Efforts to develop firmware for X96 X6 RK3566 (8G/64G)

[loi xin]

Hi everybody,
I just bought an X96 X6 TV box (8G/64G) to run Home Assistant. However it is not popular so there is no Armina for it. Home Assistant requires Debian 11/12 (linux kernel, no desktop version) to operate. Hope everyone can help me. Thank you very much. I only need 1 file *.img file to install Home Assistant, no need: USB, wifi, Bluetooth... because it can be difficult.

Thank you very much!

[Chris4arm]

I try to run a Armbian server on this nice RK3566 box.
I use the Station M2 image Armbian_community_24.11.0-trunk.167_Station-m2_bookworm_current_6.6.52_minimal.img.xz
with the rk3566-box-demo.dtb dtb and this boots 🙂
But there is only one of the three USB ports working (the middle one).
Is this the best image to use ?
Is there a dtb more accurate to this box ?

Thanks for any help

[Chris4arm]

I have extracted the Android dtb but, of course, it doesn't work as is.

Has somebody had full success with this box ?

 

 

[Chris4arm]

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I have extracted the Android dtb but, of course, it doesn't work as is.

Has somebody had full success with this box ?

 

At least with USB ?

 

[Vincenzoernst1]

do you have any pics of the pcb?!


also this seems to be be similar to the h96-max-v56-rk3566 which also has a 8GB RAM version

[Chris4arm]

Hi,

I have no pics of the pcb but it seems @maka has done a dtb for this box, but I don't see such a dtb in  /boot/dtb/rockchip 🤔

[Chris4arm]

I retrieved the DTB rk3566-box-demo_x96_x6.dtb in the thread dedicated to the H96 Max and... all the USB ports are ok 🙂
But on the other hand the ethernet port does not work anymore : it is up and the negotiation is done well (1000baseT) but, if what the router emits is well received by the box, the latter does not see what it emits.
Strange: if we start with the dtb rk3566-box-demo.dtb and we restart with rk3566-box-demo_x96_x6.dtb (without power cut) ethernet continues to work!
It is as if an initialization was missing, present in rk3566-box-demo.dtb, absent in rk3566-box-demo_x96_x6.dtb.
I'm trying to find the differences between rk3566-box-demo and rk3566-box-demo_x96_x6 but there are hundreds of them and it's hard to identify the real semantic differences 😞
Any help appreciated...

 

Kernel log :

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rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: IRQ eth_lpi not found
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: IRQ sfty not found
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: supply phy not found, using dummy regulator
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: clock input or output? (input).
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: TX delay(0x4f).
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: RX delay(0x2d).
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: integrated PHY? (no).
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: clock input from PHY
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: init for RGMII
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: User ID: 0x30, Synopsys ID: 0x51
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet:        DWMAC4/5
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: DMA HW capability register supported
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: RX Checksum Offload Engine supported
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: TX Checksum insertion supported
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: Wake-Up On Lan supported
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: TSO supported
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: Enable RX Mitigation via HW Watchdog Timer
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: Enabled RFS Flow TC (entries=10)
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: TSO feature enabled
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet: Using 32/32 bits DMA host/device width
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: renamed from eth0
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-0
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: PHY [stmmac-0:01] driver [RTL8211F Gigabit Ethernet] (irq=POLL)
dwmac4: Master AXI performs any burst length
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: No Safety Features support found
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: IEEE 1588-2008 Advanced Timestamp supported
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: registered PTP clock
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: configuring for phy/rgmii link mode
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: Link is Down
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: Link is Down
rk_gmac-dwmac fe010000.ethernet end0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control rx/tx

 

[maka]

Tx and Rx delay maybe wrong, compare with the android dtb if It worked or change to the box- demo values.

 

Have you tried the icplus dtb?

 

Edited 2 hours ago by maka