LE will boot with a 32MB /storage partition - no files are copied and *everything* is in the read-only squashfs SYSTEM file.
Some of the changes in distributions/LibreELEC/options will cause problems for a Generic build add ATV project/patches and adjust distro options · chewitt/LibreELEC.tv@ca3ee28 · GitHub
Thanks.
I see that i915 driver is removed. Now, I have added i915 in "distribution/LibreELEC/options" and building image is on the way.
This is the new log. The same problem seems still exist. I will keep researching.
Make sure you restore fluxbox too.
I don't know anything about fluxbox. Now, I need to survey what it is.
BTW, I found I that I missed to modify "projects/Generic/linux/linux.i386.conf". There are some i915 related firmware listed in "linux.x86_64.conf". I am copying these lines to "linux.i386.conf". The kernel is compiling.
Added:
Now, I have set WINDOWMANAGER="fluxbox". Thanks.
This is a new log:
The problem of driver file for i915 not found seems solved. Now, kodi can't find libGL.so.
I will investigate the issue later.
I have resumed porting OpenELEC 6.0.3 for i386. It's near finished. Now I am stuck with weird problem that I can't solve. The following is the last part of error message. I think it's "//" between "arch" and "boot" introduced a illegal path, but I don't know which scripts or tool triggered the error message . I need some advice. Thanks.
INSTALL remote (target)
INSTALL eventlircd (target)
INSTALL lirc (target)
INSTALL libftdi1 (target)
INSTALL libusb-compat (target)
INSTALL libirman (target)
INSTALL v4l-utils (target)
INSTALL atvclient (target)
INSTALL irserver (target)
INSTALL lcdproc (target)
INSTALL libhid (target)
INSTALL installer (target)
INSTALL dialog (target)
cp: cannot stat 'build.OpenELEC-Generic.i386-6.0.3/linux-4.1.18/arch//boot/bzImage': No such file or directory
Makefile:12: recipe for target 'image' failed
make: *** [image] Error 1I have found it. It's scripts/image. A i386 compatible line was ripped in 6.0.3 and I missed to restore.
Hi,
I am glad to say, I made it.
I have now OpenELEC 6.0.3 working the i386 old laptop. The performance seems better than OE5.0.8. H.264 FHD video plays smooth. H.265 playable, but laggy. That's better than OE5.0.8. I will move on to OpenELEC 7 and 8, after some resting.
Thanks for all the help.
Well done. Commit the changes and push them to GitHub so others can follow in your footsteps later.
I am noobie to Github. It will take some time before I learn how to make change and push the modification.
Just in case if anyone is interested in what I have done, I put a compressed file containing all modifications I have made. Some untouched files are also included in the package, it can be distinguished from date of file:
Just unpack the file to overwrite over OpenELEC 6.0.3 source code.
BTW, the building environment is Ubuntu 16 64 bit VM.
Well done! I don't know GitHub either, but I am sure that if you can manage to get a 386 build working like that, then GitHub should be relatively straightforward.
Have a look at this for some basics https://wiki.libreelec.tv/development-1/git-tutorial
Just post to say what I found today.
Lakka 3.0 (or later) may be better than OpenELEC for my purpose. It's based on LibreELEC 9.2 (Kodi 18.8), and already ported to i386 platform.