I'm no expert on Allwinner hardware, but I had a quick look at the device-trees in the Linux 6.17 kernel source, our current Allwinner patchset, and kernel mailing lists (for new patches) and I see no evidence of HDMI support for the H616 or H618 chips existing. This means you will see boot screens due to framebuffer support in the kernel, but there's no HDMI (DRM) driver, so Kodi cannot run.
If you add 'ssh' to boot params in extlinux.conf the SSH daemon is forced to start and you can login, but you'll only see kodi.log messages about there being no DRM surface or gem object to render to.
I'm no expert on Allwinner hardware, but I had a quick look at the device-trees in the Linux 6.17 kernel source, our current Allwinner patchset, and kernel mailing lists (for new patches) and I see no evidence of HDMI support for the H616 or H618 chips existing. This means you will see boot screens due to framebuffer support in the kernel, but there's no HDMI (DRM) driver, so Kodi cannot run.
If you add 'ssh' to boot params in extlinux.conf the SSH daemon is forced to start and you can login, but you'll only see kodi.log messages about there being no DRM surface or gem object to render to.
Thank you for your response.
I will take a look at the patches from armbian for new kernel version.
I will update here if there is any success.
I'm not seeing anything in Armbian patches.
I'm not seeing anything in Armbian patches.
minimyth2/script/kernel/linux-6.17/files at master · warpme/minimyth2
Hi Chewitt, do you think these patches from warpme are useful?
