By now, all major Linux distributions for ARM64 can be made to run well on TV-boxes, with most hardware working (provided a suitable dtb file is available). An example of this is Ophub's excellent adaption for TV-box of Armbian (which brings support mainly for Amlogic TV-boxes, but also boxes with Allwinner and Rockchip SoCs, see https://github.com/ophub/amlogic-s9xxx-armbian). However, many major Linux distros (e.g. Fedora) can be run unmodified on TV-boxes, as long as the booting can be set up.
Bootdisks: In order to facilitate booting of "generic" Linux ARM64 images (e.g. with UEFI+grub setups) I have developed a pair of bootdisks that can be used as a "sandwich" stage in the booting process (after vendor/resident u-boot) to boot images with a valid grub.cfg. These bootdisks contain the Petitboot or u-root bootloader and can e.g. be placed on SD in order to aid in the booting a generic Linux image on USB.
Linux images: I have also developed a few scripts to produce "vanilla" Debian/Ubuntu ARM64 images with stock/generic kernels, or special kernels, and there are downloads of such images available.
My Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/tripole-inc/bootdisk
P.S. I think it is time for TV-boxes to become more recognized as a "proper" Linux ARM64 platform so that they can obtain more support/consideration also from the major Linux distributions (like other ARM64 platforms such as the Rpi).
"Linux on TV-box users of the world, unite!"
Bootdisks: In order to facilitate booting of "generic" Linux ARM64 images (e.g. with UEFI+grub setups) I have developed a pair of bootdisks that can be used as a "sandwich" stage in the booting process (after vendor/resident u-boot) to boot images with a valid grub.cfg. These bootdisks contain the Petitboot or u-root bootloader and can e.g. be placed on SD in order to aid in the booting a generic Linux image on USB.
Linux images: I have also developed a few scripts to produce "vanilla" Debian/Ubuntu ARM64 images with stock/generic kernels, or special kernels, and there are downloads of such images available.
My Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/tripole-inc/bootdisk
P.S. I think it is time for TV-boxes to become more recognized as a "proper" Linux ARM64 platform so that they can obtain more support/consideration also from the major Linux distributions (like other ARM64 platforms such as the Rpi).
"Linux on TV-box users of the world, unite!"
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