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Posts by chewitt
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I'm not aware of exact details, but I would expect a large six-figure number to be required so crowdfunding is not realistic. Users with S912 devices need to accept there will not be a proper driver. We wish you all better luck in your next device purchase. End of conversation.
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Sensible improvements are always welcomed. Please consider the shape/structure of the Amlogic_GX, Rockchip, Allwinner branches when looking at the changes required.
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There is no plan or desire to bloat our images with niche-use filesystem tools. We are a simple client OS distro, not a NAS. If the binaries do not have kernel driver dependencies we would entertain a user-contributed add-on. If there are driver dependencies you're best off creating your own custom LE image. If a few others want the same you are welcome to share LE images from these forums as long as sources/changes are pushed back to your own github repo to maintain GPLv2 compliance.
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Yes, but be aware that we intend to significantly alter the Linux graphics stack in our development branch in the near future. You should not expect stability from releases based on that branch until that work matures.
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Open the boxes, look at what's screen printed on the SoC in the box.
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Current Leia builds are pre-Alpha code. The first time Kodi developers will ever discuss the release content and schedule is next weekend. There are lots of things still in fluid development and you should expect frequent breakage; particularly on ARM devices.
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You will need a PSU that delivers 2.5-3 amps and a heatsink to have reasonably stable overclocking on any pi board. If you're using MPEG2 encoded media you'll also want the codec license so things are hardware decoded.
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There are no legitimate uses for usenet on a mediacentre box; only content theft. You won't get much advice on that in this forum.
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You're already using the preferred combination.
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You need to provide the boot log so we can see what freaks out and causes the reboot. It's not a normal experience, but with older AMD cards there are enough weird driver bugs that remain unresolved that it's no great surprise.
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IP licensing is ARM's entire business model. You're suggesting they give it all away for free. I'm pretty confident that isn't going to happen.
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It works for everyone else..
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In the ARM license model the SoC vendor licenses features for their devices and ARM provides a driver (or drivers) built specifically for that silicon manufacturer. So the ARM provided driver for Mali T820/830 chip in the Amlogic S912 boxes only works on Amlogic boxes.
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Not supported. Might eventually be supported, but will require you to nuke the Armbian install.
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Nothing official for some time. Maybe for Kodi Leia release (no date is scheduled). The current Kodi Krypton builds in circulation from the git repo from Kwiboo are effectively discontinued as developers have now switched to the Leia codebase which is still rather experimental for DRM/KMS and V4L2 things.
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You don't think an online petition would help?
The number of users with an S912 device is statistically insignificant as a percentage of our total userbase and our entire userbase (including all the pi users, NUC users, etc.) is statistically insignificant against the number of "Kodi on Android" devices with an S912 chip that work fine. The sum of money involved to license all S912 chips produced is non-trivial so I don't see a compelling business case that would suddenly make Amlogic have a change of heart. You're welcome to do something if you want, but in the grand scheme of things I don't see this helping.
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Current testing has been done on RK3328 and RK3288, not RK3229, and there are no official releases for any RK devices. The proof of concept images for TinkerBoard etc. that are in circulation using Kodi Krypton are now discontinued as the developers working on RK support switched to Kodi Leia in recent weeks, i.e. there will be no further improvements/updates to the Krypton images.
