Mele M5

The Mele M5 is an A20 based upgrade to the Mele A1000 family of set-top-boxes. The Mele M5 shares the same case as the Mele A1000, but uses the same motherboard as the A3700, but with an A20 SoC.

= Identification = The manufacturer name and model-number are clearly printed on a label on the bottom of the device. Pictures to come.

= Sunxi support =

Current status
I currently have u-boot functioning and am working on a functional kernel. I now also have a kernel booting that supports ethernet, wifi, SD cards, and SATA, but am still working on getting the NAND drives to work properly. Patches will be submitted once I have the device fully operational.

Manual build

 * For building u-boot, use the "" target.
 * The .fex file can be found in sunxi-boards as MANUFACTURER_DEVICE.fex

Everything else is the same as the manual build howto.

= Tips, Tricks, Caveats =

FEL mode
The Mele A1000 can be put into FEL mode by shorting jumper 11K1. I haven't tried this on the M5 yet.

= Adding a serial port =



Device disassembly
Trivially unscrew 4 screws.

Locating the UART
The Mele has a 4 pin 2.0 pitch JST-xH connector available for its UART0 port. This is the same as some 90s analog audio cables which ran from a CDROM to the sound card. More information is available at our UART howto.

= Pictures =

= Also known as =

Like the Mele A1000 family, the Mele M5 appears to have 2 A20 based siblings; the M3 and M6.

= See also =


 * Mele A1000: The original A10 based Mele
 * Mele A1000G Quad: A quad-core A31 based Mele.