Posts by Benik3

I added it as patch to the forked repo: https://github.com/Benik3/LibreEL…-plus2-ai.patch

And attaching the dts itself.

Yes, I tried to add this definition: https://github.com/jefflessard/tm…-max-1gbit.dtso
Same old vfd config works fine on CoreElec (for sure tested with CE fresh install).

But nothing. I don't see any error in dmesg, display service is also running fine:

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/display.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
    Active: active (running) since Mon 2025-11-10 19:42:36 UTC; 2min 34s ago
Invocation: d2c453e037584c67a01431b7fc534bc6
  Main PID: 986 (display-service)
     Tasks: 3 (limit: 863)
    Memory: 1.5M (peak: 2.3M)
       CPU: 135ms
    CGroup: /system.slice/display.service
            ├─ 986 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/display-service
            ├─ 996 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/display-service
            └─1201 sleep 60
Nov 10 19:42:36 LibreELEC systemd[1]: Started display.service.
Nov 10 19:42:37 LibreELEC display-service[986]: [INFO] USB LED trigger set to 'usbport'
Nov 10 19:42:37 LibreELEC display-service[986]: [INFO] LAN LED not found
Nov 10 19:42:37 LibreELEC display-service[986]: [INFO] WiFi LED not found
Nov 10 19:42:37 LibreELEC display-service[986]: [INFO] Bluetooth LED not found
Nov 10 19:42:37 LibreELEC display-service[986]: [INFO] SD Card LED trigger set to 'mmc0'
Nov 10 19:42:37 LibreELEC display-service[986]: [INFO] Starting TM16xx display-service in daemon mode
Nov 10 19:42:37 LibreELEC display-service[986]: [INFO] Time Colon LED trigger set to 'timer'
Nov 10 19:42:37 LibreELEC display-service[986]: [INFO] Time display started with PID 996

Any idea what I can check to help you?

LibreELEC:~ # ls -al /sys/class/leds
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Oct 13 15:01 .
drwxr-xr-x   61 root     root             0 Jan  1  1970 ..
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Oct 13 15:01 display -> ../../devices/platform/spi/spi_master/spi0/spi0.0/leds/display
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Oct 13 15:01 display::apps -> ../../devices/platform/spi/spi_master/spi0/spi0.0/leds/display::apps
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Oct 13 15:01 display::colon -> ../../devices/platform/spi/spi_master/spi0/spi0.0/leds/display::colon
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Oct 13 15:01 display::hdmi -> ../../devices/platform/spi/spi_master/spi0/spi0.0/leds/display::hdmi
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Oct 13 15:01 display::sd -> ../../devices/platform/spi/spi_master/spi0/spi0.0/leds/display::sd
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Oct 13 15:01 display::setup -> ../../devices/platform/spi/spi_master/spi0/spi0.0/leds/display::setup
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Oct 13 15:01 display::usb -> ../../devices/platform/spi/spi_master/spi0/spi0.0/leds/display::usb
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Oct 13 15:01 display::video -> ../../devices/platform/spi/spi_master/spi0/spi0.0/leds/display::video
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Oct 13 15:01 input0::capslock -> ../../devices/platform/soc/ffe09000.usb/ff500000.usb/xhci-hcd.2.auto/usb1/1-2/1-2.4/1-2.4:1.0/0003:045E:07B2.0001/input/input0/input0::capslock
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Oct 13 15:01 input0::numlock -> ../../devices/platform/soc/ffe09000.usb/ff500000.usb/xhci-hcd.2.auto/usb1/1-2/1-2.4/1-2.4:1.0/0003:045E:07B2.0001/input/input0/input0::numlock
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root             0 Oct 13 15:01 input0::scrolllock -> ../../devices/platform/soc/ffe09000.usb/ff500000.usb/xhci-hcd.2.auto/usb1/1-2/1-2.4/1-2.4:1.0/0003:045E:07B2.0001/input/input0/input0::scrolllock

display-service -c also doesn't light up any LED.

Hi, long time no see

I again played with LE and I tried to get VFD to work.
I saw on github that you already add display into dts for g12a.
I tried to add display for my box into dts (old vfd config was working on CE and is converted in the repo), compiled fine, but it's not loaded properly by TMC16xx driver.

[    5.904633] tm16xx spi0.0: Failed to count 'tm16xx,digits' property: -22
[    5.904657] tm16xx spi0.0: Failed to parse device tree: -22
[    5.904663] tm16xx spi0.0: probe with driver tm16xx failed with error -22

When I tried to boot LE 13, it doesn't output any error, I see the devices in /sys/class/leds but nothing on display. (otherwise dtb and ethernet is working fine BTW )

So I assume that the VFD support is not fully merged into the 12.2 (kernel 6.16) branch?
Is possible to build the 12.2 with the 6.17 kernel? (or LE 13 with Kodi 21)?

I just found, that I can't install LE to eMMC on generic boxes
But I didn't find more detailed answer why not?
I thought that LE use own u-boot? Or does it rely on some functionality from the Android part?
Is it same e.g. on BananaPi M5 which is officially supported for installation to eMMC?

I confirm that with this image ETH is working fine with my dtb

Here are also brcmfmac4354 files.
.txt is from Android FW, bin files are from RPi (with Android ones box see a wifis but is not able to connect to them).

Nope, that's the problem

Sure, here it is. Original Android use dts n.3
Here is also log from LE: https://paste.libreelec.tv/glad-elephant.log

For some reason, with your version the ETH still has the same problem with no getting the address.
I think it has something to do with the kernel driver, which you patched (which I assume is not included).

Because on your image:
LibreELEC:~ # ethtool --show-phys eth0
PHY for eth0:
PHY index: 1
Driver name: Generic PHY
PHY device name: mdio_mux-0.0:01
Upstream type: mac

On my patched image:
LibreELEC:~ # ethtool --show-phys eth0
PHY for eth0:
PHY index: 1
Driver name: ICPlus IP1001
PHY device name: mdio_mux-0.0:01
Upstream type: mac

Ah, the problem with the speed is, that for some reason it goes through WiFi, not ETH (even that I use IP from ETH in iperf).

Sorry for late response.
Yes, of course, I just wanted to do some tests to see, if it really works well

I found one weird thing. When I disconnect and reconnect the Ethernet cable, I'm not able to get more then 220/130Mbit (105/75 in FullDuplex) with iperf3. But both ends are correctly linked to 1G FullDuplex (checked ethtool, dmesg and my router).

Here is my dts:

yes, finally!

In the unifreq dts the rx delay was too high, after lowering it I got connection on gigabit and throughput is full when tested using iperf
Now I just need to get the display (VFD) to work.

I had some time again to play with it.
It looks like the kernel patch doesn't have effect to ethernet.
What I found, it's linked properly to 1Gbit. I can even see in my router log, that if offers IP to the box. But it's not received.
This also corresponds with counter from ethtool, where are errors on rx side:
mmc_rx_crc_error: 10
mmc_rx_ipv4_hderr: 2
mmc_rx_ipv4_hderr_octets: 270
phy_eee_wakeup_error_n: 31085

WiFi is working fine after copying of files from unifreq. Bluetooth also works (tested with Xbox controller).

Thanks!

Yeah, I didn't know about this problem when I was buying the box...

I will try the Linux patch of identifier, when I will have again some free time
I will also try to find and add the brcmfmac driver.

I want also try to load the armbian image, if the same problem exists there.

Ok, I have partial success

IP1001M works, but only in 100Mbit. What I found, it's common problem (in 1Gbit mode the eth looks working but it's not linking).

Now I fight with the wifi. From dmesg it's correctly detected (BCM4354), but it fails with
brcmfmac mmc2:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac4354-sdio.bin failed with error -2
which I found is also common and it should load default driver, which is not happening

Thank you for the reply!

I see, I will test it out

Yes, I noticed that Coreelec has some custom dtb, but there is also unifreq kernel, which has dts for Max+, so I will try it out.
I will also try to pull original dtb from the Android system to check it.

Hi.

I would like to try compile dts for x96 Max Plus (S905X3 with IP1001N ethernet).
I have dts for it, but I'm still fighting with compilation.
The box is able to start with meson-sm1-x96-air-gbit.dtb, but without any network.

I have working build environment and I made first image build without any changes (12.2).
Now I'm struggling with the dts compilation (I'm pretty new to compiling whole Linux).
I found steps for coreelec, but it doesn't work with LibreElec: https://discourse.coreelec.org/t/step-by-step…e-files/18792/3

When I tried to build the dtb manually (using cpp and dtc), even the air-gbit.dtb doesn't work for me (bootlooping, no display output).

Can you please share right steps to do it? I tried to search online but without success

Thank you