RetroELEC Kodi+Wayland+Emulationstation+RetroArch (x86/XU4/RPi)

Downgrade to 20161209 works. Clean install of 20161220 gives a kernel panic. I`ve checked it on numerous sd cards.

PS. I keep your old builds for RPi. Oldest: 20121126.

Any way you could share it with me? The 12 09 i mean. Thank you.

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No solution, as I don't know what's causing it. There's a rebuild coming in some hours you might want to try that. I don't keep older builds around.

I was trying to clone your tree and make own build @ an Ubuntu 16.x VMWare Fusion vanilla machine but given compilation errors both for emu and master branches. No time to "debug" errors as I didn't have so much time. Hope to see Escalade compilation soon to test, if not I will try to build one myself at night!

Cheers!

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I was trying to clone your tree and make own build @ an Ubuntu 16.x VMWare Fusion vanilla machine but given compilation errors both for emu and master branches. No time to "debug" errors as I didn't have so much time. Hope to see Escalade compilation soon to test, if not I will try to build one myself at night!

Cheers!

Likely htop and nmon-system packages. I cannot seem to figure out why these packages won't compile on my Ubuntu VM but escalade can compile on arch. My only solution so far is to remove those from OEM depends.

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It will occupy a bit more RAM but that probably won't affect emulator performance. It didn't use to at least, but I actually sold off my RPi so please test.

I gues this doesnt taint the admiration i have for the work u have done, but i liked YOU more with a Pi.

So... do you intend to have one still, or are you sort of abandoning it or hoping someone else would tag along?

You might not require it, but get it nontheless... Pi is for MORE.

I probably won't get anything with ARM again either, and for what i use it for it's fully used. BUT, what Intel box is a good (cheap) bargain for you? (casefree is a bonus)

THANK YOU for the builds (When i fix an intelBook, my cousin gets it with controllers and all)

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No Pi is for suck. Really, it was never designed as a HTPC. It's a hobby board for enthusiasts. Sure it can play videos fine, but it can't even render the Kodi GUI without lag.

The Tronsmart Ara X5 Plus is promising, I've been setting one up as a christmas gift. It's a cherry trail device so the Linux support is not 100% mature, but at this point it's working very well. It's got an Intel 3160 BT/wifi module that supports 802.11ac and doesn't completely suck like the RPi's. You can order it with free shipping at $100 but I heard it's often discounted to $80. Which is around what you'd pay for an RPi3 with casing, SD card and PSU.

Dangit! Now you've gone and put another idea in my head. Like I really need to buy more gadgets...
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No, I sold it off because I think it's dog slow compared to Intel boxes at the same price point. I probably won't get anything with an ARM cpu again. Good thing that I don't require you to like me then

EDIT: All builds are done and uploaded. Merry christmas!

Looks like the Pi version is still getting a kernel panic.

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No, I sold it off because I think it's dog slow compared to Intel boxes at the same price point. I probably won't get anything with an ARM cpu again. Good thing that I don't require you to like me then

EDIT: All builds are done and uploaded. Merry christmas!

xel_arjona

Kinda hard to help you without the error output.

Thanks for that escalade...! I'm still out of time to restart the build process and have some fun there! hehe.. Regarding your ARM "good-bye" I second you for that! x86 arch are much more exciting this days with KabyLake's round the corner and a possible much better price competition with still mysterious ryZen's with their AMDGPU much more mature and open; all of it much better price/performance than the ugly mess ARM has become, where all the "good stuff" are still -patented- and forced to use propietary binary drivers stocked at old kernels. In fact, I see projects like retropie moving "silently" to x86 where quality emulators like dolphin really shine!

I plan to use my only 2 RPi's one as Home services (Asterisk, Home-Assistant) and the other one to revive a good old 1090p TV able to play some (s)NES and Kodi.

By the way and after you'r mention! Have you some miniPC recommendation for this holiday's in the price tag of the Pi's...?

Cheers!

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Dangit! Now you've gone and put another idea in my head. Like I really need to buy more gadgets...
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Looks like the Pi version is still getting a kernel panic.

Yup! Still a Kernel Panic at

kernel/workqueue.c:855 wq_worker_waking_up+0x80/0x80

Still not digging at google, but could be recent gcc upgrade made by escalade. I read 4.10 kernel have lot's of fixes for crappyARM, maybe BCM2835 fixes for new compiler!

Let's see...

Cheers!

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Any way you could share it with me? The 12 09 i mean. Thank you.

Sure. Grab it. 20161209

PS. It is an img file, compressed with 7z. I don't keep tar files.

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No, I sold it off because I think it's dog slow compared to Intel boxes at the same price point. I probably won't get anything with an ARM cpu again. Good thing that I don't require you to like me then

EDIT: All builds are done and uploaded. Merry christmas!

xel_arjona

Kinda hard to help you without the error output.

Ok, here I am reBuilding emu branch for your tree... this is the given error, aparently a the toolchain building process:

checking for readline in -lreadline... no
configure: error: GNU Readline could not be found which is required for the
--with-readline (which is enabled by default).  Either disable readline support with
--without-readline or downloaded and install it from:
        ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline
Note: if you are using precompiled packages you will also need the development
package as well (which may be called readline-devel or something similar).


Makefile:12: recipe for target 'image' failed
make: *** [image] Error 1

Readline is apparently not found (downloaded), even after a make clean & make image....

Hi escalade,

With latest version, Dolphin with gamecube roms is really slow, unplayable.
Can you reproduce?

Joyeux noel !

Bibi

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xel_arjona

You didn't include the full output, so I don't even know what package is building. The library is in your toolchain though, libreadline is provided by netbsd-curses and used by several packages. What distribution are you using? I'm building on Arch.

As for the Pi issues, I guess it could be gcc as it's the only relevant change. I wouldn't think it could cause such problems but can't exclude it either. I'll do a rebuild with 6.2.

Yes, I figured out it could be gcc building toolchain the problem too... Im building with an ubuntu 17.x vanilla VM. Maybe layter try to rebuild things again with 6.2.

Thanks for your help escalade!

Cheers!

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bibi

Can't reproduce, it's functioning normal here.

xel_arjona

The compiler version won't help in finding the library.

EDIT: 20161224 for the RPi2 has been uploaded, please test.

Still kernel panic