Posts by jernej

no, you have to use usb dongles.

It's possible, but there is a lot of work. First, that box is not officially supported either by U-Boot or Linux. You can hope that Tanix TX6 is compatible enough for it to work, otherwise you need to debug and fix any discrepancies. Then, you need to FEL boot U-Boot and somehow transfer LE image and write it to eMMC. I can think of two ways, maybe there is more:

1. setup network and transfer image into memory and then write it to eMMC

2. setup USB mass storage mode in U-Boot and write image directly to eMMC.

Both methods need special crafted U-Boot binary. LE U-Boot is stripped to the minimum to speed up boot process. It can be booted via FEL, but you won't get much useful features.

In any case, since it's unsupported TV box, you're on your own.

This is the same message as for 11.0.0, so it shouldn't be any worse. Best way to test it with spare SD card and see if there is any difference.

I deliberately omitted talk about FEL boot, because it's not USB boot in usual sense - using USB stick. You certainly can boot LibreELEC over FEL, as long as you know what your doing. It's not plug and play solution, on every board little different, so we don't advertise it.

It was explained on this subforum a couple of times how to enable overlays. Use search function.

USB stick is not supported as boot media on AW SoCs. Only SD card or internal memories like eMMC.

permheaddamage as I said, secure boot is totally out of my league, but there are people on IRC (#linux-sunxi at OFTC) who researched it and are probably able to help you.

Well, it still might not be completely secured, but it's up to you if you want to play with it further or not. I don't have any experience with TOC0 booting...

Correction, your board uses LPDDR3 RAM, which is slightly different than DDR3. At least enough that you can't interchangeably use images. Fortunately, Beelink GS1 also uses LPDDR3.

In any case, either there is issue with writing images (did you unzip it before flashing?) or your board is secured and it would need special crafted image. I think you can determine if board is secured via FEL, but I forgot how already. Check linux-sunxi.org for clues.

There is no support for DDR4 for H6. This seems to be one of the rare boards which pairs H6 and DDR4.

I don't remember seeing this issue then, did you change anything? In any case, it seems that either HDMI audio might be initialized 2 times or some component is reusing name, which it shouldn't.

They use completely different image format. LE SD creator uses raw image whereas phoenixcard uses proprietary AW format.

In any case, try to use some other tool to write LE image like Etcher, since some users had issues with LE SD creator.

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The HW spec looks very much like Beelink GS1, except for the wifi chip.

Then try that image? Zidoo won't gain official support.

Yeah, increasing loglevel will certainly increase message output. I think kernel issues should be printed even with default value, but it's worth a try.

just remove quiet from extlinux.conf

Tanix TX6 - linux-sunxi.org

If there is some kind of kernel side issue, then the only way to get any kind of usable log is to solder UART pins and connect serial adapter to it. With that, you can monitor kernel complaints real time and with hard crashes, this is often the only way to get report. Are you able to do that?

It should work again with next Kodi bump, some fixes were merged recently.