[HELP] running LE on a MXQ PRO

  • Hi everyone,

    need suggestion to run latest LE on this f*ck!ng 6K :D "SHUNJIBOY":

    According to CPU-Z it should be an H3 (= sun8iw7p1):

    ...since I'm an (long term) AMLogic' SoC-based user and never had my hands on any Allwinner-ones, need some advice to test LE on it.

    Thanks in advance !

  • The board pic posted in the Armbian forum doesn't show the WiFi chip on the board. Yours is a Silicon Village "SV6256P" but no guarantee what the other user had (might be the same, might be Realtek, etc).

    Searching on GitHub finds a few "ssv6x5x" drivers, but some of them are tagged as being usable with Linux 4.4 (as used in older downstream Allwinner kernels) and there are substantial crypto changes since then which mean drivers will not forward-port onto the modern upstream kernels that LE uses. You might find newer ones, or you might not /shrug

    NB: Even if you do find a newer one, LE will not add support for downstream drivers that have no visible hope of being upstreamed to the kernel; we've only just managed to exorcise the last downstream Realtek drivers from our codebase. You're welcome to self-build custom images with your own driver changes though.