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odroidm1 / rk3568-odroid: recover overlays from 6.1; update .config; fix patch dir name I had inadvertently: used wrong naming for the patch folder completely left behind the patches in 6.1 folder when moved to 6.2 made it worse by moving to 6.3 This recovers the patches (confirmed working), updates the .config (no changes), and fixes the patch dir name. View the full article

BREAKING CHANGE: patches failing to apply now break the build. fixes #4958 BREAKING CHANGE: patches failing to apply now break the build. fixes #4958 also break on legacy process_patch_file() failure, remove EXIT_PATCHING_ERROR View the full article

Description Previously we had armbian-bsp-cli- package i.e. package name didn't contained branch. When upgrading from such releases, installing armbian-bsp-cli-- package throws error. This PR fixes the same. Jira reference number AR-1795 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] Upgraded on nanopiduo2 from version 21.08 and made sure the updated armbian-bsp-cli package installs 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…

pipeline: inventory all board vars; add not-eos-with-video; introduce TARGETS_FILTER_INCLUDE pipeline: inventory all board vars; add not-eos-with-video; introduce TARGETS_FILTER_INCLUDE How to use: ./compile.sh inventory - does just the board inventory; look for output in output/info ./compile.sh targets-dashboard - does inventory, targets compositing, and images info; look for output in output/info, read the instructions output by the command if you want to load the OpenSearch dashboards. ./compile.sh targets - does the full targets compositing and artifacts, look for output in output/info If you don't have a userpatches/targets.yaml, one will be provided for you d…

The Monado SLAM datasets (MSD) are egocentric visual-inertial SLAM datasets recorded to improve the Basalt-based inside-out tracking component of the Monado project. View the full article

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

Description TOC is generated by GitHub, so we don't need to expose it. Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project View the full article

Description Fix compilation warnings [🐳|🔨] CC arch/arm/mach-rockchip/boot_mode.o (...) [🐳|🔨] arch/arm/mach-rockchip/boot_mode.c: In function ‘rockchip_dnl_mode_check’: [🐳|🔨] arch/arm/mach-rockchip/boot_mode.c:174:24: warning: ‘return’ with a value, in function returning void [-Wreturn-type] [🐳|🔨] 174 | return 0; [🐳|🔨] …

patching: fix: use correct has_overlay_directories instead of has_dts_directories for overlay processing patching: fix: use correct has_overlay_directories instead of has_dts_directories for overlay processing View the full article

rk3588: bump default blobs (DDR:1.16, BL31:1.45); remove board-specific blobs from boards that used those versions rk3588: bump default blobs (DDR:1.16, BL31:1.45); remove board-specific blobs from boards that used those versions in practice: boards that didn't specify their own blobs: bump DDR 1.08->1.16 ; BL31 1.28 -> 1.45 (example: rock-5b!) boards that specified 1.16/1.45 individually now follow the defaults (no change) boards that specified a different version: no change; just a TODO suggesting review/removal/go-with-the-defaults Mekotronics boards: bump from 1.11/1.38 to defaults (1.16 / 1.45) View the full article

Description Enable wifi drivers on user request https://forum.armbian.com/topic/43134-drivers-for-rtl8812au-on-odroid-m1/#comment-198064 They were disabled here: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6202 due to the size? How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Compile test [ ] Tested on hardware Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description As tittle said. How Has This Been Tested? Need to be tested. Checklist: [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Released by Linus Torvalds on May 22 after a busy two-month development cycle, Linux kernel 5.18 brings new features and lights up new hardware. Let's take a look at the contributions made by our engineering team. View the full article

In late January 1998, Netscape surprised everyone by releasing the source for Communicator, its web browser, making it readily available to all. The marked a turning point, and the birth of a new term, in software development: Open Source. View the full article

Proposal to create a Community Supported config for Amlogic based TV Boxes to pickup the work that was done previously by balbes150 but is no longer supported by him. This also provides a place where development can occur within the Armbian framework since others on the internet are producing builds called Armbian that are not done from within the Armbian community. The strategy for Amlogic based TV Boxes has been to reuse the native u-boot that comes installed on the box on emmc. Through a process called 'multiboot enabling' a u-boot script is run to change the default u-boot environment to have the boot process look for a chain-loaded u-boot on either the sd card or us…

e-con Systems e-CAM20_CURB is a 2.3 MP fixed focus color camera designed for the Raspberry Pi 4, and the company has sent us a sample for evaluation and review. We’ll start by providing specifications, before checking out the package content, connecting the camera to the Raspberry Pi 4 with a DIY LEGO mount, showing how to access the resources for the camera, and trying tools provided in the Raspberry Pi OS or Yocto Linux image. e-CAM20_CURB specifications The camera is comprised of two boards with the following specifications: eCAM217_CUMI0234_MOD full HD color camera with 4-lane MIPI CSI-2 interface ON Semiconductor AR0234CS CMOS sensor with 1/2.6″ optical form-factor G…

Description The uwe5622 driver has been moved from allwinner directories into patch/misc directory with this previous pull request With this pull request, rockchip64 family will share the base patch in misc and provides an additional, small patch to fix specific compatibility for rockchip. Ideally this minor patch would be integrated in the big driver in patch/misc, but it is not trivial task and would then require extensive tests on allwinner platform. The pull request also provides a patch to the driver to let it compile and work on kernel v6.1, and also patches the rockchip64-edge kernel config. At last, it fixes a memcpy fat kernel warning about field-spanning memo…

shellfmt/.editorconfig: enable trim whitespaces, run shellfmt, no actual code changes shellfmt: bump to 3.6.0 (run with bash lib/tools/shellfmt.sh) .editorconfig: rationalize, remove duplicated logic .editorconfig: add .py stuff I (rpardini) had on my own fork for armbian-next Python development View the full article

extension: c-plus-plus-compiler: include g++ package as well as g++-aarch64-linux-gnu -- so host arch g++ compiler is also available compilation: uboot: manage shopt nullglob same way as IFS, so UBOOT_TARGET_MAP's with * somewhere are not skipped (as is the case for mvebu64) mvebu64: enable_extension "c-plus-plus-compiler"; fix refs to u-boot sources that changed; (try to) add colored logs these need testing, both on mvebu64 itself, but also on other families to make sure I didn't break anything View the full article

initrd: when cache hit, don't preserve perms during deploy, otherwise FAT32 /boot gags AR-1715 View the full article

pipeline: repo-reprepro: run clearvanished and check before adding to repo pipeline: repo-reprepro: run clearvanished and check before adding to repo 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

config/boards: fix some missing quotes / maintainers config/boards: fix some missing quotes / maintainers View the full article

Description Update odroidxu4-current kernel to 6.1.67. 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

mekotronics 3588: add SRC_CMDLINE, for use with u-boot-menu extension mekotronics 3588: add SRC_CMDLINE, for use with u-boot-menu extension does nothing otherwise View the full article

fix: partitioning: disable orphan_file (FEATURE_C12) for ext4 filesystems on 1.47+ e2fsprogs host fix: partitioning: disable orphan_file (FEATURE_C12) for ext4 filesystems on 1.47+ e2fsprogs host otherwise:fsck.ext4 -a -C0 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /dev/mmcblk0p1 has unsupported feature(s): FEATURE_C12 e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck! orphan_file can only be disabled on recent-enough e2fsprogs, thus check version and compare View the full article

Description Fix logic. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build current and edge kernel with rock3c Checklist: [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

The latest Linux kernel brings enhanced MediaTek Platform enablement, Rockchip performance, and more. Collabora contributed to this release with no less than 22 authored contributors! View the full article

Optical hand tracking for XR has a bit of a reputation - getting training data, training neural nets, and deploying them in real-time, low-latency environments such as XR is every bit as hard as they say it is. View the full article

Linus Torvalds has now released the official Linux 4.17, so it’s time for our traditional blog post summing up our contributions to the latest version of the Linux kernel, which include a number of patches to the DRM subsystem. View the full article

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…

As noted in the Khadas VIM1S announcement, the company is also preparing to launch the Khadas Edge2 single board computer with a Rockchip RK3588S octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 processor and a thickness of just 5.7mm (before a low-profile heatsink is installed). The new board follows a similar form factor as the original Khadas Edge board powered by a Rockchip RK3399 processor, except the edge connector is gone, so it can’t be used as a system-on-module anymore, but remains the thinnest and one of the most powerful Arm SBCs so far. Khadas Edge2 Basic/Pro specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3588S CPU – Octa-core processor with four Cortex-A76 cores @ 2.25 GHz, four Cortex-A55 cores…

Description Add a link to the page, where anyone can book a meeting with us. Non commercial cooperation type and professional consultation. temporally removing link to subscriptions as its not finished yet. Jira reference number MAN-114 How Has This Been Tested? [x] We are using this internally for awhile. 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 module…

Description Some has this package dependency, some not. This makes sure that PPA is always installed. Jira reference number AR-1405 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Test build Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Maint. View the full article

SONOFF MINI Extreme (aka MINIR4) is a ridiculously small WiFi smart switch based on ESP32 wireless microcontroller and designed to be connected to a load such as a light bulb and a wall switch that can be a momentary switch, a door exit switch, an SPDT switch, a latching switch, or even dry contact sensors. The tiny form factor (39.5×33 x16.8mm) enables the WiFi smart switch to fit into various boxes, even the smaller European gang boxes. Just like other SONOFF home automation devices, the MINIR4 works with eWelink mobile app, but it also implements some new interesting features such as the ‘Detach Relay’ mode. SONOFF MINI Extreme (MINIR4) specifications: MCU – Espressif …

Description In this second step (previous one: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4913) of rtl8723cs consolidation, the rtl8723cs driver patches and references have been removed from: sunxi-edge (6.2) @The-going media-edge (6.2) @150balbes media-current (6.1) @150balbes for the sunxi-edge there has been a bit of more work: one patch changed from 6.1 to 6.2 (8723-enable-wowlan): the difference was spotted in hunk a dts file for pinephone. The hunk has been extracted and put into patches.armbian for both 6.1 and 6.2. The same hunk has been removed from the patch in misc. I don't know if it is a good idea though: perhaps on next rtl8723cs patch rebase the hunk may r…

big batch of all-around fixes (Version prefix, issues) Sorry for the long PR, but sending each of those separately is pointless, they make sense together and depend on each other for the most part. 👉 The .deb Versions are now prefixed with $REVISION (VERSION file), which should solve for much crazy when using the Armbian repo. This is still keeping the cache key and .deb Version: tied together, and will need more work down the line. This is a good enough fix for now, since keeping hit ratio across releases is not yet our priority. don't use "bright black" ANSI for logging unless we're running under a known-good terminal (eg, iTerm2) docker: fix: pass down OCI_TARGET_…

Cytron CM4 Maker Board is a carrier board for the Raspberry Pi CM4 or CM4 Lite system-on-module with plenty of I/Os, support for one M.2 NVMe SSD, and RTC backup battery, a buzzer, and various LEDs for GPIO status that makes the board especially well suited for the education market and prototyping. The carrier board also comes with the usual Gigabit Ethernet and full-size HDMI port, four USB 2.0 ports, five Grove connectors, one Maker port, the omnipresent 40-pin Raspberry Pi GPIO header, and support power input from 7V-18V DC jack or 5V via a USB Type-C connector. CM4 Maker Board specifications Cytron CM4 Maker Board specifications: Supported SoM – Raspberry Pi Compute M…

Description Enable mainline mipi-dsi driver for Rockchip. This permits the use of the RPi 7" LCD and equivalents (device tree overlay required) How Has This Been Tested? boot no error (module not loaded as not enabled in DT) 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

utils-dpkgdeb: fix wrong DEBIAN/md5sums generation remove the prefix, otherwise a temporary path is included don't include DEBIAN/* files themselves AR-1714 View the full article

repo: split image apt .list deployment into image-early and image-late repo: split image apt .list deployment into image-early and image-late split image apt .list deployment into image-early (after rootfs extract, before building) and image-late (after building) rationale: having the repo enabled during the image build can cause 'apt upgrade' and others to do inconsistent stuff depending on the (possibly random) state of the repo View the full article

I verify this change on Orangepi-800. Description Upstream don't have this clk source, and each rk3399 SBC with external codec are working. one example is Pinebook Pro, same codec es8316 used. I also verify it on my opi-800. I don't have the board thus not able to test on opi-4 and opi-4-lts. 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 ful…

rk3399: legacy .config for rk3399 was removed long ago; completely drop rk3399 family, move boards to rockchip64 and remove their legacy KERNEL_TARGET rk3399: legacy .config for rk3399 was removed long ago; completely drop rk3399 family, move boards to rockchip64 and remove their legacy KERNEL_TARGET also drop hooks referring to legacy View the full article

Description In #4352 the kaslrseed command is added. This results in "Unknown command ' kaslrseed ' - try 'help'"; but does continue with booting. This is not the cleanest message; rather check for the command before executing. How Has This Been Tested? N/A [ ] Test A Checklist: [X] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [X] I have performed a self-review of my own code [X] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [X] My changes generate no new warnings [X] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

wsl2: fix: don't pester user for UTF-8 terminal if stdin is not a terminal wsl2: fix: don't pester user for UTF-8 terminal if stdin is not a terminal View the full article

Additions: GPU node UART 1 & 5 nodes GPU is disabled by default as I am not 100% how functional it currently is. Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [X] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

kde-neon: use Neon's "user" repo for Jammy & return it to csc status kde-neon: use Neon's "user" repo for Jammy & return it to csc status for noble: keep on Neon's "testing" repo which now has a "noble" dist (instead of Jammy) - but keep it eos as it really doesn't build yet. See https://blog.neon.kde.org/2024/05/09/kde-neon-rebasing-on-ubuntu-noble/ - might take a while still View the full article

After a two-year hiatus, the City of Lights is shinning brightly again to welcome the community for a full week of engaging talks at Embedded Recipes and Kernel Recipes conferences. View the full article

At the start of 2018 in January, I joined Collabora, an open source software consultancy, as a Software Engineer Intern with the Multimedia team. Reaching the end of that internship, I would like to take the time to share my experience. View the full article

Description fbcon implementation has been changed to the degree that its not sane to maintain the patchset anymore. We are disabling bootspash starting with 5.19.y. A replacement is needed to be done. This require: installing plymouth generating or converting boot graphic to meet new way implementing and testing Jira reference number AR-1278 https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4039 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentat…

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…

Most of the ESP8266 and ESP32 projects and products we cover here use the Espressif microcontroller as the main chip, but ESP8266 started as a WiFi module meant to be controlled with AT commands from a host device. But there are still “legacy” products that may benefit from connecting to the cloud, and Espressif introduced the ESP-Hosted for that purpose in 2020, and recently released a next-generation ESP-Hosted solution (ESP-Hosted-NG) specifically for Linux hosts. The solution is available in two variants: ESP-Hosted-FG (First generation) exposing an Ethernet interface to the host and suitable for microcontrollers and Linux hosts, and the ESP-Hosted-NG presenting an 80…

Inkplate 2 wireless ePaper display is by far the smallest display from Soldered Electronics with a 2.13-inch 3-color ePaper display while previous Inkplate models rely on 6-inch to 9.7-inch ePaper displays. The tiny display board integrates an ESP32 dual-core wireless microcontroller that drives the display, provides WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity plus some I/Os, and can be programmed with the Arduino IDE or MicroPython. Inkplate 2 specifications: Wireless module – ESP32-WROVER-E module with ESP32 dual-core microcontroller with Wi-Fi 4 & Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, 8MB PSRAM, 4MB flash (Note: The product’s description lists 8MB flash, and 4MB RAM, but there’s no ESP3…

Bumps ossf/scorecard-action from 2.1.0 to 2.1.2. Release notes Sourced from ossf/scorecard-action's releases. v2.1.2 What's Changed Fixes 🌱 Bump scorecard dependency to v4.10.2 to remove a CODEOWNERS printf statement. by @​spencerschrock in ossf/scorecard-action#1054 Full Changelog: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/compare/v2.1.1...v2.1.2 v2.1.1 Scorecard version This release use Scorecard's v4.10.1 Full Changelog: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/compare/v2.1.0...v2.1.1 Commits e38b190 Bump docker tag for release. (#1055) 7da02bf Bump scorecard to v4.10.2 to remove a CODEOWNERS printf statement. (#1054) 013c0f8 :seedling: Bump actions/depende…

iXsystems’ TrueNAS Mini R rack-mountable system powered by an Intel Atom C3758 processor running TrueNAS CORE or the new TrueNAS SCALE and equipped with up to 64GB RAM and twelve lockable and hot-swappable 3.5-inch drive bays for more than 200TB of capacity when populated with 18TB drives and 2.5-inch SSD adapters can be provided as well. The TrueNAS Mini R also offers two 10GbE RJ45 interfaces and an optional dual 10GbE SFP+ card can also be added to the system., an IPMI out-of-band management interface, and the company says it’s mostly suitable for small and home offices, as well as enterprise deployments for remote sites, backup, labs, and non-critical departmental app…

Description Jira reference number AR-1639 How Has This Been Tested? [🐳|🔨] dpkg-deb: building package 'armbian-config' in '/armbian/.tmp/work-c83920b4-8982-4007-933f-d08866c61443/tmp.Qoc0Tbqyxh/armbian-config_23.05.0-trunk_all.deb'. [🐳|💥] error! [ Artifact file /armbian/output/debs/armbian-config_23.05.0-trunk--1-SAce33-B21b2_all.deb did not exist, after artifact_build_from_sources(). ] [ ] 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 …

meson64-edge (6.2.y): rebase & update .config to 6.2.16 (EOL); pick chewitt (add t95z+fixes); rework SPI-NOR dtbs 6.2.16 is EOL, so lets rebase one final time. Pick some strategic patches from chewitt; fixes for ODROID C2 USB, Kernel Panic on VIM3, SDIO for gxl/gxm Remove old builddeb patch that did nothing useful after armbian-next Rework the -spinor extra DTBs, for all meson64's that have SPI flash meson64-edge (6.2.y): drop old/unused/pre-armbian-next builddeb patch that was leftover meson64-edge (6.2.y): pick & squash from chewitt's tree; new t95z board and its tm1628 driver, fixes for odroidc2, vim3, gxl/gxm SDIO meson64-edge (6.2.y): reword the -spi extr…

prepare-host: check_host_has_enough_disk_space(): don't check if dir does not exist; fixes #5246 prepare-host: check_host_has_enough_disk_space(): don't check if dir does not exist; fixes #5246 View the full article

Description Add script to generate CODEOWNERS How Has This Been Tested? [X] Run and check CODEOWNERS 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 [X] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

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 Update odroidxu4-current kernel to 5.4.253. 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

wsl2: arm64: current: DRM/FB stuff so wsl2-arm64 can be used in HyperV with video & keyboard wsl2: arm64: current: DRM/FB stuff so wsl2-arm64 can be used in HyperV with video & keyboard wsl2: arm64: current: EFI pstore / keyboard View the full article

Description We are using out-dated hdmi patches and now mainline has hdmi phy merged. HDMI bridge driver is WIP by collabora but I can get it work on rock5b. Comparing deleted 0032 patch and new 0040 patch for rock5b, we can see devicetree is a llitle different from the old one, for example, we don't need node hdmi-con and hdmi0_out. We have to rewrite all these boards with hdmi support referring to rock5b: [ ] hinlink h88k [ ] rock 5a [x] rock 5b [ ] nanopi r6s/r6c [ ] khadas edge2 [ ] orange pi 5/5b [ ] orange pi 5 plus 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 configur…

As part of our commitment to social responsibility, we've been part of the 1% for the Planet Network since 2022. The environmental partners we support help to better the planet. View the full article

Description The tinker-edge-r GPU is not working because the device tree is not parsed correctly by the Linux source. I fixed it How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] Test A [ ] Test B Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Expanding Your Smart Home Horizons In the ever-evolving landscape of smart home technology, Home Assistant (HA) has emerged as a powerful open-source platform, enabling users to seamlessly connect and automate their smart home devices—from TVs and fans to cameras, thermostats, lights, and sensors. Home Assistant’s unified web-based user interface offers a user-friendly experience, allowing both beginners and tech-savvy users to build intricate automations that bring their smart homes to life. Traditionally, Home Assistant’s Operating System (HAOS) is optimized for popular mainstream hardware such as the Raspberry Pi and x86 platforms. However, one of the key limitations …

Having multiple developers work on pre-merge testing distributes the process and ensures that every contribution is rigorously tested before merging. View the full article

Less than a day away, May 18th looks to be a very busy time. With Live Embedded Event and Embedded Vision Summit taking place almost simultaneously, Collabora will be presenting four different talks! View the full article

Earlier this month, Olivier Crête, Nicolas Dufresne, George Kiagiadakis & I attended the GStreamer Spring Hackfest in Lund, Sweden. Hosted by Axis, it was a great opportunity for the GStreamer community to touch base and work on open bugs and pet projects. View the full article

SB Components’ EncroPi is a USB key based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller that can be used to log data, encrypt data, or as a secure key, and it also features a DS3231 real-time clock with a backup battery to store the data and time. The USB key also comes with a small 1.14-inch color display to display information such as time and date, and should be programmable like the Raspberry Pi Pico with MicroPython or C/C++. All photo shows a USB Type-A port, but based on user feedback the company will also make a USB Type-C version. EncroPi specifications: MCU – Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core Cortex-M0+ microcontroller @ 133 MHz with 264KB SRAM Storage – QSPI flash, Mi…

Description update and adapt the armbian patches to v5.19.2 Checklist: [x] Test build sunxi64 [x] Test build sunxi View the full article

Description Cleaning. View the full article

Raspberry Pi Trading released a new version of Raspberry Pi OS last week with the highlight being the Picamera2 Python library for Raspberry Pi cameras, along with small changes such as the ability to search menu items, a new audio input control, The new Picamera2 library was first announced in mid February 2022 with a preview release, and it’s the first time the Python library is included by default in Raspberry Pi OS. It is now based on the libcamera open-source framework instead of the proprietary and closed camera APIs from Broadcom found in the original Picamera library. Some of the key features of the Picamera2 library include: The preview windows use OpenGL acceler…

Description Reenable test builds for JetHub H1/D1/D1+ devices Jira reference number [AR-9999] View the full article

Ukama is an open-source hardware solution enabling users to create their own private 4G LTE cellular data networking with a range of up to 1km, and compatible with the “Citizens Broadband Radio Service” (CBRS) radio band for private networks. The company provides both indoor and outdoor hardware based on a “TRX Module” powered by a Marvell Fusion CNF7130 4G LTE baseband processor, as well as the firmware and software to manage the network. All you need is a power source, for example, the mains or a solar panel, and an optional broadband connection if you do need to connect to the Internet. Ukama hardware Two nodes are offered with the Ukama Home Node (indoor) and the Towe…

Description Change to supported action component. Jira reference number AR-1388 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Generate 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

TwoTrees TS2 is a laser engraver with a 10W laser, and the company sent us a sample for review. I usually let Karl review this type of hardware as he’s done previously with the Ortur Laser Master 2 Pro laser engraver, but he happens to be busy with another 10W laser engraver from a different company, so I decided to try it out myself this time around. I’ll write a two-part review, with the first part checking out the specifications, unboxing the package, and reporting my experience assembling my very first laser engraver, before engraving and cutting various materials in the second part of the review. TwooTrees TS2 laser engraver specifications Basic TS2 specifications pr…

Description RK3328 dmc driver was added a few kernels ago, it is broken with 6.1 causing kernel panic and failure to boot. Remove driver, disable boards that still depend on it but can't be tested. Patches need rebased for nanopi r2 (all) rk3328-roc-pc nanopi neo3 orangepi R1 How Has This Been Tested? [X] Build passes [X] Renegade boots successfully Checklist: [X] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [X] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [X] My changes generate no new warnings [X] Any dependent changes have be…

Synaptics SYN4382 is a triple combo SoC with Wi-Fi 5/6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and IEEE 802.15.4 (Zigbee/Thread/Matter) radios, and manufactured with a 16nm process to lower power consumption for IoT and multimedia applications. The chip can deliver up to 1,200 Mbps WiFi throughput, supports dual-band (RSDB) 2.4 and 5 or 6/6E GHz operation to combine the links at different frequencies, as well as features such as LE Audio for multiple concurrent audio streams in a multi-device environment. Synaptics SYN4382 key features: Wireless Triband 2×2 Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) with 1200 Mbps throughput, RSDB, and support for legacy 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi Bluetooth 5.3 with LE Audio, Channel Sou…

Cool Pi CM5 is a system-on-module based on Rockchip RK3588 or RK3588J (industrial temperature range) octa-core Arm Cortex-A76/A55 processor with up to 32GB RAM, 256GB eMMC flash, offered with a development board with dual GbE, two 8K HDMI 2.1 ports, a PCIe 3.0 x2 slot, M.2 NVMe and SATA storage, and more… At the end of last year, we wrote about the Cool Pi 4 as a much faster alternative to Raspberry Pi 4 SBC, and the company has now launched a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and Radxa CM5 alternative with the Cool Pi CM5 MXM 3.0 system-on-module that they offer along with a feature-rich evaluation board (EVB). Cool Pi CM5 EVB specifications: System-on-Module SoC – Rockchip …

Description Remove postinst manipulation as its not needed. SKEL is copied at user creation, psd goes up at first run if its there. Also fix executing bit at armbian-firstlogin script Jira reference number AR-1706 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Image with removed get psd up and skel is also copyed View the full article

distro-agnostic: don't assume armbian.list exists when seding for beta distro-agnostic: don't assume armbian.list exists when seding for beta View the full article

Description Bump 32-bit kernel to 6.3.8. I didn't bumped it for 64-bit sunxi devices as drv-rgb-add-ws2812.patch introduced in #5267 makes use of of_get_named_gpio_flags function which is removed in 6.3. As I don't have a Bigtreetech cb1, I am not comfortable modifying code to fix this patch. The kernel module added by drv-rgb-add-ws2812.patch is not enabled for 32-bit devices and hence it doesn't cause compilation issues on 32-bit sunxi kernel. Excluding drv-rgb-add-ws2812.patch, I have updated any patch that was broken, and have disabled patches where changes were present upstream. Also disabled same rockchip related patches that I disabled in #5326 How Has This Been …

Description meson: edge: Bump to v6.4 How Has This Been Tested? [X] Build [X] Burn and test Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [X] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] 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

mixtile-blade3: bump uboot, rebase uboot patches, add mac-from-serial# patch; enable OTP in defconfig; restore attribution for one patch mixtile-blade3: bump uboot, rebase uboot patches, add mac-from-serial# patch; enable OTP in defconfig; restore attribution for one patch this sets serial#-based MAC address in uboot env and Rockchip Vendor Partition, but that is not picked up by the default kernel driver yet View the full article

Description Add support for onboard eeprom in JetHub D1+ devices. Jira reference number AR-1907 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] current/edge build [ ] 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 published in downstream modules View the full articl…

As 2023 draws to a close, I wanted to give a quick update on NVK, what's happened this year, and where we'll be headed in 2024. While previous posts have focused primarily on the technical details, this post will be more geared towards users. View the full article

This fixes an incompatibility introduced with new Armbian framework's change from uImage to Image Changes to be committed: modified: packages/bsp/aml-s9xx-box/boot/build-u-boot/readme.txt new file: packages/bsp/aml-s9xx-box/boot/build-u-boot/u-boot-s905x2-s922.patch modified: packages/bsp/aml-s9xx-box/boot/u-boot-s905x2-s922 Description Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. Please also include relevant motivation and context. List any dependencies that are required for this change. How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. …

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

Description Fix/rewrite-kernel-config two kernel configs (mvebu64-current and sun50iw9-btt-legacy) to adapt them to the latest wireless driver updates in drivers_network.sh. Without doing a rewrite-kernel-config refresh, their kernel builds might potentially fail due to misconfigured wireless driver modules. Checklist: [x] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

GStreamer 1.24 was recently released, and with it came with a new plugin to help separate pipelines into different processes. View the full article

Description Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. Please also include relevant motivation and context. List any dependencies that are required for this change. Jira reference number [AR-9999] Documentation summary for feature / change Please delete this section if entry to main documentation is not needed. If documentation entry is predicted, please provide key elements for further implementation into main documentation and set label to "Needs Documentation". You are welcome to open a PR to documentation or you can leave following information for technical writer: [ ] short description (copy / paste of PR title) [ ] summary (description rel…

Description Firefly-RK3399: move to rockchip64 family The legacy kernel of firefly-rk3399 seems to be unable to work properly, so it will be removed. AR-2310 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

With each board running a mainline-first Linux software stack and tested in a CI loop with the LAVA test framework, the Farm showcased Collabora's recent hardware enablement and Continuous integration (CI) efforts. View the full article

Description We do not build dtbs with dot in filename because the current re match rule will ignore them. This fixes https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/7187 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-dtb BOARD=orangepi3b BRANCH=vendor DEB_COMPRESS=xz KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no KERNEL_GIT=shallow with kernel https://github.com/dust-7/linux-rockchip/tree/opi3b-v2, rk3566-orangepi-3b-v1.1.dtb and rk3566-orangepi-3b-v1.1.dtb are built. Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [x] My code follows the style guidelines of thi…

Over the last two years, Bluetooth® audio support has steadily grown in PipeWire and has become a featureful, stable, conformant, open source Bluetooth® audio stack implementation. Here's a look at where things stand. View the full article

A few months ago, Robert Foss wrote a blog post about virtualizing GPU Access. Here's a look at some of the major improvements that have landed upstream since then, including QEMU using OpenGL ES acceleration, as well as our plans for the future. View the full article

Alder Lake processors were first formally announced at the end of 2021 with the most powerful H-Series, followed by a range of Alder Lake Edge IoT processors, and in February, Intel officially launched Alder Lake P-Series and U-Series mobile hybrid processors which I had expected to find in several mini PCs by now. But apart from ASRock iBOX 1200 Series announcement, and leaks of the NUC 12 Studio Pro, I had not really seen any. But today, I found what looks like a mini PC with the Polywell Nano-U12P, but it’s instead marketed as an 8K digital signage player with a choice of Alder Lake P-series and U-series processors. Nano-U12P specifications: SoC (one of the other) Inte…

Description This PR address the following issue while build as NFS: [ .... ] Copying files to [ /boot ] sent 18.23M bytes received 4.74K bytes 36.46M bytes/sec total size is 18.21M speedup is 1.00 find: ‘/root/armbian-onecloud/.tmp/mount-ea6d8ff5-ed2a-4888-8361-6ae990318e95/lib/modules/’: No such file or directory [ error ] ERROR in function update_initramfs [ main.sh:588 -> main.sh:549 -> debootstrap.sh:98 -> debootstrap.sh:863 -> debootstrap.sh:789 -> general.sh:0 ] [ error ] No kernel installed for the version [ 5.17.11 ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated [ error ] unmount_on_exit() called! [ main.sh:1 -> image-helpers.sh:0 ] [ o.k. ] Unmounting [ /ro…