Hoping for Hardware Support... SIL 0680 PATA IDE

What about pata_sil680.ko is there anywayI can get it? Do you guys have a dead simple walkthrough. Its a shame I cant place that file in the boot directory and it just works

Quote from lrusak

The easiest way to adjust the kernel config is described here.

Development workflow - OpenELEC

I wrote that a couple years back.

Irusak.. I gave it another try and I guess I have to give up. This is impossible it seems.

I even tried to get opensuse to boot a special version of kodi I found on the suse studio site, it sees me Sil680 card which is nice. But It will not ID my graphics correctly so I am stuck even after installing a custom xorg.conf, which should have addressed the res issue. See: Kodi – SUSE Gallery

There has to be an easier way. PLEASE can you do anything to make this a lil easier? I will give anything a try. The differences between the guide above & Libreelec maybe part of the problem. It just will not work. I just need this 1 Sil680 and I'm done. Prob take you 10mins to fix for me and ive been trying to 3 weeks with libreelec, kodiubuntu, kodi on suse, all without any luck. Please help!

Quote from vpeter

You are in luck Generic: Add support for SIL680 PCI/ATA controller · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv@0379559 · GitHub

Vpeter thanks for pointing this out to me. I just asked for Milhouse to add it last night here: LibreELEC Testbuilds for x86_64 (Kodi 17.0)

I never imagined he would get it done that fast. Amazing. I know lrusak & chewitt wanna keep LibreElec clean but if there was some sort of driver plugin support/package management or other way that average user could add there drivers it would be great. It would leave all these extra drivers out of the main code base but at least people could add them if they wanted to.