X96Max_Plus2_20201210-1638 which dtb

sagittarius · December 28, 2021 at 12:12 AM

It's exciting running LE on amlogic with recent kernel and panfrost. Thanks to the devs and particularly chewitt.

I'm able to run LibreELEC (chewitt): 10.80.0 (AMLGX.arm) on a X96 Max+ 2GB real (fake 4GB) identified on Android as X96Max_Plus2_20201210-1638.

On android the default dtb is sm1_ac213_2g.dtb.

On LE, it runs better with dtb_name=/dtb/meson-sm1-x96-air-1000.dtb, Ethernet, sound, USB2 & 3, remote works but neither Bluetooth nor WiFi.

If someone has this type of box and succeeded to set WiFi, I'd be glad to know how.

**chewitt** · December 28, 2021 at 9:04 AM

sagittarius the Android boot log shows the box has RTL8822CS WiFi which is partially supported in the upstream rtw88 kernel driver (PCIe works, but not SDIO). I'm expecting to see some patches from MartinB and jernej on the linux-wireless mailing list in the new year though, as they have been collaborating on adding SDIO supprot. BT drivers are already upstream for a while but some device-tree fu is needed to get it working.

sagittarius · December 28, 2021 at 1:59 PM

Thank you chewitt for the informations.

This X96Max_Plus2 TV-box works already great as a client for a tvheadend server running on an quiet old now ARM-Dockstar. I'm going to try the libreelec tvheadend server v4.2.

Thanks again for the good job you're doing.