Sam, it’s really great that you got the Vero 4K/4K+ device trees into the mainline kernel. Do you plan to do the same for Vero V?
Not at this time: there’s no benefit to this, particularly from a multimedia perspective.
I understand. I was just thinking that the fact that you got the Vero 4k/4k+ device tree into the mainline kernel several years ago turns out now to be a great benefit to owners of the 4k/4k+ who wish to repurpose their device to other uses where multimedia performance is not as crucial.
Might be worth looking at that when the time comes. For now there is not really any S905X4 support upstream and very little to no work being done on mainlining it.
Wow, that sure makes things tough for you! I assume that for the Vero V trixie release, you’ll be building a custom aarch64 kernel. Will it be derived from debian’s trixie kernel, or from an AMLogic kernel, or …? In any case I now understand and appreciate the huge amount of work you’ll be putting in to make the Vero V trixie release happen!
It doesn’t make things tough at all. When we design hardware and pick SoCs we pick it with a planned software future in mind.
This will be an OSMC based kernel as before, with long term support.
This should not be an overly complicated release. The migration to Aarch64 will be the increasing difficulty.
Sam