Making Allwinner H616 run armbian OS

[Nick A]

@Bob-the-great try these images https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/20250306

[boggy]

@Nick A I have one of those T95 H616 AXP313a tv boxes. I have successfully compiled a mainline U-Boot image and it boots fine, all with UART input/output, but none of the images from your github repo work.

 

I only managed to boot MiniArch images up to 6.19 kernel but I couldn't get HDMI, Ethernet, WiFi or Bluetooth to work at all. Got any idea what could be missing? I can help in debugging if you'd like.

 

I attached the extracted and decompiled DTS from the stock Android 10 firmware of the device.

 

Thank you

extracted.dts

[Nick A]

@boggy Try my Transpeed 8K618T image. It includes the most critical DTS settings for this hardware.

 

All your Dram settings in the dts have dram_type = <0x03> or DDR3. 

		dram_para1 {
			device_type = "dram_para1";
			dram_clk = <0x258>;
			dram_type = <0x03>;

cd-gpios = <&pio 8 16 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;    /* PI16 */
 

		sdmmc@04020000 {
			compatible = "allwinner,sunxi-mmc-v4p1x";
			device_type = "sdc0";
			.
			.
			.
			cd-gpios = <0x53 0x08 0x10 0x06 0x01 0x03 0xffffffff>;

can you find the wifi chip on your board?

Edited 1 hour ago by Nick A