Allwinner drivers for Linux?

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Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life! :)

I'd like to revive an old android tablet by either reinstalling the stock firmware/image or a custom ROM. I've been doing my homework, which means I've researched on how the process is done, and already have the tools https://androiddatahost.com/350a2, except for one thing; allwinner drivers. Which are necessary to be able to use the tool livesuite. I'm not sure whether they're already available in my system, endeavour, or if they have to be installed/enabled. Looking for allwinner with pacman gives this
Code:
 pacman -Ss allwinner
community/sunxi-tools 1.4.2-3
and then
Code:
pacman -Si sunxi-tools
Repository : community
Name : sunxi-tools
Version : 1.4.2-3
Description : A collection of command line tools for ARM devices with Allwinner SoCs
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-tools
Licenses : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : Nothing
Depends on : libusb
Optional dependencies : None
Conflicts with : None
Replaces : Nothing
Download size : 43.89 KiB
Installation size : 154.20 KiB
Maintainer : Jelle van der Waa <[email protected]>
Created on : Thu 07 May 2020 08:01:09 AM
Validated by : Sum MD5 Sum SHA-256 Signature
And here's the git repo https://github.com/linux-sunxi/sunxi-tools I wonder if this is what I need, but I don't see any reference to drivers.(just installed and have no idea how to use lol)

Any help/advice is much appreciated. Thanks.
 


proberbly safer to choose a distribution that already has ARM support [its not just a question of drivers but one of integration as well] android have allsorts of components not normaly seen in a standard desktop/laptop also usually a small harddrive and minimal ram.
 
proberbly safer to choose a distribution that already has ARM support
Hmmm ... Now that you mentioned it, I do have FWUL(forget windows use linux) .iso's distro around https://fwul.binbash.rocks/ Tho, I think I've tried with that before, and it didn't work; the device never appeared when using
Code:
adb devices -l
 

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