Support for A10/A20

Quote from bob_janes

jernej:

My source from git did not have this edit. So I also modified line 137 in the patch as shown above and rebuild the image. But still same error. The device boots but exits to command prompt which seems to have fully functional linux. But when I once again ran kodi from /usr/lib/kodi/kodi.bin, I got the same error: unable to create GUI. exiting.

Looks like I am close to running kodi, I know majorkalina has run it on banana pro, so I should be. What am I doing wrong? First I cloned the main branch from your code and then checked out a20. Should I have used a specific version of the branch as outlined on Libreelec wiki? My steps were:

1)git clone GitHub - jernejsk/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI

2) git checkout a20

3) did the edit in uboot_helper as suggested

4) PROJECT=Allwinner ARCH=arm DEVICE=A20 UBOOT_SYSTEM=bananapi_pro make image

I know that there are issues with the video playing, but at least I should be able to get into the kodi interface. Looking forward to any help I can get. Regards.

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Hello,

I think that Bananapi and Bananapi pro use the same hw concept.

My way is:

1. $ git clone --branch a20 GitHub - jernejsk/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI

2. $ cd LibreELEC.tv

3. $ PROJECT=Allwinner DEVICE=A20 ARCH=arm UBOOT_SYSTEM=bananapi make image

Oh yes, you got it without myproposal,

Quote from majorkalina

Hello,

I think that Bananapi and Bananapi pro use the same hw concept.

My way is:

1. $ git clone --branch a20 GitHub - jernejsk/LibreELEC.tv: Just enough OS for KODI

2. $ cd LibreELEC.tv

3. $ PROJECT=Allwinner DEVICE=A20 ARCH=arm UBOOT_SYSTEM=bananapi make image

Oh yes, you got it without myproposal,

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Thank you majorkalina for your reply. As you know I did change the config to bananapi. The device boots fine, but does not play some of the video formats. How did your board work with kodi. Were you able to play mp4 and mpeg2 files? I appreciate any comments or suggestions.

Quote from bob_janes

Thank you majorkalina for your reply. As you know I did change the config to bananapi. The device boots fine, but does not play some of the video formats. How did your board work with kodi. Were you able to play mp4 and mpeg2 files? I appreciate any comments or suggestions.

Hello,

as I wrote in #17:

video playback is not good at all.

h264, AVC downloaderd movies; mpeg2 and h265 is issue;

h264, AVC some test videos from Samples - Official Kodi Wiki plays O.K.;

mpeg1 and xvid in avi and mkv container plays O.K.

Quote from majorkalina

Hello,

as I wrote in #17:

video playback is not good at all.

h264, AVC downloaderd movies; mpeg2 and h265 is issue;

h264, AVC some test videos from Samples - Official Kodi Wiki plays O.K.;

mpeg1 and xvid in avi and mkv container plays O.K.

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Thank you. I have given up on Libreelec on banana pro. However, I have quite some success with compiling mosterta's modifications for kernel and some other libraries to compile and run kodi for bananapro. See thread and my last post:

hardware acceleration on allwinner A10/A20 with vdpau and OpenGLES (zero-copy)

Regards.

Quote from bob_janes

Thank you. I have given up on Libreelec on banana pro. However, I have quite some success with compiling mosterta's modifications for kernel and some other libraries to compile and run kodi for bananapro. See thread and my last post:

hardware acceleration on allwinner A10/A20 with vdpau and OpenGLES (zero-copy)

Regards.

I don't think you are using mainline kernel and the kodi version higher than the helix.

For anyone who cares:

I tried to compile LE from master repo (kernel 5.2.6) for A20 banana pi with no working eth. I added

CONFIG_CLK_SUNXI=y

CONFIG_CLK_SUNXI_CLOCKS=y

and:

CLK_SUNXI_PRCM_SUN6I=y

CLK_SUNXI_PRCM_SUN8I=y

(CLK_SUNXI_PRCM_SUN9I=y

(to enable the legacy clock drivers)

to linux.arm.conf and Ethernet is working well now but video playback poor, as detected before.

Quote from jernej

roel jcstaudt Can you please test images from here: Index of /test/

Please ignore H3 markings, I just reused H3 build folder. At this moment, I really don't know if images will even boot.

I want to try on cubietruck,

How do I flash tar to sd?

What can A10 in theory achieve? Compared to lets say an H3?

I guess most A10 based boards fail because of the lack of ram...

Quote from jernej

Not much. This is more about making boards useful again.

Let's see what can be squeezed out of my old a10 tablet with 512mb ram and 4gb nand... Probably not kodi, but maybe replicant or plasma mobile? A tablet is not the most hackable form factor.

Hello. I have an A2000 box with the A10 chip. Didn't see any Allwinner nightly builds, as the blog post implied, and the most recent posts here suggest that the board's specs are just too low to even bother.

So.. what's the current status/intention/plan of A10 support? (Waiting for driver fixes? Looking for testers/hardware? Unsupported permanently? Lack of maintainer time/interest?)

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Hello. I have an A2000 box with the A10 chip. Didn't see any Allwinner nightly builds, as the blog post implied, and the most recent posts here suggest that the board's specs are just too low to even bother.

So.. what's the current status/intention/plan of A10 support? (Waiting for driver fixes? Looking for testers/hardware? Unsupported permanently? Lack of maintainer time/interest?)

Hi. Thanks for your work.

I have one of this too and I am interested on run Libreelec on it. I can test and report if needed