Does LE 9.0 support Khadas VIM AND Khadas VIM2?

kosmonaut_75 · February 19, 2019 at 3:03 PM

Hi,

I cannot find any reliable information on this, maybe I am blind:

Does LE 9.0 support both Khadas VIM versions, namely Khadas VIM AND Khadas VIM2?

Thanks for any help.

**Iridium** · February 19, 2019 at 3:07 PM Official Post

I believe LE9 only supports VIM1 at the moment.

Here

**chewitt** · February 19, 2019 at 3:27 PM Official Post

Currently VIM1 only. VIM2 support will come with the switch to modern kernels (soon, but not this week).

Kirk1984 · February 21, 2019 at 7:50 AM

Quote from chewitt

Currently VIM1 only. VIM2 support will come with the switch to modern kernels (soon, but not this week).

Just a quick OT question:

Does that mean that the 3.14 Kernel for amlogic devices is going to be replaced (Vim,Odroid C2, etc.)?

**chewitt** · February 21, 2019 at 1:17 PM Official Post

Quote from Kirk1984

Does that mean that the 3.14 Kernel for amlogic devices is going to be replaced (Vim,Odroid C2, etc.)?

Correct. We've been working on this for the last year and are now a couple of months from having things in a fairly decent state. GXBB/GXL devices are actually very usable already, GXM hardware (VIM2) needs panfrost to mature a little first (but also active WIP).

You can have a poke at current test images from balbes150 here:

kernel_4.x

Test LibreELEC images with KODI-18 for S9xxx

Kirk1984 · February 23, 2019 at 7:30 AM

Quote from chewitt

Correct. We've been working on this for the last year and are now a couple of months from having things in a fairly decent state. GXBB/GXL devices are actually very usable already, GXM hardware (VIM2) needs panfrost to mature a little first (but also active WIP).

You can have a poke at current test images from balbes150 here:

kernel_4.x

Test LibreELEC images with KODI-18 for S9xxx

Amazing! I read about that in the News/Blog but i didn't know that this is around the corner for amlogic!

mountbaldy · March 8, 2019 at 4:23 PM

chewitt

Any update on VIM2 support yet? I'm currently running LibreElec on an old desktop PC that is from the stoneage running the current Millhouse release. I'd like to upgrade to something that has a smaller form factor and with more processing power. The VIM2 looks like a decent option.

Thanks!

Cheers!

**chewitt** · March 22, 2019 at 9:40 AM Official Post

balbes150 has some mainline kernel test images that run on VIM2 boards using panfrost instead of the missing mali blob. Things run "okay" but panfrost has some OOM stability issues that probably won't be resolved until we switch over to a proper kernel driver. I think we're a couple of months away from something stable enough for regular use. I'd stick in the stoneage for a little while longer until there's a clear option