Amlogic S912 with Mali T820

[autominus]

Hi,
Does Amlogic S912 with Mali T820MP3 working on Arch Linux ARM?

Some info about Khadas VIM2:

[summers]

As thats and arm v8 device, and amlogic did secure boot on the S905; the question has to be does the S912 do secure boot, and if so has it been left open like on the S905?

You'll want to check http://linux-meson.com/doku.php so not everything supported, but isn't bad.

Then someone will need to transfer arch to it - I havn't head of anyone here doing it yet ....

[summers]

Oh yes - just checked the device trees that come on the armv8 kernel, it has : /boot/dtbs/amlogic/meson-gxm-khadas-vim2.dtb

So that side is known, the basic armv8 arm arch will work.

So the main hassle you have porting (and porting is what you must do - as the vim2 isn'y (yet) a supported platform) is porting the booting part of the OS. You may be able to reuse the uboot that comes with the machine (which would be good, as on armv8 thats inside the secure area).

On the secure boot this is a good read: https://www.fredericb.info/2016/10/amlo ... ot-so.html

As he explains what you are up against, but also how amlogic cpu (905) is left open. Not that this is how arm arch does the odroid c2, there it uses hardkernels signature code ...