Changelog for Rock64 nightly?!

flyingernst · April 20, 2019 at 8:26 PM

Hello,

sorry, I have to open a new topic, since noone gives answers...is there a offical (alive) develoment topic for the rock64 with changelogs?! I cant do testing when I dont know what to look for...I do all the updates usually.

Thanks,

regards

buximze · April 20, 2019 at 9:37 PM

we all know that the devs do this for passion, but a simple

"yes guys i/we are aware of the problems that you are describing on the rockchip topics "

or a "guys we do not support this board anymore"

it is enough atleast for me.

Regards

mo123 · April 20, 2019 at 10:19 PM

Quote from flyingernst

Hello,

sorry, I have to open a new topic, since noone gives answers...is there a offical (alive) develoment topic for the rock64 with changelogs?! I cant do testing when I dont know what to look for...I do all the updates usually.

Thanks,

regards

Compare the commit number in your image to the one in the Github page to see commits newer than it or the ones included in the image. Eg. b090091bb921 That is your change-log.

Commits · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

The daily images are all still using the old 4.4 kernel that is now discontinued since mainline v5.x kernel support is being worked on.

Just some of the hundreds of mainline patches that will be tested and merged soon.

WIP: Rockchip: add initial mainline support · Kwiboo/LibreELEC.tv@60355a0 · GitHub

The kernel update from 4.4 to 5.0.7 alone already contains a few thousand changes.

Some mainline kernel work being done on a daily basis.

Rockchip SoC list - Patchwork

With mainline support lots of things like 10-bit, HDR, interlaced playback, HD Audio have to be redone and for HDR, follow standards set by Intel code that have to be tested and still merged into mainline kernel. But if finished, everything will run a lot more stable and be better supported. All of this takes tremendous time and effect from several different developers.

Several Rockchip devices are tested not just Rock64, there is no special support for one device.

flyingernst · April 26, 2019 at 10:58 AM

Switchend to Odroid N2 and coreelec, sorry for libreelec developers, it is not compareable. I appreciate your work, but this time it didn't work out.

Nearly everything is already working there.

Will keep the rock64 for later libreelec releases when ready.

forsajd · May 7, 2019 at 11:28 AM

The biggest rock64 error is audio, via the AV receiver

that's why I bought the odroid N2

flyingernst · May 7, 2019 at 1:18 PM

I have everything working there meanwhile. Didnt test multichannel PCM since the last few updates, but everything else works perfectly for me (N2)

buximze · May 7, 2019 at 2:40 PM

forsajd the LPCM multichannel via receiver works flawlessely,

the stutters in any kind of media contiinues that is the major problem

meanwhile i bought the odroid N2

like flyingernst said, will keep the rock64 board for later libreelec releases.

Nunu81 · May 8, 2019 at 9:17 PM

I have the N2 for two weeks and it is incredible. The developers fix all the kernel problems and everything works as expected (including HD audio passthrough). Meanwhile, they are updating the kernel to 5. It's a good board