[Milhouse]

New OpenELEC Helix build: #1012
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:

# uname -a
Linux rpi512 3.17.0 #1 PREEMPT Sun Oct 12 21:33:47 BST 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
Oct 12 2014 13:00:44
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 231a26c97857bfd939a62267a890f90b00c9d584 (clean) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20141012213240-r19345-g7c25d27 [Build #1012]

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (7c25d27c, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (6e6663f6, 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-3.17.y
  
• Excludes the OpenELEC xbmc-001-newclock4 patch in favour of sourcing these and possibly more recent patches directly from newclock4 branch
  
• Default setting for "Show RSS Feed" changed to disabled
  
• Disabled "Total Duration" in Confluence (see build #0221 for details)
  
• Adapted service.openelec.settings to take advantage of PR5217
  
• Includes latest libnfs master (ab1af695)
  
• Includes latest libcec master (81e38211)
  
• Includes latest xbmc-pvr-addons master (259d1506)
  
• Includes latest xbmc-addon-xvdr master (a3724213)
  
• Includes libcec double-key suppression
  
• Includes libcec CEC Standby Fix
  
• 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")
  
• Includes CONFIG_COREDUMP=y to allow creation of coredumps (see here)
  
• Includes PR:5312: dvdplayer: do a seek after having changed subtitle stream
  
• Includes PR:5324: Add setting to hide library clean progress bar.
  
• Includes PR:5488: fix special key handling in edit controls
  

Build Highlights:

1. New firmware
   
2. R-Pi frequency scaling fixed in kernel 3.17 - force_turbo=0 working again
   
3. Added PR:5488 which addresses the T9/SMS virtual keyboard input problem raised by @darzur
   

Build Details:

1. Firmware (Oct 12):
   • firmware: audio_mixer: Add more support for 24-bit formats. See: link
     
   • firmware: audioplus: Always use 48kHz for pwm when de-popping is enabled. See: link
     
   • firmware: platform: Reorganise so config.txt is parsed before gpioman is set up
     
   • firmware: config: Remove gpio_pads config. Drive strength can be set through gpioman
     
   • firmware: audio_mixer: Check port number with resample parameter
     
2. XBMC:
   • [python] add *all* module dependencies to path (PR:5463, 1 commit, 2 files changed)
     
   • dvdplayer: faster channel switching and playback for mpegts (PR:5487, 5 commits, 7 files changed)
     
   • Don't recurse in cache, force no cache when checking existance of cached... (PR:5483, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
     
   • JSON-RPC: fixes, refactoring and cosmetics in Profiles.LoadProfile (PR:5456, 4 commits, 2 files changed)
     
3. newclock4:
   • [ResamplePi] Fix for 24bit audio
     
4. kernel 3.17.y:
   • vchiq: Move logging control into debugfs
     
   • bcm2835-cpufreq: Update to use target_index interface to fix issues with 3.17 kernel
     
5. Custom:
   • Added PR:5488: fix special key handling in edit controls