2014-06-18, 10:48
(2014-06-18, 09:03)j1nx Wrote: On the contrary. Still a LOT of people are working on the Amlogic boxes.
You have me;
https://github.com/J1nx-Hackable-Gadgets
You have Corey;
https://github.com/CoreTech-Development
And Stane1983
https://github.com/Stane1983
(I believe this three are the most important ones, but as I am one of them, my oppinion might be biased )
These three have for instance bumped the whole system started by Pivos towards software versions from this era. (buildroot/packages/kernel/compilers). And still a lot is going on on Bitbucket kernelwise. (3.10.x for Meson6 + Meson8). But as stated above, Amlogic is not as open as Freescale, so we have to be carefull and ask them and wait for them to upload new snapshots of their git server onto their http download server (http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/download/), before stuff get's released.
At the moment we try to merge all work into one united branch;
https://github.com/CoreTech-Development/...united_aml
From the above work, all other releases have been derived;
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=192034
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=180446
Including the one on the Pivos forums mentioned by you;
http://www.pivosforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=4518
(Although I must admit, where we pull in mainline XBMC and patch accordingly at buildtime, Hydra is still patching the older Pivos xbmc branch)
None of us even reach to the same expert level of Scott, but we manage and are getting a long way. Meson3 might soon have the new 3.0.x kernel, Meson6 and 8 the 3.10.x kernel. (A little bird told me linux with XBMC on the Meson8 flies...)
OK glad to be correct.
My impression was that stable linux builds were restricted to M1/M3 and that while MX (M6) was being worked on it was not yet stable.
What's situation with S802 (M8)? Sounds like it might be much further along than I assumed, as I'd seen reports about linux kernels etc being released by Amlogic, but I seem to remember a dev (might even have been you at some point in the past) saying it can take up to 2 years to get linux to run stable on Amlogic SoC's, which is why Pivos and TLBB released products based on what was older hardware at the time.
I'd seen those threads you linked but just assumed they were individual user efforts, but glad to know that there's developer work and co-operation behind them.