[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Helix build: #0531
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.14.4 #1 PREEMPT Sat May 31 01:40:59 BST 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
May 30 2014 22:38:06
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version f865e80f2ebc4387cee5174d35b4bc6e293c3a3a (tainted) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC_Helix (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20140531013943-r18501-g23fc48e

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (23fc48e, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (95ff639, changelog) with the following modifications:

• Includes newclock3 patches
  
• Includes Python regex package for evaluation purposes. Initial benchmarking indicates generally positive (and in some cases, significant) performance gains. See this post for a description of how to test effectiveness of this package with addons
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC fernetmenta patches due to conflicts with newclock3
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC linux-01-RPi_support patch in favour of sourcing these and possibly more recent patches directly from kernel branch rpi-3.14.y
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC xbmc-master-newclock3 patch in favour of sourcing these and possibly more recent patches directly from newclock3 branch
  
• Default setting for "Show RSS Feed" changed to disabled
  
• Disabled "Total Duration" in Confluence (see build #0221 for details)
  
• ALSA is enabled and any suitable hardware should be available in XBMC Audio Settings
  
• FIQ FSM is enabled by default. See initial post for more details.
  
• Includes RPi-specific libCEC commits from mk01/libcec. See build #0527 for details.
  
• Increase scan interval of PeripBusCEC from 5000 to 60000, reducing CPU loading by about 2% (1GHz Pi) every 5 seconds (even when CEC is "disabled")
  
• Includes PR4811: SysInfo refactoring, startup log update
  
• Includes PR4817: [infoscanner] recursive fast hash for enumerating series folders
  

Build Highlights:

New firmware. Includes candidate PRs PR4811 and PR4817.

1. Firmware (May 30):
   • firmware: video_decode: Remove the minumum of 7 buffers requirement when extra_buffers=0. Allows memory reduction when video_decode is non-tunnelled
     
   • firmware: hdmi: Fix for requested mode not getting top score with CEA. See: #280
     
   • firmware: hdmi: Make VGA, 720p and 1080p be reported as supported in no-EDID case. See: link.
     
   • firmware: dispmanx: Increase the amount of lbm allowed in online mode. Fix for black screen playing videos in xbmc. See: link
     
   • firmware: hotplug: Fix for composite not being chosen when hotplug is absent. See: #282
     
2. OpenELEC:
   • gnutls: update to gnutls-3.2.15
     
   • inputproto: update to inputproto-2.3.1
     
   • scripts/image: fix etc/os-release
     
   • nettle: add mini-gmp support
     
   • gmp: remove target build support
     
   • fontconfig: update to fontconfig-2.11.1
     
3. XBMC:
   • videodb: fixes for support of temporarily offline sources during library cleaning (PR:4795)
     
4. newclock3:
   • [pi] Fix for logged resolutions
     
   • [settings] Experiment: Report DESKTOP resolution in video settings
     
5. kernel 3.14.y:
   • fiq_fsm: Enable by default