First of all thanks for the samples! I have made available the first EmuELEC test image for the Radxa Zero. I am using the 4GB version for this video but the 2GB should also work the same, 1GB might work but you may run into some slight issues.
I am very impressed by the performance of this board considering the size, I have a video I will upload soon, I just need to find time to edit it.
In case you don’t know about EmuELEC, it uses CoreELEC as base and it’s basically a RetroPie system for Amlogic devices (and some others here and there), It’s made specifically to be able to emulate retro games.
I hope a 5-7" screen that solders to the GPIO becomes available sometime in the future because I think this board could really make a nice DIY handheld console.
Yeah just me as prob wouldn’t work anyway but was just comparing to zero/pi3A+ so got a 512mb with no eMMC.
I never really expected much but struggled to get any image to boot I should try the Android but just waiting as its just a early sample at this stage.
Yeah linux image writer on Ubuntu usually works just like etcher usually if you want another OS to write as also you can convert the DTS and have a look at the file system natively.
I was more interested in Linux and trying out Arm NN to use the Mali as Ai co-processor as that is also another advantage over the Raspberry Zero/3A+
I must admit your emulator has intrigued me and also wondering about a handheld and likely to get a 2gb/eMMC version for that, but waiting for any revisions before anymore purchases.
Could you update the image using u-boot.sd.bin for the image generation by default? So that Zero without emmc can boot. For zero with eMMC, the bootloader in emmc-boot0 can also load and boot it.
I don’t think that is the issue… 512MB of ram is not going to work on EmuELEC no matter what I do. Minimum is 1GB and that is stretching it.
As fot the u-boot-sd.bin, remember the base OS of EmuELEC is CoreELEC so the same issues they have with this are the same I have with boot.ini and such. But I can give it a try and report back if success.
Its just to see if it will even try to boot shanti.
I noticed in the github documentation it shows the serial console connection and just spent the last hour trying to find my usb/tty and when it turns up might be able to say more than its just not booting.
I think I will give in for now as can not even find where I noticed the serial console info
I ordered a 2gb and will wait until there is a sd based lite version of debian or ubuntu with the 512mb board
I think we need to push CoreELEC to use sd booting as well. We have added the boot.ini support in the android bootloader, so no matter boot.ini in eMMC or SD card, we can always support it.
if you ssh as root:emuelec usually I put a watch -n1 infront of the cat command to get an autoupdate.
I think that is one of the updates that might be required as throught the ui seem to remember they are currently not working but should be a fairly simple change.
