Software Project to Support - Feedback Needed
We are currently support or are planning to support these:
- Linux - Upstream
- u-boot - Upstream
- Mali Utgard - Usable, Performant (Wayland), Upstream, Userspace Mesa
- Kodi - Usable (CoreELEC), Upstream (LibreELEC)
- RetroPie - Usable, Upstream
- Lakka - Usable, Upstream
- Raspbian - Usable, External Repo
This is not an all inclusive list but we would like your feedback on what to support. Please leave comments below on what you would like to see.
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u-boot would be useful
kodi support and images
retropi equivalent
I second RetroPi and Kod or Ras Plex.
Ubuntu and Debian, as well as Kodi and RetroPie
Arduino IDE will be apreciate
Please can you consider to support libreelec? It is already available for many AML 905x boxes (including odroid C2 905). You can find more info here: https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/9319-8-2-0-1-libreelec-8-2-for-s905-s905x/…
while source code here: https://github.com/kszaq/LibreELEC.tv
I tried to make it boot on our board with very naive attempts, but I was not able to do it. For you should be not to difficult to adjust it for our board, since it already works on many other 905x boxes. Please consider it
Hi jeky82,
That work might be based on the old Linux 3.14 kernel. We do not plan to spend too much time on non-mainline kernels at the moment. We will be looking into Kodi though.
@pacav69 Neil Armstrong from BayLibre has submitted patches for upstream u-boot. We look forward to having that soon.
Ok, thanks for the answer. I thought was simpler, but if kodi will work well, it will be more than enough
Don t no if could be useful for you, i am really a noob, but this is the modified Kodi for Odroid C2, the other mods I guss are kernel side.
https://github.com/Owersun/xbmc
@jeky82 That is the modified version for the ODROID-X series Samsung Exynos based SBCs.
Nope, it is for XU2/3/4 and C1/C2 this is why it contains also the MFC for exysons board. They use this Oversun github also for C2. Anyway I tried to compile it enabling amlcodec from another Oversun repository, but faild due to something related to musicdatabase and then did not hat time to try again.
Hi ! I Vote for RetroPie and Android TV !
Thanx
@TitQuentin Retropie is coming but Android TV is not possible since Google has a stick up its ass.
Would it be possible to support Kali Linux? They already have images for Odroid C1/C2.
@ninjakitty, Kali is built on top of Debian. You can just install the kernel for AML-S905X-CC into a Kali Linux image and it will work.
@ninjakitty Even easier is running the python script Katoolin https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin this will work on any Ubuntu image (easiest of the Debian distros) with Python 2.7 (or later I think) I'm not sure how much space it takes up, but you can be selective instead of installing all Kali tools.
The Raspbian port booting from eMMC would be nice. Along with a working port raspi-config and GPIO/WiringPi. I tried it with the LePotato port.
Would be nice if Armbian could boot from eMMC also.
@WZ9V Armbian on eMMC is something you should ask for on the Armbian forums. We do not really provide support and Tony is the go to guy.
Raspbian can be done but raspi-config is for Raspberry Pi and it's a really stupid utility. Also their userspace GPIO utility is really dumb as well given there's already formal Linux tools and they had to do their own special thing.
Hi! I would like to see a regular (tablet) android build for the board for using comfortably with touchscreen displays. This includes navigation bar with Home Back and if possible Volume Up/Down buttons and status bar with pull down menu
@loverpi - While they may be “stupid” the community that would be attracted to Raspbian would expect those to work. They have a lot of scripts/code examples using WiringPi. Anyway I’ve switched over to Armbian now.
@WZ9V Noted. We will work on WiringPi support. There's also gpiod which is the good and formal method of interfacing with GPIOs. We have also finished the overlay stuff for I2C, PWM, SPI, etc.
@loverpi:
I have image here: libre-computer-aml-s905x-cc-debian-stretch-headless-mali-4.19.16-01939-gbc4f3f068568-dirty-2019-01-22. and this image have text:
All images with Mali come with DRM, X11, Wayland, and FBDEV variants.
Please use the update-alternatives system to install and select them.
update-alternatives --install /usr/local/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/mali mali /opt/libre-computer/model/aml-s905x-cc/mali/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/{drm,fbdev,wayland,x11-drm,x11-fbdev} 100.
I tried to execute this command but fail:
update-alternatives: priority must be an integer.
Have you idea ?
Depending on the variant you need, you need to select one of the following: {drm,fbdev,wayland,x11-drm,x11-fbdev}
Then you need to set it using:
update-alternative --display mali
update-alternative --set mali LINK
We haven't given much attention to lakka. We will hopefully add it to our image builder when Tritium, Renegade, Renegade Elite upstream images are done.