Libreelec support ROCK64

polo_joe · August 30, 2017 at 7:56 AM

I saw that Kwiboo releases test builds for ROCK64 on github.

Is official LibreELEC support planned for this device?

Could you explain in brief what is currently working on this builds? (4K, CEC,...)

Thanks!

**Klojum** · August 30, 2017 at 12:00 PM Official Post

There are no plans to include this as an officially supported build.

It will likely be a community build just like the various AMLogic builds.

**infinity85** · August 30, 2017 at 1:12 PM

Tested it 2 days ago. Cec seems not to work yet. I don't own a 4k tv, so cannot say anything about it.

But automatic framerate switching worked during my short test. HD-audio is not there yet, but is worked on. The device speed feels pretty similar to Odroid C2. As it's a veeeery early stage, we may not expect too much now.

polo_joe · August 30, 2017 at 1:44 PM

Thanks for reply, did you also try livetv with eg tvheadend on same machine?

Quote from infinity85

Tested it 2 days ago. Cec seems not to work yet. I don't own a 4k tv, so cannot say anything about it.

But automatic framerate switching worked during my short test. HD-audio is not there yet, but is worked on. The device speed feels pretty similar to Odroid C2. As it's a veeeery early stage, we may not expect too much now.

**smp** · August 30, 2017 at 4:01 PM

Rock64 looks promising. If it will get a decent support it will probably replace my RPi3.

polo_joe · August 30, 2017 at 5:24 PM

That's also my consideration. LE support like odroid c2 would be awesome.

**chewitt** · August 30, 2017 at 6:32 PM Official Post

There are no specific plans at this moment. Kwiboo (and others) started Rockchip work on the Tinkerboard, but that only has HDMI 1.4 and broken CEC so they picked-up a better spec no-name device and then moved on again recently to poke sticks at the ROCK64. The main objective is RK3328 support in the OS (which leads to good Kodi/mpv support) and not specifically creating LE images for the ROCK64 or any other device. There are fun decisions to make about RK3328 and Amlogic in the mid-term future

polo_joe · August 31, 2017 at 6:26 AM

I'm curious what projects LE will have in mid-term future, thanks for your reply.

**chewitt** · August 31, 2017 at 1:09 PM Official Post

It's not really been discussed. Largely because most decisions depend on the next 3-4 months of Kodi Leia development.

dipswitch · November 3, 2017 at 8:19 PM

I was under the impression that general rockchip support was awfull, being availability of drivers and other resources. Just as it was on a lot of other soc brands (allwinner , mediatek...) Has this changed?

**CvH** · November 3, 2017 at 9:48 PM Official Post

afaik rockchip, allwinner and amlogic had realised that proper drivers and proper kernel integration isn't a bad thing and they work to get everything into the linux kernel. Everything is work in progress so don't get too exited YET.