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 yesterday at 08:36 PM by Nick A

[boggy]

@Nick A Hi, thank you for the quick response!

 

So far the attempts to boot the transpeed image would hang during boot most of the time, but I did manage to get a working shell once, albeit still without any networking.

 

The WiFi chip is BCM4334, the physical print on the chip wasn't too helpful, but in either case it's the exact same model as shown on the pictures on this article https://linux-sunxi.org/T95 (4/32 version).

 

I can't currently test HDMI but it is attempting to load Plymouth despite the config specifying otherwise.

 

I attached a boot log of the stock Android image, if it helps at all.

 

Thank you so much for helping out, I really appreciate it!

androidbtlog.txt

Edited 23 hours ago by boggy
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[Nick A]

@boggy do you have a boot log from armbian? 

[boggy]

Currently just hangs after the Loading kernel message, will provide a log with increased verbosity tomorrow

[boggy]

@Nick Acutecom.log log2.txt

Here's how it looks right now, booting from an SD card on which I flashed the mainline U-Boot to boot the image.

[Nick A]

@boggy have you tried another SD card? You have a lot of mmc errors. 
 

which miniarch image booted for you? Maybe we can use the mmc settings from that image.