Early community images for H3, H6 and A64

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Allwinner project has been recently merged in LibreELEC master repository.

This brings following changes:

1. Nightly builds will follow soon. They will overtake a role of images/updates linked in this topic.

2. While nightly builds are not supported, I still appreciate a report for an unknown problem (I'll make a list of known issues soon)

3. Images and updates linked here will not be updated anymore

4. H3 nightly updates won't be compatible with builds linked here due to missing kernel feature (but A64 and H6 updates are fine)

Now we have a chance for stable, officially supported Allwinner images when LE10 is released. Until then, there is a lot of work to do.

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These builds will continue using the GPU the proprietary drivers or the lima drivers? I'm asking, because the other day I tried it on an amlogic s905x and the truth is that it's already quite good.

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4. H3 nightly updates won't be compatible with builds linked here due to missing kernel feature (but A64 and H6 updates are fine)

what does incompatible mean in this context? Do we have to reinstall from scratch?

What kernel feature is missing?

Thanks for your impressive work!

Orange Pi PC2 (H5, 1GB RAM) has one of the best price/performance ratios. And no built-in wifi, so that's not an issue.

Patiently waiting for working LE support which would be awesome!

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Updating won't work because kernel won't be able to mount squashfs image due to unsupported compression method (zstd). Nightly images will have this method supported in kernel.

I suppose you could update it by hand, but that's not recommended nor supported.

Thanks for your detailed response.

That means in case I would absolutely want to update, via the tar way, I would need a tar with new Kernel and old userland to enable loading the actual update...

Thats great news! Ive been running as a daily driver for a week now but I had a few random crashes. I dont see exact reasons why. Also some streams seem to have an audio problem because it only produces static. For now, I am gonna flash a fresh install and try again for tonites watching

Edit: If it seems like a good daily driver I will make a 3D print case for it + 3.5 HDD bay for you guys!

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I have basic H5 port, but it's not very stable. You can build it yourself, though:

GitHub - jernejsk/LibreELEC.tv at h5

You can build image by:

PROJECT=Allwinner ARCH=arm DEVICE=H5 UBOOT_SYSTEM=orangepi_pc2 make image

Reportedly it works good at 1080p, but my 4K test sucked. BTW, HDMI CEC also doesn't work.

lumpi I was intentionally vague. Just go with chewitt proposal.

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Build it by opi prime (please, add it in uboot_helper).

FullHD played good, direct sound output do not work.

But in general, this is good news, maybe this board will cease to be a brick with me.

jernej, the last H5 workaround release (v3) should be better with kodi; It can handle any rendering surface size. It requires some testing anyway.

I compiled the image for orange pi one, because jernej dropped support, so if anyone wants to try it out here is the link.

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noblock do you mean Allwinner H5: lima 1e80000.gpu: pp error (#73) · Issues · Lima / mesa · GitLab ?

Lima is not yet used for any SoC, but I'll prepare a variant with lima for H3 and A64 soon (H5 is currently not supported and thus not a priority).

This one: sunxi-mali/0092-mali-experimental-h5-workaround-v3.patch at master · noblock/sunxi-mali · GitHub

This is the same code, but it will fix on the fly the values generated by the blob.

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what do you mean with direct sound output? HDMI audio passthrough or something else? Anyway, did you try to select different sound output?

Yea, its HDMI audio passthrough, and I tried all the available outputs.

If passthrough mode is on, a distorted noise plays in the speakers.