Proof of concept - Realtek 1295
Hi,
after reading the very entertaining thread regarding the BPI-W2 and the following opening of the bsp-kernel on github, I became curious and when prices dropped for the Lake-1-TV-Box, I decided to play around with it.
Without very much documentation there was a bunch of trial and error and still many things are not absolutely clear to me, but finally I could boot an armbian build today:
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Okay, my first try with the addition of SPI-Flash did not work, which may have many different reasons:
1. The wrong chip. I only had 64mb-chips at hand and ordered the version, that chwe mentioned (winbond 25q128jvsq).
2. Defective chip, bad soldering (did resolder twice)?
3. The need to add or remove a resistor somewhere?
4. A complete misconception on my side, how the things are working on this platform. I did not find any documentation regarding this to