Posts by lumpi

Quote from jernej

lumpi now and then I do a new H5 build, but current issue is that Lima for some reason doesn't work well in combination of sun4i-drm driver (DE2 part) and Kodi. For example, Lima works with A20, which has DE1. Interestingly, Panfrost works with H6, which has DE3, and Kodi (DE3 uses mostly the same code as DE2). Someone would need to do thorough test Lima on A20, but last time I tried, it crashed in menu after a bit of playing. But Lima fixes are coming in every week, so I'm optimistic this will be sorted out soon.

that means except for a10/13 and 20 this bug stops lima from being used successfully until a solution is found.

Let's see soon we will be blob free

jernej do you know if H5 is advancing somehow? Just out of curiosity, I'm not owning any...

What about lima and panfrost, how far away are they still?

So many questions

Quote from roel

I will search which device has the ampak AP6210 and a supported dtb and see further if this one boots are I have to build a custom dtb with the ampak AP6210 included

hi roel thanks for the very detailed answer.

Regarding the wifi i think the type of card doesn't matter for the dtb as Linux can autodetect what's on the bus once the sdio works.

Quote from roel

yes,

it is a projector that looks like a light bulb and has a e27 bulb connector.

Interesting, never heard of that

roel is that projector usable for something or just a toy?

Quote from roel

I have this device: KOHOTECH KP100 MB V3.0 - linux-sunxi.org

what is it? Looks like a light bulb?

Quote from jernej

Not much. This is more about making boards useful again.

Let's see what can be squeezed out of my old a10 tablet with 512mb ram and 4gb nand... Probably not kodi, but maybe replicant or plasma mobile? A tablet is not the most hackable form factor.

I can't wait to dust off my x92. I'm already happily running nightlies on a beelink x2 (allwinner H3). If the s912 comes to life, thanks to Alyssa's great panfrost effort, that would be great news!

What can A10 in theory achieve? Compared to lets say an H3?

I guess most A10 based boards fail because of the lack of ram...

Quote from jernej

Support for Allwinner A20 was merged in master. Nightly images are already available. A20 HDMI audio support will hopefully come in January.

Cool! Great news for the new year! Thanks jernej

Quote from jernej

FYI, thermal driver PR was merged yesterday. Kodi should show now CPU temperature. Also on the SoC which have GPU temperature sensor (A64, H6), gputemp command will show GPU temperature. On H3, gputemp show same temperature as cputemp.

Just checked temperature on my x2:

While watching zattoo it raised via 56 to 58°C

Uptime 1h 38

Quote from jamper

Hello, do you know if the drivers for the Wi-Fi network will be implemented in the beelink x2?
And you could tell me why I get an error when starting the plex plugin and not starting it?

best regards

The beelink x2 has one of two types of wifi inside. Mine has the realtek that doesn't have a properly mainlined driver (yet? Who knows) but it works well with Linux supported usb wifi sticks. I haven't heard of anyone with a broadcom based x2, probably those are very rare.

All working again

Quote from ukmark62

You'll have to flash the Android firmware using the tool.

That's quite odd if you are used the unbrickable boot sequence of allwinner SOCs.

At the time I wasn't aware something would be altered on the emmc. Else i hadn't tried CE back in the time.

Quote from Jesussu

Download the firmware of your device from the manufacturer's website.

for most tv boxes this sounds like a good joke

Unfortunately that's how it works for my x92. Only place where such things can be found are places like freaktab...

Quote from chewitt

Amlogic "USB Burn Tool" allows you to connect the device via USB ports to a Windows laptop and flash an image (in a proprietary Amlogic format, not the same format we've ever used) directly to the internal NAND/eMMC storage. It's for flashing factory images onto a device. Most images will be Android, but it restores the factory u-boot, which negates any changes that other boot scripts have done to the boot environment.

So what you mean is you have to connect the box to a pc with usb burn tool but it's not necessary to flash anything in order to fix uboot?

Quote from turgus

..maybe you better try using separate card for testing alphas!?..if all things which you want/need are working, then think about install (or use card as daily driver)..

True i knew it was risky and i have an rpi which i wont update until my x2 is good again

I didn't mean to complain, just a word of warning to my fellow experimenters.

Quote from chewitt

NB: Team Kodi will bring forward the v19 release to get the hugely disruptive Python3 change into public view and the ETA on first alpha is within the next month as Python2 will be EOL on 1st Jan. The GBM/V4L2 work we are championing on ARM platforms will not align with the reschedule so v19 will be an alpha/beta release for ARM devices and v20 becomes the target, on similar dates to the original v19 schedule.

hopefully the migration of the add ons will go quick. Right now still a lot of add ons incompatible, most notably inputstream.adaptive

but good the transition is going on now

Had the great idea to update today (not that i hadn't been warned)...

Inputstream adaptive and zattoo pvr are incompatible.. lets see how long it will take.

Note to self: don't update the rpi3 if you want to watch zattoo