Looking for DTB of Amlogic S905X+RTL8189ETV

    Can't make the wifi work on this box. DTBs from other S905Xes work. I am also very curious to install it to internal flash

    ABOX A1 Plus
    S905X 2/8GB RTL8189ETV

    on motherboard: HKW_S905X_01 V1.0 DATE:160726
    RAM: 4x Memolink ml5tq4g16cfr
    Flash: Samsung klm8g1wepd-8031

    booting from USB/TF(SD) via boot2kodi app in Androit (root enabled)

    Quote from RavenRA

    Can't make the wifi work on this box. DTBs from other S905Xes work. I am also very curious to install it to internal flash

    I've never managed to get the RTL8189ETV to probe correctly but it's been a while since one came along. Start with expaining which dtb you are using to boot the device (which dtb has best overal fit for board features). NB: LE does not support installing to internal emmc on TV box devices; only SBC boards with dedicated images and upstream u-boot support. If you attempt using old scripts and forum posts I guarantee that it goes wrong and I guarantee zero sympathy and support for unbricking things.

    Quote from chewitt

    I've never managed to get the RTL8189ETV to probe correctly but it's been a while since one came along. Start with expaining which dtb you are using to boot the device (which dtb has best overal fit for board features). NB:

    All of these boot up, show UI. I haven't checked Ethernet though (should I?).

    meson-gxl-s905x-libretech-cc.dtb

    meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb

    meson-gxl-s905x-nexbox-a95x.dtb

    meson-gxl-s905x-vero4k.dtb


    I have seen you being so kind to one of the forum members and making meson-sm1-x96-air-gbit.dtb

    I am willing to be the guinea pig and brick the board if needed. There is something that looks like serial port on the board and I might have connected it to the host once. I can give you access to computer that would have access to the box via ethernet and UART if needed.

    All S905X boards use the same Ethernet configuration so that should simply work in all S905X device-trees. Most devices are derivatives of the P212 reference design with few changes so all the core perhiperals will the same. The only major changes are buttons/LEDs .. and sometimes the SDIO WiFi/BT module.

    There is no support in the upstream kernel for the RTL8189ETV chip, and I (and rest of the team) have no interest in adding more downstream Realtek drivers (https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8189ES_linux) to the distro image - they're low quality and a pain to maintain. You could attempt a custom build with that driver included. The WiFi part of the SDIO module should probe; SDIO is a bus so connected devices are auto-discovered and wifi@1 reference in device-tree for broadcom chips will also work for Realtek. The BT part of the module will need things to be described correctly in device-tree.

    If you want to create overlays you'll need to compile them (to use them); so in the context of the LE build-system you might as well just patch the device-tree that you want to use via a normal kernel patch. IMHO that's easier and doesn't need support for overlays.