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Setting up Home Assistant on your own hardware has never been easier. With Armbian, we provide a preloaded Home Assistant supervised installation on a clean Debian base, ensuring a smooth and hassle-free experience. Whether you need a smart home hub or a reliable Linux server, this setup offers the best of both worlds. Why Choose Armbian for Home Assistant? Preinstalled Home Assistant – No complicated setup, just boot and start using it. Clean Debian Base – Our images are debootstrapped and cleanly assembled, ensuring a minimal and optimized system. Armbian-Maintained Kernels – Improved, optimized, and regularly updated for better performance and s…

FriendlyElec NanoPi R5C is a smaller version of the NanoPi R5S router with the same Rockchip RK3568 processor, but only two 2.5GbE ports and support for an internal M.2 WiFi and Bluetooth module, instead of just USB dongles for the earlier NanoPi R-series routers. The mini router can also be used as a mini PC thanks to a built-in HDMI 2.0 video output port and two USB 3.2 ports and is offered in two versions with either 1GB RAM and 8GB eMMC flash, or 4GB RAM and 32GB storage for just $10 more. NanoPi R5C specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3568B2 quad-core Cortex-A55 processor @ up to 2.0 GHz with Arm Mali-G52 MP2 GPU, 0.8 TOPS AI accelerator, 4Kp60 H.265/H.264/VP9 video dec…

Dear Armbian Community, At Armbian, we’re committed to providing stability without compromising on cutting-edge features. With that in mind, we deliver four point releases per year alongside our daily rolling releases, ensuring you have access to the best of both worlds. We’re gearing up to roll out new point release images featuring the latest kernel and packages by the end of May! Focus on Testing and Bug Hunting It’s time that we all shift our focus towards testing and bug hunting. Let’s prioritize closing any pending issues that require minimal effort, reserving the rest for post-June 1st. Notable Changes in the Pipeline Enabling Ubuntu Noble builds while keep …

In a groundbreaking development, the Armbian team has officially announced the Armbian Unified Kernel Initiative (AUKI), a revolutionary step towards simplifying Linux on ARM single-board computers. Starting with Armbian kernel v6.14, all previous kernel variants will be merged into a single, all-encompassing kernel that supports every single board and hardware feature out of the box. One Kernel to Rule Them All Gone are the days of fragmented kernel versions, custom patches, and hardware-specific quirks. With the new AUKI framework, users no longer have to worry about selecting the right kernel for their device—it just works. Whether you’re running an old Allwinner-base…

FriendlyELEC NanoPC-T6 is a feature-rich Rockchip RK3588 SBC with up to 16GB LPDDR4X RAM, 256GB eMMC flash, two HDMI 2.1 output ports, one HDMI 1.4 input port, dual GbE, two M.2 PCIe socket for storage or wireless, a mini PCIe socket and microSIM slot for 4G LTE connectivity, and more. The new NanoPC-T6 single board computer offered many more interfaces than the recent NanoPi R6S or R6C board based on the Rockchip RK3588S with fewer I/Os. As such, it would be suitable for a wider range of applications and FriendlyELEC says it is well suited to enterprise consumers who want to develop mini machine vision systems, and embedded systems hobbyists who want to explore and imple…

MangoPi MQ Quad is an Allwinner H616 quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 SBC following Raspberry Pi Zero W form factor, and the company’s earlier MangoPi MQ Pro RISC-V SBC featuring the Allwinner D1 processor. The MangoPi MQ Quad also comes with 1GB RAM, a mini HDMI output, two USB Type-C ports, WiFI 4 and Bluetooth connectivity, a microSD card, as well a 40-pin Raspberry Pi-compatible GPIO header and an FPC connector with USB, Ethernet, and more GPIOs for expansion. MangoPi MQ Quad specifications: SoC – Allwinner H616 quad-core Cortex-A53 @ 1.5GHz with Mali-G31 MP2 GPU with OpenGL 3.2, Vulkan 1.1, OpenCL 2.0 API support System Memory – 1GB DDR3L Storage – MicroSD card slot, a footp…

Dear Armbian Community, We are thrilled to announce Armbian Release 25.2, packed with significant updates across our entire ecosystem! These updates are aimed at enhancing functionality, expanding hardware support, and refining the user experience for both developers and everyday SBC users. Let’s dive into the exciting new features! Key Highlights New Board Support: Rock 2A and 2F, NanoPi R3S, Retroid Pocket RP5, RPMini, Rock 5T, GenBook, MKS-PI, SKIPR, Armsom CM5, NextThing C.H.I.P, Magicsee C400 Plus Rockchip 3588 Improvements: Upgrade to latest vendor kernel v6.1.99 and mainline to 6.12.y, including HDMI driver updates, USB3 fixes, and Bluetooth support updates. Wir…

Description Bump rockchip-edge to kernel 6.3 Jira reference number AR-1674 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Kernel patches apply correctly Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

After two years of taking place exclusively online, FOSDEM 2023 is back in Brussels, Belgium with thousands expected to attend the 2023 version of the “Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting” both onsite and online. FOSDEM 2023 will take place on February 4-5 with 776 speakers, 762 events, and 63 tracks. As usual, I’ve made my own little virtual schedule below mostly with sessions from the Embedded, Mobile and Automotive devroom, but also other devrooms including “Open Media”, “FOSS Educational Programming Languages devroom”, “RISC-V”, and others. FOSDEM Day 1 – Saturday February 4, 2023 10:30 – 10:55 – GStreamer State of the Union 2023 by Olivier Crête GStream…

Linkstar H68K is a Rockchip RK3568 multimedia router with two 2.5GbE ports, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, an optional WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 module, a few USB ports, and an HDMI 2.1 port supporting up to 4Kp60. Rockchip RK3568 was initially introduced as a solution for NVRs, but I’ve yet to see any, Instead, we’ve gotten some SBCs and mini PCs, as well as several routers such as NanoPi R5S, FastRhino R68s, and the upcoming Radxa E25 that will be announced next week. Linkstar H68K specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3568 quad-core Cortex-A55 processor @ up to 2.0 GHz with Arm Mali-G52 MP2 GPU, 0.8 TOPS AI accelerator, 4Kp60 H.265/H.264/VP9 video decoder, 1080p60 H.264/H.265 v…

Banana Pi BPI-M6 is an upcoming credit-card single board computer based on SenaryTech SN3680 SoC comprised of a quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 processor, a Cortex-M3 real-time core, an Imagination GE9920 GPU, and an NPU delivering up to 6 .75 TOPS. The board will ship with 4GB LPDDR4 RAM and 16GB eMMC flash. Its layout is fairly similar to the one of the Raspberry Pi 4 with four USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet, a 40-pin GPIO header, a USB Type-C port for power, and two micro HDMI ports. However, only one of those is for HDMI output, as the second is for HDMI input, and there’s also an M.2 socket for expansion. Banana Pi BPI-M6 specifications: SoC – SenaryTech SN3680 with CPU – Quad…

Description Unstable / testing packages sometimes contain hacks that are patching files. Fixing this in Debian Sid / Trixie Not sure why this happens, but we certainly don't need this check in rolling releases. [🐳|🌱] Checking MD5 sum of installed packages [ debsums ] [🐳|🔨] debsums: changed file /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon (from dpkg package) [🐳|💥] Error 2 occurred in main shell [ at /armbian/lib/functions/logging/runners.sh:211 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Manual run Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] …

Add new rockchip cpu rk3528 support,and new board H28K support. This commit requires: https://github.com/armbian/rkbin/pull/23 Rockchip RK3528 preliminary specifications: CPU – Arm Cortex-A53 processor (4 core 2.0ghz ) GPU – Arm Mali-450 GPU with AFBC compression support Memory – LP4, LP4X, LP3, DDR4, DDR3 HDMI 2.0 Up to 8Kp25 Video decoding – Up to 8Kp25 PCIE2.0/USB3.0 H28K board specifications: 2/4GB LPDDR4 8/32GB EMMC 5.0 two Gb ethernet(one gmac one pcie eth) type C USB2.0(support PD power and maskrom) type A USB2.0 View the full article

This is needed to bring this board in line with the expectations of the new main build (armbian-next), which dropped uImage from meson64 kernel packages. Changes to be committed: modified: packages/bsp/aml-s9xx-box/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf Description Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. Please also include relevant motivation and context. List any dependencies that are required for this change. More information can be found in Issue #4874 How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] Build and install aml-s9xx-box View …

Dear Armbians, Some fresh news for you! Device additions and development updates In the past few weeks, we have been actively adding support for new devices. Our team is currently working on bringing up the Khadas VIM1S and the highly anticipated Lenovo X13S, one of the best ARM-based laptops available, and the TI SK-AM64B board, developed by Texas Instruments. Furthermore, Intelligent Agent has submitted their Allwinner-based 3D printer controller. The developers’ section has been particularly active lately. We are in the final stages of upgrading u-boot and implementing power management support for the entire Allwinner family. Additionally, we are continuously impro…

FriendlyELEC’s family of NanoPi router SBCs and gateways will soon be extended with the NanoPi R5S board equipped with a Rockchip RK3568 quad-core Cortex-A55 processor, and providing three Ethernet ports (2x 2.5Gbps, 1x 1 Gbps), plus support for M.2 NVMe SSD storage. The company has not published any information publicly, but a post on Weibo social network reveals additional details with the single board computer being equipped with 2GB LPDDR4X, 8GB eMMC flash, two USB 3.0 ports, HDMI video output, and more. NanoPi R5S preliminary specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3568B2 quad-core Cortex-A55 processor @ up to 2.0 GHz with Arm Mali-G52 MP2 GPU, 0.8 TOPS AI accelerator (RK35…

Last year, Jean-Luc introduced the T113-S3 processor and the small MangoPi-Dual board with T113-S3. This time, I will introduce a development board with relatively rich resources, the 100ASK-T113-PRO, which consists of a core board with T113-S3 and a carrier board with a large number of peripheral interfaces, and the upcoming Allwinner T113-S4 SoC with 256MB DDR3. 100ASK-T113-Pro Allwinner T113-S3 industrial board While the T113-S3 and D1s/F133 RISC-V processors are pin-to-pin compatible, the T113-S3 is a dual-core Arm Cortex-A7 processor with HiFi4 DSP, CAN interfaces added (CAN is not mentioned publicly, but can be seen in the T113-S3 Datasheet) and 128MB DDR3 on-chip m…

Description Panther X2 is a blockchain terminal device:https://shop.panther.global/ I used rock 3c's uboot defconfig and uboot devicetree and it worked fine. I may patch in the future, as the uboot patch is board specific. Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

See the discussion in https://forum.armbian.com/topic/30074-helios64-armbian-2308-bookworm-issues-solved/page/3/#comment-179040 Description The Helios64-specific changes get moved to rockchip64, as https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/boards/helios64.csc#L3 says that it's not rk3399 anymore. How Has This Been Tested? See discussion in https://forum.armbian.com/topic/30074-helios64-armbian-2308-bookworm-issues-solved Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documenta…

Description This change makes Bluetooth work with the Orange PI 3 LTS. It's based on these commits: https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/orangepi-build/commit/ef22bd4b078388eab200a68384a6dff8d959dcb0 https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/orangepi-build/commit/ed6d012459461014d41acd22316c1643ff94a127 https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/orangepi-build/commit/7d01d1d61c99b3038601f061751a46920446f189 How Has This Been Tested? I build focal current image and test on OPI 3 LTS. Before this change, there is no /sys/class/bluetooth. After this change I can scan bluetooth and pair with my mobile phone. pierre@orangepi3-lts:~$ ls /sys/class/blue* hci0 pierre@orangepi3-lts:~$ sy…

Improved Code Review We’ve integrated CodeRabbit into our code review process, and the results have been excellent. The AI-assisted reviews help us maintain higher code quality, improve efficiency, and streamline development. We’re happy with the improvements and look forward to continued enhancements. FriendlyElec and Armbian Announce NanoPi R3S Giveaway! FriendlyElec, a Platinum Partner of Armbian, is giving away the NanoPi R3S in collaboration with Armbian! Whether you need a new router, server, or IoT device, this could be your next ideal solution. To enter, grab your free raffle ticket today and get a chance to win! For details, visit FriendlyElec’s Nanopi R3S givea…

Choosing the right input voltage and ensuring stable power supply for SBCsWhen working with single board computers (SBCs) like those supported by Armbian, one of the most overlooked but critical factors for performance and system reliability is the power supply. Whether you're running a lightweight server, a development environment, or a complex home automation system, power instability can lead to frustrating and difficult-to-diagnose problems. Understanding the correct input voltage and ensuring a stable power supply is essential for the long-term health of your SBC. Why Power Supply Issues Are So CommonUnlike desktop systems that come with regulated internal power supp…

Intel Meteor Lake processor family is supposed to succeed the 13th generation Raptor Lake chips itself coming after the current 12th generation Alder lake processors. It is scheduled to launch next year (2023), but we already have some details about the Meteor Lake U, P, and H mobile processors from a leak. Just like most Alder Lake processors, Meteor Lake will be hybrid processors with power and energy-efficient cores, but they’ll also feature new LP E-cores which should stand for “low power efficiency” cores in order to further lower the power consumption while a laptop or mini PC in standby mode. Meteor Lake mobile processors highlights: CPU P cores + E cores + LP-E co…

As expected, StarFive has officially unveiled the JH7110 quad-core RISC-V processor with 3D GPU and the VisionFive 2 SBC. I just did not expect the company to also launch a Kickstarter campaign for the board, and the version with 2GB RAM can be had for just about $46 for “early birds”. The VisionFive 2 ships with up to 8GB RAM, HDMI 2.0 and MIPI DSI display interfaces, dual Gigabit Ethernet, four USB 3.0/2.0 ports, a QSPI flash for the bootloader, as well as support for eMMC flash module, M.2 NVMe SSD, and microSD card storage. VisionFive 2 specifications: SoC – StarFive JH7110 quad-core 64-bit RISC-V (SiFive U74 – RV64GC) processor @ up to 1.5 GHz with Imagination BXE-4-…

Google has launched the new Chromecast with Google TV (HD) powered by an Amlogic S805X2 quad-core Cortex-A35 CPU that offers a cheaper alternative to the Chromecast with Google TV (4K) that is limited to 1080p60 resolution, instead of the 4Kp60 video output supported by the Amlogic S905X3 model. While the processor is slower, the system comes with less memory (1.5GB vs 2GB), and only supports 1080p60, it supports the more efficient AV1 video decoding and as well as A/B partitions for seamless updates since the firmware does not need to be downloaded to the internal storage before the Chromecast with Google TV (HD) specifications: SoC – Amlogic S805X2 quad-core Cortex-A35 …

Description Copied from https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/packages/armbian/builddeb#L336 How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] Build kernel package success [x] Install on my rock-5b with vfat bootfs success Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and …

I found this GHLBD calculator on a platform selling second-hand electronic products. Three labels of this product appeal to me: “Calculator”, “Android 9.0” and “Allwinner A50“. If you only look at the appearance, this calculator is not much different from that of ordinary calculators, but the Android operating system is running on it and the screen tells me that it is definitely not an ordinary calculator. When I bought it, I only spent 69 RMB ($10 US). I didn’t really have a use case for it, but curiosity drove me to buy one. I decided to introduce it and disassemble it to check out the hardware design. Function demonstration of GHLBD calculator Press and hold the ON and…

Description Enable rk3528 soc support to make rk3528 boards bootable. Enable lima gpu driver for mali 400/450 gpu on rk3528 and disable arm mali400/450 driver. Devicetree related change is already in https://github.com/amazingfate/linux-rockchip/commit/419410ff56c8e80b37e100c265d57f23cc0db835 How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] ./compile.sh kernel BOARD=hinlink-ht2 BRANCH=vendor DEB_COMPRESS=xz KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no [x] Lima gpu driver works on hinlink-ht2 Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a s…

The can2040 project is a software CAN bus implementation for the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller that leverages programmable I/Os (PIO) to achieve reading and writing CAN 2.0B data frames at rates up to 1Mbit per second. Kevin O’Connor, the developer of the project, further explains the implementation uses only one of the two RP2040 PIO hardware blocks, so it is possible for a single Raspberry Pi RP2040 chip to have two separate CAN bus interfaces. Some processing also happens on one of the Arm Cortex-M0+ cores of the microcontroller with the processing time dependent on the amount of bus traffic, and a fully saturated CAN bus at the fastest supported rate of 1Mbit/s …

At the beginning of the year, we wrote about WCH CH32V307 RISC-V microcontroller and a development board with 8 UART ports controlled over Ethernet. I’ve now been informed of a similar, but much more compact by VCC-GND Studio named “YD-CH32V307VCT6”. Besides the 144 MHz RISC-V microcontroller, the board features a 10Mbps Ethernet port, two USB Type-C ports, SPI flash, EEPROM, a microSD card socket, and four rows of 24 pins each for a total of 96 pins exposing all pins out of the LQFP100 package. YD-CH32V307VCT6 board specifications: MCU – WCH CH32V307VCT6 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller @ 144 MHz with 256K Flash, 64K SRAM Storage – 32Mbit SPI NOR flash (W25Q32), 64kbit EEPR…

Description This commit forces cgroup v1 usage as a workaround for docker / runc BPF issues until a proper fix is submitted Context Docker 20.10+ cannot run on our Asus Tinkerboard, it throws BPF related errors (Like opencontainers/runc#2959 , especially this comment). I tried a lot of armbian flavors (focal, jammy, bullseye + current, edge and legacy kernels), and even building an image with CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y as suggested by this comment but it didn't fix the issue. The only thing that fixed docker was to add extraargs=systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0 to /boot/armbianEnv.txt. Until someone else does a proper fix to make cgroup v2 working, I suggest downgrading to …

Mekotronics R58 is a cost-optimized Rockchip RK3588 mini PC and SBC that sells for as little as $169 with 4GB and 32GB eMMC flash. The company has now sent me a model with 8GB RAM and 64GB flash for evaluation, and in the first part of the review, I’ll do an unboxing, check out the hardware more closely, and boot it up for a quick check. Mekotronics R58 Unboxing There’s no retail package so to speak with just a white box and a sticker reading “MINI 8+64G” indicating the RAM and storage capacity for the device. The mini PC ships with a 12V/3A power adapter and cord, an IR remote control with two AAA batteries, two WiFi antennas, an HDMI cable, and a USB-A to USB-C cable pr…

ITEAD has sent us a Sonoff iHost Smart Home Hub for review, and this device seems to be what many SONOFF fans have been waiting for, especially in terms of local control. meaning it can work without an Internet connection. SONOFF is known for its durable devices and good interoperability, but they are still catching up with other companies in terms of local control. Finally, the iHost Smart Home Hub fills the gap. In addition to local control, it also comes with privacy features as data stay local. SONOFF plans to expand its ecosystem by including devices from other brands compliant with standards such as Zigbee 3.0. Furthermore, the iHost Smart Home Hub is more like a pl…

Banana Pi BPI-W3 is yet another upcoming Rockchip RK3588 SBC but with a different set of features, notably the presence of two Gigabit Ethernet ports, a PCIe x4 slot, and a SATA port, besides to more common dual HDMI output, HDMI input, USB 2.0/3.0 ports, etc… The board layout is somewhat similar to the company’s BPI-RK3588 SBC but with a system-on-module, and instead, the Rockchip RK3588 processor is soldered directly onto the board together with 8GB LPDDR4, and 32GB eMMC flash. Banana Pi BPI-W3 specifications (preliminary): SoC- Rockchip RK3588 octa-core processor with 4x Cortex-A76 cores @ up to 2.4 GHz (YMMV), 4x Cortex-A55 cores @ 1.8 GHz, an Arm Mali G610MC4 GPU, a …

Description This PR follows the discussion of the previous PR about introducing LibreELEC patches into rockchip64 family patch tree. There is no Jira reference number yet, since this is yet a proposal. If there is general consensus, a ticket will be opened and linked here. As like as @AdamLantos did, I first let LibreELEC patches apply and then armbian ones, so if an armbian patch clashes, I remove it and keep the libreelec variant. This is so because LibreELEC patches usually are already queued for being upstreamed into mainline kernel and then downloaded from https://patchwork.kernel.org This time, following the requests coming from the previous PR, LibreELEC patches…

Collabora has been investing into Perfetto to enable driver authors & users to get deep insights into driver internals and GPU performance. Here's how we applied this work to study workloads on the virtualized VirGL implementation. View the full article

Over the next few days, Collaborans will be getting back on the road and attending two events, one in Manchester and one in Los Angeles. We're also very pleased to be sponsoring one of these events! View the full article

Theengs is a manufacturer agnostic open-source set of tools to decode BLE sensors and integrate those into smart home and IoT solutions such as Home Assistant with notably support for autodiscovery to automatically create the sensor. Theengs can be installed on various hardware from ESP32 to an Android phone or a Raspberry Pi SBC, and the solution currently supports close to forty BLE sensors from various companies including Xiaomi, Honeywell, and RuuviTag. There are six components: The Theengs Decoder library developed in C++ for portability and translating data from sensors into human-readable data using the JSON format. The Python-based Theengs Gateway acting as a BL…

Description In order to build those images as community targets we have to build kernels automated way. Enabling. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test for current and edge Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

everything is on top of existing rockchip-rk3588 family thus the same crazy half-android rk kernel tree and ancient rk u-boot orangepi5.wip: initial OrangePi5 support; u-boot and boardfile by @efectn; adapted to work with existing family OPi5's u-boot patches: by @efectn; extracted from Xunlong's single-commit tree adapted to work with existing family included the boot.scr fix patch from rock-5b orangepi5.wip: initial OrangePi5 support; kernel patches, extracted from Xunlong tree OPi5's kernel patches, all extracted from Xunlong's tree against Radxa's Only enable the DT patch for now Other stuff that looks might be useful is grouped in a few other disabled …

Earlier this year, I received the Creality Ender-3 S1 Pro 2-in-1 3D printer & laser engraver and in the first part of the review, I showed the package content and how to assemble the system either to use it as a 3D printer or a laser engraver, but didn’t start it at the time. I’ve now had time to play with both laser engraving (less luck with cutting) and 3D printing, so I’ll report my experience in the second part of the review. Creality Ender-3 S1 Pro laser engraving Since in the last part of the review I had the 10W laser module installed on the 3D printer, I decided to start the testing with laser engraving and cutting. Contrary to the TwoTrees TS2 laser engraver …

wireguard can be built successful on rk3566/rk3568/rk3588 socs. so we can remove these configurations. tested built orangepi5-plus and rock-3a. tested module load on orangepi5-plus. View the full article

Armbian 23.8 Colobus We are very pleased to announce the public availability of Armbian OS 23.08, the Linux distribution, and 23.08 package set, under the codename »Colobus«. After the complete rework of our build framework, we proceeded with refreshing repository management and automation processes. We have significantly stabilized both our framework and many hardware platforms we are taking care of. Continue reading to learn more about our latest news and updates! Our Focus Armbian delivers four point releases each year, representing our team’s dedicated efforts to stabilize this complex and ever-changing system. We release updates every 4 months, with weekly meeting…

sunxi/sunxi64 edge 6.5.y: fix lost accreditation/description and date formats of a few patches sunxi/sunxi64 edge 6.5.y: fix lost accreditation/description and date formats of a few patches Fixes: bb78fac2fadb40a43a9ccb36266dbd21746c2eb6 View the full article

Description Even though git shows a lot of changes, only change is putting the code in if block to make sure that we try to patch the system after we relaunch. Without this I got a password prompt on my MacBook as the system was trying to patch the MacOS. This can be closed if #6076 is ready Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full ar…

mangopi-m28k is rk3528 new mini sbc box. The following hardware features are supported： 1.Two Gb ethernet（one gmac another is pcie） 2.Two usb 2.0 type A connecter 3.wifi6 aic8800 4.lpddr4（1-4GB）emmc（8-32）TF 5.micro hdmi connecter 6.IR Receiver 7.user uart/spi/iic extended interfaces 8.pd power View the full article

Description Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. Please also include relevant motivation and context. List any dependencies that are required for this change. Jira reference number [AR-9999] How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] Test A [ ] Test B Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no ne…

Description Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. Please also include relevant motivation and context. List any dependencies that are required for this change. Issue-6402 AR-2106 This is to enable the snd_aloop module for rk3588. This is a very useful module for audio loop and recording. Documentation summary for feature / change How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] This change's been tested on my nanopi-r6s board. [x] loop recording works fine, see no warnings or errors. [x] default HDMI pcm audio works fine. Checklis…

Description Tested only for assembly at this point. It needs further optimisations. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test [ ] Booted image with i3wm Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

rockchip-rk3588/6.11: backport Marcin Juszkiewicz's "FriendlyELEC NanoPC-T6 improvements" v6 series to fix non-LTS and split LTS version of NanoPC T6 nanopct6-lts: a separate board for the LTS version of the NanoPC T6 Split has landed upstream for 6.12, and backported in a separate commit I had already added the -lts version to the vendor (6.1) rockchip kernel a few months ago rockchip-rk3588/6.11: backport Marcin Juszkiewicz's "FriendlyELEC NanoPC-T6 improvements" v6 series to fix non-LTS and split LTS version of NanoPC T6 Marcin Juszkiewicz's series https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240829-friendlyelec-nanopc-t6-lts-v6-0-edff247e8c02@linaro.org/ has landed upstream se…

Initial support for Rockchip's RK3576 has landed in Linux kernel 6.12, a new System-on-a-Chip (SoC) introduced earlier this year. With the main target being industrial applications, it is less of a powerhouse than the RK3588, but it still reuses many components. View the full article

KIOXIA Corporation, previously known as, Toshiba Memory Corporation, has started sampling of the XFMEXPRESS XT2 removable PCIe/NVMe storage device compliant with XFM DEVICE Ver.1.0-standard with dimensions of just 18×14 mm. The new storage standard and device are mostly designed for space-constrained applications ranging from ultra-mobile PCs to IoT devices and various embedded applications that may require fast, removable storage. We do not have the full specifications for the XFMEXPRESS XT2, but here are the highlights: Host interface – PCIe 4.0 x 2 lanes, NVMe 1.4b interface with similar performance to M.2 SSDs Removable storage similar to microSD card Dimensions 18 x …

The Hantro Video4Linux2 (V4L2) kernel module has gained support for another SoC! The Microchip SAMA5D4 features a single decode unit supporting MPEG2, VP8 and H.264 streams, alongside the built-in post-processing unit. View the full article

More progress is being made in the area of i.MX6, etnaviv and Android. Since the last post a lot work has gone into upstreaming and stabilizing the etnaviv on Android ecosystem. This has involved Android, kernel and Mesa changes, many of which are available upstream now. View the full article

Description Maintenance. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description meson: Bump edge to v5.19 How Has This Been Tested? [X] Build and run Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [X] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [X] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

AXERA AX620A is a high-performance, low-power AI SoC with a quad-core Arm Cortex-A7 processor and a 14.4TOPs @ INT4 or 3.6TOPs @ INT8’s NPU that is slightly inferior to the Amlogic A311D, and mainly used for AI vision applications. With high computing power and built-in image processing capabilities, the AX620A can support a wide range of AI workloads. It also offers low power consumption with low standby power and fast wake-up, so the chip can be integrated into battery-powered products. AXERA AX620A specifications: CPU – Quad-core Arm Cortex-A7 @ 1.0 GHz with 32KB L1 I-cache + 32KB L1 D-cache per core, 256KB L2 cache, FPU and NEON NPU – 4 TOPS @ INT4, 3.6 TOPS @ INT8 wi…

Cool Pi 4 Model B is a powerful alternative to Raspberry Pi 4 SBC with mostly the same form factor and interfaces but equipped with a Rockchip RK3588S octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 processor that will run circles around the Broadcom BCM2711 SoC found in the Raspberry Pi board. We’ve already reviewed Rockchip RK3588/RK3588S single board computers and mini PC such as Rock 5B, Khadas Edge2 Pro, and Mekotronics R58, and we were impressed by the performance, but if you prefer to have such a board in Raspberry Pi 4 form factor, then the Cool Pi 4 Model B might be for you. Cool Pi 4 Model B specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3588S octa-core processor with 4x Cortex-A76 cores @ up to 2.…

bananapim2s: rename u-boot patch folder, required, since board file was renamed in #4644 View the full article

Description In commit 0aa61abe7 (armbian-audio-config: Massively speed up script) this script was changed to not call amixer for each control, but just once for each card, feeding commands for many controls in one invocation with the --stdin option. In that commit, two errors were introduced: Controls that were intended to be muted were turned on instead. This affects the "CD", "Mic" and "Internal Speaker" controls. This occured because there is a helper shell function whose arguments were renumbered, but the last argument kept the old numbering, keeping it always at the default value of "on", even when it should have been "mute". Controls with a space in their na…

Description Test build from here: https://github.com/amazingfate/armbian-rock5b-images/releases/tag/20230524-0807 How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] Image build sucessfully [x] Image running fine on rock5b Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published…

cleanup-space-final-image: keep qcom and qed firmware (for thinkpad-x13s) cleanup-space-final-image: keep qcom and qed firmware (for thinkpad-x13s) View the full article

Use multiple consecutive reads in rtw_sdio_read_port() to limit the number of bytes which are copied by the host from the card in one MMC/SDIO transfer. This allows receiving a buffer that's larger than the hosts max_req_size (number of bytes which can be transferred in one MMC/SDIO transfer). As a result of this the skb_over_panic error is gone as the rtw88 driver is now able to receive more than 1536 bytes from the card (either because the incoming packet is larger than that or because multiple packets have been aggregated). Disabled: 001-revert-rtw88-sdio-size-and-timout-to-rfc-v1.patch Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have p…

My precious! How Has This Been Tested? Daily Driving Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [X] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [X] I have performed a self-review of my own code [X] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [X] My changes generate no new warnings [X] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules [X] Blood Donated [X] Tears produced [X] Contract with the devil signed View the full article

patching: emit warnings when files in dt folder overwrite pre-existing files (DTs that landed upstream) patching: emit warnings when files in dt folder overwrite pre-existing files (DTs that landed upstream) it's more and more common that the (bare) DT files in our dt folders have landed upstream this adds warnings and marks the patching table red when some bare-dt file overwrites what's already in git without this it's very easy to forget them there during bumps View the full article

Description Currently, PocketBeagle 2 edge images cannot build (without patch 1) and fails to boot (without patch 3). The patch one just defines the missing variable for OPTEE. Patch 3 specifies root using path instead of UUID. For some reason, UUID does not work with PocketBeagle 2 U-boot. How Has This Been Tested? Tested on PocketBeagle 2 rev A0 Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and pub…

DKMS is a framework that is mostly used to build and install external kernel modules. It can also be used to install a specific patch to the modules of the current kernel, such as applying a specific fix to the Bluetooth USB subsystem. View the full article

Ever since Vulkan was announced a few years ago, the idea of creating a Vulkan benchmarking tool in the spirit of glmark2 had been floating in my mind. Recently, thanks to my employer, Collabora, this idea has materialized! The result is the vkmark Vulkan benchmark, hosted on github. View the full article

The latest release of Weston was made on February 1, 2022. Meanwhile, a few bugs were discovered and we decided to do a bug-fix release, which we haven't had in several years. View the full article

Acromag XMC-7A50-AP323 is an XMC (Switched Mezzanine Card) module based on a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA with 48 TTL I/O channels plus a 16-bit ADC for 20 differential or 40 single-ended analog inputs. Designed for commercial off-the-shelf (COSTS) applications, Acromag XMC modules are RoHS compliant, and suitable for automation applications, scientific development labs, as well as aerospace and military applications. Acromag XMC-7A50-AP323 module specifications: FPGA – AMD Xilinx Artix-7 (XC7A050) FPGA with 52,160 logic cells, 65,200 Flip flops, 2,700 kb block RAM, 120 DSP slices Storage – 32Mbit QSPI flash memory FPGA Digital I/O 48x I/O channels controlled in groups of eight ch…

Description Maint. View the full article

Description Add plymouth package to base images except minimal Jira reference number AR-1377 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build minimal [x] Build CLI Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

armbian-kernel: further insist on disabling kernel debug, since DEBUG_INFO is auto-enabled by DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 and others armbian-kernel: further insist on disabling kernel debug, since DEBUG_INFO is auto-enabled by DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5 and others View the full article

Description ：） How Has This Been Tested? Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Bumps setuptools from 74.1.0 to 75.1.0. Changelog Sourced from setuptools's changelog. v75.1.0 Features Deprecated bdist_wheel.universal configuration. (#4617) Bugfixes Removed reference to upload_docs module in entry points. (#4650) v75.0.0 Features Declare also the dependencies used by distutils (adds jaraco.collections). Deprecations and Removals Removed upload_docs command. (#2971) pypa/distutils#294#4649) v74.1.3 Bugfixes Fix cross-platform compilation using distutils._msvccompiler.MSVCCompiler -- by :user:saschanaz and :user:Avasam (#4648) v74.1.2 Bugfixes Fixed TypeError in sdist filelist processing by adding support for pathlib Paths for the build_b…

Rebuilding the tools you actually touchKernel 7.1 across the tree, a rewritten installer, Imager 2.0, and UEFI ISO images Three rewrites in one cycleMost releases are a long list of small improvements. This one had three larger pieces landing at roughly the same time, and all three touch parts of Armbian that people use directly rather than parts they only read about in changelogs. The installer was rewritten. Armbian Imager reached 2.0. And our CI moved out of the repository it had outgrown into one built for the job. None of these were planned to coincide; they simply reached the point where postponing them again would have cost more than doing them. The installer rewri…

Description Update meson64-edge kernel to 5.19 Jira reference number AR-1231 How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [X] Build ok Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

With their latest contributions all around the kernel, notably to the Video4Linux APIs and hardware enablement, Collaborans continue to expand on their efforts to close the gap between hardware support on vendor trees and mainline. View the full article

Linux Kernel 4.12 is out, with 12 Collabora developers having contributed, a new record number of developers contributing to a single kernel release for Collabora! View the full article

Wi-SUN is a standard (IEEE 802.15.4g) managed by the Wi-SUN Alliance and designed for Smart Cities, Smart Agriculture, and other large scale IoT deployments with a large number of devices thanks to the use of IPv6 mesh networking. The organization was founded in 2011 to “support the worldwide development of Wireless Communications Networks for Utilities, Smart Cities and IoT”, but due to the niche nature of target applications, it does not get that much press coverage and was only recently brought to my attention. Wi-SUN stands for “Wireless Smart Utility Networks”or “Wireless Smart Ubiquitous Networks”, and the standard aims to connect streetlights, cameras, weather stat…

The third prize of this year’s giveaway week comes courtesy of ELECFREAKS which offers a Cutebot Pico:ed kit based on the Pico:ed board with a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller and following BBC Micro:bit form factor. The kit also includes two high-speed motors to drive two wheels, ultrasonic & distance sensors, two RGB LED lights and clearance lamps on the bottom, two line-tracking probes, and an active buzzer used as a horn. It is powered by three AAA batteries. The company initially me asked me if I wanted to review the board/robot, but since I may not have the time to do so, I asked whether they wanted to be included in our yearly giveaway week which they accept…

Description This patch doesn't make any changes to the source file: -rockchip->ep_gpio = devm_gpiod_get_optional(dev, "ep", - GPIOD_OUT_HIGH); +rockchip->ep_gpio = devm_gpiod_get_optional(dev, "ep", GPIOD_OUT_HIGH); If this patch once had a function it has been lost in the Git history thanks to the patch archive folder shuffling. How Has This Been Tested? inert patch. Checklist: [X] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [X] I have performed a self-review of my own code [X] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [X] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [X] My changes generate no new warnings [X] Any…

NXP i.MX 95 is an upcoming Arm processor family for automotive, industrial, and IoT applications with up to six Cortex-A55 application cores, a Cortex-M33 safety core, a Cortex-M7 real-time core, and NXP eIQ Neutron Neural Network Accelerator (NPU). We’re just only starting to see NXP i.MX 93 modules from companies like iWave Systems and Forlinx, but NXP is already working on its second i.MX 9 processor family with the i.MX 95 application processor family equipped with a higher number of Cortex-A55 cores, an Arm Mali 3D GPU, NXP SafeAssure functional safety, 10GbE, support for TSN, and the company’s eIQ Neutron Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to enable machine learning appli…

distro-agnostic.sh: fix: check if chroot (not host!) has timesyncd.conf as condition to enable systemd-timesyncd.service ref #4868 View the full article

Description ghproxy is a github mirror making use of cloudflare cdn, which is ultra fast in China. How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] Build kernel with ./compile.sh kernel COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=sha,gpg,xz DEB_COMPRESS=xz DOWNLOAD_MIRROR=china BOARD=rock-5b BRANCH=legacy GITHUB_MIRROR=ghproxy Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My cha…

Description When boards are changes listen only to branch "main" as we don't want to trigger this elsewhere. Jira reference number AR-1664 How Has This Been Tested? No need View the full article

thinkpad-x13s: add wip board; use steev's 6.3.y kernel as an uefi-arm64 BRANCH=sc8280xp; force modules & fw in initrd thinkpad-x13s: add wip board; use steev's 6.3.y kernel as an uefi-arm64 BRANCH=sc8280xp; force modules & fw in initrd add GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT with efi=noruntime clk_ignore_unused pd_ignore_unused so it actually boots use grub-with-dtb for the (required) DTB usage in grub use a customize hook to add a lot of modules & fw into initrd, required for booting if on RELEASE=lunar, add Ubuntu's "x13s Concept" PPA and a few packages for battery control/audio View the full article

kernel-debs: headers: hack/fix for 6.5-rc1's "tools/counter: Makefile: Remove lingering 'include' directories on make clean" kernel-debs: headers: hack/fix for 6.5-rc1's "tools/counter: Makefile: Remove lingering 'include' directories on make clean" introduced at https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/228354ed692faa08f40f2630658c0771f77da457 simply creating the dir solves it reported to author, let's hope for an -rc2 fix. better logging when DEBUG=yes (don't pass "-s"(ilent) to make clean) View the full article

Description Update odroidxu4-current kernel to 5.4.251. I am not sure if the patches fixing the wireless drivers are the correct way of handling this, please feel free to ignore this PR if they are not. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Reboot of my Odroid HC1 Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Update maintainers and board status synced status from the database rename to .csc where we don't have anyone If you want to become a board maintainer, adjust data here. Ref: Board Maintainers Procedures and Guidelines View the full article

Description Several changes to welcome text. How Has This Been Tested? n/a Checklist: [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation View the full article

Description We already set to Armbian, but we didn't set default link. This fixes it for both, Debian and Ubuntu. Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. Please also include relevant motivation and context. List any dependencies that are required for this change. Jira reference number AR-2012 Close https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/6118 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Make an upgrade and see if it get fixed. Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the…

Description Two kernel branches have been added to 8250, as some of its features were compromised in 6. x, the latest branch is needed for testing Jira reference number [AR-9999] How Has This Been Tested? Both kernels were compiled on UMI and passed [x] Legacy [x] Edge Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Update maintainers and board status Check for errors: https://github.com/armbian/scripts/actions/workflows/pull-maintainers-from-database-and-make-a-pr.yml synced status from the database rename to .csc where we don't have anyone If you want to become a board maintainer, adjust data here. Ref: Board Maintainers Procedures and Guidelines View the full article

Description The media board family was long abandoned and most boards that formerly were using this board family already switched to rockchip64 or rk3588. @rpardini recently mentioned being in favor of getting rid of this kernel: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6717#discussion_r1632321571 Integrate the last remaining boards into rockchip64 and remove the media board family, including its kernel. GitHub issue reference: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/6821 Jira reference number AR-2392 How Has This Been Tested? [x] ./compile.sh uboot BOARD=quartz64a BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=trixie [x] ./compile.s…

Bumps dtschema from 2024.5 to 2024.9. Commits c51125d schemas: i2c: add generic interrupt name for I2C controllers 285f991 schemas: i2c: clean up interrupt descriptions for I2C targets 74bc7ea schemas: i2c: reword descriptions for inclusive language 5270b95 dt-validate: Support multiple schema id matches 449b457 schemas: property-units: Exclude some non-conforming properties 8f5303c meta-schemas: Disable checks on non-conformant unit suffix properties e5d88ac dtb: Fix 'interrupt-map' decoding for single entry 69c4839 validator: Decend allOf/anyOf/oneOf keywords when extracting properties f13c181 dtb: Handle multiple types differing in sign c00f747 dtb: Handle multiple …

Next week, Collabora will be taking part in the 2025 edition X.Org Developer's Conference! Taking place in Vienna, our engineers will be presenting 6 talks and a workshop to help local students discover the embedded graphics stack! Join us! View the full article

Debugging graphics performance in a simple and high-level manner is possible for all Gallium based Mesa drivers using GALLIUM_HUD, a feature that adds performance graphs to applications. View the full article

I can't seem to find the reason this code was here, and it caused any build that contained CLEAN_LEVEL="sources" to fail. Description Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. Please also include relevant motivation and context. List any dependencies that are required for this change. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Run build with this code omitted Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any depende…