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Description Fix armbian-led-state-save.sh wrong behavior on boards without gpio leds. Jira reference number AR-1263 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. [ ] Works on boars without leds [ ] Worjs on board with leds (checked odroid-c4) 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 be…

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FriendlyELEC has launched its sixth generation router with the NanoPi R6S equipped with a Rockchip RK3588S processor, two 2.5GbE ports, one Gigabit Ethernet port, and two USB interfaces. But the device will not exactly be limited to router functions as it comes with 8GB RAM, a 32GB eMMC flash, and an HDMI 2.1 port that support up to 8Kp60 video output, not to mention 8K video decoding capability and the integrated 6 TOPS NPU for AI workloads. NanoPi R6S specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3588S octa-core processor with: CPU – 4x Cortex-A76 cores @ up to 2.4 GHz, four Cortex-A55 cores @ 1.8 GHz GPU – Arm Mali-G610 MP4 quad-core GPU with OpenGL ES3.2 / OpenCL 2.2 / Vulkan1.1 s…

Description To do: in order to get network support it require moving AC200 from Opi3LTS patch / dtsi as its configured differently and additionally patch device tree. Jira reference number AR-1487 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Boot on device, checked for functions 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

LILYGO T-SIM7080G-S3 is an ESP32-S3 WiFi and Bluetooth IoT board with a SIMcom SIM7080G LTE Cat-M (eMTC), NB-IoT, and GNSS module for low-power long-range connectivity and asset tracking. The board also comes with a 18650 battery holder, a solar panel input, a microSD card slot, a camera port, and several I/Os and provides an alternative to the TTGO T-Beam ESP32 board that relies on LoRaWAN for long-range connectivity instead. LILYGO T-SIM7080G-S3 specifications: Wireless modules Espressif ESP32-S3-WROOM-1-N16R8 module with ESP32-S3 dual-core LX7 microprocessor @ up to 240 MHz with Vector extension for machine learning, 16MB flash, 8MB PSRAM, WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 5 LE/Mes…

AAEON’s UP Squared Pro 7000 Edge fanless mini PC is powered by a choice of Alder Lake-N SoCs from the Processor N50 up to the Intel Core i3-N305 octa-core processor and designed for IoT, automation, robotics, and industrial applications. The system is based on the UP Squared Pro 7000 4-inch SBC and ships up to 16GB LPDDR5, up to 64GB eMMC flash, and supports triple display setups with HDMI, DisplayPort, and USB-C ports. Network connectivity includes two 2.5GbE ports and optional WiFi/Bluetooth and/or 5G/4G cellular modules M.2 expansion slots. UP Squared Pro 7000 Edge mini PC specifications: Alder Lake-N SoC (one or the other) Intel Core i3-N305 octa-core processor up to …

Description One user on the forum (see https://forum.armbian.com/topic/27798-orange-pi-4-lts-default-thermal-trip-point-issues/) found issues with Orange PI 4 LTS thermal trip points. Looking into the problem, it is related to a patch introduced long time ago that changed the thermal trip points away from the vendor (and mainline kernel too) supplied ones. After some stress testing with openssl and mbw combined, my board froze and I had to shutdown it manually, let it cool and restart to have again a working system. It happens that, at least on my and forum user cases, the trip points are not doing what they expect to do. This patch corrects the trip points for Opi4 LT…

Description Update symlink for bluetooth firmware on JetHub D1 Jira reference number AR-2022 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] JetHub D1 build and run 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

Description Add AmLogic soc patches for read chip_id and soc information from Secure Monitor call to soc-driver. Enabled by default only for JetHub devices (other needs to be enabled via general-socinfo-sm-4-arm64-dts-meson-add-dts-links-to-secure-monitor-for-.patch.disabled patch) https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/202402221557.ELxBYVKH-lkp@intel.com/T/ Jira reference number AR-2073 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. [ ] JetHub works [ ] some other closed-source devices based on axg/gxl/a1 soc works too. Checklist: [X] My code follows the …

Description In order to fullfil the Jira task AR-1988 (Resolve Rockchip patch maintenance nightmare), remove rockpis family in favor of rockchip64 and merge the configuration bits from the family .conf file into the board rockpi-s.conf file. Also removes the legacy patches from the archive Jira reference number AR-1988 How Has This Been Tested? [x] A current kernel image has been produced [x] idbloader has been verified to be matching against the pre-cleanup image [x] /boot/armbianEnv.txt contains the overlay_prefix=rk3308 [x] /boot/boot.cmd matches config/bootscripts/boot-rockpis.cmd [ ] /boot/armbianEnv.txt contains /config/bootenv/rockpi-s.txt Please @brentr check …

Bumps ossf/scorecard-action from 2.3.1 to 2.3.3. Release notes Sourced from ossf/scorecard-action's releases. v2.3.3 [!NOTE] There is no v2.3.2 release as a step was skipped in the release process. This was fixed and re-released under the v2.3.3 tag What's Changed :seedling: Bump github.com/ossf/scorecard/v4 (v4.13.1) to github.com/ossf/scorecard/v5 (v5.0.0-rc1) by @​spencerschrock in ossf/scorecard-action#1366 :seedling: Bump github.com/ossf/scorecard/v5 from v5.0.0-rc1 to v5.0.0-rc2 by @​spencerschrock in ossf/scorecard-action#1374 :seedling: Bump github.com/ossf/scorecard/v5 from v5.0.0-rc2 to v5.0.0-rc2.0.20240509182734-7ce860946928 by @​spencerschrock in oss…

Monado's first stable of release of 2025 is here. From enhanced Android support and driver updates to improved runtime stability and tooling, Collabora's XR team delivered a wide array of improvements for the cross-platform, open source OpenXR runtime. View the full article

To me, an ATX power supply is one of those big boxes delivering 500W+ inside a PC tower, but since it’s not possible to create hardware with much lower power consumption, HDPLEX has designed an ultra-compact 250W passive ATX power supply using the same GaN (Gallium Nitride) technology as found in some tiny USB-C power supplies. With a 170x50x25mm footprint, the company claims it is the world’s smallest ATX PSU, and it is especially well suited to SFF PC enclosures, but it should also work pretty well in other space-constraints applications with a board equipped with an ATX connector, or through an adapter board, or even some RGB LED projects. GaN ATX power supply specific…

Compulab IOT-GATE-IMX8PLUS is a new Arm Linux IoT gateway powered by NXP i.MX 8M Plus SoC with up to 8GB RAM, 128GB storage, and plenty of connectivity options with dual Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.3 LE, and 4G LTE connector, as well as GNNS support and RS485/RS232 interfaces. The new IoT gateway builds upon theArm SystemReady IR certified IOT-GATE-IMX8 industrial gateway, but offers more RAM and storage, a 2.8 TOPS AI accelerator (in the NXP processor), improved connectivity, as well as a DVI-D port for video output. Compulab IOT-GATE-IMX8PLUS specifications: SoC – NXP i.MX8M Plus Quad or Quad-lite quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 processor @ up to 1.8 GHz with Arm Cor…

With the release of virglrenderer 0.8.0, getting accelerated OpenGL within a virtual machine (VM) made a big leap forward. Since virglrenderer-0.7.0, the code base has seen ~600 commits, and Collabora provided more than 80% of these contributions. View the full article

Stuttgart, Germany - From 22/04/2015 to 22/04/2015: We will be exhibiting at the GENIVI Demonstration Showcase during the All Member Meeting. View the full article

This is a continuation of: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/3984 (by @rpardini ) that has the new board split into the new family - rockchip-rk3588 (as indicated by @igorpecovnik) rock-5b: add initial radxa rock-5b .wip (by @amazingfate); vendor u-boot & vendor kernel uses legacy with Radxa's 5.10 (with no patches added to armbian). CONFIG_VT=y & SKIP_BOOTSPLASH=yes patch by @piter75 in uboot for working 'source' command so boot.scr can be used, and not extlinux rock5 add kernel options by @lanefu Tested on my rock-5b. View the full article

Description CI process build images from repository by default. Sometimes we would need an option to build from sources. View the full article

LOLIN C3 Pico is a tiny (25.4×25.4mm) ESP32-C3 RISC-V board with 2.4 GHz WiFi and Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity, a few I/Os, and LiPo battery support including charging circuitry. I tend to like Wemos/LOLIN boards, because of their small form factor, support for equally tiny shields, and low price. The LOLIN C3 Pico is no exception, and even adds a few features such as an RGB LED, an I2C connector, and support for battery power and charging. LOLIN C3 Pico specifications: SoC – Espressif Systems ESP32-C3FH4 single-core 32-bit RISC-V (RV32IMC) microcontroller up to 160 MHz with 400 KB SRAM, 4MB Flash Connectivity – 2.4 GHz WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 5.0 LE (in SoC) Expansion …

paperd.ink Merlot is a tricolor E-paper display with an open-source hardware control board based on ESP32 wireless SoC that is programmable with Arduino, MicroPython, or the ESP-IDF framework. We first wrote about the paperd.ink 4.2-inch ESP32-based monochrome e-Paper display last year, but the company has now refined its design with the “paperd.ink Classic” replacing the 3D printed enclosure with a vacuum cast enclosure and adding a 1,900 mAh battery. They also launched a new model, the Merlot, based on the same design but with a display supporting three colors: black, white, and red. Merlot specifications: Wireless module – ESP32-WROOM-32 module with ESP32 dual-core pro…

Description This is really not needed default tool. Rely on installation from armbian-config. Jira reference number AR-1461 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] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

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This week, the Debian project takes over Cambridge as MiniDebConf kicks off right in our own British backyard! Organized by Debian project members, MiniDebConfs aim to achieve similar objectives to those of the annual Debian conference, DebConf. View the full article

As of 2024 Feb, Github still no allow a source branch to be renamed. Previous PR https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6291 was auto closed by Github upon source branch renaming. This new PR supersedes it. Description Running "uefi-x86" board image on qemu-system-x86_64 --display none --serial stdio ... did not: allow GRUB boot without GUI display display early kernel boot messages on the serial console display the console prompt on serial console Jira reference number: None 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: Boot uefi-x86 board imag…

Description remove kinetic, lunar, mantic fix armhf sid, noble, oracular How Has This Been Tested? [x] Manual tests on affected Checklist: [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Fixes https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6819, see https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6819#discussion_r1681548553 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 [ ] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

Armbian Development Report: Continued Progress and Community Momentum Over the past two weeks, the Armbian project has made steady and meaningful progress across core infrastructure, board support, and kernel development. From bootloader improvements to expanded hardware compatibility, our contributors continue to push the platform forward. This update highlights recent technical advancements, bug fixes, and community contributions that help power the Armbian ecosystem. Highlights Pcduino2/3 Gain HDMI and Display FixesHDMI output is now supported, and a regression affecting display output on Pcduino2 and Pcduino3 boards has been resolved.#8341 Key Bootloader an…

MediaTek has introduced the Genio platform for AIoT devices, and unveiled the first chip of the Genio family with the Genio 1200 Octa-core Cortex-A78/A55 processor with a 4.8 TOPS NPU, 4K video support, and designed for premium AIoT products. The chip is manufactured with a 6nm processor, is said to consume less than 8W, supports dual 4Kp60 video output and up to 48MP @ 30 fps video capture, and WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2 and 5G connectivity can be added through add-in chips. Targets applications include Smart Home appliances, HMI, industrial IoT, robotics, and more. MediaTek Genio 1200 key features and specifications: CPU – Octa-core processor with four Cortex-A78 cores @ up…

We’ve already seen several Rockchip RK3588 modules with Firefly Core-3588J, Turing RK1, and Banana Pi RK3588_CV1, all with an edge connector to insertion into the carrier board. Rongpin RD-RK3588 system-on-module is a little different with four board-to-board connectors that enable a slightly more compact design, and should expose more I/Os than say a 314-pin MXM edge connector. The module ships with up to 16GB of RAM, 128 GB of storage, a Rockchip RK806-1 PMIC, and the company also offers a development kit with RD-RK3588-B baseboard fitted with the module for evaluation and early software development. RD-RK3588 board-to-board module RD-RK3588-C core module specifications…

Description All changes are for Onecloud: Fix bug: the USB closed to the HDMI doesn't work Fix bug: cpufreq doesn't work Fix bug: thermal_zone doesn't work Add bootscript Add missing dependency - libmpc-dev (needed for gcc-arm-8.3-2019.03-x86_64-arm-linux-gnueabihf) How Has This Been Tested? [X] Build [X] Burn and test Checklist: [ ] 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 [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downs…

Starting tomorrow, Collabora will be exhibiting & speaking at Embedded Linux Conference North America (ELCNA), the premier vendor-neutral technical conference for companies and developers using embedded Linux. View the full article

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PINE64 is about to launch the second generation Pinecil RISC-V soldering iron with the Pinecil V2 featuring a new Bouffalo Lab BL706 RISC-V microcontroller with Bluetooth LE connectivity, optimizations for higher power levels, as well as tentative support for the new USB PD EPR standard (Extended Power Range) working at up to 28V. I don’t solder every day, but when I do, I use my Pinecil soldering iron, as it’s heating super fast and does the job, and in my case, works quite better than the TS100 soldering iron. So it should come as no surprise that the Pincel is the most popular consumer hardware from the PINE64 community (after SOPine modules), and the new Pinecil V2 is…

The Allwinner A40i and A60i industrial-grade quad-core and hexa-core Cortex-A7 processors were first introduced in 2018 with support for the wide -40°C to +85°C industrial temperature range, but so far I had not noticed any hardware making use of either processor. But Banana Pi is now offering the Banana Pi BPI-M2 Ultra SBC, which they launched in 2016 with the Allwinner R40 quad-core Cortex-A7 SoC, with the pin-to-pin and software-compatible Allwinner A40i industrial-grade processor. Banana Pi BPI-M2 Ultra specifications: SoC – Allwinner A40i quad-core Arm Cortex-A7 processor with Arm Mali-400MP2 GPU @ 500 MHz, 1080p60 H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-1/2 video decoder, H.264 1080p45…

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Description Next Ubuntu (not LTS) Jira reference number AR-1380 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build CLI and minimal images [x] Build desktop (our repository needs to be updated due to missing package) 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 Jira reference number AR-1575 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. [ ] Test B 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

Description This PR includes the following changes I noticed that we were making use of r_i2c to communicate with AXP chip for Orange Pi lite2 and one plus in linux kernel, but were using r_rsb in u-boot. Made this consistent by porting the patch used in sunxi kernel to u-boot. Moved to board specific crust config for Orange Pi 3, lite2 and one plus. The difference from previous configuration is that crust will now be aware of presence of AXP power chip present on the board and hence should be able to lower the power usage further during sleep or shutdown state Enabled kernel module for Hantro G2 video codec block available on H6 boards. Should allow faster video decodi…

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…

Ongoing work on the reverse-engineered Panfrost OpenGL ES driver for Arm Mali GPUs has turned the RK3399 SoC into a very attractive platform to try out Wayland on ARM devices. View the full article

Check out the new GNOME Programming Guidelines and file bugs in Bugzilla. View the full article

Description Current boot loader is broken anyway. At least for my device. Jira reference number AR-1157 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build, many reboots, install to emmc 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 This fixes the recently broken patch. See #4261 and https://forum.armbian.com/topic/23824-fancontrol-service-fails-to-start-with-kernel-version-51572/ Needs to be tested on actual hardware! How Has This Been Tested? build runs ok. Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

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ROCK Robotic has announced the ROCK Base triple-band multi-constellation RTK/GNSS base station that works with the Web3 GEODNET decentralized GNSS reference network, with the solution designed to offer centimeter accuracy to support applications such as civil surveying, high-definition mapping, digital twin creation, and robotic solutions. Real-time Kinematic (RTK) is a relative positioning technique relying on GNSS (GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, Beidou …) and allowing centimeter positioning accuracy. The technique requires an RTK “Base station” like the ROCK Base and a lower-cost “Rover station” typically attached to a vehicle or drone. For higher accuracy, it’s also possible …

Texas Instruments (TI) has introduced the ULC1001 digital signal processor (DSP) ultrasonic lens cleaning (ULC) technology designed – when combined with DRV2901 piezo transducer driver – for self-cleaning camera systems to quickly detect and remove dirt, ice, and water using microscopic vibrations. Cameras used in the automotive, industrial, robotics, and smart farming industries may require cleaning from time to time and that usually means manual cleaning leading to potential downtime, higher maintenance cost, and so on. It could also be done through mechanical parts but that adds further complexity to the system, so instead, Texas Instruments ULC1001 and DRV2901 combo e…

EDATEC CM4 Industrial is both a Raspberry Pi CM4 carrier board and a computer for industrial IoT, control, and automation that expands on the company’s CM4 Sensing and CM4 Nano solutions with more features and interfaces. The system notably offers two RS485, one RS232, three analog inputs, two digital inputs, and one relay output through terminal blocks, as well as optional WiFi, Bluetooth, and 4G LTE + GPS connectivity, and a wide DC voltage range of 8V to 36V. EDATEC CM4 Industrial specifications: SoM – Raspberry Pi CM4 module with SoC – Broadcom BCM2711 quad-core Arm Cortex-A72 processor @ 1.5GHz with VideoCore Vi GPU supporting OpenGLES 3.1, Vulkan 1.x, H.265 (HEVC) (…

Manufactured with a 4nm processor, the MediaTek Dimensity 7200 is an octa-core Armv9 processor designed for mainstream smartphones. with two Cortex-A715 cores, six Cortex-A510 cores, a Mali-G610 MC4 GPU, as well as 5G, WiFi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity. So far, I had only seen Armv9 SoCs with a mix of Cortex-A510 “LITTLE” cores, Cortex-A710/A715 “big” core, and Cortex-X2 or Cortex-X3 “flagship cores” as found in the Dimensity 9200 processor, but the Dimensity 7200 is one of the first Armv9 processors – one other being the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 – without a Cortex-X core in order to provide a more affordable solution. MediaTek Dimensity 7200 specifications: CPU 2x Arm C…

Description Update Rpi4 kernels, configs and adjust broken patches Jira reference number AR-1574 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 [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Maint. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test 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

Description As per subject, fixes the esp8089 driver to allow module remove without errors and leave the hardware in cold state to allow further module insertion. Not a great deal, can even wait after release, but only deal with CSC boards so should not be too worrisome. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Module has been tested [x] Current kernel debian packages compile [x] Edge kernel debian packages compile 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 gene…

Description Enable BINFMT_MISC for box86. Enable UHID for bluetooth LE keyboard I have a bluetooth LE keyboard with pairing issue: unexpected SMP command 0x06 unexpected SMP command 0x07 The root cause might be a race condition, but the kernel patch which just pass two SMP code check just works. 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] xiaomi-elish kernel build success [x] My bluetooth keyboard is paired and work fine. Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have co…

Description @lujianhua has just pushed two commits enabling 120Hz panel: https://gitlab.com/sm8250-mainline/linux/-/tree/sm8250/v6.7?ref_type=heads This pr also rebased the xiaomi keyboard related patches to his branch, although keyboard is still not working. Enable CONFIG_HIDRAW because I find it is necessary for yuzu emulator to detect nintendo switch pro controller. 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=xiaomi-elish BRANCH=sm8250 DEB_COMPRESS=xz [x] Xiaomi elish boots with 120Hz. Checklist: [x] My code follows the styl…

Description move original OrangepiZero patch to be applied on that board only add patch for powering WiFi on Inovato Quadra with correct pin How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test Checklist: [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Armbian Development Highlights: June 2–9, 2025 This week’s Armbian updates focused on kernel improvements, bootloader modernization, and several core enhancements to the build infrastructure. Key work spanned platforms like Rockchip, Sunxi, and Odroid, emphasizing kernel stability and broader compatibility across boards. Kernel Upgrades Several boards received kernel updates: Rockchip 32-bit edge kernel bumped to 6.15 in PR #8262 by paolosabatino. SpacemiT platforms updated to 6.6.93 in PR #8274 by pyavitz. Odroid XU4 kernel upgraded to 6.6.93 via PR #8277 by belegdol. Patches also landed to adapt Wi-Fi drivers to 6.15-era changes, including fixes for xradio and uwe56…

Imagination IMG RTXM-2200 32-bit RISC-V real-time CPU core is the first member of the company’s Catapult family comprised of four distinct RISC-V families for dynamic microcontrollers, real-time embedded CPUs, high-performance application CPUs, and functionally safe automotive CPUs. The company says it’s a highly scalable real-time, deterministic, 32-bit embedded CPU, that is feature-rich and flexible in design for mainstream devices, but, excuse the pun, leaves most of the details to your imagination… The new core will mostly be used as a helper core (aka co-processor) in more complex SoCs for 5G modems, cellular base stations, networking solutions for data transfer, pac…

As part of its unwavering commitment to open source and open standards, Collabora is proud to be part of bringing the recently-released OpenXR 1.0 to life, and to be pioneering the Monado open source runtime for OpenXR. View the full article

A brief discussion about Crosswalk’s JS, JAVA and Native Extensions performance View the full article

Beelink’s newly launched U59 Pro addresses the weak graphical performance offered by the original Beelink U59, which we also noticed in the Beelink MINI S, and was a direct result of the iGPU limitations. By simply upgrading the CPU from a ‘desktop’ to ‘mobile’ Celeron processor the iGPU received a fifty percent boost in execution units. Beelink kindly sent one for review and I’ve looked at performance running both Windows and Ubuntu. Beelink U59 Pro Hardware Overview The Beelink U59 Pro physically consists of a 124 x 113 x 42mm (4.88 x 4.45 x 1.65 inches) square plastic case. As before it is an actively cooled mini PC but now uses Intel’s 10 nm Jasper Lake N5105 processo…

Description /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg is used to location /boot/grub/grub.cfg. But it seem like that we don't need to generate it manually. Here I use amd64 for example. arm64 should be same. If we use grub-efi-amd64-bin, grub-install will embed prefix in core.img which will be copied to /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi. We can confirm in output/debug/install.log grub-install: info: grub-mkimage --directory '/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc' --prefix '(,gpt1)/boot/grub' --output '/boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img' --dtb '' --format 'i386-pc' --compression 'auto' 'ext2' 'part_gpt' 'biosdisk' ... grub-install: info: copying `/boot/grub/x86_64-efi/core.efi' -> `/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BO…

flash-kernel: pass FK_FORCE=yes to flash-kernel so it actually runs in chroot; thanks Ubuntu View the full article

Alif Semiconductor’s Ensemble is a family of processors and microcontrollers based on Arm Cortex-A32 and/or Cortex-M55 cores, one or two Ethos-U55 AI accelerators, and plenty of I/Os and peripherals. Four versions are available as follows: Alif E1 single-core MCU with one Cortex-M55 core @ 160 MHz, one Ethos U55 microNPU with 128 MAC/c Alif E3 dual-core MCU with one Cortex-M55 core @ 400 MHz, one Cortex-M55 core @ 160 MHz, one Ethos U55 with 256 MAC/c, one Ethos U55 with 128MAC/c Alif E5 triple-core fusion processor with one Cortex-A32 cores @ 800 MHz, one Cortex-M55 core @ 400 MHz, one Cortex-M55 core @ 160 MHz, one Ethos U55 with 256 MAC/c, one Ethos U55 with 128MAC/c A…

Description Changing support status - merge when the time is right. Jira reference number AR-1651 How Has This Been Tested? No need, status change. View the full article

Lumination Labs’ Sonatino is an ESP32-S3 board designed for audio applications that follows the Raspberry Pi Zero dimensions so that it can be used with some of the cases designed for the Raspberry Pi Zero. The wireless audio board features Cirrus Logic WM8524 audio DAC and WM8782 audio DAC capable of 24-bit 192kHz stereo output and mono input respectively, a speaker amplifier and two pins for speaker connection, a 3.5mm audio jack, as well as a microSD card slot for the storage of audio or other data. Sonatino specifications: Wireless Module – ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 with SoC – ESP32-S3 dual-core LX7 microprocessor @ up to 240 MHz with Vector extension for machine learning Me…

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 with command ./compile.sh build GITHUB_MIRROR=ghproxy REGIONAL_MIRROR=china BOARD=licheepi-4a BRANCH=legacy BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes RELEASE=jammy SKIP_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAINS=no,can download releate package success as: [🐸] wget --no-verbose --progress=dot:giga -O…

Description Boots cleanly from sdcard even when OEM uboot is installed on EMMC (was having optee errors using radxa uboot when OEM was on EMMC) -Boot 2024.04-armbian (May 13 2024 - 20:34:52 +0000) Model: FriendlyElec NanoPC-T6 DRAM: 16 GiB Core: 338 devices, 30 uclasses, devicetree: separate MMC: mmc@fe2c0000: 1, mmc@fe2e0000: 0 Loading Environment from nowhere... OK In: serial@feb50000 Out: serial@feb50000 Err: serial@feb50000 Model: FriendlyElec NanoPC-T6 rockchip_dnl_key_pressed: no saradc device found Net: No ethernet found. Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Scanning for bootflows in all bootdevs View the full article

Description Radxa E52C is a rk3582 based board with dual 2.5G ethernet. This pr depends on https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/pull/203. Since its soc is rk3582 so it should the same uboot patch from rock-5c to enable good ip cores disabled by u-boot. 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 BOARD=radxa-e52c BRANCH=vendor BUILD_MINIMAL=no DEB_COMPRESS=xz KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=noble KERNEL_GIT=shallow BUILD_DESKTOP=no [x] Board boots fine. Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [x] My code follows the style g…

Description Before, the string would look like this and fails since it's not a valid JSON: {%0A "after": "f6ddb25e6d6affbfdd92b4cd33a9b874254b4a09",%0A "base_ref": null,%0A "before": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000",%0A "commits": [%0A {%0A "author": ... After, the JSON gets correctly parsed: { "after": "090850f02e35af562dd5adc39c23d423be6bfe15", "base_ref": null, "before": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000", "commits": [ { "author": { ... Escaping multiline strings is not needed anymore with GITHUB_OUTPUT. See https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/26288#discussioncomment-3876281 Instead, use the toJS…

This weekend, Collaborans are in São Paulo, Brazil, to take part in the third edition of Linux Developer Conference Brazil, a conference which aims to take the Brazilian Linux development community to the international level. View the full article

Debian Jessie running on Raspberry Pi 2 View the full article

There are now not one but two alternatives to the discontinued ODROID-H2+ SBC with the ODROID-H3 and ODROID-H3+ single board computers powered respectively by an Intel Celeron N5105 and Pentium N6005 Jasper Lake processor. Both new SBCs support up to 64GB RAM, significantly faster Intel UHD graphics, an M.1 PCIe Gen 3 socket, and keep the same port assignment with two 2.5GbE ports, two SATA ports, as well as two USB 3.0 and two US 2.0 ports. ODROID-H3/H3+ specifications: SoC ODROID-H3 – Intel Celeron N5105 quad-core Jasper Lake processor @ 2.0GHz / 2.9GHz (Turbo) with 24EU Intel UHD graphics @ 450 / 800 MHz (Turbo); 10W TDP ODROID-H3+ – Intel Pentium N6005 quad-core Jaspe…

Description My rock5b always encountered system hang with the old rkbin files when ddr freq is 2112MHz. After updating these binaries there is no system hangs. 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] u-boot build successfully [x] no system hangs after updating u-boot 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…

Description As per subject, bumps rk322x family to kernel 6.0 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Compiled deb kernel packages and tested on a live system 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

Fix all shellcheck issues, as well as some formatting/indentation. Tested by building and booting a Radxa Zero image with this included. View the full article

InuoMicro G4305L8-S2 is a relatively inexpensive fanless industrial PC box powered by an Intel Celeron 4305U Whiskey Lake processor that offers eight 2.5GbE ports making the system suitable for firewall and other networking applications. The barebone computer supports up to 32GB RAM, one mSATA SSD, one 2.5-inch SATA drive, and also provides interfaces such as HDMI and DisplayPort video outputs and a few USB ports allowing the user as a standard computer. Wireless connectivity can be implemented through mini PCIe and/or M.2 4G LTE and WiFi modules. InuoMicro G4305L8-S2 specifications: SoC – Intel Celeron 4305UE dual-core Whiskey Lake processor @ 2.0 GHz (base, no turbo fre…

Purism has just announced the Lapdock kit to turn their Librem 5 Linux smartphone into a laptop with a 13.3-inch touchscreen display thanks to the NexDock 360 laptop dock. I was a big believer in mobile desktop convergence around 10 years ago, expected to be soon able to use my phone as a computer or laptop with a dock, and it looked like it might have become a reality when Canonical launched the Ubuntu Edge smartphone crowdfunding campaign in 2013. But it turns out demand was not sufficient, and Canonical eventually ended their convergence efforts focusing on profitable IoT and cloud segments instead. But that does not mean there isn’t a niche market and Purism’s Lapdock…

Description Switch mvebu current to 6.1.y Jira reference number AR-1577 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test 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

Description As per title. How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Build test at CI Checklist: [ ] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

Description Migrate the Banana Pi R2 Pro from the media family to the rockchip64 family. Also migrate to upstream u-boot which added support for this board in its latest release. How Has This Been Tested? Compiled a desktop image, wrote it on an sdcard, booted and tested everything is functional on the bpi-r2-pro. ./compile.sh BOARD=bananapir2pro BRANCH=edge RELEASE=trixie BUILD_MINIMAL=no BUILD_DESKTOP=yes DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=xfce DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG_NAME=config_base DESKTOP_APPGROUPS_SELECTED=none KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no 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 co…

Description How Has This Been Tested? [x] Manual build Checklist: [x] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

Description This will allow dynamic selection and we could make even leaner NM free minimal images. Which will be defaulted to systemd networking. move Netplan with it Jira reference number AR-2373 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Brief assembly test 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 [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

It's been a long road for Wayland's recently landed color management extension. We take a brief look back at how this latest feature was formed. View the full article

Collabora extended the AdobeVFR dataset and trained a FasterViT-2 font recognition model on millions of samples. The result is a state-of-the-art model for fine-grained font identification that can also be used for downstream tasks. View the full article

This week's development centered on kernel and toolchain progression, expanded board support, and substantial wireless driver cleanup. Mainline tracking advanced with kernel bumps to 7.2-rc7, Rockchip edge promoted to 7.2, and sunxi edge moved to 7.1.y. Platform work included loong64 migration from debian-ports to the main Debian archive with corresponding apt repository publishing, mainline kernel and U-Boot enablement on the Avaota A1, restored CONFIG_DWMAC_SUN8I for sunxi64, and a new RK3528 bl32/DDR blob update. Rockchip64 also received backported fixes for an 8250 DMA reopen crash and for CAN TX stalls. Board coverage grew across multiple vendors, with the NanoPi NEO…

Today, we are very excited to announce xrdesktop, a new open source project sponsored by Valve, enabling interaction with traditional Linux desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE, in VR. View the full article

Raspberry PI 2 release announcement! View the full article

ESP32-S3 has been in the news recently and we just wrote about the Bee S3 and BPI-PicoW-S3 boards yesterday, but there’s more, and LilyGo T-SIMCAM ESP32-S3 is another interesting ESP32-S3 board with a 2MP camera as well as support for an optional 4G LTE module. The board can make use of the AI capabilities from the ESP32-S3 microcontroller through the built-in camera and microphone and offers two options for power with 5V through a USB Type-C port, as well as a 2-pin JST connector for connecting a battery. T-SIMCAM ESP32-S3 CAM board specifications: Wireless MCU – ESP32-S3R8 dual-core Xtensa LX7 microcontroller with WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 5.0 LE and Mesh connectivity with 8…

Description Kernel config for rockchip64 for kernel 6.0 got a sudden overhaul I don't know it was wanted or not. That caused the addition of a huge number of unneeded modules (Parallel ATA, Intel enterprise things, PCI drivers, NAND support and drivers, and other crap) that causes a grow in compressed modules size of 20 megabytes and 2 megabyte more on the kernel image plus several other insane settings, like CMA set to 384 megabytes. This PR restores the same "shape" of the previous kernel config and fixes ssv6051 and uwe5622 patches to compile without errors with v6.0. How Has This Been Tested? [x] kernel deb packages have been compiled, verified that final size is i…

Description Low hanging fruit.. Add bash shebang at the start of all .sh files Jira reference number AR-1406 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. [ ] 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 [ ] 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 artic…

I had no trouble with my first experience with NanoPi R6S while installing and running the FriendlyWrt/OpenWrt 22.03 image, but that was another story when testing Ubuntu or Debian as the mini PC would not boot at all after flashing the images with eFlasher apparently successfully, but suspiciously fast (under 2 seconds). I spent nearly four hours trying the different images and then the Rockchip Windows utility, but all my attempts failed, and FriendlyElec was not overly helpful. So I decided to connect a serial console to see what was going on. The NanoPi R6S comes with a 3-pin header for the serial console, but it’s not populated. So I soldering one, but not at the top…

Description Fix syntax error How Has This Been Tested? run shellcheck -s bash; compile ./compile.sh BOARD=olimex-teres-a64 BRANCH=edge RELEASE=jammy BUILD_MINIMAL=no BUILD_DESKTOP=yes KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=xfce DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG_NAME=config_base DESKTOP_APPGROUPS_SELECTED="desktop_tools" 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 i…

Labeling errors are common in present open-source 3D perception datasets, which could have impactful consequences. To tackle this issue, we used Carlafox to generate an error-free synthetic dataset for 3D perception automatically. View the full article

Description Addresses the RK3399-only overlays by adding -rk3399 to them. Sort the Makefile to have some order to the chaos. (https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/5778) Jira reference number AR-1875 How Has This Been Tested? 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 [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

Description RTL8153B - does not initialize correctly on boot. Reboot is okay. Start delay work-around in the board file needs tweaking for longer boot time. Jira reference number AR-1910 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Kernel 6.1y tested on Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS [x] Kernel 6.6y tested on Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS 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 [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream module…

This does not change the current boot order and requires additional hardware. Hardware used in my testing: BananaPi BPI-CM4IO Baseboard with BPI-CM4 Module Mini PCI-E PCI Express to SATA 3.0 Dual Ports Adapter Converter Hard Drive Extension Card https://a.co/d/0G679qW Kingston 120GB A400 SATA 3 2.5" Internal SSD https://a.co/d/fB2qf3r External power supply for Hard Drive 2.5" 3.5" https://www.ebay.com/itm/114620135743 bananapi: ~ $ lspci 00:00.0 PCI bridge: Synopsys, Inc. DWC_usb3 / PCIe bridge (rev 01) 01:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) bananapi: ~ $ sudo blkid /dev/mmcblk1p1: LABEL="EMMC" UUID="67ea5c62-c9cb-4…

Seattle is hosting this year's Embedded Open Source Summit, the umbrella conference for a collection of open source events. This is the premier space for the open source community and we'll be there with 6 talks! View the full article

Description Rewrite with: ./compile.sh rewrite-kernel-config BOARD=board BRANCH=branch How Has This Been Tested? [ ] CI Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [ ] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

Description The color hex code cannot be prefixed with #. See https://github.com/armbian/build/actions/runs/9683062190/job/26717603287 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] To be tested in future PRs Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project View the full article

Fix: dtb dtbo install, wrong select media sensors Disable incorrectly designed patches. They need to be aligned with the kernel code. 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 build sunxi [ ] Test build sunxi64 View the full article