Posts by kenmills

Hi there!

I notoced this line in the LibreElec wiki:
LibreELEC operate a 24-hour canary period between publishing a new release and the release being available via auto-update. In this 24-hour period you can only do manual updates.

Is this 24 hour period built into the LE OS, or is it something that is set on the server side?

I am managing my own branch of LE, and am attempting to roll out an update, from 7.0.2.003 to 7.0.3. The systems are all set to auto update, and in fact upon reboot, they all receive a popup that says "LibreElec update available". But the auto update does not happen.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Ken

Hey kszaq,

Yeah, I just read the release notes PDF where it mentions that there is a Mali GPU driver. I didn't look through or for the buildroot. Looks like the download is not available yet... Sorry to cry wolf lol.

Cheers,
Ken

Hey all!

Looks like a new buildroot is up on Index of /download/ARM/filesystem

Listed for support is a Mali GPU driver

Does this help us?

Cheers,
Ken

Ah, sorry if I am getting confused, so the FBDEV support is a separate issue to the libmali.so that is required to render Kodi, correct?

Cheers,
Ken

kszaq - So it looks like there were no updated/usable libmali fbdev support drivers in the latest AmLogic Buildroot (Dec 30, 2016)?

Thanks for all your hard work!
Ken

Hey kszaq, I guess there were no libmali driver sin the new buildroot then

Awesome, let us know what you find

Lol - I have a copy downloaded, I can make it available to you from a Canadian server, if you like? PM me for details.

I noticed that AMLogic updated their root build today, to include the S912 chipset:
buildroot-openlinux-20161230.tar.gz
buildroot-2016-12-30 - Amlogic openlinux
Supported builds:1. mesongxb_p200_release2. mesongxb_p200_32_release3. mesongxb_p201_release4. mesongxb_p201_32_release5. mesongxl_p212_release6. mesongxl_p212_32_release7. mesongxl_p212_4358_32_release8. mesongxl_p230_release9. mesongxl_p230_32_release10. mesongxm_q200_release11. mesongxm_q200_32_release12. meson8_k200_release13. meson8_k200b_release14. meson8b_m200_release15. meson8b_m201_release16. meson8m2_n200_release
Hopefully this will help.
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kszaq You are most welcome! The fact that you were able to even make this boot with S912 is brilliant; libhyris or no.

kszaq, you are a legend! Thanks so much for your hard work! I have sent "coffee" money. It really sucks that the chipset developers leave these things to independent devs such as yourself, to fight an uphill battle.

Cheers,
Ken

Quote from kszaq

What was the bounty for getting LE work on S912?

thread-5848.html

kszaq, you did it???

You legend!

I noticed that AMlogic released a new buildroot: Index of /download/ARM/filesystem

Cheers,
Ken

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No, I think it's not. Sometimes stronger words need to be used to get through people's thick skulls. Buying hardware first without doing proper investigation on what the status of Kodi and/or LibreELEC is, is no reason to come here and cry like a 4-year old asking for a bigger ice cream like some have already done.

Developers are people too, with families and jobs. I wish there were more, good quality, developers for Kodi / LibreELEC, but sadly, that is not the case. We have to manage with what we got, and if developers say that they limited time, then you will accept that. Don't also forget we have plenty of work on solving bugs in our existing projects for Generic, RPi and other AMlogic devices. Some of those bugs take weeks if not longer.

So just take a couple of deep breaths, and be thankful for all the work so far, as well as being a little less impatient.

I would just like to chime in to say that, while you make a relevant point, you are also missing a crucial point.

Since most manufacturers have stopped manufacturing MX3-G with the S812 chipset, and have all moved to the new S912 chipset it is only a matter of a short while before the S812 will be unavailable anywhere. Sure, you can get a few here and there but not for long.
I have a business that runs on MX-3 devices. I use a custom LibreElec branch that works with the S812 chipset. However I can no longer purchase these, my only option is S912.
I have developers that I pay handsomely for the work they do to create my Software, but they are unable to do anything without the supported libmali with fdev support.

It's not a matter of jumping on the latest trend. The manufacturers are the ones jumping. We are left to deal with it.

Cheers,
Ken

I'm sure we will be the first to know once kszaq gets any news

Quote from kszaq

kenmills Unfortunately no, we need userspace Mali libraries. There's no need to look for them as I have information straight from Amlogic that there are currently none for S912.

What you linked is kernel display driver for mainline Linux kernel. I can assure you that when mainline Linux support is mature enough to experiment with it on LE, you will see a LE build with it.

No worries kszaq, thanks for your reply. I totally get it.
Unfortunately for me, I have a business based on a libreelec fork and I can no longer buy MX3-G S812 devices as the manufacturers have stopped making them.
Only S912 available.
I'll wait patiently.

Thanks for all your hard work!
Ken

Hey all,

Is this the AMLogic driver we need with fbdev support?

Looks like they got it working with HDMI now:
[PATCH v3 1/4] drm: Add support for Amlogic Meson Graphic Controller

Sorry, I'm not a driver developer, so if this is not what we are looking for, kindly let me know.

Cheers,
Ken

kszaq, that is cool. Thanks for the update!
PS - I was only sort of serious lol

Maybe if we all send emails to AMLogic support, kindly asking for a new build root ?

Interesting things cooking?
[PATCH v2 0/4] drm: Add support for the Amlogic Video Processing Unit

Is this the driver / fbdev support we need?