Working dtb for X96 Max Plus Q2 and X96 Air Q1000

[danboid]

Using the attached .dtb file I get working ethernet, wifi and bluetooth on both my X96 Max Plus Q2 and my X96 Air Q1000, which both use the Qualcomm qca9377 wifi chipset or a clone of it. I extracted this dtb from the Manjaro linux-odroid kernel then tweaked it to get bluetooth working.

meson-g12a-x96-max-plus-q2.dtb.zip

[danboid]

meson-g12a-x96-max-rmii.dtb gives me working wifi but no ethernet on these boxes whilst the meson-g12a-x96-max.dtb in Armbian doesn't boot at all on the X96 Max Plus Q2 / X96 Air Q1000.

It seems the X96 Air Q1000 is pretty much the same as a X96 Max Plus Q2 but with an extra USB 2.0 port.

[danboid]

What's interesting is that after I got bluetooth working with this dtb under Armbian, I tried the same dtb under Manjaro but X96 onboard bluetooth isn't working under Manjaro.

[danboid]

I've also uploaded this dtb to https://github.com/danboid/meson-sm1-sei610-qca9377-bt

[ophub]

thank you for your sharing.

This dts file, can you find out the difference between it and the current meson-g12a-x96-max-plus.dts? This creates a separate dtb alone.
This decompilation is not conducive to maintenance, and cannot take into account the continuous upgrade of the kernel. The source code for this dtb should be in the Manjaro source/patch.

[danboid]

Here is the original meson-g12a-x96-max.dtb from the Manjaro linux-odroid kernel. This doesn't have working bluetooth,

The meson-g12a-x96-max.dtb included with Armbian doesn't boot at all on my X96 boxes. Also
worth noting is that linux-odroid doesn't include a meson-sm1-x96-max-plus.dtb which was the Armbian dtb that worked the best with these two TVBs.

I realise X96 Max is a different model and supposedly uses a different SoC to X96 Max Plus but the meson-g12a-x96-max.dtb from Manjaro is the dtb that currently works the best for these boxes.

meson-g12a-x96-max.dtb.zip

[danboid]

I have done a diff between meson-g12a-x96-max.dts from Manjaro and the meson-g12a-x96-max.dts from Armbian and they don't have much in common

X96-Max-dts-files.zip

[danboid]

Interesting!

I re-installed Armbian using the latest image ( Armbian_22.08.0_Aml_s905x3_jammy_5.10.120_server_2022.06.06.img ) and now wifi is working on my X96 boxes when using meson-sm1-x96-max-plus.dtb! This wasn't the case a few days ago so something has changed.

However, I've not been able to get bluetooth working by modifying meson-sm1-x96-max-plus.dtb yet.

[ophub]

But the kernel configuration has not changed at all

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[danboid]

[danboid]

Are we not going to be able to include my custom dtb in Armbian then?

[danboid]

It seems meson-g12a-x96-max-plus-q2.dtb only fully works with your 5.15 kernels. Wifi and BT work on my X96 TVBs when I use it under 5.10.120 but ethernet does not. I have to use meson-g12a-x96-max-plus-q2.dtb with the Armbian 5.15 series kernels to get working ethernet, wifi and bluetooth.

[danboid]

I have updated the README of https://github.com/danboid/meson-sm1-sei610-qca9377-bt to include the kernel compatibility notes.

[danboid]

It seems meson-g12a-x96-max-plus-q2.dtb only fully works with your 5.15 kernels. Wifi and BT work on my X96 TVBs when I use it under 5.10.120 but ethernet does not. I have to use meson-g12a-x96-max-plus-q2.dtb with the Armbian 5.15 series kernels to get working ethernet, wifi and bluetooth.