OpenELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi (Kodi 15.0) Part 1
New OpenELEC I****** build: #0126
(Supercedes previous build)

Code:
# uname -a
Linux OpenELEC 3.18.3 #1 PREEMPT Mon Jan 26 21:04:16 GMT 2015 armv6l GNU/Linux

# vcgencmd version
Jan 26 2015 18:43:03
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version cd981188ae8a3099aff40494b5489062831bd1ee (clean) (release)

# lsb_release
OpenELEC (Milhouse) - Version: devel-20150126210336-r20137-g5dbcd6d [Build #0126]

# vcdbg log msg 2>&1 | grep DTOK
001589.354: Kernel trailer DTOK property says yes

# Kernel device tree status: Enabled

Based on tip of OpenELEC master (5dbcd6dd, changelog) and tip of XBMC master (679a7869, 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-3.18.y
  • Excludes the OpenELEC kodi-001-helix_rpb_backports patch in favour of sourcing these and possibly more recent patches directly from newclock4 branch
  • Default setting for "Show RSS Feed" changed to disabled (new installs only) [patch details]
  • Disabled "Total Duration" in Confluence (see build #0221 for details)
  • Adapted service.openelec.settings to take advantage of PR:5217 [patch details]
  • Includes latest libnfs master (8e991ffb)
  • Includes latest libcec master (9f000e43)
  • Includes latest xbmc-pvr-addons master (636cde6f)
  • Includes latest xbmc-addon-xvdr master (cc81bb65)
  • Includes additional ffmpeg codecs/muxers enabled for testing/benchmarking purposes (see patch)
  • Includes animated splash support (patch)
  • Includes commits from libcec-2.2.0 (popcornmix)
  • Exclude kodi-102-dont_really_depend_on_SDL_image.patch: No longer required
  • Include d6f4bebf: new package: libsquish
  • Include patch: Use our own texturepacker
  • Include patch: Fix build patch for kodi-pvr-addons
  • Include PR:5752: [jsonrpc] Allow retrieving empty TV shows via VideoLibrary.GetTVShows.
  • Include PR:6201: webserver: refactor, unification of handlers and bug fixes
  • Include PR:6246: [pvr] Improve PVR startup time
  • Include PR:6277: [gui] fix font cutting in auto height textboxes
Build Highlights:
  1. New firmware
  2. GPU font vertices caching merged upstream
Build Details:
  1. Firmware (Jan 26):
    • firmware: arm_loader: Enable the standard I2C interface by default using DT
    • Add hifiberry-amp and pps-gpio overlays, update README
  2. OpenELEC:
    • wetek_play: set scaling_max_freq=1512000 (PR:3838, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
    • WT: Backport fullscreen dirty region fixes PR6090 (PR:3840, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
    • projects/RPi/filesystem: remove openssl configuration (3939a184)
    • projects/RPi/filesystem: dont load lirc_rpi on boot, needs to be done manually/with DTB (b8bff1f9)
    • tvheadend: update to tvheadend-3.9.2413 (0915ea23)
    • linux: re-add still needed patch (884da2f0)
  3. XBMC:
    • [coverity] Proposed fix for CID 1260398 (PR:6269, 1 commit, 3 files changed)
    • silence compiler warnings (PR:6272, 4 commits, 4 files changed)
    • Fix for coverity #719001 (PR:6242, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
    • cppcheck performance fixes in linux/ (PR:6157, 1 commit, 4 files changed)
    • [cosmetics] StereoscopicsManager: don't log localized strings. (PR:6101, 1 commit, 1 file changed)
    • cmake: fix backwards compatibility logic (PR:6271, 2 commits, 1 file changed)
    • Cache font vertices, GPU-side when possible (PR:4143, 13 commits, 27 files changed)
    • [pvr] bump addon.pvr to 1.9.3 after dbfa0b6374b779a62c6fb0456f0c0618a6e25bfc (a2907f64)
  4. newclock4:
    • New commits in this build:
      • temp: Some hacks to help profiling (0324cbce)
      • test: Render new from frame from RenderUpdate rather than FlipPage (ae3ea75b)
      • MMALRenderer: Avoid grabbing the g_graphicsContext lock - it can deadlock (5f805d5e)
    • Commits no longer in build:
      • renderer: drop old tempfix firstflippage, did not work anyway because RendererHandlesPresent returned always true (ce7b17c8)
      • Set dirty flag in teletext dialog if required (9d11d448)
      • renderer: improve rendering to gui and separate video layer (70661287)
      • guilib: mark control dirty when setting to invisible (003ea608)
      • renderer: exit gfx lock when waiting for present time (99309148)
      • renderer: fix sequence from WaitFrame, Render, FrameMove to WaitFrame, FrameMove, Render (4a01000c)
      • cppcheck performance fixes in view/ (5d0729a6)
      • [PVR] Fix CFileItem::FillInDefaultIcon wrong compare position (6c31a116)
      • [PVR] Fix CGUIWindowPVRChannels::Update (come back from hidden can not work) (8c69366a)
      • [pvr] fix: refresh container after view mode is changed in guide window (3a641759)
      • [pvr] fix wrong condition for channel view if no epg items exist (18d24f9d)
      • [pvr] support EPG item type for "ListItem.Premiered" (FirstAired) GUI label (ebf4ab0e)
      • [jenkins/droid] - allow to select the ndk version through jenkins jobs and bump to ndk r10d (6f05bee1)
      • cppcheck performance fixes in video/ (8dd7fbf5)
      • darwin dlna client user agent string override not working (1d83f876)
      • [Confluence] Cosmetics (77c6c091)
      • [Confluence] fixed: sideblade would scroll (32c7784b)
      • cppcheck performance fixes (a6771c8c)
      • [dvdplayer] Prioritize number of channels over codec over default flag and add a setting to change that behavior. (1c3cff09)
      • [pvr] fix missing variable assignment after PR #4671 (c62bfa81)
      • Move the reference-counting of Begin and End calls from DX and GL source files into GUIFontTTF.cpp. (c0035a92)
      • Convert CGUIFontTTFBase::m_vertex to be managed as a std::vector. (e2bf80f0)
      • CGUIFontTTFBase::RenderCharacter can now append to arbitrary vectors of vertices rather than only CGUIFontTTFBase::m_vertex (e7551e34)
      • Add a cache of font glyph bounding box vertices. (835330f9)
      • Lay the groundwork for hardware clipping. (dcb1c3c6)
      • Increase font cache hit rate by keying on the fractional part of m_originX and m_originY *after* they have been through the graphics context's transformation ma (302ef42e)
      • Rewrite of scrolling text code. (4aaa91a9)
      • Move the application of the translation offsets into the GLES code. (3ac8c837)
      • Rather than applying the translation offsets to the vertices, now applies them to the model view matrix from the top of the matrix stack and pushes it over to O (7c98ed55)
      • Enable hardware clipping. (9a6fdbf3)
      • Move the vertex data across to a vertex buffer object just prior to drawing. (9221a166)
      • Move vertex data into an OpenGL VBO when the font cache entry is populated. (7bb2bc5c)
      • Switch from glDrawArrays() to glDrawElements(). (4bb5f0cc)
  5. kernel 3.18.y:
    • New commits in this build:
      • Add pps-gpio DT overlay (f3036a68)
      • config: Remove STRICT_DEVMEM (4b83b767)
      • I2C: Only register the I2C device for the current board revision (8b378f65)
      • Added support to reserve/enable a GPIO pin to be used from pps-gpio module (LinuxPPS). Enable PPS modules in default config for RPi. (27800db2)
      • BCM2708_DT: Correct length of the peripheral space (8bbf5eef)
  6. Additional commits/pull requests/changes not yet merged upstream:
    • Added: PR:6277: [gui] fix font cutting in auto height textboxes
Texture Cache Maintenance Utility: Preload your texture cache for optimal UI performance. Remotely manage media libraries. Purge unused artwork to free up space. Find missing media. Configurable QA check to highlight metadata issues. Aid in diagnosis of library and cache related problems.


Messages In This Thread
RE: OpenELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi (Kodi 15.0) - by Milhouse - 2015-01-27, 00:21
Missing splash video - by Dinos52 - 2015-02-09, 21:02
MVC Support - by woronczak - 2015-03-12, 05:28
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