17:35 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <floronto> hi, i am new to arm and im far from compiling my own kernel. I just bought an Anbernic RG35xx+ gaming handheld device and tinkered a bit with it. Just found out that its based on an sun50iw9. i dont know what this especially means but i googled a lot of things and ended up the rabbit hole by reading about Orange Pi and Armbian. Can someone enlighten me a bit? is sun50iw9 a specia <clipped message>

17:35 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <floronto> l kind of motherboard or what is it? how can i make use of this knowledge? if you can push me into a direction i would love to learn a bit and would like to try to compose my own linux on the long run 🙂

17:41 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Werner> sun50iw9 is the codename for the Allwinner H616 SoC. In terms of running Linux on it:

17:41 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Werner> I suggest you start looking around here: https://forum.armbian.com/forum/24-tv-boxes/

17:41 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Werner> Here in chat close to nobody is dealing with tvboxes/handhelds. Last but not least because of https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_FAQ/#why-does-armbian-not-support-tv-boxes-in-general-the-market-is-huge

17:44 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <floronto> thx for the quick reply. Im a bit confused because my Device has a H700 but im reading H616 all the time. Maybe they are quite similar and its not a big deal. its interessting to learn that the handheld is basically a tv box ^^

17:46 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Werner> All these SoCs sharing the same id: H313, H503, H513, H616, H618, H700, T507, T517

17:46 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Werner> https://linux-sunxi.org/Allwinner_SoC_Family

17:49 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <floronto> ahhhh, i was on that page before but i didnt understood! thx you helped me a lot. what do you think are the changes to get the Orangi Pi 2 Images run on my devices?

17:53 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <viraniac> At the very least you have to create a dts for u-boot and kernel. Then it would be all about adding a board config file for your device and a defconfig for uboot. Assuming all things are supported in the kernel, things should work fine.

17:56 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <viraniac> But I already know not all things are supported in kernel even when it comes to H616/H618 specifically audio, iommu and dma system is not there. So you will not have any audio if it will work. But that will be the last things to worry about.

18:01 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <floronto> thx Gunjam, that already to much for me to understand