Posts by rellla

Ok jernej , so here is my feedback:

Booting works now with the nightly image (and my self-built one

I've got still problems with reboot. This seems to be board-version specific.

I own two different TX6:

According to https://linux-sunxi.org/Tanix_TX6#Identification it's the TX6-H 2nd version (with CS_H6_TX28_V2.7 20200616.L6 / RTL8822CS) - though it's just stickered with TX6 on the backside - which is the one, that doesn't reboot. I need to disconnect it from power and after a few attempts of reconnecting it suddenly boots again. It's not reproduceable how many reconnect tries are necessary...

The second one is a TX6-P (CS_H6_TX28_V2.5 20191209.L4 / XR819) with the TX6-P label on it. This one reboots just fine.

So, better than before, but still some reboot issue on the TX6-H (2nd version). Though this is surely no LE issue, but an upstream or hardware-specific one maybe this info could be helpful for you.

jernej  heitbaum Thanks for that. I'm building a modified version of LE by myself and will test that one soon. Would be really nice, if reboot also works now, as you mentioned. It wasn't working on the Tanix until now. I will give my feedback asap here.

Hi jernej, did you already find some time, to confirm the atf/rsb issue?

Thanks

rellla

Hi all,

i noticed a problem with Tanix TX6 and ATF. The box doesn't boot with ATF v2.7.

Reverting the two affected commits to version 2.4 solves it and the box works just fine.

Sadly i have no serial console available, so i can't have a detailed look, whats wrong...

Is this a known problem?

Regards

rellla

Hi all,

sorry for reactivating this old thread.

Editing the addon_manifest.xml with another package works so far with that command in the package's package.mk:

+  ADDON_MANIFEST=$(get_install_dir kodi)/usr/share/kodi/system/addon-manifest.xml
+  xmlstarlet ed -L --subnode "/addons" -t elem -n "addon" -v "service.locale" ${ADDON_MANIFEST}

What needs to be done, to get the xml from $(get_install_dir kodi) into the image/system path in the end? Do i need to copy it manually or kick off the copy with a special command or need some other path instead of $(get_install_dir) ?

Thanks for your help

rellla

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Maybe you can send it upstream?

I guess we should bring the board itself upstream first? Or do you mean upstream libreelec?

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What do you do after shutdown? After shutdown you can only power cycle the board to turn it on again. You can of course try with removing "quiet". I suggest you add "ignore_loglevel" to get even more output.

I just do a shutdown in kodi and then disconnect the board from power supply. Then i reconnect it again. I still have to do some investigations, because on the HDMI input of my Samsung TV i get the black screen - but today i tried the same Box on a simple HDMI monitor and get Kodi screen again.

[EDIT]Update: After 3 hard power disconnects, the box goes to black screen even with the monitor. This smells like some random issue... I'll try it later agein. It's strange anyway.... [/EDIT]

[EDIT2]After disconnecting the board from power for ~10min, it boots again into kodi... Maybe this is a 2GB/3GB mem issue or thermal issue after all?

Btw, this happens with GitHub - rellla/LibreELEC.tv at eachlink_working, which is simply the Tanix Image with kernel parameter fix and the remote added...

With the other branches, i don't get networking up. But therefore I have to look into the dts for the differences.

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By device you mean board? Devices in Allwinner project are actually SoCs. There is no way to set board specific kernel options. However, you can make SoC specific options. Just move that line in options file in appropriate device subfolder.

Yes, board. Thanks for your answer. So best would be to find a way, how this could be fixed within the driver?

jernej: I created a branch for the Eachlink H6 Mini here: GitHub - rellla/LibreELEC.tv at eachlink-h6mini

Libreelec builds, i will check, if it works tonight.

[Edit]The image works. It starts, resizes flash and starts again. Kodi works fine - but sadly it doesn't come up again as soon as i did a shutdown or disconnect. I get signal on HDMI. It's kind of a console ... i can see my inputs with keyboard and remote, but thats it. No network, just black screen.

Would i get kernel messages, if i drop the “quiet“ option?[/EDIT]

Btw, is it possible to set LibreELEC.tv/options at eachlink-h6mini · rellla/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub depending on the device?

rellla

jernej: Ok, hdmi setting is enough, to get it up. And this is the keymap for Eachlink H6 Mini remote control:

# table eachlink-h6mini, type: nec
0xcc1d00 KEY_POWER
0xcc1d0c KEY_MUTE
0xcc1d01 KEY_RED
0xcc1d05 KEY_GREEN
0xcc1d09 KEY_YELLOW
0xcc1d0d KEY_BLUE
0xcc1d02 KEY_VOLUMEDOWN
0xcc1d0e KEY_VOLUMEUP
0xcc1d06 KEY_PREVIOUS
0xcc1d0a KEY_NEXT
0xcc1d03 KEY_HOME
0xcc1d0f KEY_BACK
0xcc1d40 KEY_MENU
0xcc1d4c KEY_TV
0xcc1d07 KEY_UP
0xcc1d44 KEY_DOWN
0xcc1d10 KEY_LEFT
0xcc1d12 KEY_RIGHT
0xcc1d11 KEY_OK
0xcc1d41 KEY_1
0xcc1d45 KEY_2
0xcc1d4d KEY_3
0xcc1d42 KEY_4
0xcc1d46 KEY_5
0xcc1d4e KEY_6
0xcc1d43 KEY_7
0xcc1d47 KEY_8
0xcc1d4f KEY_9
0xcc1d49 KEY_0
0xcc1d48 KEY_INFO
0xcc1d4a KEY_DELETE

But i still have the problem, that the box doesn't come up after a reboot anymore... And i don't know how to debug it without UART....

Quote from jernej

By "reboot" you mean soft reboot, right? Usually that means that kernel crashed at shutdown. Uart output would help

ok, good to know, thanks!

No. As soon as i have shut it down, either via menu or cutting power supply, it doesn't come up again. On HDMI i can see what i type in with the keyboard, but it doesn't go further. Network isn't available, too. I have to check that, but wondered if there is a simple reason for that behaviour...

I will check, if i need both.

The bad news are, that LE doesn't work after reboot. May it happen that there is done some update and my kernel parameters are overwritten again?

jernej: It seems, that the hdmi option is enough for me to get it started the first time.

jernej I can report success with my Eachlink H6 Mini. Though I couldn't connect the UART because i have v1.2 which is missing the resistor. While soldering i damaged the pads

But i simply took the Tanix Image and added "mem=2048M video=HDMI-A-1:e" to the kernel options. It works fine now.

Next is to get up the remote control and check if anything doesn't works as expected. Thanks for sour work.

Regards

rellla

Hi,

as far as i understood, the tanix-tx6 image should work with the Eachlink H6 Mini regarding to my resarch here and elsewhere.

Is this supposed to work ootb or are there any tweaks necessary to get it work? I simply flashed my SD-Card with the image and fed it to my Eachlink H6 Mini, but i get nothing on HDMI. The device isn't reachable via network, too.

If i misread it and the Eachlink still needs some work, i will probably try to implement it...

Thanks for any hints

Regards

rellla