[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC I****** build #0205: RPi / RPi2
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.18.5 #1 PREEMPT Thu Feb 5 21:10:17 GMT 2015 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
Feb  4 2015 21:04:27
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 115f63aa0915cdb5b6dff23822eb16699b72ae8b (clean) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20150205210924-r20204-g4f46e9a [Build #0205]

# vcdbg log msg 2>&1 | grep DTOK
001517.736: Kernel trailer DTOK property says yes

# Kernel device tree status: Enabled

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (4f46e9a8, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (cc9ed5f0, 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-rebase
  
• 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)
  
• Includes latest libnfs master (732a2978)
  
• Includes latest libcec master (9f000e43)
  
• Includes latest xbmc-pvr-addons master (b2dc0354)
  
• Includes latest xbmc-addon-xvdr master (8489520f)
  
• Includes additional ffmpeg codecs/muxers enabled for testing/benchmarking purposes (see patch)
  
• Includes commits from libcec-2.2.0 (popcornmix)
  
• Exclude kodi-102-dont_really_depend_on_SDL_image.patch: No longer required
  
• Exclude kodi-999.95-backportPR6312PR6311PR6295.patch: Already merged in Kodi master
  
• Include b0a12240: BCM2709_DT: Set the "always-on" flag for the timer to enable high res mode (linux)
  
• Include bec4f0af: i2c_bcm2708: Fix clock reference counting (linux)
  
• Include patch: Add experimental splash video
  
• Include patch: Add curl 7.40.0 support to Kodi
  
• Include patch: Use our own texturepacker
  
• Include patch: Fix build patch for kodi-pvr-addons
  
• Include PR:422: Fixes for RPi users, and keeping recording list up to date. (kodi-pvr-addons)
  
• Include PR:6246: [pvr] Improve PVR startup time
  

Build Highlights:

1. Updated firmware:
   

   Few updates to firmware (some reduction in gpu memory during video decode) and kodi/newclock4 (added back in 3D switching and take advantage of the gpu memory reduction).
   
   Should save 3MB of gpu memory (sometimes more).

2. RPi2: Re-configured RPi2 build to use RPi2 addon url (previous builds had been using the RPi url). Addon installation/updates will be unavailable until the addon server is updated (any day now)
   
3. Cherry picked a couple of kernel updates until they are rebased
   
4. Added Kodi patch to work with curl 7.40.0 (thanks @wsnipex, @delinend)
   
5. Increase NFS chunk size to 1MB
   

Build Details:

1. Firmware (Feb 4):
   • bcm2709: Set the "always-on" timer flag to enable high res mode
     
   • firmware: Camera: Fix for reset stc timestamping mode
     
   • firmware: deinterlace: reduce memory use on input side for advanced deinterlace. See: link
     
   • firmware: Kill max(7,) in buffer allocation. See: link
     
2. OpenELEC:
   • Fixed comment in systemd mount sample scripts: servicectl -> systemctl (PR:3872, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
3. XBMC:
   • [readme update] libyajl-dev >= 2.0 (PR:6344, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
4. newclock4:
   • New commits in this build:
     • [omxplayer] Don't propagate 3d flags based on supported 3d modes (fa5c7335)
       
     • [graphics] Don't set stereo mode based on resolution (f3f5fb0b)
       
     • [graphics] Allow switching to a more suitable 3D resolution (a7cd5ff2)
       
     • [3D] Support switching to 3D resolutions (0b48427e)
       
     • [graphics] Make pixel ratio for 3d modes consistent (48d1f27e)
       
     • [omxplayer] Avoid extra frame allocation when deinterlace might be enabled (7d921c25)
       
     • NFSFile: Chank ChunkSize to 1MB (f139777f)
       
5. Additional commits/pull requests/changes not yet merged upstream:
   • Added: b0a12240: BCM2709_DT: Set the "always-on" flag for the timer to enable high res mode (linux)
     
   • Added: bec4f0af: i2c_bcm2708: Fix clock reference counting (linux)
     
   • Added: patch: Add curl 7.40.0 support to Kodi