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solitaire
August 11th, 2016, 04:06 PM
Slightly off topic but :

I've picked up one of those android "TV boxes" it's running a Octa-Core ARM64 chip Rockchip 3386 (KR3386) with Android 5.1 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01G6MJM7C)

Just wondering if anyone has tried flashing the ARM64 version of Ubuntu on to it?

Or what partitions would I need to flash to get it running?

Partitions:


major minor #blocks name

254 0 520912 zram0
179 0 15388672 mmcblk0
179 1 4096 mmcblk0p1
179 2 4096 mmcblk0p2
179 3 4096 mmcblk0p3
179 4 16384 mmcblk0p4
179 5 16384 mmcblk0p5
179 6 32768 mmcblk0p6
179 7 32768 mmcblk0p7
179 8 114688 mmcblk0p8
179 9 131072 mmcblk0p9
179 10 4096 mmcblk0p10
179 11 1572864 mmcblk0p11
179 12 16384 mmcblk0p12
179 13 4096 mmcblk0p13
179 14 65536 mmcblk0p14
179 15 13361152 mmcblk0p15

Partition Mappings :


lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 backup -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 baseparamer -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 kernel -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 kpanic -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 metadata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 misc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 radical_update -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 recovery -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 resource -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 trust -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 uboot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2011-01-01 12:00 userdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15


It's working OK with Android, but it's limited to the APK's available!. I think it could be a nice little Linux server to take the load off my old linux box.
Their are tools out there to backup and flash the Rockchip CPU's but I can't get them to see my device for some reason.
So at the moment I'm stuck trying to manually pull the partition images form the device before i even attempt flashing it with another OS!

Any info or help will be welcomed ;)

*update*
Just wondering if an Ubuntu Touch install would be easier? Can that act like a generic server (without the telephone bits??)