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kernel: call make with INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 so modules are stripped kernel: call make with INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 so modules are stripped also, don't add target 'install' twice View the full article

Description Maint & not supported target. Jira reference number AR-1334 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build and boot 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

The ultimate travel router and secure hotspothttp://blog.armbian.com/content/images/2025/12/r67.jpgForget insecure hotel Wi-Fi. The NanoPi R76S, powered by the performance-optimized Armbian OS, is your ticket to a truly secure, high-speed mobile network. This pocket-sized device is built around the powerful Octa-core Rockchip RK3576 SoC and supports up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, giving it the muscle to handle demanding, encrypted traffic effortlessly. 💡This device is officially supported by Armbian at the Platinum level, providing long-term maintenance, high reliability, and priority software support.Its core hardware is ideal for the road. The dual 2.5GbE Ethernet ports ensu…

Description Hardkernel bumbped their kernel sources, so those patches are not needed anymore. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test only 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

SMDT AIoTBOX-3568GK is an industrial control PC powered by a Rockchip RK3568 quad-core Cortex-A55 AIoT processor and offering plenty of interfaces including six USB ports, four RS232 ports, and terminal blocks with RS485 and CAN bus interfaces. The embedded computer ships with 2GB RAM and 16GB eMMC flash by default, and also features HDMI and LVDS display interfaces, 3.5mm jacks for headphones and microphone, as well as network connectivity through a Gigabit Ethernet port, WiFi, and optional Bluetooth and/or 4G LTE. AIoTBOX-3568GK specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3568A quad-core Cortex-A55 processor @ up to 2.0GHz with Arm Mali-G52 2EE GPU with support for OpenGL ES 1.1/2…

Description After some inspections related to pwm patch recently introduced and reverted on v5.18 kernel patchset (see https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/3928), it turned out that some boards (OrangePI 4/LTS, Tinkerboard 2) use a pinctrl configuration name active which is inherited from legacy kernel. Mainline kernel does not use such pinctrl configuration name, but wants default. This effect of this misnaming is an increased voltage supplied to "vdd_log" regulator and an increased power consumption since the configuration active is just ignored on mainline kernel. Power consumption has been tested using a regular multimeter, on my OrangePI 4 LTS board, and with the …

Description NanoPC-T6 was added to mainline so is now already present in the Collabora kernel: remove our copy of the device tree Update tags to use newest (6.7-rc) How Has This Been Tested? Build checked. 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 TOC is generated by GitHub, so we don't need to expose it. Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project View the full article

Bumps actions/upload-artifact from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3. Release notes Sourced from actions/upload-artifact's releases. v3.1.3 What's Changed chore(github): remove trailing whitespaces by @​ljmf00 in actions/upload-artifact#313 Bump @​actions/artifact version to v1.1.2 by @​bethanyj28 in actions/upload-artifact#436 Full Changelog: https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact/compare/v3...v3.1.3 Commits a8a3f3a Merge pull request #436 from bethanyj28/main 7b48769 update dependency cache 6663039 update dist/index.js 55e76b7 bump @​actions/artifact version 65d8626 chore(github): remove trailing whitespaces (#313) See full diff in compare view Dependabot will resolve…

As we reflect on the strides made in recent months, it's remarkable to see how OpenXR and Monado have evolved and are shaping the future of XR development. Let's take a closer look at the progress made and noteworthy achievements. View the full article

Banana Pi’s BPI-PicoW-S3 is a development board following the Raspberry Pi Pico W form factor, but based on Espressif System ESP32-S3 dual-core microcontroller offering both WiFi 4 and Bluetooth LE connectivity. The Raspberry Pi SBCs have inspired many designs, but the Raspberry Pi Pico MCU boards less so. So far, I had only seen the WeAct RP2040 board with the same layout except for a USB Type-C port and a 16MB flash. But the Banana Pi BPI-PicoW-S3 provides a direct alternative to the Raspberry Pi Pico W with a more powerful microcontroller, vector instructions for AI acceleration, BLE, and about the same price at $5.5 plus shipping. Let’s see how the BPI-PicoW-S3 specif…

Collabora is proud to be hosting in Montreal the 2019 edition of the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC), the leading event for developers working on all things Open graphics, including the Linux kernel, Mesa, DRM, Wayland and X11. View the full article

Description General rk322x current and edge device tree tidying up: added proper coolings maps to handle overheating enabled DEVFREQ_THERMAL config option to let devfreq devices be used in cooling maps generic tvbox ir remote kernel mappings were missing in current 5.15 kernel, added patch removed unneded patches restored AUFS config options for edge kernel How Has This Been Tested? [x] Current kernel debs built and tested on live system [x] Edge kernel debs built and tested on 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-underst…

Collabora is headed to Nuremberg, Germany to take part in this year's edition of Embedded World, the leading international fair for embedded systems! Come say hello, booth 4-280! View the full article

With its latest release, GStreamer adds native support for AI inference engines including ONNX Runtime, LiteRT, and Burn, along with tensor decoders for YOLO, face detection, tracking, and more. View the full article

Description bump edge to thirdparty linux-5.18-rc7 bump current to linux-5.15 change legacy back to LTS linux-5.10 edge and current enable NTFS3 driver. How Has This Been Tested? [X] Build [X] 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 [X] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules 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. [ ] Test A [ ] 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 ne…

Most mini PCs ship with Windows, or no OS at all for barebone models, but Linux-hardware specialist System76 offers the Meerkat mini PC with either Pop!_OS 22.04 or Ubuntu 22.04 with a choice of processors from the 12th Gen Alder Lake, 11th Gen Tiger Lake, or 10th Gen Comet Lake families. All models support up to 64GB RAM, M.2 NVMe SSD storage, and are equipped with four HDMI/DisplayPort video outputs, Ethernet, and USB ports. There’s also a Tall version of the Meerkat that adds a 2.5-inch SATA bat, and the Alder Lake models, called Meer7, specifically supports the more recent USB4 and 2.5GbE interfaces. System76 Meerkat “Meer7” (Alder Lake) specifications: Alder Lake P-S…

grub: fixes for wallpaper / gfxmode / submenu /etc Debian working Ubuntu's grub needs more work (refuses to use wallpaper in many situations) View the full article

base-files: hardcoded cache of base-files version per RELEASE/ARCH, as of 20240522 base-files: hardcoded cache of base-files version per RELEASE/ARCH, as of 20240522 packages.debian.org and packages.ubuntu.com are having a meltdown and builds are stuck this is a quick & dirty fix to get builds going we should urgently replace this with the 'right thing' trying to maintain this manually will cause insanity View the full article

Description Khadas Edge 2 images has been shipped without Uboot and it may cause some problems like not-booting when eMMC and SPI is empty. This PR adds vendor's uboot to Edge 2 images. I've also added BL32 blob because the board doesn't boot when SPI has BL32 blobs and SD card doesn't have. cc @rpardini @viraniac How Has This Been Tested? [x] SPI + SD card [ ] Empty SPI + SD card [ ] SPI + eMMC [ ] Empty SPI + eMMC Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [ ] 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 gener…

Description Some kernel patch folders were forgotten to delete when the kernel version was bumped and are now unused leftovers from the past. Please let me know if I accidentally deleted a folder that is still in use. I have checked these for reference: https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/sources/families/rockchip.conf https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/sources/families/include/meson64_common.inc https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/sources/families/include/rockchip64_common.inc GitHub issue reference: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/6821 Jira reference number AR-2392 Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelin…

Our commitment to open source extends beyond contributing code. We are dedicated to upholding the highest standards of license compliance throughout our development processes. View the full article

Description We have a broken cache set. Force rebuild it. View the full article

The Raspberry Pi Debug Probe is a USB serial adapter based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller and designed to debug the Raspberry Pi Pico, third-party RP2040 boards, and pretty much any Arm board through SWD and/or UART interfaces. The main advantage over a typical USB-to-serial adapter is the presence of a Serial Wire Debug (SWD) bridge used for bare metal code development and debugging through tools such as OpenOCD. The Raspberry Pi Debug Probe specifications: MCU – Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core Cortex-M0+ microcontroller @ 133 MHz with 264KB SRAM Storage – 2MB SPI flash (W25Q16JVUXIQ) Debug interfaces 3.3V Serial Wire Debug (SWD) 3-pin JST connector conforming …

This important milestone is a step forward for the open source driver, as it now certifies Panfrost for use in commercial products containing Mali G52 and paves the way for further conformance submissions on other Mali GPUs. View the full article

Bumps setuptools from 70.3.0 to 71.1.0. Changelog Sourced from setuptools's changelog. v71.1.0 Features Added return types to typed public functions -- by :user:Avasam Marked pkg_resources as py.typed -- by :user:Avasam (#4409) Misc #4492 v71.0.4 Bugfixes Removed lingering unused code around Distribution._patched_dist. (#4489) v71.0.3 Bugfixes Reset the backports module when enabling vendored packages. (#4476) v71.0.2 Bugfixes Include all vendored files in the sdist. (#4480) v71.0.1 Bugfixes ... (truncated) Commits 08bd311 Bump version: 71.0.4 → 71.1.0 e3fd44a Merge pull request #4492 from mgorny/core-deps-spec 022cedb Switch to uv for vendoring. 3…

Starting from Linux kernel v5.4, the HAVEGED inspired algorithm has been included in the Linux kernel, see the LKML article and the Linux Kernel commit. Additionally, since v5.6, as soon as the CRNG (the Linux cryptographic-strength random number generator) gets ready, /dev/random does not block on reads anymore: see this commit. SOURCE: jirka-h/haveged How Has This Been Tested? [x] Succesfully built nanopi-r5c BRANCH="current" RELEASE="jammy, bookworm, noble, trixie" 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

Adds the needed files support the spidev on the NanoPi Neo3 with a different address. Tested on my own NanoPi Neo3 with a LoRaWAN concentrator connected via SPI. I am unsure about the changes in rockchip-fixup.scr-cmd. It needs a user to use a not very convenient device "number" specific to the NanoPi Neo3. But I did not know how to do this differently without possibly breaking other boards. Any suggestions on how this is usually done are welcome. Still it seems I am the only person on this planet to use SPI on the NanoPi Neo3 as no one else seems to have reported anything... Any constructive feedback is very welcome. View the full article

esd electronics CAN-PCIeMiniHS/402 is a half-size mini PCIe card with four CAN FD Interfaces designed for embedded systems with one model adding extended temperature range support from -40C to 85°C. The company also introduced the CAN-Mini/402-4-DSUB9-150mm adapter to more easily connect the four CAN network interfaces via DSUB9 connectors. It comes with four individual small adapter boards, each equipped with a DSUB9 plug and a jumper for selectable onboard CAN termination, as well as 150 mm long wires. CAN-PCIeMiniHS/402 highlights: 4x CAN FD interfaces according to ISO 11898-2, no galvanic isolation, bit rates from 10 Kbit/s up to 8 Mbit/s Bus mastering and local data …

The latest kernel 6.10 release brings multiple core changes and updates to BH workqueues. Let's examine the developments implemented by Collabora's engineers. View the full article

Description Revert https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/7156 Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

Released a few months ago, the Google Pixel 3 is the first Android phone running with the mainline graphics stack. A feat that was deemed impossible 10 years ago is now a reality thanks to a lot of hard work from the entire community. 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. [ ] Test A [ ] 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 ne…

Description Update JetHub D1 (j100) u-boot patchset to buildable state. Jira reference number AR-1310 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] fixes jethub_j100 build [X] no other changes View the full article

Description Shellcheck errors/warnings were: In lib/functions/rootfs/distro-agnostic.sh line 155: display_alert "Adding to extlinux.conf" "fdtoverlays=${DEFAULT_OVERLAYS[@]}" "debug" ^--------------------^ SC2145 (error): Argument mixes string and array. Use * or separate argument. In lib/functions/rootfs/distro-agnostic.sh line 156: echo " fdtoverlays ${DEFAULT_OVERLAYS[@]}" >> "$SDCARD/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf" ^--------------------^ SC2145 (error): Argument mixes string and array. Use * or s…

odroidm1.wip: hk's legacy= 4.19 and edge= mainline+tobetter's 5.19 rebased; requires skip_spiboot=true @TODO: family/etc naming is hard with vendor kernels. Sorry. Let me know what you prefer? @TODO: config is very probably incomplete. new boot-rockchip64-vendor.cmd: does not use fixed load_addr, instead use ramdisk_addr_r for everything load kernel and initrd as late as possible look for overlays twice: once: with prefix and folder twice: without prefix, nor folder; helps with vendor provided overlays like hk's and tobetter's wip: edge: tobetter's patchset rebased against 5.19.3 wip: edge: bump to tobetter's 5.19 legacy: .config CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS_48=y wip m1: u…

In our previous post, we presented a project backed by INVEST-AI which introduces a multi-stage neural network-based solution. Now let's dive into the machine learning details of our innovative, open source hand-tracking pipeline. View the full article

Description rework to apply cleanly on 6.10.5 and 6.6.46 - root cause GitHub issue reference: #7087 Jira reference number AR-2467 special thanks: @EvilOlaf How Has This Been Tested? [x] Patch applies cleanly to meson64 edge 6.10.5 - compiling ok [x] Patch applies cleanly to meson64 current 6.6.46 - compiling 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

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

In the embedded world, many modern SoCs such as the ST Microelectronics STM32MP1 now include coprocessor cores which can be used for a wide range of tasks and can offload some of the work from the main processor. View the full article

Starting today, and running until Saturday, join us at Linux App Summit for a look at Linux graphics, PipeWire, our work with Valve, and a virtual office hour with our Engineering Manager! View the full article

Description Each family should build the same kernel. 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=armsom-sige5 BRANCH=vendor DEB_COMPRESS=xz KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no KERNEL_GIT=shallow 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 [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules…

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 enabled kernel modules pine64 for CSI and camera drivers Jira reference number AR-1647 How Has This Been Tested? Yes by installation on the PINE64 hardware. 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

Collabora is excited to see Monado at the heart of the new OpenXR runtime for Android XR, a major milestone for Open Source XR interoperability. View the full article

add armsom-w3.wip github: https://github.com/ArmSoM/armsom-w3-bsp wiki: http://wiki.armsom.org/index.php/ArmSoM-w3 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. 2.5Gb Network r8125 ok Headphone ok usb 2.0 * 2 ok typec ok usb3.0 ok hdmi tx * 2 ok 40pin-Header ok LED ok RTC ok debug ok Fan ok M2 E key ok POE 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 ne…

Description Enable Terminator by default while others - Chrome, Thunderbird and Code if enabled. X86 Only Jira reference number AR-1353 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Several images made and boot 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

AMD Alveo MA35D media accelerator PCIe card is based on a 5nm ASIC capable of transcoding up to 32 Full HD (1080p60) AV1 streams in real-time and designed for low-latency, high-volume interactive streaming applications such as watch parties, live shopping, online auctions, and social streaming. AMD says the Alveo MA35D utilizes a purpose-built VPU to accelerate the entire video pipeline, and the ASIC can also handle up to 8x 4Kp60, or 4x 8Kp30 AV1 streams per card. H.264 and H.265 codecs are also supported, and the company claims its “next-generation AV1 transcoder engines” deliver up to a 52% reduction in bitrate at the same video quality against “an open source x264 ver…

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Linux Kernel 6.6 has arrived, bringing a significant amount of new features and performance enhancements. Collabora has actively contributed many patches, including work on MediaTek and Rockchip. View the full article

Description armsom-sige7: enable gpu rock-5a: enable gpu, fix poweroff, enable pcie2x1 for M.2 E slot hinlink-h88k: enable gpu 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=armsom-sige7 BRANCH=edge DEB_COMPRESS=xz [x] Tested with armsom-sige7, rock-5a and hinlink-h88k 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 [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new …

Description Fix mic for rt5651 asound.state, the origin state don't open mic route . I did test use Nanopct4, same should fixed use rt5651 codecs's board How Has This Been Tested? [x] I heared sound from Nanopct4 onboard mic record wav file 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 [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Syntax error fixes, dep checks & shfmt of board-side bash scripts shfmt everything, so maybe it's easier to understand. armbian-hardware-optimization: fix for case without esac introduced in #4417; shfmt armbian-audio-config: do nothing if aplay/amixer/alsactl missing; shfmt View the full article

0xC0FFEE’s RP2040 PHAT is both a Raspberry Pi RP2040 development board and a pHAT for Raspberry Pi and Pi Zero Linux SBCs that exposes the I/Os through the 40-pin GPIO header traditionally found in Raspberry Pi single board computers. The board comes with all features of the Raspberry Pi Pico board including a USB port for power and programming, an SPI flash, and a BOOT button, but also adds a Reset button. That means it’s software compatible, except for the user LED connected to GPIO 26, and works with the MicroPython and C SDKs, as well as the Arduino IDE, Zephyr RTOS, and more. RP2040 pHAT specifications: MCU – Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core Cortex-M0+ microcontroller @…

Description Small functional fixes, otherwise cosmetic change: How Has This Been Tested? [x] On dev machince and several working ones. 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 View the full article

Description Fix #6857 and add 10 seconds network timeout to initramfs ssh daemon waiting for cryptroot-unlock password GitHub issue reference: #6857 Jira reference number [AR-2401] How Has This Been Tested? [x] Succesfully running CRYPTROOT_ENABLE="y" nanopi-r5c [x] Succesfully running CRYPTROOT_ENABLE="y" orangepi5-plus 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

Clear your schedules, this weekend's Capitole du Libre is calling your name for all things open source! Gathering in the "Pink City" of Toulouse, participants are welcome to attend with free admission from November 19 to 20 at the INP-ENSEEIHT View the full article

Bumps actions/upload-artifact from 3.0.0 to 3.1.2. Release notes Sourced from actions/upload-artifact's releases. v3.1.2 Update all @actions/* NPM packages to their latest versions- #374 Update all dev dependencies to their most recent versions - #375 v3.1.1 Update actions/core package to latest version to remove set-output deprecation warning #351 v3.1.0 What's Changed Bump @​actions/artifact to v1.1.0 (actions/upload-artifact#327) Adds checksum headers on artifact upload (actions/toolkit#1095) (actions/toolkit#1063) Commits 0b7f8ab ci(github): update action/download-artifact from v1 to v3 (#312) 013d2b8 Create devcontainer for codespaces + update all de…

This summer, Christoph Haag and I had the pleasure of taking part in Google Summer of Code as mentors for xrdesktop, the Open Source project bringing the Linux desktop to VR on Valve's SteamVR & Monado. Here's what was accomplished. View the full article

Description orangepi5-plus u-boot patch dir has been detached to allow patching in kaslr support this PR includes general 2024.07 patches to board such as: general-btrfs-fix-out-of-bounds-write.patch general-dwc-otg-usb-fix.patch general-dw-hdmi-disable.patch general-fix-inno-phy-macro.patch note to users and maintainers: sorry for forgetting to include those patches in my first PR How Has This Been Tested? [x] Succesfully built and ran u-boot 2024.07 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] My changes generate no new warnings View the ful…

Interested in learning more about low-level specifics of the eBPF stack? Read on as we take a deep dive, from its VM mechanisms and tools, to running traces on remote, resource-constrained embedded devices. View the full article

Bumps ossf/scorecard-action from 1.1.2 to 2.0.3. Release notes Sourced from ossf/scorecard-action's releases. v2.0.3 Patch for fix in #898 v2.0.2 Fixes ossf/scorecard-action#895 v2.0.1 Fix for #856 v2.0.0 What's Changed 🌱 Prepare for a pre-release of the Golang action by @​azeemshaikh38 in ossf/scorecard-action#750 :seedling: Bump github/codeql-action from 2.1.12 to 2.1.16 by @​dependabot in ossf/scorecard-action#751 :seedling: Bump debian from 11.3-slim to 11.4-slim by @​dependabot in ossf/scorecard-action#749 :seedling: Bump step-security/harden-runner from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4 by @​dependabot in ossf/scorecard-action#646 :seedling: Bump actions/setup-go from 3.2.0 to…

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 remove Budgie and KDE desktops as they are not in a best condition remove Sid add minimal images where useful Jira reference number AR-1368 View the full article

PipeWire, the new and emerging open source framework that aims to greatly improve the exchange and management of audio and video streams inside a Linux system, has seen a number of improvements and bug fixes over the past year. View the full article

Raspberry PI 2 release announcement! View the full article

Description add CONTRIBUTING.md document View the full article

After a year-long development cycle, the much anticipated release was made available recently. With it came a number of exciting new features we're especially proud of, including per-element latency tracer and support for planar or non-interleaved audio. View the full article

Collabora introduces our new brand and logo View the full article

Description Add ClockworkPi DevTerm A06 support https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/3564 Jira reference number AR-1136 How Has This Been Tested? Checklist: [x] Test running on console [x] Test build on my ubuntu pc View the full article

Description In #4352 the kaslrseed command is added. This results in "Unknown command ' kaslrseed ' - try 'help'"; but does continue with booting. This is not the cleanest message; rather check for the command before executing. How Has This Been Tested? N/A [ ] Test A 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 Fixed the problem that nanopi r1 cannot boot from emmc. The reason is that uboot uses nanopineo's defconfig and dts when compiling so that it lacks the mmc2 definition. A topic on the forum about this issues: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/28704-nanopi-r1-emmc-install-fails-to-start How Has This Been Tested? Build and update 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 [ ] Any dependent changes have been merg…

Description This way we don't need to calculate yet again. Before merging, we need to figure out which other are used. Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Over the past 18 months, we have been on a roller-coaster ride developing futex2, a new set of system calls. As part of this effort, the futex_waitv() syscall has now landed in Linux 5.16. But what exactly is futex? View the full article

For the past few years a clear trend of containerization of applications and services has emerged. Having processes containerized is beneficial in a number of ways. It both improves portability and strengthens security. View the full article

kernel drivers: replace all "branch:xxx" references with sha1; hash the whole of patch/misc stacktraces: introduce get_stacktrace_element_by_index() to get a specific stracktrace element git: fetch_from_repo(): introduce FETCH_FROM_REPO_CALLBACK_IF_REF_MUTABLE function defined in FETCH_FROM_REPO_CALLBACK_IF_REF_MUTABLE is called if reference is mutable which is anything that's not commit: or tag: and really there's no guarantee that tag: is immutable, but lets assume drivers-harness: hash the whole of patch/misc; throw error if driver does fetch_from_repo with mutable ref this should make drivers hash consistent, at the expense of being moar tiresome any change…

Description UBOOT_TARGET_MAP in config\sources\families\include\sunxi_common.inc and in config\sources\families\include\sunxi64_common.inc has been changed to use the original definition as default to allow overriding from an already existing definition of UBOOT_TARGET_MAPby e.g. a board configuration file. Issue reference: #4478 Test results This has been tested by a build process for a Cubietruck board. File content of config/boards/cubietruck.csc: # Allwinner A20 dual core 2GB RAM SoC 1xSATA GBE WiFi/BT BOARD_NAME="Cubietruck" BOARDFAMILY="sun7i" BOOTCONFIG="Cubietruck_config" KERNEL_TARGET="legacy,current,edge" UBOOT_TARGET_MAP=";;u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin spl/sunx…

meson64/edge: bump to 6.6-rc4 meson64/edge: bump to 6.6-rc4; initial copy from 6.5 meson64/edge 6.6.y: bump to 6.6-rc4 - rebase patches meson64/edge 6.6.y: bump to 6.6-rc4 - fix patches board-bananapi-cm4-switch-to-enable-gpios.patch: landed upstream driver-power-meson64-reset.patch: fix manually, nearby driver POWER_RESET_OXNAS was dropped from upstream let's light a candle for OXNAS View the full article

Description Move stack pointer further from base address to allow bigger uboot images. Currently uboot stack pointer located 1MiB after text base, and uboot size with defconfig is barely less than 1MiB (1001472). So any small modification in code/config/compiler-version could overflow text area (my uboot blown up after I enabled verbose logging to debug btrfs boot problem). How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build and boot rk3318-box Checklist: [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code 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

Reduce failed to get tx report from firmware dmesg spam. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20210713104524.47101-1-pkshih@realtek.com/ https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e140d551b78670fbf99c83a59438cb13de50420f 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 [X] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Remove patches, sync with driver repository. https://github.com/jethome-ru/rtl88x2cs/pull/8 Jira reference number AR-1527 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+ (rtl8822cs WiFi/BT) 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 …

Description Maintenance View the full article

So far, the popular Bluetooth wireless communication protocol would only rely on the 2.4 GHz frequency band, but this may change in the future, as the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has recently announced a new “specification development project” to add the 6 GHz frequency band to Bluetooth LE. Mark Powell, CEO of the Bluetooth SIG “explains” the move: The Bluetooth SIG community is constantly evolving the technology to meet ever expanding market demands for wireless communications. Expanding into the 6 GHz spectrum band will ensure the community can continue to make the enhancements necessary to pave the way for the next twenty years of Bluetooth innovation. I ge…

In collaboration with Inria, the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, Tathagata Roy shares the progress made over the past year on the CoccinelleForRust project, co-sponsored by Collabora View the full article

We first spotted the AMD Ryzen Embedded 5000 processors in a micro-ATX motherboard last August, but AMD has now only announced the availability the of Ryzen Embedded 5000 Series “Zen 3” processors designed for “always on” networking firewalls, network-attached storage systems, and other security applications. AMD also mentions the Ryzen Embedded 5000 are “power-efficient processors”, but that does not mean low power, as those embedded processors are 65 to 105W parts, and offer a step-up in performance from the 10 to 54W AMD Ryzen Embedded V3000 processors also targetting networking and storage applications. As we found out last year, four SKUs are available with the Ryze…

As of today, NVK is now an officially conformant implementation of the Vulkan 1.0 API on NVIDIA Turing hardware. This is the first time any Nouveau driver has gotten the Khronos conformance badge on any API. View the full article

Description Bumping versions for sunxi. @The-going should we switch this to follow versions automatically? View the full article

Description UX improvements. 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

add gmac0 ethernet support add poweroff support fix typo in dts 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=rock-5a BRANCH=edge COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=sha,gpg,xz DEB_COMPRESS=xz [x] gmac0 ethernet is enabled on h88k [x] poweroff command can shut down h88k now 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 [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warning…

Today, Imagination Technologies announced they are now using Zink for full OpenGL 4.6 support. This is the first time we've seen a hardware vendor trust Zink enough to completely side-step a native OpenGL driver and use it in a shipping product. View the full article

more of rpardini's GHA & pipeline stuff (early May/23) pipeline: cli: add proper gha- prefix to CLI commands that have something to do with GitHub Actions (thus gha-matrix now, and the new gha-template) stop at the correct places for inventory and targets non-GHA-specific commands handle gha-template first (and return), since it does not really depend on any info/targets/etc batcat the output for show-off pipeline: add output-gha-workflow-template.py utility, for rendering GHA workflow YAML templates with chunks python-tools: add Jinja2. Incredible how we made it this far without it. output-gha-workflow-template: a double-templater, first runs jinja with a custom…

-Clean, remove params for old kernel -Add option to disable usb autosuspend -Add display console replace rootdev with "LABEL=armbi_root" to boot from sd card an emmc with same boot.ini View the full article

😢 still fallout from yesterday's 6.1.30 / 6.3.4 chaos and we're 6.2.16 in the middle EOL View the full article

Complex, real-world correctness tests and performance analysis are now possible thanks to gltrim, a new tool recently added to apitrace, designed to trim replayable traces to single, user-defined frames. View the full article

Description ... and leave common package so one can mount NFS share OOB. Removing server package from all variants. Rationale: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/23370-2208-jammy-downloads-why-are-nfs-and-openvpn-servers-installed Jira reference number AR-1317 How Has This Been Tested? Non essential package removal. 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 m…

Weston 13.0 brings multiple fixes and important changes, notably the ability to load multiple backends simultaneously. This can be used to load VNC, RDP, or PipeWire backends for remote access alongside the native DRM backend. View the full article

Bumps Vucko130/delete-older-releases from 0.2.1 to 0.2.2. Release notes Sourced from Vucko130/delete-older-releases's releases. v0.2.2 Full Changelog: https://github.com/Vucko130/delete-older-releases/commits/v0.2.2 Commits 4fc1741 Update action.yml 69fe4bf Create dependabot.yml 134ac2b Create codeql.yml 653dc03 Merge pull request #20 from HiGarfield/master 5128841 Merge pull request #15 from smallprogram/master 5fbfcd7 run with node16 c190a0c update index.js See full diff in compare view Dependabot will resolve any conflicts with this PR as long as you don't alter it yourself. You can also trigger a rebase manually by commenting @dependabot rebase. Depe…