Can we expect in the near future, LibreELEC to support also Khadas VIM4 (A311D2) ?
due the rather poor driver situation at the AMLogic side its very unlikely to happen
(S922x, S905x3) Odroid N2 vs Khadas VIM 3 vs ...?
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appwizcpl -
June 7, 2019 at 10:39 AM -
Thread is Unresolved
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I have a VIM4 and currently see no sensible route to an LE image that runs on it due to zero upstream kernel support and a long (and not guaranteed to ever happen) time-gap until that happens. It's not simply a new iteration of the A311D (VIM3) chip, it's an all new SoC with some non-trivial IP changes (new USB, new HDMI driver, etc.) that need all-new drivers. CE can probably handle this device better since they work with vendor kernels that bundle those drivers, but even for them it's not so straightforward as Amlogic has dropped amcodec and most traces of older hardware from their latest iteration of codebase.
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seems like coreelec wants to support that.
Status about the future of CoreELECStatus about the future of CoreELEC With the launch of the last few Amlogic SoCs like SC2 (S905X4) and the upcoming T7 (A311D2), the support of open source…discourse.coreelec.orgI am interested how they managed to get access to the closed part of the SOC
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I'd guess through the same methods that Android uses, because that's the only way. It's only firmware that's in the secure world.