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<benoitm974>
@chewitt thanks for your links this look very close to the spec on the box indeed, I hope I do have a 4G/32G/Gigabit ... I've read from russian blog than a lot of those cheap box come with "fake 4G Ram rom" on 2G actual RAM :( ... SHould be there by end of the week.
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<benoitm974>
@chewitt I'm not looking for wifi but I hope it will be a 1G ethernet and not a 100M :(... Thanks for the link to the git with the ac2xx dtsi, are you planning to mainline these ?
<chewitt>
there's a dependency on some dwmac ethernet patches from @xdarklight (the picosecond series) that need to be accepted first
<chewitt>
these are needed for GB ethernet to work
<chewitt>
once those are queued I will upstream the dtsi and any device dts based on them that I've accumulated by then
<benoitm974>
Since I'll probably spend time on the board once they'll be in, is there any test/work I can do to contribute there ?
<chewitt>
dump the Android dtb and share it
<chewitt>
this can be compared against other known SM1 devices
<chewitt>
and then it's probably a 5 mins copy/paste exercise to create a working dts
<chewitt>
if you are super-lucky the manufacturer used a broadcom/ampak module for BT/WiFi and it will work out-of-box
<benoitm974>
Ok and on the u-boot side I was first thinking to use the box u-boot with serial, would this work or do I need a specific u-boot for full feature on linux ?
<chewitt>
but most of the SM1 box devices are using Realtek/MediaTek parts that don't have upstream drivers
<benoitm974>
yes I think it will mostly be low cost chip :(
<chewitt>
are you familiar with u-boot things?
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<benoitm974>
Last time I submited to linux it was for a contribution porting my nas to maniline linux, I had to configure build u-boot for marvell armada chip...
<chewitt>
building u-boot itself is simple
<chewitt>
but this only one part of the boot firmware
<chewitt>
this has a description of the "signing" process
<benoitm974>
Yes I'm trying to compile as much as I can to be ready when the board will be in but trying to prioritise dts first if I can avoid u-boot since i understoof arm64 introduce trusted platform for eMMC usage if I understood correctly.
<chewitt>
as long as you boot to something and backup the emmc with dd, zeroing the emmc to force boot from SD card (for experiments) is simple enough
<chewitt>
unless you're unlucky and the vendor uses an encrypted bootloader
<chewitt>
(then you just have to restore the backup again)
<chewitt>
if you're lucky .. FIPs from other SM1 devices will boot the board
<chewitt>
see github.com/LibreELEC/amlogic-boot-fip
<chewitt>
if not, then you need to extract or obtain the acs.bin with the RAM timings for the board
<chewitt>
once you have a backup of emmc you can always put this on an SD card or USB to boot the box so recovery isn't too hard
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<chewitt>
soldering UART pins to the board is kind of mandatory for any u-boot experimentation
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<benoitm974>
Yes UART and SDcard for the experimentation was the plan. A/ dissambling/component(memory size check, etehrnet, wifi/BT ...) identification, then B/UART soldering, first boot, DTS dump, emmc dd backup C/quick test booting a prebuild armbian or other SDcard and then the console message/dts copy/paste challenge :)
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