It seems that micro sd slot doesn't work it doesn't see any sd card! I tried with some micro SD cards. Is there a way to boot box using a USB stick inserted in a USB port?
I'm only aware of the phoenixsuit that can boot the box from a pc via usb by cable.
Or if you have a kernel in EMMC or SPI that can boot anything else from usb or wherever.
Usually if Allwinner SOCs are presented with an SD that will always take priority to boot. Can you see a fat formatted SD from Android?
Hi all, I have a Tanix TX6. I can't boot box from SD.
I prepare a SD with Rufus and I try with Win32 creator also, but I can't boot from SD.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Maybe a broken nightly, see in the other thread about the GS1: Nightly images for A20, A64, H3, H5 and H6 boards
The upstream vdec supports H264 and VP9 currently. HEVC is still work in progress so it will be software decoded. Other (older) codecs like MPEG4 and MPEG2 are a low priority for hardware support as even lowly S905 can software decode everything fine. You S912 nox should be able to handle 1080p media in the current state, but not 4K (as most 4K media is HEVC). The kernel stateful API changed in the semi-recent past and this broke seeking .. we're still trying to figure out what and where things need to be changed to make it work again.
Sounds good thanks! So far I managed 720p VP9 YT in sw with minimal frame drops in Firefox on mainline, 1080p is possible but with around 10% dropped frames. Looking forward to mainlined, but at least for now I'm booting mainline with kaffeine for dvb. Unfortunately not my achievement...
Reviving an old thread to ask what's the status of the aml vpu?
Didn't find much anything up to date except for a couple of commits to the kernel git: Commits · torvalds/linux · GitHub
Has anyone with more insight into this topic some more up to date info?
genidy.m as I have no H6 based device unfortunately I can't try anything, sorry.
chewitt thanks for collecting and documenting all of this.
Will check it out soon.
buzzmarshall thanks for confirming that q200 is working, that should help minimising my doubts 
You know your box is not really dead unless you choose for it to be dead.
Shoog
And the best is this choice is even reversible
chewitt now you assigned me a new task finding out about fip sources...
Btw. Did you find any info wrt tartiflette? Maybe I should once try from desktop rather than from my mobile, the page looked quite deserted...
I'm currently playing with meta-meson, still fighting, but eventually getting there as a starting point. My goal is to get the S912 up at least with a proper net enabled command line, to hook it up to a hdd and maybe a dvb-c dongle for my H3 box.
I miss jernej reversing that crap on AML, as it's done on AW so that a proper mainline u-boot is all you would ever need, but he is more than busy with AW, that's why for me (=my current use case) the H3 is still the better SOC than the S912 
Thanks to both of you for supporting us noobs besides all the other stuff 
Dears,
I own a tevii p500 android box which uses "allwinner h6", I think it's also "sunvell Q+" as it's boot showing "Q+" logo
I wish it to be supported by "libreELEC", how I can I test it with "Tanix TX6" img, what is the steps, can I burn the img directly with "phoenixcard" or what exactly the steps/
No need for any Allwinner tools. Just write the img to the sd card with dd, etcher, win32diskimager any tool writing the image bit for bit to your card. Then enther the sd into its slot and power up the box.
It really seems s912 is quite abandoned everywhere. Tried building meta-meson for gxm-q200 and after a couple of hours of boiling my ancient i7 it failed on compiling u-boot.
I've had more success using the VIM2 dts with random boxes than the Q200/Q201 ones. That's also true of boot firmware - the 'vim2' suffix image on our test server is for emmc installs and has mainline u-boot in the imaage, but to test that you'll need to erase emmc first else the box will always find BL2 in emmc and use it.
Giving up for the moment trying again with the next kernel version, if I can spare some time
chewitt just one more question regarding the dtb for the x92.
I tried to research which one works, as so far I wasn't able to boot any mainline kernel, at least I was not able to verify its running without a serial connection...
I checked DTS in linus' tree of q200, q201 and tronsmart vega s96, where I stumbled over your name.
If I see it correctly both eval boards are identical except for ethernet phy and buttons. Although the X92 is often considered a q201 also the factory image and the build.prop indicate in this direction, CE uses a q200 2g dtb, and as the box has a GETH port it seems more like a q200 or a vega (with most likely wrong IR hints in dts).
Just confused how I could make it output anything non black on hdmi and repurpose it as a dvb-c recorder in the medium term...
C2 (GXBB) has a different u-boot signing process to an S912 (GXM) device, but in terms of how the signed u-boot is written to a bootable SD card (or emmc module) it's the same
thanks will check this out, would be sad loosing this box just now as panfrost eliminates the main reason for its uselessness
Just as a side note: android didn't start failing to boot on its own
chewitt thanks that makes sense, and I will definitely do that now.
In fact it seems it was not the EMMC but my failed attempt on creating a proper recovery SD card. The second attempt worked and the box is now again running Android on EMMC turns out the image used was "fully loaded" now have to clean it, then can try experimenting with booting LE from stick or card.
Do you by accident happen to know where in the EMMC the factory uboot is located? Compared to Allwinner this is just complicated and risky and the odroid seems to completely do away with all that stuff, by having the EMMC removable for flashing.
Whatever its a chance to learn more...
Thanks tried it didn't seem to work. Will try some more variations of this once I get some spare time...
Seems I managed to semi brick my S912 based X92. It just starts up to a semi working stock recovery, no luck with booting anything at all. Toothpick won't help either, also weird tricks with amlogic card creators, armbian and so on.
Then I already gave up for the moment, I tried the other elec (right kernel 3.14 yuck) and oh wonder it boots from usb, as if there wouldn't be anything else to expect from a bricked box.
Has anyone a hint what I could try to make anything other than this boot? Android, LE, Armbian, *insert obscure rom here*?
I never got clever from those aml_autoscript discussions, and whenever this pops up it seems the one who asks gets silenced and pointed to the usb tool, which doesn't work for me for various reasons.
What do you mean by active? Mali is GPU and without it, you wouldn't see GUI, ever. But if you mean if mesa is used, yes it is. Binary driver was replaced few months back with mesa.
Regarding deinterlacing, no it's not in yet. It needs some more debugging.
Sorry of course i meant the lima driver, not the mali hw. I suppose by mesa you refer to lima?
Its just too exciting seeing how many communities are working hand in hand on mainlining all aspects of SOCs. Now seems pine phone is about to get embedded controller support (crust).
I wish this would also happen at the same pace with other vendors SOCs.
