Questions about compiling OpenELEC for i386

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.

http://sprunge.us/N6I3rt

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:

http://sprunge.us/6xgqEz

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 1

I 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.

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:

OpenELEC.tv-6.0.3-i386.tar

Just unpack the file to overwrite over OpenELEC 6.0.3 source code.

BTW, the building environment is Ubuntu 16 64 bit VM.

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.