Posts by gonciarz

  • Radxa ROCK 5C

    Hi chewitt
    Thank you for sharing that detailed explanation; it's really helpful in understanding the broader context. I wasn't fully aware of how Armbian operates, especially in terms of its approach to vendor kernels and patches. I can see how their focus on industrial use cases and hobbyist needs can lead to some compromises that wouldn't suit everyone. Like you, I also much prefer working with changes directly in the mainstream kernel—it feels more robust and future-proof.

    I do appreciate LE for its clean and lightweight approach, similar to Gentoo in its philosophy of building from scratch. While it's excellent for running Kodi as a dedicated appliance, I've often thought about ways to integrate it more seamlessly into a general-purpose system, perhaps via AppArmor or similar. The idea of not wasting resources on dual setups is appealing.

    Regarding the RK3588S2, I misunderstood the relationship between it and the RK3588 at first, thinking it was a bit different SoC and GPU. Thanks for pointing me to the GitLab link. I have seen it before. It's great this SoC becomes so well supported.

    I'm not in a rush to replace my Odroid C2—it’s still serving me well for now—but I’m exploring options for when I do need an upgrade. Actually my NanoPC T6 LTS (RK3588-based with AV1 support) has just arrived, so I’d love to contribute to testing where possible. Let me know how I can help!
    But thanks for pointing RPi5. That may be a great fit for my family.

    Thanks again for your insights, and my apologies if I misunderstood or came across as dismissive earlier.

  • Radxa ROCK 5C

    Hi, I'm considering buying a budget SBC (~90-120 USD including all accessories to launch it) for my family:

    Tech spec: https://radxa.com/products/rock5/5c/

    There are two variants:
    - Radxa ROCK 5C (SoC: Rockchip RK3588S2, GPU: ARM Mali G610MP4)
    - Radxa ROCK 5C Lite (SoC: Rockchip RK3582, no GPU)

    Multimedia:
    H.265 / VP9 / AVS2 decoding up to 8K@60fps, H.264 decoding up to 8K@30fps, H.265 / H.264 encoding up to 8K@30fps

    Kernel:
    RK3588S2 is merged to mainline kernel 6.3.

    I'm not sure about Mali support. Google mentions:

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    As of March 2017, proprietary drivers for Midgard devices (including Mali G610MP4) have been packaged in Debian’s non-free section. However, starting from Debian 11 (Bullseye), the proprietary driver packages have been removed due to the inclusion of a free driver in Mesa.

    Do you have a support for this device on your road map?
    It has platinum support in Armbian.

    What do you think?

  • ArchLinux package for LibreElec-USB-SD-Creator

    It seems that an old dd works as a charm, so there is no special need for anything else.
    Initially I experience some errors writing an image and my SD card couldn't properly boot.
    Then I used the same card with the same USB reader on another hardware and it works. Magic ;)

    But, anyway here is a short description I believe should be published in the download/installation section for linux:

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    1. Find a correct disk in my case it was /dev/mmcblk0, but will use /dev/sdX
2. Check mounting points: mount | grep '/dev/sdX'
3. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M count=8
4. sync
5. download the image (e.g. LibreELEC-AMLGX.arm-11.0-nightly-20230204-7beffea-odroid-c2.img.gz)
6. gunzip -c image.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdX conv=fsync bs=4M
7. sync

    You may optionally verify saved bytes using a similar approach (just decompress an image first) :

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    dd if=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=$((`stat -c%s image.img`/512)) | md5sum
dd if=image.img bs=512 count=$((`stat -c%s image.img>`/512)) | md5sum

  • ArchLinux package for LibreElec-USB-SD-Creator

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    Thanks Robert, i've tested on Plasma Wayland and it works fine

    Thanks for a quick feedback.

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    Unfortunately shared Qt builds are simple. Static is something else

    I'm aware about it. Static linking is doable but requires some time to make it done. I'm not sure I will invest in that now at least not using ArchLinux as this is a rolling distro that rather avoids static linking.

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    To release official LE binaries we need to build Qt6 "static" to avoid depending on sizeable Qt packages. Since the codebase was bumped to Qt6 I've not stumbled upon a working Qt6 static build recipe for Linux.

    I updated the dependencies to QT6 and adopted the code.

    @herrmeier / chewitt Feel free to check the newest package.

  • ArchLinux package for LibreElec-USB-SD-Creator

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    Nice, but I have no plan to install Arch Linux to test a single package. If you created it, you need to test it

    No worries, I've just CC-ed you because you are one of the active members here. I've already tested a build process on bootstrapped system in chroot, but I believe I need to add there some runtime dependencies as you use other packages in your code, spawning system processes.

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    To release official LE binaries we need to build Qt6 "static" to avoid depending on sizeable Qt packages.

    I wouldn't release binaries, because this tool requires a root access. Distributions and package maintainers can support. You may just a mentioned in the documentation, that ArchLinux's package exist. It doesn't need to be official. It's ambivalent for me.

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    Since the codebase was bumped to Qt6 I've not stumbled upon a working Qt6 static build recipe for Linux.

    I will have a look if I may quickly update QT dependencies.

    I'll also test an old-fission dd. I believe that would be the easiest approach for Linux users.

    If we don't need to do anything specific for u-boot, then dd an ISO image is rather straight forward.

    I'll test it within few days on my Odroid C2.