Efforts to develop firmware for H96 MAX M9 RK3576 TV Box 8G/128G

[a.ni]

Hi all,

I was able to make my H96 MAX M9S running on armbian (beta) Linux 6.19.0-rc8-edge-rockchip64.

 

Using:
- armbian u-boot, installed by armbian-config
- root fs on emmc

 

Working:
- both USB ports
- HDMI (audio+video)
- Ethernet port
- Wifi using aic8800 DKMS drivers provided by https://github.com/radxa-pkg/aic8800/releases
- Leds

 

Not working:
- GPU/NPU
- Bluetooth
- any HW acceleration
- many other things as in attached dmesg

 

Known issues:
- no USB port is working in usb3 mode (5000M)
- missing hci port for Bluetooth
- driver aic8800_btlpm_sdio hast to be loaded manually 
- other as in attached dmesg

Attached you can find:
- my working dts for armbian Linux 6.19.0-rc8-edge-rockchip64
- my original dts extracted from the box
- dmesg

 

Hope some will be able to help with other things  

rk3576-evb1-v10-main-h96-v3.dts rk3576-evb1-v10_org.dts dmesg.txt

[shandy alvonz]

Thank you all... I was able to install Armbian on the H96 Max M9 thanks to all of your help.

[a.ni]

I've made some improvements of .dts for H96 MAX M9S, tested on Linux version 6.19.0-edge-rockchip64 (build@armbian)

 

What's new:

• GPU working
• USB 3.0 mode working

 

Currently working:

• both USB ports, incl. USB 3.0 mode
• GPU (using Panfrost driver)
• HDMI (audio+video)
• Ethernet port
• Wifi (using aic8800 DKMS drivers provided by https://github.com/radxa-pkg/aic8800/releases)
• Leds

 

Not working:

• NPU
• Bluetooth
• S/PDIF

 

rk3576-evb1-v10-main-h96-v5.dts dmesg-19.0.txt

[cmuki]

Regarding the vendor kernel I also managed to get the GPU going with some AI help, but the HDMI hotplug issue persists. Will probably revisit it in the future. (the dtb should go in packages/blobs/h96-m9_original.dtb and the defconfig in patch/u-boot/legacy/u-boot-radxa-rk35xx/deconfig)

 

 

h96-m9.csc h96-m9_original.dts h96-m9-rk3576_defconfig h96-m9_original.dtb

Edited February 15 by cmuki

[JimEliteFour Planta]

Hello everyone, I bought an H96 Max M9 TV box. I mainly use it for YouTube and watching movies, but later I wanted to use it for gaming, including emulators and modern community-made ports.

This TV box, with its 8GB of RAM, has a lot of potential, but it is being wasted due to a common issue: the file manager. The problem is not the file explorer apps you install—I’ve tried them all—but the system’s storage manager (Android’s SAF), which seems to be poorly implemented or limited by the firmware.

This causes issues such as:

Selecting folders in PPSSPP (memory stick)

Access for emulators like Dolphin Emulator

Installing game ports that should run perfectly on this TV box, but cannot be installed due to bugs in the system file manager

To be honest, I’m not very knowledgeable about these topics, but if anyone has experienced this or knows a possible solution and can share the information, I would really appreciate it in advance.