[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Helix build: #0610
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.14.6 #1 PREEMPT Tue Jun 10 00:04:40 BST 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
Jun  9 2014 23:04:53
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version e0afc8ec5259915e294da50d9589947f2411a745 (tainted) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC_Helix (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20140610000327-r18559-g4f8eeda

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (4f8eeda, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (becbfe4, 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. Also double-key suppression.
  
• 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:

New firmware. New 3.14.6 kernel. Latest libnfs with directory cache support.

1. Firmware (Jun 09):
   • firmware: audio_mixer: Fix issue with planar audio when output channels needed expansion
     
   • hdmi: Include requested mode and allow hdmi drive when edid fails. See: link.
     
   • tvservice: More accurate description of standby message. See #286.
     
2. OpenELEC:
   • linux: update to linux-3.14.6
     
   • RTL8192CU: add support for more Edimax/Belkin WLAN sticks
     
   • sqlite: update to sqlite-autoconf-3080500
     
   • lsb_release: use /etc/os-release
     
3. XBMC:
   • MySQL connections should explicitly set UTF-8 charset (PR:12)
     
   • Clocks (PR:4842)
     
   • FIX: do not popup OSD on DVD menu with touch or mouse (fixes #14906) (PR:4169)
     
   • build: make bootstrap script fail properly on failure (PR:4673)
     
   • AE: accept planar formats and pts from player (PR:4786)
     
   • Add ability to get text from ControlTextBox via python and infolabels (PR:4687)
     
   • Implement CWin32Directory (PR:4864)
     
   • [posixdirectory] added missing code (PR:4860)
     
   • ADD: [sets] allow to select art from child movies (PR:4755)
     
   • [osx] build fix for make (tests etc.) on darwin with llvm. (PR:4865)
     
   • Fix SysInfo test (PR:4873)
     
   • Allow HLS streams without m3u8 extension (PR:4729)
     
   • Update CpuInfo (PR:4853)
     
4. newclock3:
   • Include PR4837 and PR4839
     
5. kernel 3.14.y:
   • alsa: add mmap support and some cleanups to bcm2835 ALSA driver
     
   • V4L2: Fixes from 6by9
     
   • fb: distinguish physical and bus addresses
     
6. Custom:
   • Latest libnfs master (bumped from 1.8.0) with directory cache support to improve NFS directory lookup performance (see comments on PR4839)