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For those who do not know, Vu+ is a series of Linux-powered DVB satellite, terrestrial digital television receivers (set-top boxes) which firmware is officially user-upgradable, and produced by Korean multimedia brand Ceru Company Ltd. (a subsidiary of Marusys Co. Ltd.),

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vu%2B

I just read the news that there are now a true native source port of XBMC/Kodi available to use on the newer Vu+ (VuPlus) based set-top box models which are SoloSe, Solo2, and Duo2.

www.vuplus-community.net/board/threads/xbmc-soon-in-black-hole-image.20445/


Supported Vu+ set-top boxes are currently the ones based on Broadcom MIPS chipsets with VideoCore IV GPU:

Vu+ SoloSe (Vu Plus Solo Second Edition) features Broadcom BCM 7429 / BCM7429 chipset with 1.3 MHz Dual-Core MIPS CPU, 1 GB RAM, and VideoCore IV GPU
Vu+ Solo2 (Vu Plus Solo 2) features Broadcom BCM 7356 / BCM7356 chipset with 1.3 MHz Dual-Core MIPS CPU, 1 GB RAM, and VideoCore IV GPU
Vu+ Duo2 (Vu Plus Duo 2) eatures Broadcom BCM 7424 / BCM7424 chipset with 1.3 MHz Dual-Core MIPS CPU, 2 GB RAM, and VideoCore IV GPU

Support for older models will not be made due to lack of hardware resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vu%2B#Models


Apparently Ceru Company Ltd. which is a subsidiary of Marusys Co., Ltd. (who previously released the PrismCube set-top box with XBMC) have been working on this new official Enigma 2 reference firmware with OpenGL ES 2.0 support and a real native source port of XBMC on their own for quite a while now, so this is not only a port by just any third-party developer. That work was being done on a post is not really news, since in the middle of September 2011, at Vu+ Day in Amsterdam, it was announced that the next-generation Vu+ DVB satellite receivers to be released publicly in the end of 2012 will be using XBMC Media Center software for its GUI, a development project that they call XBMC4STB (XBMC for Set-Top-Boxes), however the work on this port had not been made available to the public until now.

http://www.vuplus-community.net/board/th...rdam.3197/


There are already third-party BETA firmware image builds based on Enigma2 Linux available from both the Black Hole and VTi teams based on Linux Kernel 3.13 (3.13.5)

http://www.vuplus-community.net/board/th...-01.20461/

http://linuxsat-support.com/showthread.php?t=74040


BackHole team have a dedicated subforum for XBMC support on their firmware images for Vu+ here

http://www.vuplus-community.net/board/fo...-hole.115/


Hopefully this will be fully open source and compete with those crappy E2BMC based set-top boxes for which there are no source code released.