The future of LibreELEC + S905

1st Official Post

    I noticed on the 7.90 download page it says "we still have a major Amlogic kernel change and support for the WeTek Hub and other Generic S905 devices to pull in". This makes it sound like there are plans to officially support generic S905 devices in LE 8. Am I reading this right?

    • Official Post

    Yes, and No :)

    We are working on overall support for Amlogic devices. There are at least 4-5 different kernels in use among different community builders and a dogs breakfast of Kodi patches that are poorly attributed and frequently hacked in device specific (not always reusable) ways. To make progress we need to get people working around a common kernel and patch set. It would be nice to have a Generic S905 build, and we are planning to move @kszaq's work to our main repo alongside the WeTek Hub (S905-H rev.c) and Odroid C2 (S905) to encourage community contribution, but the hardware reality of the general S905 (and now S905X + S912) landscape is not simple and little differences that are not significant to individual S905 devices are collectively very complex to handle in a single codebase. It may be the case that we act as a central focal point for development, but leave releases to community builders who work as part of our extended team and support the specific devices they have a personal interest in. So, there are plans, but not crystal clear plans, and with Kodi team starting to wrap-up Krypton development there is still a lot of do on the Amlogic side of the house; to the point where it's possible LE v8.0 might release with full support for Generic x86 and Raspberry Pi hardware, and "beta" support for Amlogic things.