The default boot partition was enlarged from 512MB > 1GB last year to accomodate nVidia driver increases over time, and Generic now (since yesterday) supports current nVidia GPU cards hence the sudden size increase.
The fastest workaround is to use the backup function in the settings add-on (captures /storage/.cache|.config|.kodi) and move that off box, reinstall to create a clean instance with larger boot partition, then restore the backup. Beware anything outside of those ^ folders that you also want to preserve. Resizing partitions can also be done using e.g. Gparted on an Ubuntu LiveUSB, but it will be significantly slower (10x slower if not more).
The default boot partition was enlarged from 512MB > 1GB last year to accomodate nVidia driver increases over time, and Generic now (since yesterday) supports current nVidia GPU cards hence the sudden size increase.
The fastest workaround is to use the backup function in the settings add-on (captures /storage/.cache|.config|.kodi) and move that off box, reinstall to create a clean instance with larger boot partition, then restore the backup. Beware anything outside of those ^ folders that you also want to preserve. Resizing partitions can also be done using e.g. Gparted on an Ubuntu LiveUSB, but it will be significantly slower (10x slower if not more).
With support of current Nvidia GPU's now enabled. What are the benefits over Intel GPU? Can nvidia offer YUV ouput instead of RGB?
At the current time "you get output" .. what bit-depth, colourspace and colour-range I've no idea. It's probably not brilliant as we're forced to use the elFarto VAAPI shim until Kodi gains NVDEC support. There are also quite a few things to unwind/redo in Kodi's EGL rendering path to resolve. The x86 world is oriented towards RGB rather than YUV but this isn't an issue as long as things are being done right, i.e. fixing some of the limited/full range issues in the display chain; which is actively being worked on. So no advantages over Intel/AMD that I can see (both suffer from some of the same RGB issues) and I'd still advise anyone considering new purchases to avoid nVidia cards until more of the plumbing has been straightened out.
NB: Support for nVidia now means only GPU's that can use the 580.xx driver series; and we've intentionally held off bumping to the latest driver because that orphans eveything before RTX cards. Current stats show nVidia tiny user numbers on the 580.xx driver, though to be fair we have been telling users to avoid nVidia cards for the last decade so there's an element of "built it and they will come" in-play. I'd expect numbers to increase once there is clear direction on support.
At the current time "you get output" .. what bit-depth, colourspace and colour-range I've no idea. It's probably not brilliant as we're forced to use the elFarto VAAPI shim until Kodi gains NVDEC support. There are also quite a few things to unwind/redo in Kodi's EGL rendering path to resolve. The x86 world is oriented towards RGB rather than YUV but this isn't an issue as long as things are being done right, i.e. fixing some of the limited/full range issues in the display chain; which is actively being worked on. So no advantages over Intel/AMD that I can see (both suffer from some of the same RGB issues) and I'd still advise anyone considering new purchases to avoid nVidia cards until more of the plumbing has been straightened out.
NB: Support for nVidia now means only GPU's that can use the 580.xx driver series; and we've intentionally held off bumping to the latest driver because that orphans eveything before RTX cards. Current stats show nVidia tiny user numbers on the 580.xx driver, though to be fair we have been telling users to avoid nVidia cards for the last decade so there's an element of "built it and they will come" in-play. I'd expect numbers to increase once there is clear direction on support.
Thanks for the reply. I am currently running a N150 and its output is obviously RGB. However its plugged into a Lumagen and it prefers YUV. I would prefer YUV does AMD output that? Or are we generally stuck with RGB for now.
