Early community images for H3, H6 and A64

mike2002 · May 4, 2019 at 7:20 PM

The boot sequence do not go enough far to ssh the Pine H64 so I am unable to login to do a dmesg. I attach a photo of my screen, maybe that will help. If I plug a USB/TTL dongle do you think I can be able to provide you more interesting information ?

I do not provide the decoded EDID, how I can provide that ?

**jernej** · May 5, 2019 at 8:24 AM Official Post

mike2002

That's strange, somehow it couldn't mount file system and I fail to see how that's connected with HDMI setup. Decoded EDID can be provided with edid-decode /sys/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1/edid, but since you can't connect using ssh, you can't do that.

Serial usually helps, but I can't guarantee for this case.

andre_276 · May 5, 2019 at 11:34 AM

Hi all,

I've tested the "LibreELEC-A64.arm-9.1-devel-20190324123655-b764cb6-pine64.img.gz" and "LibreELEC-A64.arm-9.1-nightly-20190501-6f2af43-pine64.img.gz" image with a Pine64+ 2GB board, but so far it's not possible to get any sound over HDMI.

The audio device is set to "ALSA:allwinner-hdmi, SAM SAMSUNG on HDMI" and passthrough is disabled. The HDMI cable is fine, as it works with another device. I've changed several other audio settings but without success.

Does anyone have an idea what could be the problem?

Polczak · May 5, 2019 at 12:36 PM

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Hi all,

I've tested the "LibreELEC-A64.arm-9.1-devel-20190324123655-b764cb6-pine64.img.gz" and "LibreELEC-A64.arm-9.1-nightly-20190501-6f2af43-pine64.img.gz" image with a Pine64+ 2GB board, but so far it's not possible to get any sound over HDMI.

The audio device is set to "ALSA:allwinner-hdmi, SAM SAMSUNG on HDMI" and passthrough is disabled. The HDMI cable is fine, as it works with another device. I've changed several other audio settings but without success.

Does anyone have an idea what could be the problem?

Hello. Same on my side with Orange Pi PC Plus.

Only GUI sounds and from Youtube addon.

No sound from files with multi channel sound - different options tested, different audio sources.

andre_276 · May 5, 2019 at 3:00 PM

Polczak

I would already be happy if I had GUI sounds and also from the Youtube addon , but I have no sound at all over HDMI .

The only sound source that is working so far is the analog "sun50i-a64-audio" device via jack cable .

So currently I've no idea where to start debugging, because I don't no if it is a problem with the Pulseaudio/ALSA audio subsystem or with the Linux kernel itself.

At least there are two recognized audio devices as I can see from the dmesg output:

Code

[    2.015242] ALSA device list:
[    2.015247]   #0: sun50i-a64-audio
[    2.015251]   #1: allwinner-hdmi

dolphs · May 6, 2019 at 11:34 AM

Hi - Rgd BPI-M2+ images, are HiFiberry Digi+ and JustBoom Digi HAT "for the Raspberry Pi" supported on this board?

I am asking as it looks like it is physically compatible, but I realise it also depends on the software, at this stage I can't see any mention of it being in the kernel for instance, but perhaps "jernej" has a view on this?

Please also refer to: http://wiki.banana-pi.org/banana_pi_bpi-m2%2b#gpio_pin_define : "Banana Pi BPI-M2+ (BPI-M2 Plus) has a 40-pin GPIO header that matches that of the Model Raspberry Pi 3. "

mike2002 · May 6, 2019 at 2:31 PM

Hi jernej

This is my edid-decode when I am plug via my AVR (unable to get an image on my tv) : http://ix.io/1idw

And I don't know if it's the same edid but, this is my edid-decode when I am plug directly to the TV (I see an image on my tv) : http://ix.io/1idy

I am not able to boot nightly image from may 4th but image from may 1st boot well.

andre_276 · May 6, 2019 at 3:50 PM

dolphs

Buying such an extension board would not make sense, because for the price you can also get a Raspberry Pi 3 which will work out of the box with LibreELEC + Kodi.

I'm not quite sure about the general support for HDMI Audio with certain Allwinner SoCs in the Linux mainline kernel, but according to this website Linux mainlining effort - linux-sunxi.org there would be no support at the moment.

In contrast I found on this website #linux-sunxi — irc logs at whitequark.org that there is a chance to have basic HDMI support (probably only 2 channels) which would be fine for now. Polczak also mentioned in his post before that he has basic HDMI audio on his Orange Pi PC Plus board which is equipped with an H3 SoC (ARM Cortex-A7)

So maybe a developer can give us an update on the current status.

**jernej** · May 6, 2019 at 4:17 PM Official Post

dolphs it certainly doesn't work out-of-the-box. If pins are compatible (didn't check) you would need to modify DTB file to tell that spdif should be enabled. That would be ideally solved with DT overlays, but currently there is no support for that in AW images.

mike2002 There is certainly a difference in output. Interestingly, AVR adds some strange video modes like 1440x480@60Hz and 2880x480@60Hz. Can you edit "extlinux/extlinux.conf" on SD card and add drm.debug=0xe at the end of APPEND line? Please provide full dmesg output and output of cat /sys/kernel/debug/clk/clk_summary with AVR connected.

andre_276 while it's true that mainline kernel doesn't support HDMI audio on any of Allwinner SoC, images here contains support for up to 8 channels linear PCM HDMI audio. This is obviously work in progress, but eventually this work will be included in mainline kernel. You can dig out patches from LE build system if you are interested.

mike2002 · May 6, 2019 at 4:32 PM

Hi jernej

My dmesg : http://ix.io/1ie4

My clk_summary : http://ix.io/1ie5

Polczak · May 6, 2019 at 4:49 PM

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In contrast I found on this website #linux-sunxi — irc logs at whitequark.org that there is a chance to have basic HDMI support (probably only 2 channels) which would be fine for now. Polczak also mentioned in his post before that he has basic HDMI audio on his Orange Pi PC Plus board which is equipped with an H3 SoC (ARM Cortex-A7)

So maybe a developer can give us an update on the current status.

Just an addition to that - I do not have same issue on an old Libreelec 7.0 image.

andre_276 · May 6, 2019 at 5:26 PM

Quote from jernej

andre_276 while it's true that mainline kernel doesn't support HDMI audio on any of Allwinner SoC, images here contains support for up to 8 channels linear PCM HDMI audio. This is obviously work in progress, but eventually this work will be included in mainline kernel. You can dig out patches from LE build system if you are interested.

jernej

Got it.

So in theory this would mean, that this image libreelec-a64.arm-9.1-nightly-20190506-b0a838b-pine64.img.gz should have HDMI audio support for the Pine64+ board, right?

Anyone else here in the forum who ever tested a Pine64 board successfully and can share his audio configuration?

Unfortunately I have no other board with an Allwinner SoC at hand that I can test with.

**jernej** · May 6, 2019 at 6:47 PM Official Post

mike2002 everything seems to be pk, so I can only speculate that audio parameters somehow corrupt HDMI link.

andre_276 yes, pine64 plus has working HDMI audio for a long time, at least for me. Not sure where to look for issues.

Polczak · May 8, 2019 at 4:57 PM

Question to Libreelec developers: does RaspberryPI 3b+ have any issue with Libreelec? Or everything works fine?

I am thinking to switch to RP3b+ but I am affraid that I will end up with same or different issues.

skyeagle · May 8, 2019 at 9:46 PM

any progress on wireless. specifically on the beelink x2?

lumpi · May 8, 2019 at 10:42 PM

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any progress on wireless. specifically on the beelink x2?

Doesn't look good for our beloved X2 wrt WLAN, as most of them are Realtek

**jernej** · May 9, 2019 at 6:19 AM Official Post

Polczak RPi is much more mature platform at the moment, so if you want features and less bugs, go for it. But in many ways Allwinner H6 (and some others) has better features, just software is not there yet.

skyeagle lumpi Given that Beelink X2 has Broadcom based WiFi module, it should be easy to support it. Recently I received this box, but first I have to make booting more reliable (it rarely boots). Once that's fixed, it should be relatively easy to add WiFi support.

lumpi · May 9, 2019 at 8:21 AM

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Given that Beelink X2 has Broadcom based WiFi module, it should be easy to support it. Recently I received this box, but first I have to make booting more reliable (it rarely boots). Once that's fixed, it should be relatively easyto add WiFi support.

be aware, only older X2s have AP6181newer versions have RTL8189ETV, so I'm not having too many illusions.

What boot problems do you have? I never faced any, having some sandisk uSD I guess, and it boots 100% of the time very reliably with your image. Let me know if you want to compare something (logs?) with my unit.