minimyth2 h6 OrangePi 3 support

I was wondering how difficult it would be to support another h6 board, the OrangePi 3 (http://www.orangepi.org/Orange%20Pi%203/)? I've played with Armbian with this board, but not Arch.

Apr 05 '22 13:04 jimbolaya

Hi,

H6 family needs bootloader (u-boot) compiled for target board - so i need to prepare dedicated SD image for OPi3. I don't have this board to test - so i'll be a bit blind.... Let me try play with this. Stay tuned....

Apr 05 '22 14:04 warpme

Let me know if you would like me to test anything. I've got one of these boards sitting idle for the time being.

Apr 05 '22 18:04 jimbolaya

Ok - so beta for opi3: https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/releases/download/v12.0.0-v33-Pre-193-ge7a9d48089/MiniMyth2-armv8-master-12.0.1.r193-board-h6.orangepi_3-SD-Image.img.xz it is blind work of me - so expect issues....

Apr 06 '22 09:04 warpme

Thanks. It booted and I got video, but it complained about the network interface and audio.

It wanted me to look at /var/log/minimyth.err.log, but I couldn't figure out how to get to that. I assume /var is just /tmp and not persistent. There also doesn't appear to be a terminal on one of the F1...F6 keys.

Specifically, the error messages are:

error: After 15sec still no 'eth0' interface in system ...
error: check '/var/log/minimyth.err.log' for details.
error: MiniMyth2 can't identify/load AUDIO drivers. Please report this ...

After that, I saw the MythTV interface to set up connecting/setting up the database.

[edit] I also tried rebooting, but it didn't seem to work right. I never got back to the GUI.

Apr 07 '22 14:04 jimbolaya

Oh. This is bad. A bit strange that there is on audio.... OPi3 don't have Eth support on non-patched mainline kernel. I was trying to get it working - but it looks i failed :-( But missing audio is really strange for me!

You mention You have Armbian working ok on Your OPi3? What kernel? Are You able identify what patches Armbian applies on mainline kernel to get OPi3 working?

Key issue here is that I don't have HW. Adding support for new HW without HW is always issue :-(

Apr 08 '22 17:04 warpme

Ah. Hrm. I'll have to load the latest Armbian on there. I'm not sure how to get what patches it might have.

I just remembered too, the last thing I ran on it was LibreELEC. There was a non-standard build for it from one of the threads in the forum: https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/17565-nightly-images-for-a64-h3-h5-h6-and-r40-boards/

If you're in the US, I'd be happy to send it to you if that would help.

For Armbian: Kernel is 5.15.25-sunxi64

cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [sun9ihdmi ]: sun9i-hdmi - sun9i-hdmi sun9i-hdmi

So, no analog audio. Reading the the forums, it doesn't seem like that's going to be likely.

From dmesg: [ 157.775011] dwmac-sun8i 5020000.ethernet eth0: PHY [stmmac-0:01] driver [RTL8211E Gigabit Ethernet] (irq=POLL)

If you need extensive output from stuff like that let me know. I could probably arrange for you to be able to ssh into it if you think that would be helpful. Anyway, if it's too much hassle let me know.

Apr 08 '22 18:04 jimbolaya

Hi, If you are still interested in playing with mm2 on OPi3 - i uploaded v12.8.0 with 6.0 kernel....

Oct 10 '22 14:10 warpme

Sure, I'll give it a shot and let you know.

Oct 10 '22 15:10 jimbolaya

Any news? May i close this ticket?

Oct 18 '22 13:10 warpme

I apologize, I tried this earlier, but I think the SD card I was using was bad.

In any case, out of several attempts, I was only able to get video output once. I also tried a different power supply, but still wasn't able to get it to work.

I'm OK closing this. I've gone in a different direction with a MythTV client at this point.

Thank you for your effort on this, I'm sorry I couldn't help more.

Oct 18 '22 15:10 jimbolaya

Sure np. By curiosity: when you are saying "I was only able to get video output once" Is this mean You: -got it booted -it talks to backend -you are able to play video -after first playback something happens (what ????) is it possible to get "getsysinfo" results after this first playback? (just telnet, run this command and upload to me /tmp/system-info.bz2)

Oct 18 '22 15:10 warpme

I'm not sure it ever booted, except the once since I didn't ever get video. It could be my strange video setup which is HDMI to DVI-D in this case. When I did get video, it didn't seem very happy (it said couldn't initialize some hardware).

I haven't yet gone back to see if the device is still usable (maybe it got fried somehow). I am planning at some point to make an Armbian SD Card and see if that still works.

Oct 18 '22 16:10 jimbolaya