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Description Fix the typo in config file concerning dtb How Has This Been Tested? build/boot tested Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

Description Added patches and config for BigTreeTech CB2/Pi2 GitHub issue reference: Jira reference number AR-2332 How Has This Been Tested? Build and load on BTT Pi 2, test peripherals [ ] UART on the type-c port [ ] Ethernet [ ] WiFi [ ] NVMe [ ] HDMI [ ] other peripherals 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

In the latest Linux kernel release, Collabora’s engineering team delivers multiple contributions including Tyr, a Rust driver for CSF-based Arm Mali GPUs, as well as ongoing hardware enablement and improved support for MediaTek SoCs. View the full article

Description As the issue @catalinii mentioned in #3271, when a sdcard has got flashed with radxa rock3a image or manjaro-arm rock3a image before, armbian can't boot on this sd card after flashed with ether. Here is the root cause: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12352-orange-pi-4/page/3/#comment-94322. We can avoid this issue by using the same gpt partition type as radxa and manjaro, and use the same fat /boot partition to aviod the bad support for ext4 filesystem from rockchip legacy 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] Prepare a sd card,…

A previous post introduced the SPURV Android compatibility layer for Wayland based Linux environment. In this post, we're going to dig into how you can run an Android application on the very common i.MX6 based Nitrogen6_MAX board. View the full article

Cambridge, England August 5-8, 2014: With so many silicon vendors and OEMs visiting Cambridge England, August 5-8 transforms the univeristy town into the world's center of innovation for one week. Cambridge in August attracts international leaders in the semiconductor space from across the globe. Collabora is delighted to be headquartered here with so many of its great partners. Should you be in town, don't hesitate to contact us. View the full article

ASRock Industrial has released the iEPF-9010S and iEP-9010E high-end, rugged Edge AIoT platforms powered by 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake S processors, equipped with up to 128GB RAM, 4G LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, and real-time TSN/TCC networking. The I/O rich embedded computers are designed for highly demanding workloads and mission-critical industrial applications such as factory automation, machine automation, robotic control, AI-enabled AOI (automated optical inspection), autonomous vehicles, smart cities, and more. The ASRock iEPF-9010S Expandable AIoT Edge platforms come with the following specifications: SoC – Intel 12th Gen Core, Pentium or Celeron …

Description add information to the places where people might looking for it try to resolve confusions remove unnecessary infos Jira reference number AR-1284 How Has This Been Tested? Text changes 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

armbian,spi-dev hacks also for rockchip64-5.18, .19, and 6.0.y Original PR's https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/3737 https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/3812 Just rolling these forward to 5.18/19 and 6.0 View the full article

URVE Board Pi is a single board computer (SBC) powered by a Rockchip RK3566 quad-core Cortex-A53 processor, 2GB RAM, 8GB eMMC flash, plus the same interfaces as the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B as well as an RTC with a coin-cell battery and an M.2 SSD socket. More specifically, the Rockchip RK3566 board comes with a 4Kp60 capable HDMI 2.0 port, a MIPI DSI/LVDS display interface, a MIPI CSI camera connector, Gigabit Ethernet, four USB 3.0/2.0 ports, a dual-band WiFi 5.0 and Bluetooth 4.2 wireless module, and the usual 40-pin GPIO header. URVE Board Pi specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3566 Quad Core Cortex-A55 processor @ 1.8 GHz with Arm Mali-G52 GPU, 0.8 TOPS NPU System Memory…

Description Split adding a board with reworking patches for Opi3 and Opi3LTS that are preventing this hw from functional lan / audio. Jira reference number AR-1487 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test on 6.1.y, 6.2.y 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

Beelink EQ12 is a mini PC powered by an Intel Processor N100 “Alder Lake-N” quad-core processor offered with 8GB or 16GB DDR5 memory, a 512GB NVMe SSD for storage, as well as two 2.5GbE ports, and a WiFi 6 & Bluetooth 5.2 wireless module. The actively cooled computer also comes with two 4K capable HDMI ports, three USB 3.2 ports, and a 10Gbps USB Type-C that also supports DisplayPort Alternate Mode enabling the EQ12 to drive up to three 4K displays. Beelink EQ12 specifications: SoC – Intel Processor N100 Alder Lake-N quad-core processor @ up to 3.4 GHz (Turbo) with 6MB cache, 24 EU Intel HD graphics @ up to 750 MHz; TDP: 6W System Memory – 8GB or 16GB DDR5 4800 MHz RA…

A few years ago I reviewed the ICE Tower CPU cooling fan for Raspberry Pi 4 which is an oversized heatsink with a cooling fan and some RGB LEDs that obviously does its job at cooling the board, but the main benefit is really its aesthetics. 52Pi has now designed another ICE Tower cooling fan for the Orange Pi 5 SBC, and the new Orange Pi 5B, with the same concept except for its low-profile design. It’s probably not needed for the Orange Pi 5 which should do fine with a heatsink, but it may help for the Orange Pi 5B due to the extra heat from the WiFi 6 module. A company representative for 52Pi told us that: I have seen this Orange Pi 5B motherboard posted on your site, th…

Description We voted to switch before release. Jira reference number AR-1695 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Boot Nanopi M4v2 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 After merging #4958 many patches are breaking the build. We need to adjust them. Jira reference number AR-1780 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Boot test Nanopi Neo 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

rockchip-rk3588 collabora: new branch (by @lanefu) rockchip-rk3588 collabora: new branch (by @lanefu) bsdextrautils for kernel 6.4 (only if collabora branch) kernel 6.4 major, but skip rtw88 driver patching View the full article

Description On devices using uwe5622 wireless, a kernel warn message and corresponding stacktrace is shown in dmesg for incorrect netdev-dev_addr. This PR fixes the same. 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] Tested that warning message is gone on Orange Pi 3 LTS when booted with a kernel with this patch applied and that wireless continues to work fine. 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 ha…

Description working：WiFi，HDMI，SATA，ETH not work：digital display，IR... 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 This fixes armbian-firmware-full missing the symlinks from linux-firmware How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build an image with armbian-firmware-full and confirmed the symlinks were there and pointed to the right location 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 [ ] 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. Jira reference number AR-2103 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Manual build 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

Update support for Recore boards Adding support for Recore 3D printer control boards A5 through A8. There is support for these boards in an older version of build, but they don't seem to have been propagated. There are some improvements in this version (thus the "update" in the description) and also support for a newer version of the hardware. Recore is a 3D printer control board. Documentation summary for feature / change [x] short description (copy / paste of PR title) [x] summary (description relevant for end users) How Has This Been Tested? It has been tested on the following hardware: [x] Recore A5 [x] Recore A6 [x] Recore A7 [x] Recore A8 Checklist: [x] I h…

Description Maint. How Has This Been Tested? [ ] CI build Checklist: [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

As an active member of the freedesktop community, Collabora was busy at XDC 2025. Our graphics team delivered five talks, helped out in two more sessions, and ran a workshop for newcomers. View the full article

Description Due to changes in Opi legacy kernel, one out of the tree wireless driver broke down. We have patch it for modern kernel, but for this one another patch or adjustment is needed. This can be done later, but in order to have things build-able, lets disable it. Jira reference number AR-1179 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 [ ] 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…

Light sensors are used to turn on/off lights, adjust the brightness of displays, and more. But I’ve come across a use case I never thought of: object presence detection. In the digital signage work, such features if called “lift and learn”, and light sensors are used to detect when an object is present and play a video or display information about the product. That concept came to my attention when I saw a photo of Mekotronics R29 digital signage player with several cables coming out of the device and attached to what looked like white hockey pucks and turned out to be light sensors. Apart from the light sensors, Mekotronics R29 specifications are pretty standard: SoC – R…

In part 1 and 2 of this series, we took a condensed in-depth look at the eBPF VM. In part 3, we define the high-level components of an eBPF program, including the backend, loader, frontend and data structures. View the full article

Raspberry Pi Today interviews Collabora's Daniel Stone about Collabora and the Raspberry Pi Foundation's work on Wayland and WebKit. View the full article

Description Show more informations in first-login Jira reference number AR-1216 How Has This Been Tested? [X] Build 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

MaxLinear has just announced the availability of the first three AnyWAN broadband SoCs featuring Intel Atom cores with the MxL25641, URX850, and URX851 processors designed for 5Gbps and 10 Gbps broadband routers and gateways, usually referred to as CPEs (customer premise equipment). When I first read the news of MaxLinear releasing Intel Atom SoCs, I could not quite compute how it was possible, as I can’t remember any third-party releasing Intel processors and I thought it might be a system-in-package instead. But MaxLinear keeps calling those Intel Atom SoCs, and the reason is that the company acquired Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division in 2020. MaxLinear AnyWAN x86 …

We’ve seen Rockchip RK3568 system-on-modules before, but the Geniatech SOM-3568-SMARC core board is the first to comply with the SMARC 2.1 standard with a 314-pin MXM connector exposing the many I/Os from the quad-core Cortex-A55 processor. The module comes with up to 8GB RAM, 128GB eMMC flash, integrates a WiFi and Bluetooth module as well as two Gigabit Ethernet transceivers, and is designed to be used in advanced NVRs, cloud terminals, industrial automation, IoT applications, digital signage, and more. Geniatech SOM-3568-SMARC specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3568 quad-core Cortex-A55 processor @ 2.0 GHz with Arm Mali-G52 2EE GPU with support for OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.2,…

tinkerboard-2: move to "legacy" 21.07 u-boot; firmware & kernel DTS fixes (5.18/19,6.0) notes in the board file about the RAM issues (tested, confirmed working blob change of #4383 by @pinhaozhang working with u-boot 21.07; blobless also works with ATF v2.7 on my known-good-RAM boards) tinkerboard-2: add full firmware, for the rtl8822ce PCIe Wifi default card in the tb2 as shipped by ASUS tinkerboard-2: uboot: rename TARGET_TINKER-2_RK3399 to TARGET_TINKER2_RK3399 to avoid warnings all over tinkerboard-2: slower but working Tinkerboard 2S eMMC (HS400+ES to HS200) both for u-boot and kernel. should not affect 2, only 2S View the full article

The focus in 2022 was on maturing the Wayland driver and keeping up to date with the Wine upstream internal changes, which involved updating it for the latest internal driver APIs, and making preparations to support WoW64. View the full article

Description Breaks building of certain desktops. Jira reference number AR-1489 View the full article

AAEON has just launched the UP Xtreme i12 Edge mini PC based on the company’s UP Xtreme i12 SBC equipped with an Intel Core i7-1280PE and other Alder Lake processors, up to 32GB LPDDR5 memory, and support for two M.2 NVMe SSD as well as SATA storage The Xtreme i12 Edge is the successor of the Xtreme i11 Edge Compute Enabling Kit powered by a choice of Intel Tiger Lake processors. It also comes with 2.5GbE and GbE networking, one USB4 port, several USB 3.2 Gen2 ports, HDMI and DisplayPort video outputs, plus some COM ports and a terminal block for GPIOs. UP Xtreme i12 Edge mini PC specifications: Alder Lake-P SoC (One or the other) Intel Core i7-1270PE 12-core/16-thread pr…

Netgear “Nighthawk” RS700 is the first WiFi 7 (802.11be) router from the company, with the tri-band router being rated “BE19000” meaning it can deliver a combined ~19Gbps link rate on all three bands. The router is based on the Broadcom BCM67263 Arm processor and with that kind of wireless bandwidth it comes with two 10GbE ports one WAN port to connect to the internet, and one LAN port to connect to the local networks plus four extra Gigabit Ethernet ports, and a USB 3.0 port for network storage. Netgear RS700 specifications: SoC – Broadcom BCM67263 quad-core WiFi 7 processor @ 2.6 GHz System Memory – 1GB RAM Storage – 512MB NAND flash for OS Networking 802.11be WiFi 7 Wi…

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…

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

With the upcoming 0.5 release, WirePlumber's Lua scripts will be transformed with the new Event Dispatcher. More modular and extensible with very little redundant processing, they will look and feel completely different. View the full article

Initiated as a joint effort by the Google Chrome OS team and Collabora, the recent KernelCI hackfest brought the addition of new tests including the ability to detect regressions on the Linux kernel that can directly affect cameras. View the full article

use hooks for main kernel/u-boot version defaulting/overriding; remove symlink usage from many families [cleanup] extensions: flash-kernel: removed (and a few references to it) thanks to Gunjan for replacing it [cleanup] rk3399: remove defunct patches & dangling symlinks for rk3399-legacy and rk35xx-legacy [cleanup] rockchip64 legacy: remove long dead 4.4 patches (family/common didn't define legacy branch for a while) core: semantic change, KERNELSOURCE must be explicitly 'none' to avoid kernel compilation (not unset) main-config: mark mirror variables readonly; add todo's lib/family config: remove resquices of KERNELDIR which is completely unused for a long time …

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

Description Follow-up to #6927 Bind mount /dev into the container Remove previous attempt via MKNOD capability which actually didn't affect the issue GitHub issue reference: #6568 Jira reference number AR-2132 Documentation summary for feature / change The issue has been found in other projects as well, and they end up bind mounting /dev into the container: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/27886 https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/16160 The issues have a lot of discussion on the various aspects of the problem and solutions. The most accepted one is binding /dev into the container. The MKNOD capability doesn't solve the issue, as it turns out. Testing in #6927 w…

Description Right before release its best time to verify if board is still interested to be kept under support. Or to pull community supported under our wings. We need to know the status, someone has to be behind, etc. tl;dr; Board Support Rules - Armbian Documentation review maintainers review kernel build targets review test targets How Has This Been Tested? Smoke tests will be tested via this branch to determine best test targets. Checklist: [ ] 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 downs…

GStreamer's logging system is an incredibly powerful ally when debugging but it can sometimes be a bit daunting to dig through the massive amount of generated logs. I often find myself writing small scripts processing gst logs when debugging. View the full article

It is no great secret that my colleagues at Collabora have been doing work with the Raspberry Pi Foundation. View the full article

Description Jira reference number AR-1361 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Booting both kernels [ ] Check basic functions: BT, audio, 3D acceleration, ... 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 Update odroidxu4-current kernel to 5.4.225. 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

Description Maintanace. Jira reference number AR-1444 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Run View the full article

Description Just a couple of fixes to a video4linux2 patch for rk322x and rockchip, plus some kernel option fixes to rk322x. Should be harmless. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Built rk322x image without issues 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

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Add possibility of nilfs2 fs based image generation. nilfs2 automatically does snapshots and allow to restore any file to state back in time until it purged. 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 [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 publ…

Description Bumped kernel versions Current: 6.1.38 -> 6.1.39 Edge: 6.4.2 -> 6.4.4 Modified thermal-sun8i-Be-loud-when-probe-fails.patch to fix patch application failure Disabled drm-sun4i-Fix-wrong-location-of-clk_prepare_enable.patch to fix patch failure and as its not needed after the upstream change Rest of the disabled patches for 6.4.4 are upstreamed U-boot: 2023.07 -> 2023.07.02. This is very trivial bump. It only removes the -rc6 extra version from the Makefile which was not removed when 2023.07 was released. 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 r…

In Debian and derivative systems, there are many ways to build images. The simplest tool of choice is often debootstrap. It works by downloading the .deb files from a mirror and unpacking them into a directory which can eventually be chrooted into. View the full article

Description Small followup fix https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6006 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 and boot rk3318-box from second partition 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 makes Khadas Edge 2 usable on mainline and update USB patches on rk3588 edge. What is not working: MCU fan control. The driver is exists on upstream kernel but VIM3 has different fan control register and logic, needs new implementation. Type-C port Wlan and Bluetooth Jira reference number AR-2082 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-und…

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…

mainline-kernel: bump to 6.10-rc7 mainline-kernel: bump to 6.10-rc7 just rockchip-rk3588 for now rockchip-rk3588 / edge: rebase onto 6.10-rc7 win: notice how one can actually spot relevant changes now case in point, 1022-arm64-dts-rockchip-support-poweroff-on-rock-5a.patch -- will drop it in separate commit rockchip-rk3588 / edge: drop patch that landed in 6.10-rc7 1022-arm64-dts-rockchip-support-poweroff-on-rock-5a.patch landed https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d05f7aff7ac23884ed9103a876325047ff9049aa View the full article

Avnet RZBoard V2L is an Arm Linux SBC for AI vision applications that’s about the size of a business card (or a Raspberry Pi), and powered by a Renesas RZ/V2L Cortex-A55/M33 processor with an on-chip DRP-AI accelerator. The board also comes with 2GB DDR4, 32GB eMMC flash, 16MB QSPI flash, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0, multiple USB ports, MIPI DSI/CSI interfaces, as well as a Pi HAT compatible 40-pin GPIO header. RZBoard V2L specifications: SoC – Renesas RZ/V2L with 2x Arm Cortex A55 cores @ up to 1.2 GHz, 1x Arm Cortex M33 real-time core @ 200 MHz, Arm Mali G31 GPU @ 500MHz, DRP-AI accelerator, DRP Simple ISP (full HD), and a H.264 Hardware Video Enc/Dec (fu…

Description Continuation of work on the development of a unified package installation function in the armbian build system. Sometimes we need to install a package as a package file that is located in the local directory. Now the function will independently calculate the package dependencies and install these dependencies and the package file itself. How Has This Been Tested? It is well tested. We can start using this new opportunity. [x] The installation of packages that are not available in the available repositories has been tested. The packages were taken\downloaded from third-party sources. Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I…

The recent release of version 6 of the Weston compositor has brought with it the weston-debug protocol, a new feature that allows developers and users alike to display on-the-fly various debugging (logging) information generated by the compositor. View the full article

Tokyo, Japan July 1-2, 2014: The Automotive Linux Summit will bring together the most innovative minds from automotive expertise and open-source excellence. View the full article

Pine64 Star64 is an upcoming single board computer (SBC) powered by StarFive JH7110 quad-core 64-bit RISC-V processor equipped with an Imagination BXE-2-32 GPU, and in a form factor similar to the earlier Pin64 model B boards such as the Quartz64 Model A. The Star64 SBC will be offered with either 4GB or 8GB of RAM, an HDMI 2.0 video output connector, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, a WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 module, USB 3.0 ports, a PCIe slot, and a GPIO header for expansion. Star64 preliminary specifications: SoC – StarFive JH7110 quad-core 64-bit RISC-V (SiFive U74 – RV64GC) processor @ up to 1.5 GHz with Imagination BXE-2-32 GPU supporting OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 1.2, Vulka…

We often write about business card or credit card-sized boards, but it’s only true for 2D dimensions, as most boards are over a centimeter thick, with possibly the thinnest we’ve covered being the Khadas Edge2 SBC that’s just 7mm thick. So Kn/vD took it upon himself to build a DIY computer that was really about the size of a credit card, and came up with the ELLO LC1 based on a Microchip PIC18 8-bit microcontroller, featuring an integrated display and keyboard, and powered by a coin-cell battery. It’s just 2mm thin. ELLO LC1 specifications: MCU – Microchip PIC18 (PIC18F47Q83-I/PT) 8-bit microcontroller with 13KB RAM and 128KB flash, out of which 64KB are reserved as user …

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

Commit c90986492252a85db3357362594e5c40b80fbf95 removed a prompt asking the user if they want to change display settings, but didn't remove the checks that later used the answer. Since it's been like this for 2 years now apparently without issue, remove the checks and the shellcheck workaround. View the full article

Description Jira reference number AR-1434 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Build test Wireless driver fixes needs to be merged before 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 [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

Arduino has launched the MKR IoT Carrier Rev2 board for Arduino MKR boards with a Bosch SensorTech BME688 4-in-1 pressure, humidity, temperature, and gas sensor replacing the HTS221 humidity sensor and LP22HB barometric pressure sensor, and the LSM6DSOX taking the place of the LSM6DS3, among other some other small changes. First sold as part of the Arduino Oplà IoT Kit, the Arduino MKR IoT Carrier eventually became available on its own in February 2021 offering a display, sensors, and I/Os for Arduino MKR boards with wireless connectivity. The company has now introduced a second revision for the Arduino MKR IoT Carrier with new sensors and repositioning of some of the com…

ASRock Industrial has just launched the 4X4 BOX 7000/D5 Series mini PCs powered by AMD Ryzen 7000U-Series laptop APUs offering up to eight Zen3+ cores clocked at up to 4.75GHz. The mini PC supports up to 64GB dual-channel DDR5 4800MHz memory and SATA 3.0 plus M.2 NVMe storage, offers four display outputs with one 8K capable HDMI 2.1 port and three DisplayPort 1.4a outputs, five USB ports including two USB4 ports, as well as 2.5GbE and Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity. Two models are currently available, 4X4 BOX-7735U/D5 and 4X4 BOX-7535U/D5, with the following specifications: SoC (one or the other) 4X4 BOX-7535U/D5 – AMD Ryzen 5 7535U hexa-core/1…

HIGOLE PC STICK is a mini PC that looks like a large flash drive, is smaller than a regular mini PC, and is easier to carry around. You can connect it directly to a monitor or TV with an HDMI input, and use it like any computer right away. In part 1 of the HIGOLE PC STICK review, we will go through the specifications, unbox the design, check its hardware design with a teardown, and go through the first boot. HIGOLE PC STICK specifications The HIGOLE PC STICK is powered by an Intel Celeron J4125 quad-core Gemini Lake Refresh processor with 8GB RAM, 128GB flash, and microSD card slot for storage expansion. The mini PC comes with a Gigabit Ethernet port, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth…

Description The edge kernel for BigTreeTech CB1 was kept back at 6.2 because ws2812 driver was not compiling for 6.3+. This PR brings it up to 6.5 with the fix for compilation issue. As this also removes the need for allwinner 6.2 kernel patches, the same has been removed in this PR as well. 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] Tested WS2812 driver compiles with 6.5 kernel 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-unde…

Description This might help diverting users from abusing issue tracker for seeking support. How Has This Been Tested? UX / guide change. 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

Bumps ossf/scorecard-action from 2.3.0 to 2.3.1. Release notes Sourced from ossf/scorecard-action's releases. v2.3.1 What's Changed :seedling: Bump github.com/ossf/scorecard/v4 from v4.13.0 to v4.13.1 by @​spencerschrock in ossf/scorecard-action#1282 Adds additional Fuzzing detection and fixes a SAST bug related to detecting CodeQL. For a full changelist of what this includes, see the v4.13.1 release notes Full Changelog: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/compare/v2.3.0...v2.3.1 Commits 0864cf1 :seedling: Bump docker tag to for v2.3.1 release (#1284) 72df3bf :seedling: Bump github.com/ossf/scorecard/v4 from v4.13.0 to v4.13.1 (#1282) 0ea411f :seedlin…

Description In our linux-dtb-* package, we put our dtbs at /boot/dtb-<kernel_version>. The flash kernel script also uses the same location to create a symlink for dtb to be used. This causes a conflict during upgrade resulting into upgrade failure. This PR adds a workaround to handle the same. Jira reference number AR-1911 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. [ ] Testing is in progress. 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, particular…

Description The "optional/boards" directory seems to have been deprecated and actually never used so much. Remove the last board support package there (rk3318-box) and move into extension as suggested by @rpardini. Ancillary BSP files have been removed too. The extension may have global interest because it was a workaround for X.Org and Lima driver: the former was not able to autodetect the latter with some revision combinations. That configuration fixes the autodetection. At the moment, it has been enabled in rk3318-box board and rk322x family. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Compile debian bookworm image for rk3318-box and verify 40-serverflags.conf presence [x] Compi…

Collabora's kernel team made a number of key contributions including a new kselftest for verifying driver probe of Devicetree-based platforms, multiple improvements to further improve support for MediaTek SoCs found in Chromebooks, and more. View the full article

The latest Linux Kernel 6.8 release brings thousands of new lines of code, improving the core kernel, architecture support, networking, file systems, and more. View the full article

thinkpad-x13s: bump to jhovold's wip/sc8280xp-6.10-rc7 thinkpad-x13s: bump to jhovold's wip/sc8280xp-6.10-rc7 View the full article

LilyGO has been very busy in recent weeks, and their latest product is the “T-Dongle ESP32-S2” development board that looks very much like Espressif ESP32-S3-USB-OTG board development board but is equipped with the single-core WiFi-only ESP32-S2 processor instead of the dual-core ESP32-S3 SoC with WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 5.0. The T-Dongle ESP32-S2 board is designed for the development of USB applications and comes with USB OTG female and male ports, as well as the same 1.14-inch color display found on T-Display RP2040/ESP32 and T-PicoC3 boards. T-Dongle ESP32-S2 development board specifications: Wireless SoC – Espressif Systems ESP32-S2 single-core Xtensa LX7 processor @ up …

A well-known Linux kernel developer once said, a poor craftsman famously complains about his tools, but a good craftsman knows how to choose excellent tools. Here's a python-based tool that integrates git and patchwork, and can greatly improve your toolbox. View the full article

Collabora introduces our new brand and logo View the full article

Startup SMLIGHT has launched the SLZB-06 Zigbee 3.0 to Ethernet, USB, and WiFi adapter with PoE support that works out of the box with open-source software such as Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT. The device combines Texas Instruments’ СС2652Р microcontroller for Zigbee with ESP32 for WiFi, data transfer to Ethernet or USB, and peripheral functions such as LEDs and a button.The design is complemented with Microchip LAN8720 for Ethernet. SMLIGHT SLZB-06 specifications: Wireless SoCs Texas Instruments CC2652P1FRGZR Arm Cortex-M4F microcontroller @ 48 MHz with 352KB flash, 256KB ROM for protocols and library functions, 80+8KB SRAM, integrated power amplifier, Bluetooth 5.2…

Description The BUILD_ONLY option can be set as a comma separated list of build artifact names to filter build artifacts being compiled. The following artifact names are supported: u-boot, kernel, armbian-config, armbian-zsh, plymouth-theme-armbian, armbian-firmware, armbian-bsp, chroot, bootstrap GH issue reference #4421 Test Results Following tests have been performed with the according output: [x] Test 1 - U-Boot only build - BUILD_ONLY="u-boot": ./compile.sh BOARD=cubietruck BRANCH=current RELEASE=focal BUILD_MINIMAL=yes BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_ONLY="u-boot" KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=sha,gpg,7z ... MKIMAGE u-boot.img MKIMAGE u-bo…

Espressif Systems has finally launched the ESP32-W6 WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.0 LE, and 802.15.4 IoT microcontroller by making the ESP32-C6-WROOM-1 module available on Aliexpress for $14.25 as well as the ESP32-C6-DevKitC-1 development board that’s out of stock on the official store at the time of writing. but somehow listed in another store for $16.22 plus shipping. Besides the availability announcement, another surprise is the 802.15.4 radio for Zigbee and Thread that was not part of the original ESP32-C6 announcement in April 2021. The ESP32-C6-DevKitC-1 development board comes with a module with 8MB flash, exposes most of the I/O’s from the ESP32-C3, and comes with two USB-…

drivers_network rtl8812au: skip removal for odroidxu4/current so it patches OK again drivers_network rtl8812au: skip removal for odroidxu4/current so it patches OK again# Brief detour. Turns out that HardKernel's vendor odroidxu4 kernel already has this driver # "slipstreamed" into it, complete with a bunch of PDF files and other junk. # See https://github.com/hardkernel/linux/tree/odroid-5.4.y/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8812au # If we remove them here, the resulting patch will contain binary diffs which are unsupported by patch(1). # So if building for the odroidxu4/current, we'll leave the original files in place, and just overwrite # the possibly-updated source files (no…

Description The BOOTPATCHDIR and KERNELPATCHDIR variables can contain multiple directories names separated by spaces as explained in lib/functions/compilation/uboot-patching.sh and lib/functions/compilation/kernel-patching.sh respectively but when calculating hash we were treating it as a single directory name. Also as ATF and crust gets bundled in u-boot, the hash of their patches must also be considered to determine if we need to rebuild 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] Tested by adding removing patches in patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi, pa…

Collabora continues to relentlessly shift the needle to make high-quality open-source software not just an aspiration, but an expectation. We're pleased to announce an extension of our collaboration with Arm, providing more surety and capability for Panfrost. View the full article

thinkpad-x13s: use steev's 6.3.y for working audio; fix Bluetooth; fix core temperature sensors; add modules & fw to initrd; pin & keep x13s PPA (fixes #5550) x13s: pin & keep x13s PPA (fixes #5550) x13s: initialize bluetooth's public-addr, thus allowing BT to work linux-arm64-sc8280xp.config: enable per-core temperature sensors x13s: disable snapd.seeded service so boot won't hang if clock's < 2017 (switching from Windows?) x13s: back to steev's 6.3.y, since 6.4.y's audio drivers don't match alsa-ucm-conf View the full article

BPI-CM4: Add support for the waveshare cm4-io-base-b https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/CM4-IO-BASE-B BPI-CM4: Enable usb support on waveshare baseboards via overlay BPI-SM1: Removed UART_B overlay. Short of it being an available option in the vendor kernel via overlay. I can't find any docs to support why that is. I feel it is safer that we just remove it. BPI-SM1: Add UART_A "pin-ctrl: cts rts" 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 …

Bumps tj-actions/changed-files from 39 to 40. Release notes Sourced from tj-actions/changed-files's releases. v40 Changes in v40.0.0 🔥 🔥 Breaking Change 🔥 🔥 Directory patterns now require explicit specification of the globstar pattern to match all sub paths. ... - name: Get specific changed files id: changed-files-specific uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v40 with: files: | - dir + dir/** What's Changed Upgraded to v39.2.4 by @​tj-actions-bot in tj-actions/changed-files#1664 chore(deps): lock file maintenance by @​renovate in tj-actions/changed-files#1665 Bump @​types/node from 20.8.7 to 20.8.8 by @​dep…

Description rtl8723cs driver need some little changes to compile on kernel 6.7; it was breaking rockchip and allwinner families This pull request contains those changes. Jira reference number AR-2025 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Patch applies correclty on kernel 6.7 [x] Kernel deb packages correctly built 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 …

Description station-m2: move to rk35xx family Add legacy-5.10 and vendor-6.1 kernel for station-m2 This PR is depend on https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/pull/187 and https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/pull/186 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Almost all hardware functions(HDMI, WiFi, BT, GbE, USB...). [x] System startup. 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

Using our XR expertise, Collabora created a standalone XR experience for our 1% for the Planet partner, SOMAR, to showcase the direct impact of underwater noise pollution on marine life. View the full article

The second part of this series takes a more in-depth look at the eBPF VM and program studied in the first part. Having this low level knowledge is not mandatory but can be a very useful foundation for the rest of the series. View the full article

Once again the NetSurf developers congregated in Cambridge at the Collabora offices where we were made welcome in a nice environment for the event. View the full article

Allwinner H618 processor has started to show up in several TV boxes running Android 12, and capable of playing 6K/4K VP9 and H.265 videos with devices such as T95Z Plus and T95 Max, which may be confusing, as companies are reusing those model numbers over and over. Featuring a quad-core Cortex-A53 processor, an Arm Mali-G31 MP2 GPU, and 6K video support, the Allwinner H618 looks exactly like the Allwinner H616 processor except it can run the more recent Android 12 operating system. There’s not much public information about Allwinner H618 at the time of writing, but let’s check T95Z Plus specifications to see if we can find any other new hidden features: SoC – Allwinner H6…

Syncbotic Syncbot is a four-wheel autonomous mobile robot (AMR) platform for research and education that can be fitted with an NVIDIA Xavier NX or an Intel Apollo Lake/Tiger Lake-based controller running Ubuntu 20.04 operating system with ROS 2 framework, and comes with an motion control MCU board with an EtherCat master and running Zephyr OS. The robot comes with four 400W TECO servo motors, can handle up to 80kg payloads for sensors and a robotic arm, features 12V and 24V power output for sensors, four USB 3.0 ports, and can also be equipped with an eight-camera kit with Intel RealSense and ToF cameras. Syncbot AMR specifications: Robot Controller Platform (one or the o…

The challenge with TinyML is to extract the maximum performance/efficiency at the lowest footprint for AI workloads on microcontroller-class hardware. The TinyML-CAM pipeline, developed by a team of machine learning researchers in Europe, demonstrates what’s possible to achieve on relatively low-end hardware with a camera. Most specifically, they managed to reach over 80 FPS image recognition on the sub-$10 ESP32-CAM board with the open-source TinyML-CAM pipeline taking just about 1KB of RAM. It should work on other MCU boards with a camera, and training does not seem complex since we are told it takes around 30 minutes to implement a customized task. The researchers note…

Shenzhen Xunlong Software, better known under the Orange Pi brand, has launched a 14-inch Full HD portable monitor for $59 plus shipping on Aliexpress, or a little more on Amazon. The company is better known for its low-cost Arm-based single board computers with Rockchip or Allwinner processors, but this time, they launched an accessory with a 14-inch display taking HDMI or USB Type-C input with up to 1920×1080 resolution. Orange Pi portable monitor specifications: Display 14-inch a-Si TFT LCD Resolution – 1920×1080 Refresh rate – 60 Hz Color – 262K, 45% NTSC Contrast – 700:1 Viewing angles – 85°, 85°, 85°, 85° typical Video inputs 1x HDMI port for video and audio 2x USB …

Description Jira reference number AR-1449 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Tested in working branch 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