[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Helix build: #0528
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.14.4 #1 PREEMPT Wed May 28 18:59:29 BST 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
May 23 2014 19:17:25
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 21d0de90961749983d49ec4e819a98a8ba4287fc (clean) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC_Helix (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20140528185814-r18482-g3181817

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (3181817, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (15a2897, 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-3.14.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.
  
• 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")
  

Build Highlights:

Fix for FIQ FSM to stop network dropping out. Please report positive/negative results if you were affected by this.
Reduce number of video frames allocated by 2 with dvdplayer and omxcodec (saves 6M of gpu_mem).
Audio distortion causing commits in last build now removed.

1. OpenELEC:
   • wlan-firmware: update to wlan-firmware-0.0.21
     
2. XBMC:
   • ActiveAE: fix endian swap after 1fdccd8, thanks @warped-rudi
     
   • ActiveAE: fix endian swap 2 after 1fdccd8, thanks @warped-rudi
     
3. newclock3:
   • [omxplayer] Avoid hang when closing stream with clock stopped
     
   • [omxcodec] Reduce GPU memory use by 2 video frames
     
4. kernel 3.14.y:
   • mach-bcm2708: account for FIQ latency in timer interrupt setup
     
   • bcm2708: Ensure 1-wire pullup is disabled by default, and expose as module parameter
     
   • w1-gpio: Add gpiopin module parameter and correctly free up gpio pull-up pin, if set
     
   • i2c: Make combined transactions optional and disabled by default
     
   • V4L2: Fix incorrect pool sizing
     
   • V4L2: Add option to disable enum_framesizes.