From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: afaerber@suse.de (=?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_F=c3=a4rber?=) Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 13:02:57 +0200 Subject: ZoomTak UPlus flashing In-Reply-To: References: <851f5607-17c3-a811-6f52-80e1eac111b1@gmail.com> <7ce87c03-17eb-7ad0-9c0f-2541dca2b5f9@suse.de> Message-ID: To: linus-amlogic@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linus-amlogic.lists.infradead.org Hey David, Am 03.05.2017 um 03:39 schrieb David Marceau: > Odroid c2 device advantages: [...] > RECOMMENDATIONS > =============== > > To encourage more archlinux/amlogic s905 odroid c2 users to do more > newer kernel testing, here is what I would recommend: [snip] SUSE is clearly the wrong addressee for complaints about Arch Linux!!! My JeOS-odroidc2 openSUSE Tumbleweed images do use GRUB, making it very easy to switch between multiple kernels; the only part requiring manual updates for us is U-Boot. This is all Open Source and mainline (and we published a paper "UEFI on top of U-Boot" at Embedded World Conference 2017 - copy available on request). If your Linux distro doesn't use the existing bootloader mechanisms, you need to contact them instead. https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:OdroidC2 You specifically asked about flashing your S912 TV box, which my response (and the subject) was about. If you have other topics, don't address them to random people that happened to reply to unrelated questions, and pose your questions clearly, without top-posting. Remember, this mailing list is about the mainline Linux kernel, not about random "amlogic images", whatever exactly you mean by that. Providing pre-built images is what distros do, not the kernel community. You also seem to have some misconceptions about eMMC: It will be a chip soldered onto the main PCB of your TV box. Ball Grid Array (BGA) means that the contacts are on the bottom of your chip, so you have no realistic chance to find a "reader/writer" for it like there is for the Odroid-C2. Had you taken any look inside your box you would've noticed that... Which is why I was cautioning about making changes to flash and instead suggesting to investigate things in a safe backup made from your Android, on another machine. Regards, Andreas -- SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imend?rffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG N?rnberg)