I'm not aware of any issues with CEC. It wasn't working for a whlie recently due to a wrong kernel config option but that got spotted and fixed. I don't use it myself though so it's always unknown territory.
I can see the correct BT firmware is loaded now. I'll be dropping you an email to ask for permission to use a real-name and email address for "Tested-by" signature when I send the device-tree and keymaps upstream to the kernel.
Someone needs to write a V4L2 demux driver before any work can be done on supporting internal DVB cards (and then there's reworking the demod driver, and the pile of individual tuner drivers). I'm not expecting that work to happen anytime soon.
quess i dont fully understand problematic, but is it possible to use work of alf1? GitHub - afl1/dvb-firmware
quess i dont fully understand problematic, but is it possible to use work of alf1? GitHub - afl1/dvb-firmware
No, it's entirely based on the legacy kernel, which is the wrong kernel. That repo is also incomplete, buggy and abandoned.
so basically all the boxes s905/912 with built in tuner are completely abandoned now, LE and CE not gonna make a support for the next version of kernel/kodi. missing idea of supporting hundreds of same boxes with only one ability to play online content.
as long nobody does the drivers there is not too much we can do
thats the downside of old device kernels (7 years old) that have no proper support "upstream", you can throw away your device because it doesn't work anymore with newer stuff
same will happen with every new device that just ships some bsp kernel and has no upstream drivers available
so what is needed? device drivers source so it could be compiled on new kernel? or?
so what is needed? device drivers source so it could be compiled on new kernel? or?
Someone needs to write a V4L2 compatible demux driver; all the other pieces (tuner drivers, demod drivers, firmware) exist (although not in the upstream kernel). This has been the status-quo for about four years so I wouldn't hold breath on it happening anytime soon.
Amlogic never licensed the Linux "libmali" libs for the T820 GPU in the S912 boxes and the hack to reuse the Android libs has a perfomance impact that was borderline on older Kodi versions and not really usable with K19 and future K releases. LE avoids that by using the FOSS drivers (which are not compatible with the ancient kernels CE uses) but that's a different can of worms.
Sure. There are lots of people wanting/willing to test but nobody has shown interest in writing a driver. As the FOSS development community around Amlogic chips is miniscule (CE contributing to non-upstream vendor/BSP codebases doesn't really advance FOSS) nothing is moving forwards.
Panfrost works fine on a mainline kernel, but the drivers use a range of kernel features that simply don't exist in the legacy 4.9 kernel that Amlogic ships and CE depends upon. It's a bit of a "between a rock and a hard place" situation.
