OpenELEC 5.0.1 released with support for the new Raspberry Pi 2
OpenELEC the embedded distribution of Kodi/XMBC has been updated adding support for the Raspberry Pi 2. The update includes the latest version of Kodi, updated Kernel and a lot of other changes (see below) enabling OpenELEC to work on the new Raspberry Pi.
With OpenELEC you can turn a PC into Media Center with Kodi, it’s a really simple download and setup. You can get the download image from OpenELEC.TV.
Changelog from OpenELEC:
- update to libaacs-0.8.0
- update to bcm2835-bootloader-4a66b50
- update to bcm2835-driver-4a66b50
- update to kodi-audioencoder-lame-3eb59de
- update to kodi-audioencoder-vorbis-dbf5c62
- update to kodi-audioencoder-flac-62c2cc8
- update to kodi-14-b5dbdb5
- update to rtmpdump-a107cef
- update to bison-3.0.4
- update to kodi-pvr-addons-a0a437e
- update to Mesa-10.3.7
- update to llvm-3.5.1
- update to libdrm-2.4.59
- update to sqlite-autoconf-3080801
- update to libtool-2.4.5
- update to ffmpeg-2.4.6
- update to gdb-7.8.2
- update to automake-1.15
- update to elfutils-0.161
- update to curl-7.40.0
- update to libjpeg-turbo-1.4.0
- update to xz-5.2.0
- update to linux-3.17.8
- update to OpenELEC-settings-0.5.8
- update to libhdhomerun-20141210
- update to freetype-2.5.5
- update to libva-1.5.0
- update to bluez-5.27
- downgrade to connman 1.23
- linux: add kernel 3.18, neeced for RPi2 support
- scripts/image: install dtb files for bcm2835 bootloader too if avaible
- new project: add project ‘RPi2’
- projects/RPi/patches/kodi: update RPi support patch
- projects/*/linux: enable crypto modules for NFSv4
- projects/RPi/patches/linux: update RPi support patch
- libressl: also install ca bundle in /etc/ssl
- IMX: Disable console blank
- Radeon: disable RADEON_GEM_GTT_WC for Kabini and Aruba
- connman: make it clear for users to not edit /etc/hosts
- connman: /etc/hosts should be available early
- imx6: Use 24 bit by default again
- nss-mdns: mdns_minimal is enough
- imx6: move coherent_pool back to kernel. increase to 2M
- projects/imx6/patches/linux: prepend kernel config cmdline to bootloader arguments from uEnv.txt
- IMX: linux: remove hardcoded coherent_pool option from cmdline
- IMX: bootloader: Readd coherent_pool and bump to 2M
- alsa-lib: Fix PHIREE U2 and Soundblaster F-Xi XD
- projects/*/linux: add netconsole support
- linux: add patch for Geniatech T230 USB DVB-T/T2/C tuner
