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Can it run stock vanilla mainline kernel? It really sucks to be stuck with ancient 3.14 kernel on quite powerful things like Odroid C2.
by thresh 10y ago
Can it run stock vanilla mainline kernel?
It really sucks to be stuck with ancient 3.14 kernel on quite powerful things like Odroid C2.
- whyagaindavid 10y agoThe Orange Pi range are based on Allwinner SoCs which have poor Open Source drivers for the VPU (the bit of the SoC that actually plays video). There have been a number of attempts to improve this, and all so far have failed. All winner don't really seem to be that interested in working with Kodi devs to sort this, and apparently have a patchy history with open source licence compliance. http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=238060 http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=238060
- homarp 10y agoThe VPU is getting there: http://free-electrons.com/blog/support-for-the-allwinner-vpu-in-the-mainline-linux-kernel/ http://free-electrons.com/blog/support-for-the-allwinner-vpu... "Currently, the combination of the kernel driver and VA-API backend supports MPEG2 and MPEG4 decoding only. There is for the moment no support for encoding, and no support for H264, though we believe support for both aspects can be added within the architecture of the existing driver and VA-API backend."
- pantalaimon 10y agoSee https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matrix https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matri...