb (--unpack):
unable to make backup link of './boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-amarula-relic.dtb' before installing new version: Operation not permitted
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-current-arm-64_20.05.0_arm64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I'm fairly new to linux and I don't know what it means and how to fix it.

What am I supposed to do?

balbes150 · March 28, 2020

2 minutes ago, gabe5000 said:

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-current-arm-64_20.05.0_arm64.deb (--unpack):

Rename the /boot/dtb directory to /boot/dtb-old and run the update again.

gabe5000 · March 28, 2020

8 minutes ago, balbes150 said:

Rename the /boot/dtb directory to /boot/dtb-old and run the update again.

Thank you, it worked.

I would appreciate a more detailed description about installing on emmc, if possible.

balbes150 · March 28, 2020

4 minutes ago, gabe5000 said:

Thank you, it worked.

I would appreciate a more detailed description about installing on emmc, if possible.

Before installation , you must create a full backup (compressed) copy. Run the "sudo ddbr" utility and follow the prompts.

gabe5000 · March 28, 2020

Full backup of the SD card?

balbes150 · March 28, 2020

15 minutes ago, gabe5000 said:

Full backup of the SD card?

No. Full backup eMMC.

gabe5000 · March 28, 2020

Ok, I got it, thanks once more.

almotra · March 28, 2020

8 hours ago, gabe5000 said:

I've just installed bionic 20200306 on my x96 air p2 4/64, and it works fine for me, wonderful.

Now I'd like to install the system on the eMMC. I started to follow the Armbian documentation, but the 'nand-sata-install' command is not recognized.

Could you please help me what to do?

To install it on emmc : sudo /root/install-aml.sh

How did you get started on x96 air?

Can you detail me?

gabe5000 · March 28, 2020

3 hours ago, almotra said:

To install it on emmc : sudo /root/install-aml.sh

How did you get started on x96 air?

Can you detail me?

1) I burnt Armbian_20.05.0_Arm-64_bionic_current_5.6.0-rc6_desktop_20200326.img on SD card.

2) In uEnv.txt I referred to meson-sm1-sei610-ethfix.dtb

3) Renamed u-boot.sd to u-boot.ext

4) I reset the box

I don't know if hdmi sound works as I use usb sound. Wifi works fine.

Madasafish · March 29, 2020

8 hours ago, gabe5000 said:

1) I burnt Armbian_20.05.0_Arm-64_bionic_current_5.6.0-rc6_desktop_20200326.img on SD card.

2) In uEnv.txt I referred to meson-sm1-sei610-ethfix.dtb

3) Renamed u-boot.sd to u-boot.ext

4) I reset the box

I don't know if hdmi sound works as I use usb sound. Wifi works fine.

My box is an X96 Air P3 with 1 GB ethernet and 4/64GB of memory. The Android 9 build version is "x96Air_P3_20191204-1754" The Android firmware is "Amlogic/franklin/franklin9/PPR1.180610.011/20191204/userdebug/test-keys/20191204/userdebug/test-keys"

The above instructions you provided do work. I can confirm HDMI sound and Bluetooth are not working. What did you do to get WiFi working. On my box the Wifi is not working. The 1GB ethernet connection only connects at 100MB

dmesg output attached.

dmesg

gabe5000 · March 29, 2020

I didn't do anything, wifi worked automatically, both 2G and 5G.

balbes150 · March 29, 2020

1 hour ago, Madasafish said:

P3

!=

13 hours ago, almotra said:

p2

Madasafish · March 29, 2020

1 hour ago, balbes150 said:

!=

That would explain it. Thank-you.

almotra · March 29, 2020

Ok I started with buster on my x96 max plus.

On sd card, with meson-sm1-sei610-ethfix.dtb and u-boot.ext, I have the image and ethernet works.

After installation on emmc, no ethernet, and blurred image.

How to do ?

gabe5000 · March 29, 2020

17 hours ago, balbes150 said:

Before installation , you must create a full backup (compressed) copy. Run the "sudo ddbr" utility and follow the prompts.

I have a 16GB Sd card only, with 11GB free space. ddbr warns me that the operation might be destructive.

Do you think that 11GB is enough for the backup? ( I installed nothing on android.)

If not, can I send the backup to a usb drive instead of the sd card?

balbes150 · March 29, 2020

4 minutes ago, gabe5000 said:

Do you think that 11GB is enough for the backup? ( I installed nothing on android.)

Yes

gabe5000 · March 30, 2020

21 hours ago, balbes150 said:

Yes

I created the backup file and executed install-aml.sh.

There was one error message:

Quote

Formatting BOOT partition...mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
done.
Cppying BOOT...done.
Edit init config...done.
mv: cannot stat '/ddbr/install/u-boot.sd': No such file or directory
Formatting ROOT partition...

Now, if I start armbian from emmc, I have the color problem.

I've read about this color problem in the forum, but honestly I do not understand how to fix it.

balbes150 · March 30, 2020

51 minutes ago, gabe5000 said:

mv: cannot stat '/ddbr/install/u-boot.sd': No such file or directory

51 minutes ago, gabe5000 said:

I've read about this color problem

During installation, an important file was missing from the media (u-boot.sd). If you are running an EMMC installation from an SD card, make a copy of the file with this name from the file (u-boot.ext).

gabe5000 · March 30, 2020

16 minutes ago, balbes150 said:

During installation, an important file was missing from the media (u-boot.sd). If you are running an EMMC installation from an SD card, make a copy of the file with this name from the file (u-boot.ext).

Thank you, Balbes! Now everything is fine.

I'm quite surprised how fast the system is from the emmc.

I'm very impressed with armbian.

uropb · March 30, 2020

On 3/28/2020 at 7:51 PM, balbes150 said:

Rename the /boot/dtb directory to /boot/dtb-old and run the update again.

Is this downgrade from 5.6-rc6 to 5.6-rc4?

almotra · March 31, 2020

On 3/29/2020 at 10:47 AM, almotra said:

Ok I started with buster on my x96 max plus.

On sd card, with meson-sm1-sei610-ethfix.dtb and u-boot.ext, I have the image and ethernet works.

After installation on emmc, no ethernet, and blurred image.

How to do ?

I answer myself.

After booting on the sd card, copy and rename the u-boot.ext file to u-boot.sd with the commands:

cd /boot

then

cp u-boot.ext u-boot.sd

then

cd

then

/root/install-aml.sh

balbes150 · March 31, 2020

23 hours ago, uropb said:

Is this downgrade from 5.6-rc6 to 5.6-rc4?

no

gusnau · April 9, 2020

On 2/14/2020 at 6:26 AM, keynight said:

Can you check with this dtd files

meson-sm1-sei610-ethfix.dtb

meson-sm1-sei610-ethfix.dts

meson-sm1-sei610-ethfix.dts 63.42 kB · 63 downloads meson-sm1-sei610-ethfix.dtb 45.73 kB · 72 downloads

I'm running Armbian_20.05.1_Arm-64_buster_current_5.6.2_20200408.img on a X96 Max Plus 4GB, I modified those sections which you changed in the dts file, ethernet is working now, but only 100Mbps. If using the original meson-sm1-sei610.dtb file, I can see through my router that LAN is connected on 1Gbps, but no IP address is issued.

Any suggestion to make ethernet working on 1Gbps?

gusnau · April 10, 2020

These are the sections related to ethernet from the android firmware dtb file which 1Gbps is working well, I tried replaced them in the meson-sm1-sei610.dtb, armbian can boot but ethernet still didn't work.

	ethernet@ff3f0000 {
		compatible = "amlogic, g12a-eth-dwmac\0snps,dwmac";
		reg = < 0xff3f0000 0x10000 0xff634540 0x08 0xff64c000 0xa0 >;
		reg-names = "eth_base\0eth_cfg\0eth_pll";
		interrupts = < 0x00 0x08 0x01 >;
		interrupt-names = "macirq";
		status = "okay";
		clocks = < 0x02 0x38 >;
		clock-names = "ethclk81";
		pll_val = < 0x9c0040a 0x927e0000 0xac5f49e5 >;
		analog_val = < 0x20200000 0xc000 0x23 >;
		pinctrl-names = "external_eth_pins";
		pinctrl-0 = < 0x11 >;
		mc_val = < 0x1621 >;
		cali_val = < 0x30000 >;
		internal_phy = < 0x00 >;
		phandle = < 0x96 >;
	};
          
		internal_eth_pins {
			phandle = < 0xbf >;

			mux {
				function = "eth";
			};
		};

		internal_gpio_pins {
			phandle = < 0xc0 >;

			mux {
				function = "gpio_periphs";
				bias-disable;
				input-enable;
			};
		};

		external_eth_pins {
			phandle = < 0x11 >;

			mux {
				groups = "eth_mdio\0eth_mdc\0eth_rgmii_rx_clk\0eth_rx_dv\0eth_rxd0\0eth_rxd1\0eth_rxd2_rgmii\0eth_rxd3_rgmii\0eth_rgmii_tx_clk\0eth_txen\0eth_txd0\0eth_txd1\0eth_txd2_rgmii\0eth_txd3_rgmii";
				function = "eth";
				drive-strength = < 0x03 >;
			};
		};

gcsuri · April 12, 2020

On 4/10/2020 at 6:28 AM, gusnau said:

These are the sections related to ethernet from the android firmware dtb file which 1Gbps is working well, I tried replaced them in the meson-sm1-sei610.dtb, armbian can boot but ethernet still didn't work.


	ethernet@ff3f0000 {
		compatible = "amlogic, g12a-eth-dwmac\0snps,dwmac";
		reg = < 0xff3f0000 0x10000 0xff634540 0x08 0xff64c000 0xa0 >;
		reg-names = "eth_base\0eth_cfg\0eth_pll";
		interrupts = < 0x00 0x08 0x01 >;
		interrupt-names = "macirq";
		status = "okay";
		clocks = < 0x02 0x38 >;
		clock-names = "ethclk81";
		pll_val = < 0x9c0040a 0x927e0000 0xac5f49e5 >;
		analog_val = < 0x20200000 0xc000 0x23 >;
		pinctrl-names = "external_eth_pins";
		pinctrl-0 = < 0x11 >;
		mc_val = < 0x1621 >;
		cali_val = < 0x30000 >;
		internal_phy = < 0x00 >;
		phandle = < 0x96 >;
	};
          
		internal_eth_pins {
			phandle = < 0xbf >;

			mux {
				function = "eth";
			};
		};

		internal_gpio_pins {
			phandle = < 0xc0 >;

			mux {
				function = "gpio_periphs";
				bias-disable;
				input-enable;
			};
		};

		external_eth_pins {
			phandle = < 0x11 >;

			mux {
				groups = "eth_mdio\0eth_mdc\0eth_rgmii_rx_clk\0eth_rx_dv\0eth_rxd0\0eth_rxd1\0eth_rxd2_rgmii\0eth_rxd3_rgmii\0eth_rgmii_tx_clk\0eth_txen\0eth_txd0\0eth_txd1\0eth_txd2_rgmii\0eth_txd3_rgmii";
				function = "eth";
				drive-strength = < 0x03 >;
			};
		};

As more people mentioned before the sections from factory kernel is not working with the mainline kernel, for example: mc_val, analog_val, cali_val. The functions which handles this sections are missing from the mainline soc ethernet driver. You may try to put these function to the driver or "convert" the functions to the reg section if it's possible...

gusnau · April 12, 2020

20 minutes ago, gcsuri said:

As more people mentioned before the sections from factory kernel is not working with the mainline kernel, for example: mc_val, analog_val, cali_val. The functions which handles this sections are missing from the mainline soc ethernet driver. You may try to put these function to the driver or "convert" the functions to the reg section if it's possible...

Thanks, guess I have to wait for someone who is good at it. I know nothing about this

fossxplorer · April 13, 2020

Is there any such box with Gbit Ethernet?

What are the biggest differences of the these X3s vs the old X905 and X905X which i have several of?

ant_thomas · April 13, 2020

1 hour ago, fossxplorer said:

Is there any such box with Gbit Ethernet?

What are the biggest differences of the these X3s vs the old X905 and X905X which i have several of?

Yes, I've got one running Coreelec and it's definitely Gigabit (there are 100mbit versions available too)

My model - X96AirP2 4GB/64GB

I guess the biggest differences are faster/better CPU and GPU giving more hardware support for more resolutions, codecs, bitrates etc

Danilo Doppiu · April 13, 2020

This could work on similar tvbox with same SoC like Eachlink x3 mini?

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