I have this tvbox model as per the attached photos. I tried to run the image: Armbian_23.5.2_Orangepizero2_bookworm_current_6.1.30
but the error appeared: 
U-Boot SPL 2021.04 (May 25 2023 - 13:06:08 +0200)
DRAM:This DRAM setup is currently not supported.

I was able to extract the dtb files along with the  boot.img and bootloader.img. but I'm 
sending the files that I dumped. The link is below because I couldn't 
attach it here.from this tvbox. can anybody help me?

 

dumped dtb and boot.img and bootloader.img: https://we.tl/t-xp8WGoP80f

 

bootik316.txt

well, after many attempts I managed to boot Armbian on the TVbox with emcp chip, you really have to change the parameters in defconfig and recompile to generate ou-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin,but the internal network card still doesn't work from the ik316 which is the same h616 used network usb and the HDMI output doesn't work.
The latest version of Armbian: Armbian_23.8.3_Orangepizero2_b gives error after u-boot:
starting systemd-udevd version 252.12-1~deb12u1
[    2.600465] thermal thermal_zone0: gpu-thermal: critical temperature reached, shutting down
[    2.608985] reboot: HARDWARE PROTECTION shutdown (Temperature too high)

I used the version Armbian 22.08.6 Jammy with bleeding edge Linux 5.19.16-sunxi64 and with modified spl.bin

 

Edited October 7, 20233 yr by javaxsousa

@javaxsousa I would suggest to share your uboot defconfig changes so that it will be helpful for others as well

7 hours ago, javaxsousa said:

The latest version of Armbian: Armbian_23.8.3_Orangepizero2_b gives error after u-boot: starting systemd-udevd version 252.12-1~deb12u1 [ 2.600465] thermal thermal_zone0: gpu-thermal: critical temperature reached, shutting down [ 2.608985] reboot: HARDWARE PROTECTION shutdown (Temperature too high)

 

You didn't mention what was the kernel you used that gave you the issue. The error message is simply stating that your gpu overheated and hence the system is shutting down. May be your dtb needs some adjustment to make proper use of thermal subsystem and frequency scaling for gpu.

i used kernel: Linux version 5.19.16-sunxi64  with Armbian_22.08.7_Orangepizero2_jammy_edge_5.19.16.img, this version works  but HDMI ,network and audio not work

 

Edited October 7, 20233 yr by javaxsousa

Hello! @javaxsousa Could you please share the image you manage to boot with your TV Box? I have an IK316-EMCP_V4.1 and I've tried several images and none of them seem to work.

 

I'd like to to try the one you built since the hardware seem to be quite similar.

 

Thank you in advance!

@andre2b sorry my delay of answer this question , but I used image from armbian but I compile u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin and make this command:

dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/yourcard bs=1k seek=8 conv=fsync on sd card with armbian installed.

I attached a copy of u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin here, try it and see if it works

I didn't send the complete image because I still haven't been able to recompile it with the complete Armbian.

 

 

 

u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin

Edited November 1, 20232 yr by javaxsousa

Thanks for the reply @javaxsousa, but unfortunately it didn´t work.

 

I Downloaded the image from https://armbian.hosthatch.com/archive/orangepizero2/archive/Armbian_22.08.7_Orangepizero2_jammy_edge_5.19.16.img.xz , burned it to the sd card and run your command but I still have a blank screen

 

I'll keep checking the forum for any progress you or some one else makes, and if I can make it work I'll also leave a message.

 

Thanks

@andre2b

 

From what I could see, your TV box does not have the EMC chip, so I suggest testing with other images, because despite showing Ik316, the chip is actually an H313/H616.
Test is below too
https://github.com/warpme/miniarch

 

@andre2b all good? I have the same board you have (IK316-EMCP_V4.1), and I'm having problems installing Arbian on it. Did you get more information about this chip?

@javaxsousa Can you share the config file of the U-boot?

@buratino sorry my delay of answer this question, but above i put my config, i used "u-boot-2021.07" version

IK316-EMCP_defconfig.txt

 

@Matheus Gomes the chip Ik316 is the same H616/H313

Edited January 30, 20242 yr by javaxsousa

On 1/30/2024 at 4:22 PM, javaxsousa said:

sorry my delay of answer this question, but above i put my config, i used "u-boot-2021.07" version

I get this error:

make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'dts/upstream/src/arm64/allwinner/sun50i-h616-tanix-tx6s.dtb', needed by 'dtbs'.  Stop.

Where can I get this file sun50i-h616-tanix-tx6s.dts? I use the sources from the official repository u-boot.

Try this MiniArch image.. if it boots then you can copy over the dts from MiniArch to Armbian.

https://github.com/warpme/miniarch/releases/download/v20241118/MiniArch-20240715-6.12.0-board-h616.tanix_tx6s-SD-Image.img.xz

 

U-boot:

https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/blob/master/script/bootloaders/u-boot-h616/files/152-add-tanix-tx6s-defconfig.patch

https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/blob/master/script/bootloaders/u-boot-h616/files/157-add-tanix_tx6s_kingston_lpddr3_defconfig.patch

 

Kernel:

https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/blob/master/script/kernel/linux-6.11/files/0645-arm64-dts-allwinner-h616-add-Tanix-TX6s-TVbox.patch

 

 

10 minutes ago, Nick A said:

U-boot:

Thank you, but these are patches. DTS file I can't find there.

It's there. You just need to remove the "+".

 

I used this shell script command. Editing it by hand would take forever. This removes the first character on each line.

sed 's/^.\{1\}//' 152-add-tanix-tx6s-defconfig.patch > output.patch

 

/dts/upstream/src/arm64/allwinner/sun50i-h616-tanix-tx6s.dts

// SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0+ or MIT)
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2021 Arm Ltd.
 */

/dts-v1/;

#include "sun50i-h616.dtsi"

#include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h>
#include <dt-bindings/interrupt-controller/arm-gic.h>
#include <dt-bindings/leds/common.h>

/ {
	model = "Tanix TX6s";
	compatible = "tanix,tx6s", "allwinner,sun50i-h616";

	aliases {
		mmc0 = &mmc0;
		mmc1 = &mmc1;
		mmc2 = &mmc2;
		ethernet0 = &emac1;
		serial0 = &uart0;
	};

	chosen {
		stdout-path = "serial0:115200n8";
	};

	reg_vcc5v: vcc5v {
		/* board wide 5V supply directly from the DC input */
		compatible = "regulator-fixed";
		regulator-name = "vcc-5v";
		regulator-min-microvolt = <5000000>;
		regulator-max-microvolt = <5000000>;
		regulator-always-on;
	};
};

&ehci0 {
	status = "okay";
};

&ehci2 {
	status = "okay";
};

&ir {
	status = "okay";
};

&emac1 {
	pinctrl-names = "default";
	pinctrl-0 = <&rmii_pins>;
	phy-mode = "rmii";
	phy-handle = <&rmii_phy>;
	phy-supply = <&reg_aldo1>;
	allwinner,rx-delay-ps = <3100>;
	allwinner,tx-delay-ps = <700>;
	status = "okay";
};

&mdio1 {
	rmii_phy: ethernet-phy@1 {
		compatible = "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22";
		reg = <1>;
	};
};

&r_i2c {
	status = "okay";

	axp305_1: pmic@36 {
		compatible = "x-powers,axp305", "x-powers,axp805",
		"x-powers,axp806";
		reg = <0x36>;

		/* dummy interrupt to appease the driver for now */
		interrupts = <GIC_SPI 103 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
		interrupt-controller;
		#interrupt-cells = <1>;
	};
};

&mmc0 {
	vmmc-supply = <&reg_dcdce>;
	//cd-gpios = <&pio 8 16 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;	/* PI16 */
	broken-cd;
	bus-width = <4>;
	status = "okay";
};

&mmc1 {
	vmmc-supply = <&reg_dcdce>;
	broken-cd;
	bus-width = <4>;
	status = "okay";
};

&mmc2 {
	vmmc-supply = <&reg_dcdce>;
	bus-width = <8>;
	non-removable;
	cap-mmc-hw-reset;
	status = "okay";
};

&ohci0 {
	status = "okay";
};

&ohci2 {
	status = "okay";
};

&r_rsb {
	status = "okay";

	axp305: pmic@745 {
		compatible = "x-powers,axp305", "x-powers,axp805",
			     "x-powers,axp806";
		interrupt-controller;
		#interrupt-cells = <1>;
		reg = <0x745>;

		x-powers,self-working-mode;
		vina-supply = <&reg_vcc5v>;
		vinb-supply = <&reg_vcc5v>;
		vinc-supply = <&reg_vcc5v>;
		vind-supply = <&reg_vcc5v>;
		vine-supply = <&reg_vcc5v>;
		aldoin-supply = <&reg_vcc5v>;
		bldoin-supply = <&reg_vcc5v>;
		cldoin-supply = <&reg_vcc5v>;

		regulators {
			reg_aldo1: aldo1 {
				regulator-always-on;
				regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>;
				regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>;
				regulator-name = "vcc-sys";
			};

			reg_aldo2: aldo2 {
				regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>;
				regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>;
				regulator-name = "vcc3v3-ext";
				status = "disabled";
			};

			reg_aldo3: aldo3 {
				regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>;
				regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>;
				regulator-name = "vcc3v3-ext2";
				status = "disabled";
			};

			reg_bldo1: bldo1 {
				regulator-always-on;
				regulator-min-microvolt = <1800000>;
				regulator-max-microvolt = <1800000>;
				regulator-name = "vcc1v8";
			};

			reg_bldo2: bldo2 {
				regulator-min-microvolt = <1800000>;
				regulator-max-microvolt = <1800000>;
				regulator-name = "vcc1v8-2";
				status = "disabled";
			};

			bldo3 {
				/* unused */
			};

			bldo4 {
				/* unused */
			};

			cldo1 {
				regulator-min-microvolt = <2500000>;
				regulator-max-microvolt = <2500000>;
				regulator-name = "vcc2v5";
			};

			cldo2 {
				/* unused */
			};

			cldo3 {
				/* unused */
			};

			reg_dcdca: dcdca {
				regulator-always-on;
				regulator-min-microvolt = <810000>;
				regulator-max-microvolt = <1080000>;
				regulator-name = "vdd-cpu";
			};

			reg_dcdcc: dcdcc {
				regulator-always-on;
				regulator-min-microvolt = <810000>;
				regulator-max-microvolt = <1080000>;
				regulator-name = "vdd-gpu-sys";
			};

			reg_dcdcd: dcdcd {
				regulator-always-on;
				regulator-min-microvolt = <1360000>;
				regulator-max-microvolt = <1360000>;
				regulator-name = "vdd-dram";
			};

			reg_dcdce: dcdce {
				regulator-boot-on;
				regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>;
				regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>;
				regulator-name = "vcc-eth-mmc";
			};

			sw {
				/* unused */
			};
		};
	};
};

&uart0 {
	pinctrl-names = "default";
	pinctrl-0 = <&uart0_ph_pins>;
	status = "okay";
};

&usbotg {
	dr_mode = "host";	/* USB A type receptable */
	status = "okay";
};

&usbphy {
	status = "okay";
};

 

/configs/tanix_tx6s_defconfig

CONFIG_ARM=y
CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE="allwinner/sun50i-h616-tanix-tx6s"
CONFIG_SPL=y
CONFIG_SUNXI_DRAM_H616_DDR3_1333=y
CONFIG_DRAM_CLK=648
CONFIG_DRAM_ODT_EN=y
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_UNKNOWN_FEATURE=y
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_BIT_DELAY_COMPENSATION=y
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_READ_CALIBRATION=y
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_DX_ODT=0x03030303
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_DX_DRI=0x0e0e0e0e
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_CA_DRI=0x00001c12
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_ODT_EN=0x00000001
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_TPR0=0xc0000c05
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_TPR2=0x00000000
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_TPR10=0x2f0007
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_TPR11=0xffffdddd
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_TPR12=0xfedf7557
CONFIG_MACH_SUN50I_H616=y
CONFIG_R_I2C_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_SPL_I2C=y
CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_SPL_SYS_I2C_LEGACY=y
CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MVTWSI=y
CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE=0x7f
CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED=100000
CONFIG_PHY_REALTEK=y
CONFIG_SUN8I_EMAC=y
CONFIG_I2C3_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_MUSB_GADGET=y
CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_BOOT=y
CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR=0x40
CONFIG_MMC_SUNXI_SLOT_EXTRA=2

 

 

 

Edited November 28, 20241 yr by Nick A

24 minutes ago, Nick A said:

/dts/upstream/src/arm64/allwinner/sun50i-h616-tanix-tx6s.dts

Thanks a lot

So, did anything end up working at all ?

@Gustavo Gurgel You need an image with h616,  LPDDR3 and AXP305

 

@javaxsousa used tanix tx6s because it already had H616 and AXP305. He just needed to change u-boot's tanix tx6s defconfig to support LPDDR3

 

Android boot log 

[3140]DRAM CLK =720 MHZ
[3142]DRAM Type =7 (3:DDR3,4:DDR4,7:LPDDR3,8:LPDDR4)

 

So he added these lines

CONFIG_SUNXI_DRAM_LPDDR3=y
CONFIG_SUNXI_DRAM_H616_LPDDR3=y

 

He should of changed the CLK to 720

CONFIG_DRAM_CLK=258

 

So the new tanix_tx6s_defconfig for uboot should be

CONFIG_ARM=y
CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI=y
CONFIG_DEFAULT_DEVICE_TREE="allwinner/sun50i-h616-tanix-tx6s"
CONFIG_DRAM_ODT_EN=y
CONFIG_SPL=y
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_ZQ=0x3f3fdd
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_DX_ODT=0x03030303
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_DX_DRI=0x0e0e0e0e
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_CA_DRI=0x1f12
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_TPR0=0xc0001002
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_TPR6=0x33808080
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_TPR10=0x2f1107
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_TPR11=0xddddcccc
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_TPR12=0xeddc7665
CONFIG_DRAM_SUN50I_H616_TPR13=0x40
CONFIG_DRAM_CLK=720
CONFIG_MACH_SUN50I_H616=y
CONFIG_SUNXI_DRAM_LPDDR3=y
CONFIG_SUNXI_DRAM_H616_LPDDR3=y
CONFIG_SUPPORT_EMMC_BOOT=y
CONFIG_MMC_SUNXI_SLOT_EXTRA=2
CONFIG_SPL_I2C=y
CONFIG_SPL_I2C_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_SPL_SYS_I2C_LEGACY=y
CONFIG_SYS_I2C_MVTWSI=y
CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE=0x7f
CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SPEED=100000
CONFIG_PHY_REALTEK=y
CONFIG_SUN8I_EMAC=y
CONFIG_I2C3_ENABLE=y
#CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
#CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y

 

I have an Armbian build with miniarch patches.

https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/tree/v20250306

 

git clone https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build.git --branch v20250306

 

You need to make an Armbian board config for your box.

build/config/boards/ik316-lpddr3.tvb

# Allwinner H616 TVBox with 1GB of RAM and EMMC
BOARD_NAME="ik316 LPDDR3"
BOARDFAMILY="sun50iw9"
BOARD_MAINTAINER=""
BOOTCONFIG="tanix_tx6s_defconfig"
BOOT_LOGO="desktop"
KERNEL_TARGET="edge"
KERNEL_TEST_TARGET="edge"
FORCE_BOOTSCRIPT_UPDATE="yes"
OVERLAY_PREFIX="sun50i-h616"

 

You should be able to edit the defconfig patch at the bottom of this file and add your changes.

build/patch/u-boot/u-boot-h616/152-add-tanix-tx6s-defconfig.patch

Also change this line

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@

to 

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@

This new defconfig is only 32 lines instead of 36.

Edited March 13, 20251 yr by Nick A

@Gustavo Gurgel Try this image. Let me know if it works.. 

https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/20250306

 

 

Edited March 30, 20251 yr by Nick A

@Nick A Can you give me a step-by-step guide on how to install Linux on the ik316? I tried using the ISO you provided and u-boot, but it gives me a black screen.

Can you provide a picture of your board? I need the AXP chip number. 
 

Write the image to your card. Insert a toothpick into your A/V port you’ll feel a button. Hold it down then plugin your power cord release after a few seconds 

Edited March 27, 20251 yr by Nick A

@Nick A This is the board

@Felps I can't see the AXP chip... it's small chip on the board. Can you tell me the number?

How to use the u-boot?

 

@Nick A I believe this is an AXP chip

It’s the small chip on top of that picture.. it should have AXP###

It’s better to install a usb serial device and attach to GND TX RX on your board https://linux-sunxi.org/UART

Edited March 27, 20251 yr by Nick A

@Nick AWhat program can do this?
I took pictures with more details

Still can't see... can you just read it out to me. It's the very tiny black chip. Between your IK316 and wifi chip SV6256P.