Restructure of CoreELEC device structure

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Restructure of CoreELEC device structure

These changes are valid if you have a CoreELEC installation last updated before 28.07.2023

Dear all, we did run into some issues with the current Kodi Omega. Right now it is not recommended to use Kodi Omega as a daily used device. We hope these issues are solved soon by Team Kodi but there is no timeline yet.

This forced us to rework current CoreELEC device structure including the backport of Dolby Vision to Kodi Nexus. Right now Dolby Vision was only be available for CoreELEC-21 Kodi Omega.

Right now the CoreELEC device structure look like this:

CoreELEC-20

  Amlogic-ng (Kernel: arm64, User space: arm)
    Kernel Version: 4.9.269
      Supported SoC: GXL, G12A, G12B, SM1, SC2
  Amlogic-ne (Kernel: arm64, User space: arm)
    Kernel Version: 5.4.125
      Supported SoC: SC2, S4, T7

CoreELEC-21

  Amlogic-ng (Kernel: arm64, User space: arm)
    Kernel Version: 4.9.269
      Supported SoC: GXL, G12A, G12B, SM1, SC2
  Amlogic-ng-dv (Kernel: arm, User space: arm)
    Kernel Version: 4.9.269
      Supported SoC: G12B
  Amlogic-ne (Kernel: arm64, User space: aarch64)
    Kernel Version: 5.4.210
      Supported SoC: SC2, S4, T7

To give the best experience to our users we will restructure the device structure to this:

CoreELEC-20

  Amlogic-ng (Kernel: arm64, User space: arm)
    Kernel Version: 4.9.269
      Supported SoC: GXL, G12A, G12B, SM1, SC2
  Amlogic-ng-dv (Kernel: arm, User space: arm)
    Kernel Version: 4.9.269
      Supported SoC: G12B
  Amlogic-ne (Kernel: arm64, User space: aarch64)
    Kernel Version: 5.4.210
      Supported SoC: SC2, S4, T7, T7C

CoreELEC-21

  Amlogic-ne (Kernel: arm64, User space: aarch64)
    Kernel Version: 5.15.78
      Supported SoC: G12B, SM1, SC2, S4, T7, T7C

You can see the biggest difference is Amlogic-ne user space will become ARCH aarch64 with CoreELEC-20. So you might run into issues with some addons what will need to be reinstalled in correct ARCH.

CoreELEC-21 will become the development branch with the new Amlogic 5.15.78 kernel.
It is still not confirmed if SoC G12B and SoC SM1 support is given by this new kernel.
At least it’s prepared for it, we will see in future…

With CoreELEC-21, kernel 5.15.78 SoC GXL support will be removed!

What does this mean for current used installations

It is highly recommended to “downgrade” CoreELEC-21 Kodi Omega installations to CoreELEC-20 Kodi Nexus.

You have CoreELEC-21 installed?

Amlogic-ne:

Please follow the Wiki guide how to perform a manual update. It will downgrade from CoreELEC-21 Kodi Omega to CoreELEC-20 Kodi Nexus. Maybe some addons do need to be fixed.

Amlogic-ng/Amlogic-ng-dv:

Please follow the Wiki guide how to perform a manual update. It will downgrade from CoreELEC-21 Kodi Omega to CoreELEC-20 Kodi Nexus. Maybe some addons do need to be fixed.

You have CoreELEC-20 installed?

Amlogic-ne:

It will automatic update to new Amlogic-ne user space ARCH aarch64 when enabled. Maybe some addons do need to be fixed.

Amlogic-ng

There is no change for this type of installation.

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