Dbosco

Hi all!
 
I'd like to share a small personal project that I've been working on recently for the Orange Pi 5 (and potentially other RK3588 boards).
Like many RK3588 users, I wanted to run Kodi on a modern mainline Linux kernel instead of relying on older vendor kernels. After a lot of testing, debugging and learning, this project started to take shape, and I've a stable almost "all works" setup
 
Tested on Armbian (minimal Debian and Ubuntu 24.04) with mainline kernel
 
Not working:
-HDR
-Maybe some network services
 
Next up:
-Wayland support
-Audio visualisers
 
 
https://github.com/Danibos/mainline-kodi-rk3588
 
A few important notes:
I'm not a kernel developer, but I have a great passion for all IT stuff, and this SBC encouraged me to dive much deeper into the Linux world. Of course this is only possible thanks to the incredible efforts from the Linux community, Collabora, LibreELEC, Armbian and many other contributors. I have mainly focused on bringing together different patches, configurations and components into a working setup for RK3588 devices, providing working .deb packages for the Kernel, FFmpeg and Kodi Piers
 
This is a personal project that I wanted to share because I know it could be really useful for many people out there. Due to my limited knowledge in this area and the little free time I have, I can't really offer it as a proper collaboration, but I'll still be happy to try to help if any issues come up. Feel free to open an issue or leave feedback!
I hope this project can be useful for other RK3588 users.
 
Thanks!
Dani

@royk thanks for the build, still i didn't test it but i performed some new tests, using the dist from Joshua Riek as Ubuntu is ready, with GPU, and the Kernel is already patched
 
And same problem with Nexus, but i was able to build Omega and is working fine if in System -> Video i select my TV on not the default option (dunno why), after that i can change the resolution to 1080p and everything is working fine, HDR10, x265, x264, 4k.. all good
although when i start a video the change of resolution is a bit slow and in the Kodi logs i can see an issue with the EDID:
 
2024-04-22 10:53:53.119 T:2038    error <general>: [display-info] Error parsing EDID:
2024-04-22 10:53:53.119 T:2038    error <general>: [display-info] ----------------------------------------------
2024-04-22 10:53:53.119 T:2038    error <general>: [display-info] Block 1, CTA-861 Extension Block:
2024-04-22 10:53:53.119 T:2038    error <general>: [display-info]   Colorimetry Data Block: Reserved bits MD0-MD3 must be 0.
2024-04-22 10:53:53.119 T:2038    error <general>: [display-info] 
2024-04-22 10:53:53.119 T:2038    error <general>: [display-info] ----------------------------------------------
 
after these messages in can see in the Kodi log that is able to load all the resolutions profiles
 
Don't know if there is a fix for the EDID
 
After installing Omega it create automatically the GBM profile, using that Kodi works, meanwhile if I'm using yours with  the FFMPEG_RKMPP_DEC_OPT="afbc=on" option the video is not showing and Kodi crash
 
cat /usr/local/share/wayland-sessions/kodi-gbm.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Kodi on GBM
Comment=This session will start Kodi media center
Exec=kodi-standalone --windowing=gbm
TryExec=kodi-standalone
Type=Application
Keywords=audio;video;media;center;tv;movies;series;songs;remote;
Icon=kodi
 
Also, there was an issue with the python IMP module not found that caused some crashes, and addon probs. finally resolved installing python3-zombie-imp
 
 
 
 
 
 

@Dbosco Yes that's it

https://github.com/amazingfate/linux-rockchip/commits/rk-6.1-rkr1/ lacks of a VOP2 patch, which resulted the black screen in kodi.
 
https://github.com/hbiyik/ffmpeg-rockchip/wiki/Rendering#required-patches-and-fixes-in-the-toolchain

thanks @bottlelid! it worked