How to install armbian in h618?

[robertoj]

I hope it works for you

 

I wish to have NickA's Armbian patches in Linux 6.11+, because I need to use its improvements for my new LCD screen  

[afiftyp]

Hi @Nick A,

there is a typo in v20241125/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi/dts-Transpeed-8K618-T-Add-Transpeed-8K618-T-board-support.patch

It adds sun50i-h618-transpeed-8k618-t.dts to the Makefile instead of .dtb

 

[Nick A]

Yup, I saw that. It still compiles not sure why. At the time I didn't correct the mistake because it would break other board patches that were added after mine. I don't know if anyone is working on adding their own board now. I'll fix it. If people are getting u-boot compile errors with their fork then this is the reason.

Thanks for the reminder.

 

Edited January 23 by Nick A

[Nick A]

Afiftyp, 

I tested your patches. First boot the kernel detected my bluetooth module.

[   15.837115] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: features 0x2f
[   15.860556] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM4335B0 JA-3G SemcoB62 AFH_LimitPwr_EDR2 2STOPBIT-0343
[   15.860579] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM4335A0 (002.001.006) build 0347

But after multiple reboots I would get hci1.

[    9.987983] Bluetooth: hci1: command 0x0c03 tx timeout
[    9.988039] Bluetooth: hci1: BCM: Reset failed (-110)

Also some new panfrost errors.

[   58.359410] panfrost 1800000.gpu: js fault, js=0, status=DATA_INVALID_FAULT, head=0xa1cdec0, tail=0xa1cdec0

 

Edited January 23 by Nick A

[afiftyp]

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I tested your patches. First boot the kernel detected my bluetooth module.

Interesting, my Magcubic H618 board shows a similar issue since i got wifi working completely independent of this patch.

On every reboot the brcmfmac4330 wifi module fails to initialize but the Bluetooth part is OK. On every power cycle both modules initialize correctly.

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[    1.971468] mmc0: Failed to initialize a non-removable card

Instead of

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[    2.027847] mmc0: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001

So I have some doubt that the root cause of the problem is from the patch.

[afiftyp]

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Yup, I saw that. It still compiles not sure why. At the time I didn't correct the mistake because it would break other board patches that were added ...

I'm currently working on a Tanix TX6 board (no s printed on the housing). On the backside it sates TX6-P. It seems to have a H618 chip but DDR4 Ram and brcmfmac43342 wifi module.

Originally I thought that the box is plain H6 based as I wanted exactly the TX6 as it is supported by LibreELEC. Bad luck with that kind of chameleons ☹️

So far I managed to configure a u-boot that has the DDR4 support by taking some orangepi as an example.

As a starting point for armbian I used the transpeed-8k618-t.dtb and that allows me to boot (in most cases). Occasionally the kernel crashes very early after start.

I also had to add a patch to the kernel to support the wifi chip; the firmware is already in the armbian firmware package.

So far hdmi, wifi, Bluetooth, 100m Eth, and the USB3 port is working. The 2 USB2 ports aren't. Other things I didn't test to far.

Need to further dig into the Android fdt to see how it is configured there.

[Nick A]

Are you using Orangepie's DRAM settings? Or did you extract your boxes DRAM settings? 

 

For USB2 ports you probably need this in your dts

&ehci2 {
	status = "okay";
};

&ohci2 {
	status = "okay";
};

 

[afiftyp]

DRAM settings extracted from the Android image

Thx, I'll try the dts change.

[Nick A]

 I just started working on a new project using the latest Armbian build and warpme's 6.12 kernel patches. I'm going to add warpme's u-boot patches next. The Edge builds will use warpme's 6.12 patches for now. This should make it easier to add boards already supported by warpme.  

Edited Saturday at 01:26 PM by Nick A

[MMorales]

Hello everyone!
After swiched to a bigger minipc server i want to come back my 2 transpeed h618 to their original firmwares but...
its imposible to me install the original image. I tried with every program connecting by usb cable and trying to boot from sdcards but after armbian installation nothing works.

phoenisUSBpro keeps in that stage when i connect the box with the av button pushed. and if i press "stop" the "device connecting" alertbox appears. and never connects.
I remember to install before this images with the same program but now nothing works. 
Any tip? thanks 

Edited Sunday at 03:02 PM by MMorales