Debian Stretch and Kodi Krypton on Rock64

[stuartiannaylor]

with some libreelec hacks from Raybuntu & Kwiboo

Please refrain from calling our work a "hack". Me, LongChair and omegamoon have been working on ensuring that Kodi, FFmpeg and LibreELEC runs efficiently on Rockchip using DRM/KMS last few months.
We have direct contact with Rockchip engineers and have been keeping them busy fixing media playback and other issues we report in the rockchip 4.4 kernel. Lots of the kernel improvements we have made ourself should make its way back to rockchip's 4.4 kernel soon.

As for Kodi and desktop support Wayland is going to be the best way forward, all Kodi implementations for xserver I know of is using EGL for video rendering and that will only limit video rendering to the rather slow GPU. The video never hits the GPU when Kodi is running on LibreELEC, the GPU is only used for EGL/GLES rendering of GUI and OSD.

EGL/GLES rendering of GUI and OSD is exactly what I have been talking about I have not even managed to move onto video rendering yet...!

I don't know why I have to refrain from terms of hacks as currently the lack of working EGL/GLES means exactly certain hacks to reduce functionality workload have been employed.
I have no idea why you are being so precious about the term hack, maybe I should call it your art
Code, hack, work or art still doesn't mean that Kodi is running efficiently on linux as it isn't.
Its not a derogatory term or meant to be but its a relative description to the reality we have currently.

Wayland probably is, Leia probably is and the main context of what I said was trying to get my head round what we have now.

I have started watching the rockchip repo's and will look forward to your input but I am still trying to work out how to get a rockchip optimised xserver and like I keep saying to be honest I am confused as hell to the images we are provided with for the Rock64.