[linux-raspberrypi-4.9.50-1] breaks Kodi

[amhairghin]

With the change introduced in this commit https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/armv7 ... 2d63967904 the /dev/vcsm device is missing and cannot play videos with Kodi.

Please revert this change or change kodi-rbp package to not use this device.

[invisiblek]

https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/pull/1516

EDIT: turns out the issue kmihelich referred to is different than what I had fixed. I have another patch in the works, can follow here: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/2173

[MorLipf]

Is there a workaround? My RaspBerry Pi 3 is mainly used for Kodi, which means that it is kind of useless at the moment.
Even the new kernel 4.9.51 does not fix this issue.

[invisiblek]

You could downgrade to 4.9.49 or build your own kernel with my patches. I can upload some packages later if you want.

[MorLipf]

Downgrading via Pacman is not possible, is it? It would be nice, if you could provide me a patched package!

[buergi]

Any news here? I have the same problem. I'm currently using a self-built kernel with your patch as a workaround but I hope this will be fixed soon.

Update: by the way I uploaded my build kernel (with same revision number) here (seems to be too big for attachment)

[invisiblek]

Can probably downgrade to an old package if one is in your pacman cache, otherwise maybe not.

No news, need to wait for the pi commit to go in (https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/2206) then update the arch PKGBUILD. Thanks for supplying a package, been afk for the day.

Apparently you can disable MMAL in kodi settings too as a workaround. Source: viewtopic.php?f=57&t=12032&p=56776#p56796

[graysky]

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[dirkvdb]

On my raspberry pi2. Kodi freezes for a few minutes when I start any movie and then it crashes.

[Evils]

I have exactly the same issue as dirkvdb on my Raspberry PI 3. Files played with OMXPlayer directly work, but basically anything else crashes Kodi.