This has been debated in the past. It would be nice, but when things fcuk up (and they will, frequently) we become the bad guys who killed some users Windows install with pictures of their first-born child, favourite dead dog, etc.
Not supporting it, ever, sidesteps the issue, so 110% never happening.
Support for i386 was dropped approx. 2-years before LE existed (in OpenELEC days) and the last release was OE 5.0. If you can still find the installer image AND only wanted to play local media it might work, but I'd expect challenges with add-ons AND there will be zero support from anyone sane for releases that old. Good luck 
Do you know anything more about this company and this project?
Thank you for your reply. Good luck on the triathlon.
The company is bone-fide and has a long history of funding open-source development (often without much recognition) and the owner is someone we/me chat with regularly. I also know the name of the developer who's allegedly doing the work. However, until I see some actual code/output in a repo somewhere there's nothing to be done.
It's reliably reproducible with macOS terminal.app (at least for me) .. just try editing a large(r) text/xml file
WeTek Core(1) will not boot beyond vendor u-boot into Linux unless you limit the kernel to a single CPU in boot args (at which point the box isn't much use). It's a known issue for that box and something related to the box using OP-TEE (BL32). Other S812 devices will boot normally (not that AMLMX has much support for boot currently).
dtech images are a better option, although K18 is starting to date now.
NB: If you flag what firmware is requiredfor the USB WiFi stick it can probably be picked into an image (for long-term support).
There's some kind of buffer exhaustion issue and when you start flipping between codecs it ends up in a bad state. The same video that fails will play fine after a reboot. The drivers are unfinished work and haven't really been touched since 2020 so don't expect any changes anytime soon. There is allegedly someone now working on them again; but it's been several months since it was claimed and i'll believe it when I see actual code from the effort. The H264 codec does behave better, but occasional reboots are probably easier to live with than re-encoding a movie collection.
I'm effectively on hiatus; currently focussed on a new job and preparing for an Ironman triathlon later in the year. There is allegedly someone working on the hardware decoders (funded work from an LE friendly board manufacturer) so if/when that ever results in some interesting code to test in a public repo I'll think about resuming. Until then nightlies should have K21 alpha code and aarch64 kernels.
If LE was a normal Linux distro you could install testdisk or ddrescue (data recovery tools) but we're not and the amount of "Jumping through hoops" required to work around our packaging limitations will be more effort than re-ripping the movie from original media.
Intel/AMD GPU = Generic, nVidia GPU = waste of $$ and Generic-Legacy
1. Forget it, there is zero modern Linux support for Meson 6 hardware and no modern distro's support booting 3.10 vendor kernels from 2013 (that were already dated in 2015 when it launched and killed OpenELEC).
2. It's detected during boot and thus prevents other box vendors shipping product that used the WeTek OS. You can remove it, but then the box won't boot and there's no modern u-boot alternative.
3. You can run LE 9.2.8 via dtech images, but that's the end of the line for the box, and K18 is on the traliing edge of add-on compatibility these days (not that most authors switched their focus to Python3 based add-ons used from K19 onwards).
4. Only crazy debugging..
4. Put LE 9.2.8 on it with TVHeadend server and then use a newer client device to watch TV from it .. or use it with LE 9.2.8 to watch stuff on the same box .. or bin it, there's really isn't anything else it's good for (too slow for retro gaming).
I would be grateful if you tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Two things:
a) You hijacked someone else's thread to make a post about a different issue.
b) Your post is about a distro that I've never booted (and is not LibreELEC).
In summary: You're seeking help from the wrong person in the wrong forum.
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Are you aware of some kind of kernel editor? Something like the GUI in normal BIOS?
Kernel and BIOS are completely different things, but the answer for both will be "nope" ..
Use the AMLGX "box" image with meson-gxl-s905w-p281.dtb or meson-gxl-s905w-tx3-mini.dtb defined in uEnv.ini .. P281 is an S905W, which is a cost-engineered S905X. It will be limited to 1080p in LE.
bumerc ^ all yours apparently
Hi Chewitt, can you help me in some ways?
The only mac mini I have dates from 2008 and it's a complete pile of crap for Linux support.
So .. probably not
WP2 will boot from Android/WeOS using the "box" image or if you overwrite WeOS, using the WP2 board image. All has been written in the wiki docs. Kodi will output the GUI at 1080p max (hard silicon limit) but video can be ouput at 4K with caveats: upstream code for S905 only supports 4K with 8-bit HEVC; because S905 doesn't support 10-bit, 4K H264 was never implemented in upstream drivers, and there is currently no HDR>SDR conversion. I would position any S905 device as 1080p max; you might find some content works at 4K, but most 4K media these days is HEVC/10-bit/HDR so it won't output or look right.
