well, that was fantastic. i grabbed the latest Armbian images for the Khadas VIM2 (another S912-based SBC), grabbed the kernel from them and put it under the Void userspace.
on the plus side, it did boot. and it might be the first time i've ever seen the Mali T820 initialise properly in dmesg!
on the minus side, though, X doesn't work:
Fatal server error:
[ 826.091] (EE) Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all framebuffer devices
i don't quite know what that message means, but i'm fairly sure the kernel now somehow lacks support for modesetting
@millihertz There was an X server that could use generic framebuffer devices, maybe you should try that.
Here: https://xfree86.org/current/Xfbdev.1.html
With Xorg they've made it all modular, so I'm not sure how to do that anymore, maybe you should make a xorg.conf and set the driver to be used to framebuffer driver explicitly in it 🤷
@m0xee unfortunately i need Xorg for its direct rendering support... also i'm not sure Xfbdev is maintained (although i did make a bootdisk with it on at one point)
no matter, though, it's (somehow) working now...