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uefi: rollover current to legacy, edge to current, bump edge to 6.7, fix drivers, remove symlinks uefi: common: stop using symlinks, instead point directly to KERNEL_MAJOR_MINOR uefi: common: drop kernel symlinks remove duplicate decls simplify some comments thinkpad-x13s: set explicit LINUXCONFIG to compensate for changes in uefi-common uefi: all: update all .config's, no changes; edge: 6.6.y; current 6.1.y; legacy 5.15.y uefi: all: rollover current 6.1.y to legacy, taking over 5.15.y uefi: all: rollover edge 6.6.y to current, taking over 6.1.y uefi-arm64 6.7: copy patches from 6.6 uefi: all: edge: bump to 6.7-rc7; arm64: fix Phytium stmmac patch (by Igor) Co-authore…

armbian-kernel: enforce CONFIG_LOCALVERSION in .config as empty armbian-kernel: enforce CONFIG_LOCALVERSION in .config as empty View the full article

Following a great weekend in Brussels for FOSDEM, Collaborans headed east to Belarus to attend & speak at the winter session of the international conference for free/libre open source software developers and users, LVEE. View the full article

Description Background In PR #6617, we've added the ethernet and pwm driver for zero2w for kernel version 6.6 and 6.7, now in 6.10, the pwm drvier interface have been changed that makes our driver failed to compile, here's a PR to fix that. Changes: Fix compiling error at the patch drivers-pwm-Add-pwm-sunxi-enhance-driver-for-h616.patch, adapt to new 6.10 pwm interface At sunxi64 edge config, enable CONFIG_PWM_SUNXI_ENHANCE as module How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build and install to zero2w, the ethernet works well 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, pa…

Last week, I attended DebConf 17 in Montréal, returning to DebConf for the first time in 10 years (last time was DebConf 7 in Edinburgh). It was great to put names to faces and meet more of my co-developers in person! View the full article

This PR re-adds support for the NanoPi NEO3, we talked about this a while ago. This as a preview, as I want to ask if the changes in this PR would be enough. Successfully built, booted, and rebooted: [x] bullseye current [x] bullseye edge [x] focal current [x] focal edge [x] jammy current [x] jammy edge I am aware that I need to change the web site afterwards. View the full article

Initcalls, which serve to call functions during boot, were implemented early on in the development of the Linux Kernel. Read on as we take a closer look, including their purpose, their usage, ways to debug them (using initcall_debug or FTrace), and more. View the full article

Description This story with the spidev driver has been going on for quite a long time. Kernel developers do not want this driver to be called by its name spidev. They probably have serious reasons. Starting from kernel version 5.15.1, we will be able to call, load this kernel module only using an alias that should not match the name of this module. This fix allows us to move in line with the upward changes of the kernel and keep our patches of the dtb overlay files in working condition. Please see this page. Checklist: [ ] Test work on board [ ] Test build View the full article

thinkpad-x13s: bump to jhovold's 6.10 (from -rc7) thinkpad-x13s: bump to jhovold's 6.10 (from -rc7) View the full article

Description Based on https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4267 Jira reference number AR-1387 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test of all kernels 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

Widely recognized as the premier event for developers working at all levels of the Linux kernel's plumbing layer and beyond, this year's edition of LPC is jam-packed with microconferences, a refereed track, a Kernel Summit track, multiple BoFs, and more. View the full article

Description Maintenance. View the full article

Description This patch has been mainlined in the kernel for both v6.6.37 and somewhere in v6.9.y branch too.. There are several reports that it broke rk3328 pinctrl and, as the worst side effect, eMMC controller does not work anymore on rk3318/rk3328 (reports on the forums: this, this and this) I identified the single line that is causing the issue; reverting the single change fixes the bad pinctrl behaviour in my case. How Has This Been Tested? [x] built and tested kernel 6.6.37 on live system [x] built and tested kernel 6.9.9 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] My…

Description Remove Ubuntu ads. Jira reference number AR-1376 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Installed package following by apt upgrade 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 Even though git shows a lot of changes, only change is putting the code in if block to make sure that we try to patch the system after we relaunch. Without this I got a password prompt on my MacBook as the system was trying to patch the MacOS. This can be closed if #6076 is ready Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full ar…

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

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

Description Allwinner is tied to tags by default in order to have better control on upgrading. Due to large amount of patches, this is safest method. How Has This Been Tested? Not tested, CI at PR needs fixing. 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

In my previous blog post, we discussed the importance of testing, what is fuzzing, and how the syzkaller fuzzes the kernel in order to find bugs. Now, let’s install the tool and starting using it to improve our code base. View the full article

Description Build breaks CI, temprally disabling. @FantasyGmm Re-enable once its sorted out. Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project View the full article

orangepizero2/sun50iw9/legacy: trying to fix legacy bootloader build; re-do from vendor code; bring busybox dependency with inline hook View the full article

Description This is a draft/wip for adding https proxy caching. This is especially designed for machines hosting lots of github runners to reduce their bandwidth usage by sacrificing disk space. http caching has been merged already and only needed minor changes. Caching https however is way more complicated. Encryption needs to be broken and rewrapped and then obviously downloads will fail due to cert issues. Classic MITM. So a new certificate authority (CA) needs to be put in place to allow these "fake" certs. Why is this even necessary? Well one major part is downloads from upstream apt repositories. The other major part is downloading 3rd party repositories and artif…

Description After testing, it was found that Firefly-RK3399 cannot boot using the mainline device tree due to issues with the PMU (Power Management Unit). Even after fixing the PMU problem, Bluetooth still cannot be used. Therefore, the original patch has been optimized by removing unnecessary parts. 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…

Like starting a car with the hood open, sometimes you need to run your program with certain analysis tools attached to get a full sense of what is going wrong – or right. View the full article

This second post in the Tyr series dives deeper into GPU driver internals by using the Vulkan-based VkCube application to explain how User Mode Drivers (UMDs) and Kernel Mode Drivers (KMDs) work together to execute GPU workloads. View the full article

meson64: edge: bump to 6.2 currently 6.2-rc3 please do not squash when merging otherwise the actual changes are hard to find later Images for testing, for many boards, scroll down for meson64's: https://github.com/rpardini/armbian-release/releases/tag/20230109c View the full article

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

libnice upstream improvements done at Collabora View the full article

Description sunxi64-current had been frozen since release. Bump it to most recent tag at this date. Documentation summary for feature / change Removed a patch from Megi's which per description saves 20ms per something on boot which caused kernel compile breakage between 6.6.34 and .35. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build kernel for Orange Pi Zero 2 with current: https://paste.armbian.de/domaniqife [ ] Boot tests on various sunxi64 boards should be done before merge! 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] My changes …

Description Due to "recent" fixes to the rk3328 dram memory controller driver (see https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4774) and tests/benchmarks being made on Rock Pi E board, enable the dmc driver on such CSC board for a nice and free speed bump Jira reference number AR-1585 How Has This Been Tested? The patch is from the pre-armbian-next era and has been tested there to be fully functional, I will check that it does not break compilation on main branch as soon as possible. [ ] compile deb kernel packages on main branch 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 co…

Description Fixed the compilation issue with new khadas u-boot. The fix is actually quite ugly. We are now compiling u-boot twice, once with gcc 11.4 and then with linaro toolchain v7.3.1. Also as Linaro's compiler is only available for x86 platform, uboot for these boards will not build on arm platforms. But I guess we have to live with it for now. How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [X] Test building uboot for khadas vim1s Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I ha…

When using directories, the docker images will start generaties files inside these directories, with root privileges. These files cannot be removed by the user, even though he owned the directory. So I decided to use volumes instead, since this alleviate the issue. I'll add a volume management API letter. For the time being, you'll have to rely on docker-compose volume commands to manage them. Signed-off-by: Myy Miouyouyou myy@miouyouyou.fr View the full article

Description https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/5dee9ee935703a559992478fa8045b464af72b50#commitcomment-111988535 Rockpi4 is using BL31 blobs to build uboot, so it should get configed with BOOT_SCENARIO="tpl-spl-blob". If BOOT_SCENARIO is not declared it will be only-blobs by default, which will not build tpl/u-boot-tpl.bin and spl/u-boot-spl.bin needed by spi image creating. So it's better to declare BOOT_SCENARIO="tpl-spl-blob" just like rockpro64. I don't have rock4 board so someone has to confirm this fix. 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…

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…

Some exciting news today as GStreamer launches its redesigned documentation site, complete with dynamic navigation, search function and new tutorials. This new iteration is powered by HotDoc, a tool created by Collabora's Mathieu Duponchelle! View the full article

Description Enabling wireless driver found on many Orange Pi boards. Jira reference number AR-1486 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Test wireless connection 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 [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description This patch is needed only for extra additional wireless drivers under EXTRA_WIFI. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Built two kernels 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

interactive: show all possible KERNEL_TARGET's in branch selection UI; handle current/edge/legacy, others are "experimental" interactive: show all possible KERNEL_TARGET's in branch selection UI; handle current/edge/legacy, others are "experimental" remove midstream special handling View the full article

Kmemleak allows you to track possible memory leaks inside the Linux kernel. Basically, it tracks dynamically allocated memory blocks in the kernel and reports those without any reference left and that are therefore impossible to free. View the full article

Spring is in bloom in the northern hemisphere, and with it comes three tech events we'll be attending - PyCon US, Shell & Display Next Hackfest, and Linaro Connect! View the full article

Description As per tittle. How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Build test, will run smoke tests right after too. 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

Robustel has launched three Arm-based industrial IoT gateways namely the EG5100, EG5120, and LG5100 that offer 5G, 4G LTE, and/or LoRaWAN connectivity, and runs Debian 11-based RobustOS Pro Linux operating systems The edge gateways also feature two Ethernet ports, two RS232/RS485 ports for connection to industrial devices, digital inputs and outputs for simple monitoring and control, and support a wide 9 to 60V DC power input through a 2-pin terminal block. Robustel LG5100, EG5100, and EG5120 specifications: SoC/memory/storage LG5100 and EG5100 Unnamed quad-core Cortex-A7 processor @ 792 MHz (possibly NXP i.MX 7ULP) 512MB DDR3 8GB eMMC flash EG5120 Unnamed quad-core Corte…

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

A Coruña, Spain - December 7-10, 2014: Collabora are pleased to be sponsoring and attending the upcoming Web Engines Hackfest, which will bring together members from all parts of the Web Platform community. View the full article

Description As per subject, fix rtl88x2bu on kernel 6.3, useful until upstream driver get patched How Has This Been Tested? [x] Compilation for kernel 6.3 works [x] Compilation for kernel 6.1 works 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

http://blog.armbian.com/content/images/2026/01/githubhighlights-2.png This week’s Armbian development saw a major cleanup of legacy toolchain code, alongside numerous board-specific improvements and kernel updates. Support was added for the Nuvoton MA35D1 NuMaker IoT board, while the BananaPi CM4/M2S and Khadas VIM3L boards received updated U-Boot bootloaders. Several fixes addressed hardware compatibility, including Bluetooth on Orange Pi Zero2, Type-C issues on Helios64, and build stability for the Raspberry Pi 4B. The release also introduced enhanced audio support for Genio devices and new AV1 patches for Rockchip64. Continuous integration workflows were reorganized, a…

Activating sun4i_csi as a kernel module is required to activate csi0/1 on sun4i-a10, sun7i-a20 and sun8i-r40. 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 ha…

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

Description Ubuntu Noble is not yet in Jammy deboostrap. Lets patch the system with an extensions, so we con't mess up with a framework itself. This will eventually become deprecated anyway. Jira reference number AR-2004 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Manual run ./compile.sh ENABLE_EXTENSIONS="ubuntu-noble" 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

kernel: fix for 6.3+ linux-headers pkg due to upstream dir change extra: run kernel make through pipetty for moar colors Small detour: in v6.3-rc1, in commit https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/799fb82aa132fa3a3886b7872997a5a84e820062, the tools/vm dir was renamed to tools/mm. Unfortunately tools/Makefile still expects it to exist, and make clean in the tools dir fails. Drop in a fake Makefile there to work around this. Should fix #4991 View the full article

Collabora is headed to Amsterdam for IBC! Drop by to see our work on the DAB protocol, our integration of LCEVC, and our latest XR project, ElectricMaple. View the full article

Description Digging and reworking this https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6100 while (de)attaching to new LTS kernel. Jira reference number AR-2005 How Has This Been Tested? Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Fixing wrong URL path in rootfs cache rfc Jira reference number AR-1230 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Obvious problem. Not tested View the full article

When the kernel crashes, it's good to know how to analyze the log and to discover exactly where the error occurred. This blog post shows a simple technique to retrieve the buggy line from the addresses shown in the log and also enabling specifics logs with Dynamic Debug. View the full article

The recently mainlined RTW88 driver for the RTL8723DS does not work at all on the RockPI-S No error messages, but no radio either. The RTW88 driver also blocks the bluetooth radio as well. Reverting back to RTL's own driver, which is still in the patched tree, fixes all this. I'll be working with the RTW88 driver authors get their 8723DS driver working, but, my experience with the RTW88 driver for the USB bus version of this WiFi chip is that it uses significantly more CPU than RTL's driver. To cope with the ever expanding Linux kernel, this patch also includes overriding u-boot's value of fdt_addr_r in the RockPI-s boot.cmd script. Please include a summary of the chan…

Description Preliminary work on the branding of the kernel package version Jira reference number AR-1233 This is a template. It is necessary to discuss the design. You can build the kernel package yourself and see what happened. [ ] 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 new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Patches needed to run Pi-KVM. Jira reference number AR-1300 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build CURRENT and EDGE [x] Tested by (srepac) 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

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

Description Add the ability to compile v6.2.1 for sunxi Checklist: [x] Test build, work on board ____ ____ _ __ __ __ _ _ | __ )| _ \(_) | \/ |/ /_ | || | | _ \| |_) | | | |\/| | '_ \| || |_ | |_) | __/| | | | | | (_) |__ _| |____/|_| |_| |_| |_|\___/ |_| Welcome to Armbian 23.02.0-trunk Bookworm with Linux 6.2.1-sunxi64 No end-user support: built from trunk & unsupported (bookworm) userspace! System load: 26% Up time: 0 min Memory usage: 6% of 1.94G IP: 192.168.100.101 CPU temp: 33°C Usage of /: 27% of 7.2G View the full article

SparkFun Thing Plus Matter – MGM240P board targets the development of applications using the Matter IoT protocol and features the MGM240P module based on Silicon Labs EFR32MG24 Arm Cortex-M33 wireless microcontroller with an 802.15.4 radio for Zigbee and OpenThread plus a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.3 radio. The board also offers two rows of I/Os for upto 21 GPIOs and a Qwiic connector for expansion, another EFRM32 MCU acting as a J-link debugger, a microSD card, and can be powered via USB-C or a LiPo battery. SparkFun Thing Plus Matter – MGM240P specifications: MGM240P wireless module SoC – Silicon Labs EFR32MG24 microcontroller CPU – 32-bit Arm Cortex-M33 @ 39 MHz (MC…

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Description enable 5.19.y edge kernel for the radxa zero 2 builds on the radxa zero 2 board config 5.19.y kernel source is already handled by meson64 config so we just have to enable the edge kernel builds on the board config 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 generat…

Pico Technology has released PicoVNA 5 control software for their vector network analyzers for Windows x86 64-bit, Mac, Linux x86 64-bit, and Raspberry Pi 3 and greater single board computers, superseding the Windows-only PicoVNA 3 software. As a Ubuntu user, I hate it when some hardware tool forces me to install software on Windows when there’s no Linux alternative, so any company that provides cross-platform tools is making the right move. I’m also not quite sure what a “vector network analyzer” (VNA) is, so I’ll first look into the PicoVNA 106 and PicoVNA 108 6/8.5 GHz VNAs from the company. PicoVNA 106/108 vector network analyzers highlights and specifications: Freque…

Description 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 own build from my repository [x] Booting the system 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 full article

Times are changing: LLVM has become more than a spare to GCC, such that glibc - the last big GCC bastion, is now working towards supporting LLVM as a first-class citizen. View the full article

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We’ll be in Frankfurt this Thursday for the AMD Embedded Computing Summit! See a live demo of our AI Magic Mirror for a touchless, real-time experience. View the full article

MSI is better known for its consumer-grade motherboard and mini PCs, but they also have a division called MSI IPC (industrial PC) that makes embedded hardware such as the MS-98M3 3.5-inch single board computer (SBC) powered by an Intel Tiger Lake UP3 processor and designed for autonomous mobile robots (AMR). The SBC supports up to 64GB DDR4 RAM, SATA and NVMe storage, offers two 2.5 Gbps Ethernet ports, up to four display interfaces with HDMI, DisplayPort, LVDS and/or eDP, four USB 3.2 ports, M.2 expansion sockets for storage and wireless connectivity, as well as various other internal headers. MSI MS-98M3 specifications: Tiger Lake UP3 “IoTG” SoC (one or the other) …

linux-rk35xx-legacy.config: enable VHOST_NET and others for hosting VM's linux-rk35xx-legacy.config: enable VHOST_NET and others for hosting VM's View the full article

Description Maintenance. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Odroid XU4 build test Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

At Collabora one of the many things we do is build Debian derivatives/overlays for customers on a variety of architectures including 32 bit and 64 bit ARM systems. And just as Debian does, our OBS system builds on native systems rather than emulators. View the full article

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

Description This code was added to the source data from the kernel version 5.10.x, possibly even earlier. Accordingly, this patch is not needed. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v5.10/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-rock-pi-4.dtsi#L188 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v5.15/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-rock-pi-4.dtsi#L189 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v6.1/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-rock-pi-4.dtsi#L230 Before disable path: &hdmi_sound { status = "okay"; }; &hdmi_sound { status = "okay"; }; After disable path: &hdmi_sound { status = "okay"; }; How Has This Been Tested? [x] Rock Pi 4 Model B Checklist: [x] My code …

AAEON has just introduced the UP Xtreme i12 single board computer (SBC) with Intel 12th generation Alder Lake-P hybrid SoC with up to 12 cores/16 threads, up to 32GB LPDDR5 memory, support for four 4Kp60 displays, and equipped with high-speed interfaces such as USB 4.0 and 2.5 GbE. The board also features four M.2 sockets for NVMe storage, Wi-Fi 6 and 5G cellular connectivity, a SATA III port, several USB 3.2/2.0 Type-A ports, and a 40-pin GPIO header and mounting thread for Raspberry Pi HATs, which should make it especially suitable for IoT, robotics, and smart retail applications, as well as smart manufacturing with a 12 to 36V wide supply voltage range. UP Xtreme i12 s…

Description Patch was already eliminated in 5.15, resolve "edge" https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/9680fc46a01f70984e7b4b4c975b8dc4ecd8798e View the full article

Description We plan to refactor rootfs caching and this is first part. This commit supports attaching to last cache release number and also checking previous three releases for file. There is more to come as per https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1277 Merge is needed at once as old caching system is down. Jira reference number AR-1277 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Made few images 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 warnin…

Up until now, U-boot would only support the User datagram protocol (UDP) allowing for TFTP and NFS boot, but Linaro has now added support for TCP and HTTP in U-boot in order to boot Linux from common web servers. TFTP boot from U-boot has been supported for years, as around the year 2006 I remember implementing TFTP Linux boot for a Karaoke system in order to lower the BoM cost by selecting a smaller flash device, and I also explained how to boot Linux on a TV box with TFTP back in 2014. This requires installing a TFTP server on your server, which is quite a trivial task, but HTTP servers are omnipresent, so it’s a welcome addition to U-boot. If you want to use HTTP to bo…

Description Lets have some handy tool for fast checking of images integrity. It needs 10-15m to check all images on average big runner. Jira reference number AR-1236 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Test run xz: dl/jetson-nano/archive/Armbian_22.05.1_Jetson-nano_jammy_edge_5.18.0_xfce_desktop.img.xz: Unexpected end of input xz: dl/khadas-vim3l/archive/Armbian_22.05.1_Khadas-vim3l_jammy_edge_5.17.5_xfce_desktop.img.xz: Unexpected end of input xz: dl/khadas-vim3l/archive/Armbian_22.05.1_Khadas-vim3l_focal_current_5.10.110_xfce_desktop.img.xz: Unexpected end of input xz: dl/uefi-arm64/archive/Armbian_22.05.1_Uefi-arm64_focal_current_5.15.43_xfce_desktop.img.xz: Unexpected e…

Description New blobs has been pushed to rk bin repository. https://github.com/armbian/rkbin/pull/25 Probably support for new memory chips. Jira reference number AR-2077 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Boot on Orange Pi 5 v1.2 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 https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4759#issuecomment-1407809336 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Compiled the kernel succesfully 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

Earlier this year, the Rust compiler gained support for LLVM source-base code coverage. In this post we'll explain how to setup a CI job in a Rust project to feed source-base coverage information to GitLab. View the full article

Description Add meson-gx mmc driver patches for use phase clock settings from dts add read amlogic,mmc-phase values from dts files update meson-axg.dtsi to use 270, 0, 0 phases disable old patch for axg phase change to 270 Jira reference number AR-1394 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 J100 (axg) boots ok [X] JetHub J80 (gxl) boots ok View the full article

Description Open a Jira ticket when GitHub issue is raised, Jira reference number AR-345 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Tested in test repository 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

Fixing package list in all mate desktops as mouse input and keyboard input fail after booting desktop. View the full article

Today sees the public release of Vulkan 1.0, the next-generation graphics API from the Khronos Group. As a member of Khronos, Collabora has been committed to improving EGL, OpenGL ES and OpenGL itself, and this continues with Vulkan. View the full article

With the 5.5 kernel released earlier this week, here's a detailed look at Collabora’s contributions, including work to improve upstream support of peripherals used together with the i.MX 6 family of processors. View the full article

Arduino has recently announced the Opta micro PLC with industrial IoT capabilities adding yet another solution to the Arduino Pro family. Arduino used to focus on the hobbyist crowd, but with the launch of the Arduino Pro family in 2020 starting with the Portenta H7 board, the company switched its main focus to the more profitable enterprise market. Since then they’ve launched several other boards designed in-house, and last year started collaborating with the introduction of the Arduino WisGate Edge LoRaWAN gateways based on RAKwireless hardware. The Arduino Opta is another one of those collaborations as it was designed together with Finder, who calls their devices PLR (…

Checklist: [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code View the full article

Description This PR contains update to make creation of armbian i3-wm images possible for the following distributions listed by their code names. jammy focal bookworm bullseye Jira reference number AR-1708 How Has This Been Tested? So far I have made sure that the images can be built and that they are bootable and functional. Testing was done on real hardware, bare metal. [X] Test A - able to create the image in the first place without errors present [X] Test B - check if bootable and can be used like a regular i3-wm setup Checklist: Not sure what to mark exactly, so leaving most of these blank for now [] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [X] I…

Based on Debian 13 (Trixie), Apertis v2026 delivers updated system libraries, development tools, compilers, and core services, alongside a new default Wayland compositor, a reworked SDK, and smarter packaging pipelines. View the full article

Description Cleanup and order firstrun scripts to use systemd firstboot logic. Cleanup image according to systemd so multiple flashes don't share machine-id or random seed Cleanup espressobin-related logic enabling networkd and resolved services. Replaces #3642 and #3769 Jira reference number AR-1174 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Flash the new image and see if it completes firstrun scripts and populates /etc/machine-id 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 [ ]…

After waiting in the Linux-next integration tree for about 18 months, the basic Rust infrastructure finally landed in the mainline Linux kernel with the imminent release of v6.1. View the full article

This fall, we're thrilled to be sponsoring not one, but five great conferences! View the full article

Description Update odroidxu4-current kernel to 6.6.47. 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 [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description sunxi-6.9: Add megous patches and switch EDGE to tag:v6.9.9 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Test build for armhf [x] Test work on BPI-m3 View the full article

Description Enabled CONFIG_MT7915E on all kernels. Requires corresponding firmware to work https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/mediatek Jira reference number AR-1817 https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1817 [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Zoom install for x86 desktop. Jira reference number AR-1357 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Build x86 desktop image Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

With the recent release of the OpenXR 1.0 specification, the presence of numerous Open Source platforms for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, and a growing community of developers, the need for a collaborative Open Source XR Conference became clear. View the full article

Introducing cmtp-responder - a permissively licensed Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) responder implementation which allows embedded devices to provide MTP services and supports a core set of MTP operations. View the full article

Description The current script can overwrite drivers which are set as built-in in the board-specific config. This is not desirable. Add a check to ensure we do not convert built-in stuff into modules. First encountered it when pocketbeagle 2 kernels was enabling EXT4 as module instead of being built-in, which makes the current rootfs (using ext4) fail to run. How Has This Been Tested? Tested on PocketBeagle 2 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 full article