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Ghost v2.0 - February Progress Note

Alexandre ARNOUD

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Ghost v2.0 - February Progress Note

Been busy with the changes in the packaging system to be able to build many targets and not only for Radxa products (install as a full featured firmware image or by installing APT repository). CI has been stabilised, nightly build to ease tinkering and rapid deployment on target devices (Not yet LAVA :p).

[UPDATES] Shadow Ghost v2.0

  • Simplified setup, by removing manual configuration steps
  • Live patching of Shadow Ghost Electron Launcher, this is used to make changes on it, enabling/disabling features
  • Latest 1.0.4 MPP tag video decoding library, patched for Shadow
  • New Rock5B Debian Bookworm 12.5 Firmware image
  • And many minor fixes

Known Limitations & Bugs : Dual Screen is crashing, Purple tinted screen (workaround: reboot device), USB over IP may not work after a shutdown/resume (workaround: unplug and replug AC on device)

[NEW] Shadow Ghost with QuickMenu v2.0 Beta

Shadow Ghost experience with ARM64 desktop renderer with QuickMenu as a separate Debian Bookworm package.

apt update && apt install shadowghost-qm-rock5b && reboot

Known Limitations & Bugs : same as normal version, no LAN over IP, can escape "Fullscreen mode", sometimes QuickMenu doesn't start (as a workaround need to exit renderer (win+alt+q) and start again), FPS are not reported in QuickMenu, Can't change H264/H265 in QuickMenu (need to be done in launcher),

[NEW March 27th 2024] Shadow Ghost Experimental Kernel

There has been a lot of activity recently with newer Rockchip BSP 6.1.x being deployed and tested and community backporting features. Here's an experimental kernel to trial with "stable" Dual Screen, it seems to also fix the purple tinted overlay happening from time to time on resolution changes or when display is powered after SBC.

apt update && apt install linux-6.1-rock-5-latest-shadowcodex-arm64 panthor && \
dpkg --purge panfork && ldconfig && reboot

Roadmap

  • Fix remaining bugs, with a priority on Dual Screen
  • Raspberry Pi - Ghost v2.0 classic / QM Experience
  • Official Shadow Ghost (RK3399) recycling either in Ghost V2 mode / Desktop / Server (USB boot or Flash of internal eMMC)
  • Tests on latest Rockchip BSP (6.1)
  • Move from Rockchip BSP to Mainline Kernel & Panthor Mesa