Nick A

I was able to compile a custom Armbian image for the Transpeed 8k618-T TV Box. I added a patch for HDMI and it seems to work ok. Still working on WIFI. The HK2735M wifi chip is compatible to the bcm4335. the Linux driver is brcmfmac, controlled by kernel config CONFIG_BRCMFMAC_SDIO and CONFIG_BRCMFMAC. The driver expects the firmware files under /lib/firmware/brcm. If you want to build your own image or view the patches you can find it here. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build I like to thank Andre Przywara. I would not of been able to get this far without his help.

Created a new transpeed-8k618-t_defconfig in the u-boot/configs directory. Add the sun50i-h618-transpeed-8k618-t.dts from the linux kernel to u-boot/arch/arm/dts directory. Edited the Makefile in u-boot/arch/arm/dts directory to build the new sun50i-h618-transpeed-8k618-t.dtb. Now this box boots into Linux version 6.7.0-next-20240111. I used the Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) rootfs. Edited the /etc/fstab in the rootfs to include /dev/mmcblk0p2. Patches have been submitted to the u-boot repo. Hopefully they will be accepted soon.