LE 11.0.6 Amlogic S905X problem with audio

    Hello.
    Thanks in advance for supporting old ARM boxes!
    I installed LE 11.0.6 (meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb) on my old X96 box (ARM S905X). Everything works fine, but I have a problem with the sound. The SPDIF output does not work at all, the external audio out has a very weak sound. HDMI audio is fine. The audio settings show - audio output device - ALSA: S905X-P212.
    I tried to install LE 9.2.8 (gxl_p212_1g.dtb), the sound works correctly there. Everything works, HDMI, external audio out and SPDIF. In the settings there is - audio output device - ALSA: AML-M8AUDIO.
    Is it possible to solve this problem somehow?

    Thank you Popmar

    Lots of Android boxes have S/PDIF output but I'm told the real Amlogic p212 reference board does not have that; and the upstream p212 device-tree file that you're using correctly describes the reference board. Maintainers are not keen on me adding S/PDIF to the reference board or creating a pseudo "p212-spdif" board, so the workaround will be to upstream a real p212 box which is verifiable and has S/PDIF outputs. The OSMC Vero4 might suit that purpose.

    NB: Using old driver code is basically impossible as there's practically zero code in-common between the legacy vendor kernel and the modern/upstream kernel codebase.

    .. so I'm so sorry, but I don't really understand it at all :) I thought that if it works with LE 9.x.x, it will also work with LE 11. That it's actually the same, just a different version of Kodi ... I guess it won't be that easy, will it? I'm sorry, because Kodi Nexus on the old box is great, but without a digital or at least analog output, it's unusable for me...
    thanks pop

    Kodi dropped support for "amcodec" decoding several years ago and that makes it impossible to use the Amlogic legacy kernels. AMLGX (LE12) is using a modern Linux 6.7 kernel; support is a little experimental in places and things are not perfect, but it's usable and avoids the need to purchase a new box for some users.

    The box will work, but it needs a device-tree file that describes S/PDIF hardware. I'll have a look at that..