Efforts to develop firmware for H96 MAX V56 RK3566 8G/64G

[dfahren]

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Great job man, it works, it's fast, can you show us the secret sauce?

Did you find a way to include it on armbian?

@Hqnicolas    Thanks! Yes and yes. 😀

I'd like to have others test this u-boot, too, if you don't mind. In due time, you will get a PR for your repo and may include it in Armbian. However, I think it is too special for inclusion right into Armbian source code, but you can decide once you looked at the PR.

Edited January 21 by dfahren

[dfahren]

@Hqnicolas I submitted a PR for you to review. Notice that it is somewhat fragmented and may not be mergable right away. I hope you can integrate it with your repo. Feel free to get back to me if you have questions or want amendments or the like ... 🙂

Best wishes, Deetsh

 

Edited January 24 by dfahren

[Hqnicolas]

22 hours ago, dfahren said:

I hope you can integrate it with your repo.

Ok, I made changes that will make possible add this uboot 2025.01 to armbian build mainline

@dfahren
https://github.com/hqnicolas/ArmBoardBringUp/tree/deetsh

 

Some features that was allowed with this:
https://wiki.t-firefly.com/en/iCore-3588MQ/usage_adc.html

 

After some tests, it was pulled for main
https://github.com/hqnicolas/ArmBoardBringUp

working in a pull request for armbian community....
edit: 
pull request to armbian: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/7746

Edited January 25 by Hqnicolas

[Hqnicolas]

@dfahren 
I see that you have a lot to add here,

I would like you to participate in the integration of this board in Joshua Riek's project to enable RKNPU,

where the board already works but there is the problem of the maskrom button, micro stuttering and the memory clock.

 

edit: the u-boot 2025.01 for h96max v56 was merged, also wifi works out of the box, no patch needed. 
@maka @mvpwar @hzdm @dfahren @Vincenzoernst1 @pessimism
please keep a copy from next armbian release for this board.
 

Edited January 30 by Hqnicolas

[dfahren]

@Hqnicolas: Thanks for the invitation! I have the impression, you overestimate my capabilities to participate in this project. NPU, for example, I'm completely blank, have no idea what it is about. May be I'm able to integrate this particular OpenVFD driver in the kernel, but that is something for the (hopefully not so distant) future. Panfrost, rkvdec and so on is for the DEVs with high stakes and - without any doubt - boat loads of time, which, very unfortunately, have not ... 😞

I'll get back to this forum once I have good news to share (or questions to ask). Till then: all the best to everybody!
 

[Hqnicolas]

@dfahren Your changes was made also for Joshua Riek project.
https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/pull/1179
I also generated some images:
 

Joshua-Riek Vendor Images:

22.04-preinstalled-desktop-arm64-h96max-v56

22.04-preinstalled-server-arm64-h96max-v56

deal with wifi drivers for kernel 5.1

 

24.04-preinstalled-desktop-arm64-h96max-v56

24.04-preinstalled-server-arm64-h96max-v56

deal with wifi drivers and stutterings for Kernel 6.1

on mainline, the mainline images was deployed by the armbian community:
 

Community Official Images:

Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.410_H96-tvbox-3566_bookworm_current_6.12.11_minimal.img.xz

Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.410_H96-tvbox-3566_noble_current_6.12.11_gnome_desktop.img.xz

 

Now this board can Run RKNPU with frigate.

Edited Sunday at 06:29 PM by Hqnicolas

[fragpic]

Sorry for intruding guys but I have a T95 Plus which has an RK3566 with 4G/64G. Will this firmware be a drop in replacement for it?

Thanks in advance.

[Hqnicolas]

4 hours ago, fragpic said:

Sorry for intruding guys but I have a T95 Plus which has an RK3566 with 4G/64G. Will this firmware be a drop in replacement for it?

Thanks in advance.

 

We don't have this board, but you can find users with this model in this link
you could also find people on https://www.t95plus.com/

use other topics as development path

Edited yesterday at 12:26 PM by Hqnicolas

[fragpic]

6 hours ago, Hqnicolas said:

We don't have this board, but you can find users with this model in this link
you could also find people on https://www.t95plus.com/

use other topics as development path

Edited 6 hours ago by Hqnicolas

Thanks for the response, I went through them already and it looks like the development on it went stale. I read that all RK3566 TV Boxes have the same internals so was hoping to use this build.