ahrlad Posted December 16, 2016 Posted December 16, 2016 A couple years back a company named TBS, mostly known for their DTV hardware, released a mini PC styled thing. It's called the TBS2910 Matrix and was marketed mostly as a Kodi box. Sadly it doesn't seem the product made the sales necessary to keep the company interested - which in my view is a shame since it's got some interesting hardware features: Quad-core i.MX6 CPU (1GHz) 2GB DDR3 Ram MiniPCIe slot 16GB eMMC Storage SATA connector with 12V power, capable of powering a 3.5" HDD On-board 2.4GHz Wifi Gigabit ethernet (likely limited to 400Mbps or so) 3 USB 2.0 ports + 1 mini USB otg port 1 full-size SD slot, 1 microSD slot HDMI, analog and optical audio out Ir receiver, HDMI-CEC support Software support is predictably bad, I don't think it's gotten an official update in at least a year. There's an old Ubuntu distro available and an old non-Elec Kodi build.Thankfully vpeter, a LibreElec dev, has released updated LibreElec builds for it, available at the tbs forums. I love this board. I use it as my Kodi box connected to the TV, with a mPCIe Wifi card to boost network speed, and for most purposes it works great. I don't expect anybody to work on an armbian release for a dead board of course, though the hardware features might allow for some cool use options. It's available for £50 at amazon.co.uk, which includes the plastic box and a 12V power plug. Other links: Product page TBS forums
Clash Posted December 26, 2016 Posted December 26, 2016 Hello, That's my favourite board, too. Would it be possible for this board to create a Armbian-Linux image? Greetings, clash
ahrlad Posted December 27, 2016 Author Posted December 27, 2016 Hello, That's my favourite board, too. Would it be possible for this board to create a Armbian-Linux image? Greetings, clash Well, it's certainly possible, but not without first putting in a lot of work to support the board - work that I bet nobody's all that excited to do The hardware is pretty similar to the Cubox-i so with luck a lot of the work from there can be used, but if it was easy somebody would probably already have done it.
Clash Posted December 28, 2016 Posted December 28, 2016 For u-boot: Download the here: ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/u-boot-* make distclean; make tbs2910_defconfig; make u-boot.imx Changes to the default environment of the new u-boot (with setenv + saveenv or Patch): bootcmd=run bootargs_mmc; load mmc 2 0x10800000 boot/zImage; load mmc 2 0x10700000 boot/dtb; bootz 0x10800000 - 0x10700000 bootargs_mmc3=root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait rw consoleblank=0 quiet For the Kernel (Example: 4.8.15): - download Kernel-4.8.15 - make imx_v6_v7_defconfig - make -j6 - make modules_install cd /usr/src/linux cp arch/arm/boot/zImage /boot/zImage-[Version] cp arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q-tbs2910.dtb /boot/imx6q-tbs2910-[Version].dtb cd /boot ln -s zImage-[Version] zImage ln -s imx6q-tbs2910-[Version].dtb dtb Greetings, Clash
ahrlad Posted January 4, 2017 Author Posted January 4, 2017 For u-boot: Download the here: ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/u-boot-* make distclean; make tbs2910_defconfig; make u-boot.imx Changes to the default environment of the new u-boot (with setenv + saveenv or Patch): bootcmd=run bootargs_mmc; load mmc 2 0x10800000 boot/zImage; load mmc 2 0x10700000 boot/dtb; bootz 0x10800000 - 0x10700000 bootargs_mmc3=root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait rw consoleblank=0 quiet For the Kernel (Example: 4.8.15): - download Kernel-4.8.15 - make imx_v6_v7_defconfig - make -j6 - make modules_install cd /usr/src/linux cp arch/arm/boot/zImage /boot/zImage-[Version] cp arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6q-tbs2910.dtb /boot/imx6q-tbs2910-[Version].dtb cd /boot ln -s zImage-[Version] zImage ln -s imx6q-tbs2910-[Version].dtb dtb Greetings, Clash That's cool. Did you really get kernel 4.8.15 up and running? With any hardware working? This guy got it running a recent-ish kernel a while ago, but he didn't get a lot of hardware working.
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