Posts by chewitt

The open-source group at ARM are actively tracking lima/panfrost and hope to get clearance to contribute. Regardless of if/when that comes, once lima and panfrost are viable on RK and Allwinner hardware we'll switch to them because we want to support open-source development and it will make our distro packaging a lot easier. Tracking mainline kernel and mainline mesa (which we already do) for all three platforms instead of each SoC or board needing a different kernel driver and blob will be a huge bonus. The nice thing for RK support is that we can choose when to dump the blob and switch, whereas S912 has to blaze a trail with early stage development code.

I'm expecting a few disgruntled users when we drop WP1 as it was popular and has a reasonable sized active userbase, but as the gap between the rest of the codebase and 3.10 widens we started to see breakage, and while we can make fixes there are no active team members running WP1 (or WC) as a daily-driver now so it's become a challenge to prove fixes before release. So far we haven't shipped anything untested but the number of near misses where positive confirmation is received hours before release (and after lot of nagging) is increasing. We'd prefer to stop than compromise one of our project promises.

No idea. Some VLC devs occasionally attend Kodi devcon to drink beer and share ideas, but we're not VLC and not party to their ideas. You'll have to ask them directly

Milhouse embeds addons and prefixes with 999 to ensure the embedded ones overrule any existing version the user has installed. As it's embedded in the read-only SYSTEM file it cannot be uninstalled. FYI, the embedded 2.3.11 addon is newer than 2.3.6, so you have the latest version.

S905X does not have GB Ethernet (some S905, S905D and most S912 devices do). I have never seen or heard of an S905X with an internal USB card for GB Ethernet. Far east Android box vendors are well known for copy/paste spec. errors

Some benchmark results using the graphene heatsink (complements of the owner of Pine64) http://ix.io/1rx4

Meson 8 hardware like the S812 has a reasonable future once we bump to mainline kernels. There is a lot of IP in common with the newer GX platform so while it's not as popular for development it inherits a lot of support and has an active kernel maintainer (Martin Blumenstingl). The critical missing software component needed for LE to run mainline kernels on S812 is an HDMI driver, and the active plan is to adapt work done for GX boards once it's more feature complete (the HDMI chip is different but we should be able to reuse the core DRM code). Martin has already done some early poking of code but no "video on screen" eureka moment happened yet. LE plans to drop 3.10 kernel support after LE 9.0 ships so there will be a support gap for S802/805/812 devices until an HDMI driver is ready, but I'm cautiously optimistic that something appears before LE10.0. Support can be added back then - although this probably becomes a community effort more than core team effort. Other 3.10 kernel devices using the 8726MX chip (WeTek Play etc.) have no mainline kernel future ahead as Meson 6 has marginal upstream support and nobody working to improve that.

buzzmarshall On the topic of S912 having no future due to the lack of mali blob .. we've been working on making a lot people eat their hats

See this video from a few days ago: YouTube

Copy the file to /storage/.config/firmware/<filename>.bin and reboot .. check dmesg for error messages about firmware loading.

Da Flex .. good luck in running sudo commands in LE (hint: sudo doesn't exist). Please stop offering untested advice.

Install the "System Tools" add-on and reboot.

And the commit was?

Our build system is designed to compile things from source code. You can either patch the source code at build time or post-patch to overwrite the compiled binaries using other files local to the build system. However, you won't get detailed help on pvr.iptvsimple hacks without a convincing reason for using external binaries? i.e. one that doesn't involve accessing pirate IPTV services. If that's the use-case, don't bother asking.

RockPro64 solves the passive cooling with a particularly large heatsink. Khadas Edge has something about 1/4 the size so it runs considerably hotter.

Fine, but don't expect support for old/outdated OE addons here.

The repo allows access from LibreELEC clients. Your browser is not a LibreELEC client. There's no issue with the repo.

Make sure your HTPC has the correct datetime else the SSL certificate can be seen as invalid.

8.2.3 files are restored to the server

That's set somewhere in Kodi code, it's not 'configured' so it would need to be patched out. I'm not sure that's feasible.

It's attempting to mount boot=UUID=<string> and disk=UUID=<string> (as specified in extlinux.conf but can't find the disk= partition to mount the SYSTEM file, so you're dumpted into the limited initramfs shell environment.

What kind of storage device is it?

RockPro64 and Renegade Elite are both from vendors with a long-term proven commitment to Linux support. Khadas are getting better but still seem to focus on Android and simple stuff like designing a case and heatsink that can be paired together seems to escape their design team. Radxa are an unknown quantity at this point in time.