I’ve followed the instructions on https://github.com/BPI-SINOVOIP/BPI-M3-bsp to build the kernel by choosing option “5. BPI_M3_USB_1080P”, followed by “1. Build all, uboot and kernel and pack to download images.”, and I got the compiled files in the Downloads folder
Next I put the sdcard into the BPI-M3 and when I boot it I see no video output, and the green light on the board flashes twice, stops, flashes twice again, and the BPI shuts off. What am I missing?
The information that you provided on Github isn’t working, and as a customer who purchased several of your M3 boards it is frustrating that you provide no assistance.
I think that looking at the serial console might help you a lot with early boot issues. I’ve never tried it on the BPi products but that’s how I get going on the other eval/embedded boards.
@sinovoip / @BPI_Justin / @bpisupport Is this really how you treat your customers who pay for your products? I’m starting to wonder if you guys actually know how to do this…
It is hard to explain to someone that amd64 and arm64 are totally different architecture. The fact that you even try this, suggest that you should not buy this type of boards in the 1st place.
Of course I know the arch differences between arm/amd–my bad, the link was an example to see if these guys would understand what it is that I’m looking for…
@BPI_Q If you read my comment above, the guide that @sinovoip provided is useless because after compiling the kernel it sates that we need to download one of the images provided by BPI, which is what I’m trying to avoid.
By saying that you have it running for 45 days means nothing if you use the images they already provide.
@sinovoip@BPI_Justin@bpisupport As I received no help from your shitty support I decided to go ahead and create my own base image that is clean and doesn’t contain all of the extra stuff that you provide with your images.
When I say clean images I mean that no pre-defined user accounts are setup–this is as clean as it gets.
As of now I have a working version of Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 running xfce, and am trying a few other images with Ubuntu-MATE as well. I’ll provide these images back to the community once I confirm it to be working well.
This is the current status and remaining work:
✓ BPI-M3 3.4 Kernel
✓ USB
✓ Wifi
✓ Ethernet
✓ Resolution up to 720p (HDMI)
✘ Resolution 1080p (HDMI)
✘ GPU
✘ Audio
? SATA
? Bluetooth
Unfortunately your ‘solution’ neither works for OS X users (since @sinovoip provides incompatible ZIP archives) nor for Windows users that use FAT32 (4GB size limitation so you end up with corrupted images anyway since @sinovoip provides only bloated and large images exceeding this size instead of resizing fs/partitions and do an auto resize on first boot)
