hi balbes, does anyone know if there is armbian system for allwinner h616?

this is my tv box

Support for the H616 SoC is to be considered experimental at most.

the orange pi zero 2 has almost the same hardware, should the orange pi systems work on my tv box or am I wrong?

Give it a try but as stated basically nothing but booting and ethernet works. not even USB can be used at this time. Dont expect any support in this case.

https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero-2/

T95 needs different configuration of DRAM driver. Quick and dirty T95 U-Boot port with appropriate defconfig can be found here: https://github.com/jernejsk/u-boot/commits/t95

thanks. so i download the armbian image of the orange pi zero 2 and then what do i do with those files?

Edited December 30, 20205 yr by shacodelico

@shacodelico as was explained earlier in this thread support for the H616 cpu is experimental.  Also TV boxes in general are not supported.  So you are asking how to run a build that is experimental on a different unsupported box than the build is intended for.  If you want to go down this path then the expectation is that you have the skills to be building u-boot and kernels and hacking this together.  If that isn't your skill level then this isn't a path that you should be going down.  If you do have those skills then we welcome your contributions to the project.  But because you are working with an unsupported device don't expect much help in your efforts as the resources around here are spread thin just supported the supported sbcs.

 

Also, if you haven't already please read this post 

 

There is a T95 H6 version that works well.

Hi, does anyone know what device tree and kernel parameters work for the T95 Mini above (Allwinner H6)?

I think it is now in sort of supported devices because of orangepizero2.

According to Linux-Sunxi Wiki:

device support for many H616 SBC / TV box has been merged since Kernel 5.14.    It should be easier to get drivers integrated & working with a newer mainline kernel.

 

 

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Merged into 5.14

    H616

       PMIC - AXP305

 

New Devices Supported

   H616

      Tanix TX6s

      X96 Mate

      Xunlong Orange Pi Zero2

 

https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort

 

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