Posts by chewitt

I also found rtl_nic: add firmware for RTL8125B - Patchwork

I can look into the vendor-binary driver, but as r8169 already detects the chip (but cannot make it work) we'd also have to patch out that behaviour to avoid a driver clash. This might acheive that: [net-next] r8169: rename RTL8125 to RTL8125A - Patchwork but that patch also shows support is being worked on (albeit at an early stage) so something might appear upstream sooner than later, in which case it would be preferrable to wait patiently for a few weeks and then backport some patches instead of adding a vendor driver to our codebase.

He probably means that nobody on staff (e.g. the release manager) ever remembers to update the auto-update config after releasing a new version so e.g. 9.2.3 is not pushed to people (auto-update is still on 9.2.1). Hence why I want to remove that piece of infrastructure and move the logic into the settings add-on so there's nothing to (forget to) update when releases are made.

Please test a current development image with newer kernel on a spare SD card, images are here: Index of /

macOS does not support EXT4 partitions so it can see "disk20s2" (the /storage partition) but cannot mount it or display anything meaningful. Windows is equally stupid.

You can dump EDID from a TV to file and then configure the RPi to use the file. Then Kodi "sees" a TV connected (even if it isn't) and it will start, and VNC will be able to show the screen. It all sounds like complete overkill when you can use the Kodi web interface or mobile phone "remote" app to browse the library and select something to play though.

On first boot the 32K (K, not MB) /storage partition on the SD card is automatically expanded to fill 100% of the available space. So I guess you didn't boot the SD card yet and are looking at the 512MB boot partition.

You can add "textmode" to kernel boot params to boot to a console. It's not interactive, but then even if you have a console you will not be able to add drivers due to how LE is packaged (the OS is uncompressed into RAM from a read-only file on each boot). In the past CTRL+ALT+F3 was supported on x86_64 hardware (can alse be enabled with "debugging" in boot params) but this was removed to improve security and because nobody used it, and there is no equivalent on ARM SoC devices.

Take the current Raspberry Pi OS and then copy the compiled device-tree bits from an LE 9.2 image. It's the same kernel version (4.19) and core sources so it should be compatible. I wouldn't use anything from the FiveNinjas repo now .. it's not been maintained for years.

No.

PROJECT=ARM DEVICE=ARMv7 ARCH=arm scripts/create_addon all

^ same build process as normal, but using the new project/device combo, and ADDON_PROJECT="ARMv7" <= can be added to any device and it will use those add-ons.

The mainline kernel has a remote keymap for "rc-tanix-tx3mini" which probably works; the remote looks identical.

Run "journalctl | paste" a minute after booting and share the URL

In LE drives must be baked-in to the OS files we boot from (KERNEL and SYSTEM). You cannot self-install drivers.

I'm not much of a gamer, but I use a PS4 controller for occasional testing which appears to work okay.

systemctl mask <name_of_systemd_service>

^ prevents the service from being started.

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Hi guys. does anyone knows about the existance of a screen mirror add-on? Like, on new smart tvs that you can connect to the tv and stream your screen directly on the tv. btw, i want to stream the screen of android devices

It doesn't exist. All the screen mirroring type functionality in mobile device OS is proprietary and Kodi refuses to add support for multiple proprietary standards in their codebase.

FYI, Amlogic fakes "4K" desktop in their 3.14 BSP kernel because the HDMI chip can output 4K resolution but only on the video plane. The OSD plane that renders the Kodi GUI cannot do more than 1080p. RPi4 can at least render the GUI at 4K, but it will suck at it, and (again) you're better off running the GUI at 1080p and allowing the TV to upscale to 4K (as Amlogic does) .. it will do a better job.