Meson 8* Lives!

**Demetris** · March 15, 2021 at 10:35 AM

You can provide me a dmesg log but controllers dont need any configuration they should be plug and play. Can i have the controller model you are connectiing please?

DiogoSilva48 · March 15, 2021 at 12:44 PM

Quote from Demetris

You can provide me a dmesg log but controllers dont need any configuration they should be plug and play. Can i have the controller model you are connectiing please?

Hi. After some tries I found why the controllers weren't working, it seems like just one of the usb port works here. Xbox 360 Controller and Series X works fine (from the USB Port), I have no Wifi, Bluetooth (AP6330) or ethernet, ethernet has a weird IP Adresss, DHCP broken probably, I'll attach image bellow. Any way to get logs without internet connection ? Thanks.

**Demetris** · March 15, 2021 at 2:07 PM

Ethernet works fine here, wifi is still a WIP

ochentay4 · March 22, 2021 at 11:10 AM

Quote from Demetris

Some more exciting news coming up for this old champ:
I have ported Batocera Linux RetroGaming Firmware on this soc thanks to Martin Blumenstingl excellent work!
You can try and test it here
batocera-s812-30-20210214.img.gz | by Demetris. for MXQ TV Box
It should be able to boot straight on a MXIII-G/PLUS S812 board for the others you now the drill of renaming the dtb.

Is S802 a feasible release for the future? (MXIII 2GB/8GB)

akican · March 26, 2021 at 8:41 PM

Hi Demetris,

I try your image but for some reason the TV said mode not supported. Move OTT M8S box to different TV. and try to boot up. Again it said "Mode not supported". My TV is support 1080P. Please advise.

Thanks,

**Demetris** · April 6, 2021 at 3:24 PM

You need to use M8S dtb file. The default one wont work on your board

tavoc · October 20, 2021 at 3:09 PM

Ist there any update on s812 topic, or a way to test an image?

**chewitt** · October 20, 2021 at 8:51 PM

Martin has been implementing the HDMI driver and audio support. There is progress, but it's slow progress. `Development reached the point where some of the retro-gaming distros which don't have such a dependency on audio/video things are now using the upstream codebase.

sagittarius · December 8, 2021 at 10:23 AM

Quote from chewitt

Martin has been implementing the HDMI driver and audio support. There is progress, but it's slow progress. `Development reached the point where some of the retro-gaming distros which don't have such a dependency on audio/video things are now using the upstream codebase.

Very exciting. Thanks.

roel · February 18, 2022 at 11:03 AM

chewitt

I see you have testbuilds for AMLMX in your testing repo. Already worth trying or just proof of concept?

**chewitt** · February 18, 2022 at 2:26 PM

The AMLMX image is more POC than usable. Most of the boot workflow is still rough/broken or being discovered (more u-boot archaeology needed) but if you know enough about LE boot processes and have UART cables attached then it's not too hard to bodge something and get something booted. S802/S805 should get Kodi up. S812 will boot but 8/10 boots will result in CPU stalls (disabling CPU cores to make it a single core device solves that so but there's been no Eureka moment yet). There's also no vdec at the current time. Otherwise Linux 5.17-rc4 boots and generally things sort of work. You're welcome to play around with the image, but don't expect too much.

Hayn35 · March 14, 2022 at 11:10 AM

hey chewy i have 2 old arnu (formally armada) mach 10 v1 (32bit boxes they made a v2 64bit box running a s905) however mine are the v1 s812 8gb ram 16gb rom currently running a branded version of (ember formally mx linux) stuck on 17.6

know of any way to get them running kodi version 19.x any help would be appreciated

as anyone that brought a arnu box of this variant are in limbo as arnu have vanished as has ember

**chewitt** · March 14, 2022 at 1:57 PM

Nothing changed since my previous post.

novovtlt · April 27, 2022 at 6:51 AM

Quote from Demetris

Some more exciting news coming up for this old champ:
I have ported Batocera Linux RetroGaming Firmware on this soc thanks to Martin Blumenstingl excellent work!
You can try and test it here
batocera-s812-30-20210214.img.gz | by Demetris. for MXQ TV Box
It should be able to boot straight on a MXIII-G/PLUS S812 board for the others you now the drill of renaming the dtb.

Hello, please provide a working link. Very necessary. Thank you!

**chewitt** · January 6, 2023 at 7:28 AM

I rebased my experimental AMLMX image (for Meson 8 devices) on LE master branch using Martin B's latest Linux 6.2-rc kernel yesterday. It's completely untested as I don't have a spare monitor to use at the moment, and prob. needs some manual fiddling to boot on some devices due to the prehistoric u-boot versions being used (UART cables may be required) but people are welcome to play:

https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreELEC-AMLMX.arm-10.88.0-box.img.gz

FlavioDeLima · February 12, 2023 at 2:35 AM

Hello. It would be really cool is a kernel activity on legacy device. I have an S805. Few current images flash on it.

**chewitt** · February 12, 2023 at 11:40 AM

There's only one upstream developer working on Meson8 support (Martin B) and he has a busy day job so output comes and goes depending on when he has some free time (and enthusiasm). I rebased the pre-pre-Alpha AMLMX image on LE master and Martin's latest kernel branch one month ago and built this image:

https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreELEC-AMLMX.arm-10.88.0-box.img.gz

It's been boot tested by a couple of people but might need some manual finessing of the u-boot environment to get it booting - I one have one Meson8 box (and one board) and vendor u-boot from 2013 is an archaeology experience, so the scripts used to hook and boot into LE aren't finalised.

You are welcome to report bugs (there will be some) but this is completely unsupported

FlavioDeLima · February 12, 2023 at 3:48 PM

Very good. Is there dtb for my M201c (an S805 with 1GB)?

I'll test it as soon as I get you an extra SD.