[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Helix build: #0611
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.15.0 #1 PREEMPT Wed Jun 11 03:11:35 BST 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
Jun  9 2014 23:04:53
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version e0afc8ec5259915e294da50d9589947f2411a745 (tainted) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC_Helix (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20140611033114-r18578-g066a729

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (066a729, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (603c7fa, 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-3.15.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. Also double-key suppression.
  
• 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 libnfs master with directory caching support
  

Build Highlights:

New kernel 3.15.0.
XBMC adds "Never" as an option for addon auto-update (requires skin updates - currently supported by Confluence).
XBMC adds "Check for updates" with last check date/time in Settings -> Add-ons.

1. OpenELEC:
   • switch to kernel 3.15
     
   • connman: update to connman-1.24
     
   • nss-mdns standard installation contingent on AVAHI_DAEMON (PR:3313, 1 commit, 4 files changed)
     
   • Add kernel patch for proper Ouya Controller Support
     
   • Add keymap to make use of the newly add PS4 controller Kernel support in linux-3.15
     
   • projects/*/linux: add support for dragonrise joystick
     
2. XBMC:
   • [addons] add support for 'never' updating or checking for updates (PR:4287, 7 commits, 16 files changed)
     
   • [omxplayer] Remove PCMRemap and handle multichannel mixing like ActiveAE (PR:4863, 1 commit, 9 files changed)
     
   • [cosmetic] - initialize members in the order they were declared (PR:4879, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • [Utils] Clean up/Fix things found by Cppcheck (PR:3890, 19 commits, 60 files changed)
     
   • videoinfoscanner optimizations (PR:4837, 5 commits, 7 files changed)
     
   • Use CURL in IDirectory et. al. (PR:4872, 19 commits, 158 files changed)
     
   • [AE/osxsink] - handle AE_FMT_FLOATP in scorestream (PR:4880, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • Amlogic Android 4.4.2 patchset (PR:4833, 2 commits, 2 files changed)
     
3. kernel 3.15.y:
   • hwrng: bcm2708 - fix oops when rng h/w is accessed during registration