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 However it takes a different approach.
My patch renders to an off screen rendernode instead of not creating a gui at all and is tied to linux gbm.  

Great to see people are working on this. I dont understand the use case. Are you running kodi in a headless server? Docker? Whats linux gbm? Some links could be enough for me.  

 Linux GBM is kodi directly talking to the kernel graphics stack via drm/kms (no X server).
My use case is using kodi as musicplayer (analog audio) and control it via kore.
But your use cases would work as well if you have an intel gpu. 

 Does this approach have the benefits of better resource usage?