OpenELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi (Kodi 15.0) Part 1
New OpenELEC I****** build: #0102
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:
# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.18.1 #1 PREEMPT Fri Jan 2 21:01:49 GMT 2015 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
Dec 29 2014 14:23:10
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version d3c15a3b57203798ff811c40ea65174834267d48 (clean) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20150102210038-r19885-geab1154 [Build #0102]

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (eab11545, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (239f6689, changelog) with the following modifications:
  • Includes newclock4 patches
  • Excludes the OpenELEC fernetmenta patches due to conflicts with newclock4
  • Excludes the OpenELEC linux-01-RPi_support patch in favour of sourcing these and possibly more recent patches directly from kernel branch rpi-3.18.y
  • Excludes the OpenELEC kodi-001-helix_rpb_backports patch in favour of sourcing these and possibly more recent patches directly from newclock4 branch
  • Default setting for "Show RSS Feed" changed to disabled (new installs only) [patch details]
  • Disabled "Total Duration" in Confluence (see build #0221 for details)
  • Adapted service.openelec.settings to take advantage of PR:5217 [patch details]
  • Includes latest libnfs master (9c1d3848)
  • Includes latest libcec master (9f000e43)
  • Includes latest xbmc-pvr-addons master (78397afa)
  • Includes latest xbmc-addon-xvdr master (328fa653)
  • Includes additional ffmpeg codecs/muxers enabled for testing/benchmarking purposes (see patch)
  • Includes animated splash support (patch)
  • Includes commits from libcec-2.2.0 (popcornmix)
  • Exclude kodi-999.99-fix-3692.patch: Superseded by PR6005
  • Exclude lirc_rpi.conf: No longer required, let Device Tree handle lirc_rpi (add "dtoverlay=lirc-rpi" to config.txt)
  • Include patch: Enable kernel device-tree support (details)
  • Include patch: Add device tree kernel trailer
  • Include patch: Update to Linux 3.18.1
  • Include patch: Add Linux 3.18.y options
  • Include patch: Add Linux 3.18.y compatible cfg80211_rx_mgmt
  • Include patch: Add *.dtb files to firmware
  • Include PR:3657: [rfc] kodi crashlogs
  • Include PR:5430: [URIUtils] Fix IsSmb, IsFTP, IsAfp, IsDAV and IsNfs.
  • Include PR:5747: [database] - add setting for hiding watched movies/episodes in recently added lists
  • Include PR:5752: [jsonrpc] Allow retrieving empty TV shows via VideoLibrary.GetTVShows.
  • Include PR:5958: Fix state not saved after #5842 if playing from "Recently added".
Build Highlights:
  1. Updated PR:3657 due to XDG changes in PR:5895
  2. Enable dirty regions for full screen video
Build Details:
  1. OpenELEC:
    • vdr-satip: update to vdr-satip-1.0.0 (PR:3739, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
    • vdr-addon: empty channels.conf is enough (eab11545)
  2. XBMC:
    • [Confluence] - some code improvements for VideoOSD (PR:6088, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
    • [fixed] DXVA flickering on AMD (PR:6069, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
    • Moved userdata to XDG_DATA_HOME (PR:5895, 4 commits, 3 files changed)
    • Fix bashisms in shell scripts (PR:5903, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
    • dvdplayer: do not wait for buffers when closing subs or teletext in Open... (PR:6087, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
    • [CONFLUENCE] fix spacer image width in VideoOSD (PR:6095, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
    • [pvr] fix switching to the previous channel group (fixes #15661) (PR:6094, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
  3. newclock4:
    • New commits in this build:
      • enable dirty regions for full screen video (cd93dac6)
      • renderer: drop old tempfix firstflippage, did not work anyway because RendererHandlesPresent returned always true (2fe1a4ee)
      • squash me (d586c345)
      • squash me sdf (438b0c9a)
      • next squash (56ee3b96)
      • [PVR] Fix for slow metadata updates of recordings (1b80ec8c)
    • Commits no longer in build:
      • [PVR] Fix for slow metadata updates from metaron (7db79de4)
  4. kernel 3.18.y:
    • New commits in this build:
      • BCM2708: armctrl: add space to allocate irq descriptors (971f7fcd)
      • BCM2708: use pinctrl-bcm2835 (bc89775c)
      • pinctrl: remove bcm2708 driver (efafe265)
      • BCM2708: armctrl: remove irq bank 3 (4532c633)
      • Merge pull request #748 from notro/pinctrl (992fda19)
      • bcm2708-gpio: Revert the use of pinctrl_request_gpio (18b06d2d)
Texture Cache Maintenance Utility: Preload your texture cache for optimal UI performance. Remotely manage media libraries. Purge unused artwork to free up space. Find missing media. Configurable QA check to highlight metadata issues. Aid in diagnosis of library and cache related problems.


Messages In This Thread
RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi (Kodi 15.0) - by Milhouse - 2015-01-02, 23:33
Missing splash video - by Dinos52 - 2015-02-09, 21:02
MVC Support - by woronczak - 2015-03-12, 05:28
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