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Release for Raspberry Pi 4 #870

Open peci1 opened 5 years ago

peci1 commented 5 years ago

As I understand right now, Raspberry Pi 4 is not yet supported, because it needs Debian Buster as the base OS.

I know people on forum already asked this, but I wanted some easily trackable place where people will know when it's ready.

Is somebody currently working on this? I've seen some buster development tracks here on github, but they don't seem to be building their artifacts to the APT repo yet...

mkreisl commented 5 years ago

As I understand right now, Raspberry Pi 4 is not yet supported, because it needs Debian Buster as the base OS.

That's not correct. Debian Buster ist not required. The main problem is that Kodi requires a completely rework to support Pi4 as it should. Actually, the existing solution (LE) is just a workaround.

I know people on forum already asked this, but I wanted some easily trackable place where people will know when it's ready.

It's impossible to say when Kodi supports Pi4 completely. maybe with Kodi 19, but its completely unsure

Is somebody currently working on this? I've seen some buster development tracks here on github, but they don't seem to be building their artifacts to the APT repo yet...

All work for the move from Stretch to Buster has been done already. Needs a bit more testing, but in one ore two weeks images will be built with Debian Buster

peci1 commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the info, @mkreisl . Would you please leave here a notice when the Buster images start being built?

mkreisl commented 5 years ago

@peci1

Thanks for the info, @mkreisl . Would you please leave here a notice when the Buster images start being built?

Today :smile:

peci1 commented 5 years ago

Thanks!

peci1 commented 5 years ago

So this image https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbian/files/release/XBian_2019.09.13_rpi3.img.gz/download should already be based on buster? I'll give it a try later on my Raspberry pi 4 and see what happens :)

mkreisl commented 5 years ago

So this image https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbian/files/release/XBian_2019.09.13_rpi3.img.gz/download should already be based on buster?

Yes, it does

mkreisl commented 5 years ago

But of course, it DOES NOT WORK with Pi4

peci1 commented 5 years ago

Hmm, what's the blocker? The kernel in buster should be ready for Pi4, shouldn't it? And if I'm not wrong, the CPU architecture should be the same as Rpi3b+...

mkreisl commented 5 years ago

You are wrong. SOC is completely different

1) Firmware (in all images) does not support Pi4 2) XBian kernel (in all images) does not support Pi4 3) Kodi does not run under Pi4

I'm running XBian on my local Pi4 with devel kernel (5.2.14) and latest firmware from RPF

When all things has been done (incl. Kodi), there will be an develop image available for download, but standard images won't support Pi4 for the next weeks/months

peci1 commented 5 years ago

Right now I have a stable Rasbian Buster running on Pi4 with Kodi working. So it'd seem at least kernel and Kodi should be ok. But I don't know if Xbian uses the same kernels Raspbian does (from your post it seems it doesn't).

oscarhenneke commented 4 years ago

Und jetzt?

mkreisl commented 4 years ago

First image supporting Raspberry Pi4 (of course can be used for Pi2 and Pi3 as well) can be downloaded here

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xbian/files/release/XBian_Dev_10.1-4.19.76-18.4-btrfs_rpi4.img.gz/download

oscarhenneke commented 4 years ago

Nice! Downloading it now!

npmstart-pray commented 4 years ago

from the radio silence can I assume it's working?

CurlyMoo commented 4 years ago

Here, the sound output doesn't work.

npmstart-pray commented 4 years ago

audio over hdmi or ???

CurlyMoo commented 4 years ago

On both HDMI ports

peci1 commented 4 years ago

Yes, it works for me. The HDMI audio works only on the first HDMI port.

npmstart-pray commented 4 years ago

I think I'll give it a go, then. UPDATE: working well...should I update is the question; have there been any updates to it since it was posted to SF?

npmstart-pray commented 4 years ago

the current img rpi4-2020-02-21 is broken - boots straight to recovery

mkreisl commented 4 years ago

the current img rpi4-2020-02-21 is broken - boots straight to recovery

Yes, indeed. Pi4 does not boot, Pi3B+ does. Must have something to do with kernel 5.4

Pi4 does not find sd card, no idea why. In case of booting via PINN (which is usually my test environment), everything is ok though.

Edit:

Latest image(s) and Kernel 5.4.20 package has been deleted

npmstart-pray commented 4 years ago

Latest image(s) and Kernel 5.4.20 package has been deleted

going back to 4.x.x may be a tad defeatist:

Must have something to do with kernel 5.4

this latest, 5.4.20+, I agree. the one before, 5.4.19+, was brilliant for me.

mkreisl commented 4 years ago

Hmmm, no idea what happened between .19 and .20.

Anyway, I modified kernel config, build new 5.4.20 kernel and now Pi4 is booting. I think it is fixed now and new kernel 5.4.22 will be available in 2 hours

npmstart-pray commented 4 years ago

The version of kodi (18.6) included with update to kernel 5.4.24 crashes, and kicks me out to a command line

mkreisl commented 4 years ago

Does prev version of kodi work (18.5)?

npmstart-pray commented 4 years ago

Yes. I rolled back and OS updates make that version work better. (I was about to report this...)

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mkreisl commented 4 years ago

Oh yes, I see. In xbian-package-xbmc 18.6 binaries for RPi4 have not been included

Sorry for that, will fix it ASAP

npmstart-pray commented 4 years ago

Will report back once I’ve tried it.

UPDATE - same xbian experience, except I find that stuff that needs to initiate (like Netflix) takes longer to do so; especially background services. And the "snappiness" of kodi seems somewhat diminished, but I'm sure that's being worked on/improved...or I most likely missed a setting somewhere, or the clocking scheme is a bit conservative for the machine.

Thank you.

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Oh yes, I see. In xbian-package-xbmc 18.6 binaries for RPi4 has not been included

Sorry for that, will fix it asap

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npmstart-pray commented 3 years ago

kodi v19 alpha2 showed up in my feed as pushed...