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From KernelCI's new home, the latest on Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan), OpenXR & Monado, PipeWire in the automotive industry, JPEG2000, and GStreamer on the Magic Leap One, Collaborans gave talks in 6 different devrooms, as well on the main track. View the full article

Update maintainers and board status synced status from the database rename to .csc where we don't have anyone If you want to become a board maintainer, adjust data here. Ref: Board Maintainers Procedures and Guidelines Contribute View the full article

kernel-headers: don't try to build objtool if not amd64 target (for real this time) I severely messed up last night, copied instead of moving, into an if block. Delete so it's a move now. View the full article

Description This reverts commit 99313504830558bf7524a92899939887f9ed8f56. After this images compilation stop working under Docker / Github Actions. ORAS is looking for cache in the repository where we are running it from and ignoring definitions in lib/functions/artifacts/artifact-kernel.sh Wrong: Error: ghcr.io/armbian/os/kernel-rk3568-odroid-edge:23.05.0-trunk--6.2.7-Safe5-D2a58-P0000-Cc2daHfe66-Bc6dc: not found Correct: Error: ghcr.io/armbian/cache-kernel/kernel-rk3568-odroid-edge:23.05.0-trunk--6.2.7-Safe5-D2a58-P0000-Cc2daHfe66-Bc6dc: not found Closing https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/4959 Jira reference number AR-1617 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Run …

display-alert: strip newlines as well as ANSI colors if ANSI_COLOR=none display-alert: strip newlines as well as ANSI colors if ANSI_COLOR=none ANSI_COLOR=none is used when we're driving compile.sh from Python some debugging messages had newlines in them, thus making Python mark those as [LEAKED] View the full article

Description I want to rebuild Bpi M5 with current kernel (now they are EDGE only). Jira reference number [AR-9999] How Has This Been Tested? [x] Boot Odroid N2+ 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

Our recent efforts on the Hantro kernel driver have resulted in the addition of H.264 decoding support and multiple performance improvements. We are now introducing High Efficiency Video Coding, also known as H.265, decoding support on NXP's i.MX8 M. View the full article

This week's work centers on board portfolio expansion, kernel and U-Boot version bumps, and CI and infrastructure hardening across the build and documentation pipelines. Board support saw notable growth with the introduction of the SpacemiT K3 Pico-ITX and Luckfox Nova (RK3308B), alongside a new generic uefi-arm64-dt family and board intended to standardize UEFI device-tree targets. Qualcomm enablement advanced through Radxa Dragon Q6A and Q8B work, including UFS provisioning for Kodiak, EDL-based UFS flashing in the imager, and audioreach topology firmware for sc8280xp. Catalog assets were extended for the MaaXBoard 8ULP, Mellow Fly C5, Xiaomi Sheng, and the new Radxa an…

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…

Collabora's contributions include ongoing upstreaming of the RockChip RK3588 and MediaTek Helio X10 (MT6795) SoCs, numerous bug fixes and improvements for Cedrus and Hantro IPs, and memory shrinker support for the VirtIO-GPU driver. View the full article

Description When having a more complex setup, we might need to look route to get a primary device. Jira reference number AR-1450 https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4610 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Manual run Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

multiple boards: fixes for board file syntax / missing vars (fixing JSON matrix prepare) multiple boards: fixes for board file syntax / missing vars (fixing JSON matrix prepare) BOARD_MAINTAINER must exist Every board file needs some variables defined, since they're parsed directly (and sources/includes are not resolved) View the full article

wireguard can be built successful on rk3566/rk3568/rk3588 socs. so we can remove these configurations. tested built orangepi5-plus and rock-3a. tested module load on orangepi5-plus. View the full article

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Description As per subject, rockchip 32 bit works well enough on 6.1 to move current kernel there Jira reference number AR-1518 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Tested on a live system Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

For rockchip64 all applicable versions (patch is identical for all from 5.15 to 6.1). No code changes. Prevents patching errors in armbian-next. Jira reference number AR-1494 [x] Builds without errors on master [x] Builds without errors on armbian-next Checklist: [x] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

u-boot espressobin v23.01: fix defconfig patch so it applies u-boot espressobin v23.01: fix defconfig patch so it applies View the full article

Description I notice that the first commit of armbian-next contains too many things (armbian-next: huge refactor, shellfmt, codesplit, logging/error handling). It's really hard to find out what changes we do, because we both split /lib/*.sh and change the code in one commit. It will loss the association between master and armbian-next. This PR is just split /lib/*.sh without changing any codes (except the first commit and the remove of source in /lib/main.sh). So users can find out where the codes come and then following the original commit log. If we want to merge armbian-next, this PR can make us more easily to find out the differentiation and review. If we don't mer…

base-files / apt-utils: stop trying non "-updates" repos when looking for Ubuntu LTS release package base-files / apt-utils: stop trying non "-updates" repos when looking for Ubuntu LTS release package otherwise, when the lookup at "jammy-updates" fails (due to server instability), and "jammy" works, we end up with the wrong version non-LTS releases don't have the "-updates" repo, so don't even try, which should make everything faster TODO: yet-another opportunity to have a release metadata file, otherwise this is yet-another place where we list "jammy" View the full article

Earlier this year, from January to April 2021, I worked on adding support for stateless decoders for GStreamer as part of a multimedia internship at Collabora. Here's a recap of this completed work. View the full article

the old way caused the compilation to abort with a syntax error. idk why, but it did, this is how I got it to work. Jira reference number [AR-9999] How Has This Been Tested? with these changes it now compiles without syntax error using ubuntu jammy LTS as recommended by docs View the full article

In the first part of my review of Collabora's participation in GStreamer 1.10, I discussed the work done by Guillaume & Nicolas around leak tracing, acoustic echo cancellation, Wayland, V4L, etc. Today, I'll go over the contributions from the rest of our multimedia team. View the full article

With Rust gaining traction among the GStreamer community as an alternative to C to write applications and plugins, we began wondering, could the size of such Rust plugins be a problem for embedded systems? View the full article

Description How Has This Been Tested? Setting a version to pinning file and reinstalling / upgrading packages. 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 downstream modules View the full article

Work in progress, submitted for brainstorm and coordination prior to merge request and stuff Peer-reviews appreciated just don't treat it as ready to merge thing, most of the stuff are my tags to figure out :p View the full article

uefi: bump kernel to 6.1.y; remove dangling symlinks View the full article

Embedded devices are a popular deployment target for GStreamer yet they are not tested on the project's Continuous Integration (CI) system. Here's a look at work done to introduce a Raspberry Pi for automated on-board testing using Jenkins, LAVA & more. View the full article

Description With particular artifacts build, build runtimes become short. So I'd like to log the runtime in minutes with seconds. Test result: [x] Run e.g.: ./compile.sh u-boot BOARD=cubietruck BRANCH=current RELEASE=focal BUILD_MINIMAL=yes BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=sha,gpg,7z SYNC_CLOCK=no CREATE_PATCHES=no Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code View the full article

With the excellent (online) edition of Augmented World Expo 2020 in full swing this week, what better time to announce version 0.2 of the Monado OpenXR runtime for Linux. It's been a very busy three months since the last Monado developer update! View the full article

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

Description Make it possible to toggle EXTRAWIFI as a way to disable all extra network patches. For patches for one or more chipsets, user can use KERNEL_DRIVERS_SKIP 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 with EXTRAWIFI=no and EXTRAWIFI=yes, checked that patches gets skipped when EXTRAWIFI=no is set to no and gets applied by default or when EXTRAWIFI=yes Checklist: [X] 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 […

Description As per description. Maintainer on vacations / legacy kernel. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test Checklist: [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

meson64/rockchip64 current/edge: enable CONFIG_NVME_HWMON=y for NVMe temperature monitoring linux-rockchip64-current.config / linux-rockchip64-edge.config: update config, no changes linux-rockchip64-current.config / linux-rockchip64-edge.config: enable CONFIG_NVME_HWMON=y for NVMe temperature monitoring linux-meson64-current.config / linux-meson64-edge.config: update config, no changes linux-meson64-current.config / linux-meson64-edge.config: enable CONFIG_NVME_HWMON=y for NVMe temperature monitoring View the full article

AAEON BOXER-8224AI is a thin and lightweight AI edge embedded system solution based on NVIDIA Jetson Nano system-on-module and designed for drones, or other space-constrained applications such as robotics. AAEON BOXER products are usually Embedded Box PCs with an enclosure, but the BOXER-8224AI is quite different as it’s a compact and 22mm thin board with MIPI CSI interfaces designed to add computer vision capability to unmanned areal vehicles (UAV), as well as several wafers for dual GbE, USB, and other I/Os. BOXER-8224AI specifications: AI Accelerator – NVIDIA Jetson Nano CPU – Arm Cortex-A57 quad-core processor System Memory – 4GB LPDDR4 Storage Device – 16GB eMMC 5.1 …

Description This will prevent running into "No space left on device" pretty soon. How Has This Been Tested? Just config value 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

meson64: 6.1.y/edge: BananaPi M5: use 270 clock phase via amlogic,mmc-phase Original overlay /dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { compatible = "amlogic,g12a", "amlogic,g12b", "amlogic,sm1"; fragment@0 { target-path = "/soc/mmc@ffe07000"; overlay { amlogic,mmc-phase = <0x03 0x00 0x00>; }; }; }; I think there is a JIRA for this but can't find it. Long discussion on this with @chbgdn on Discord. See https://discord.com/channels/854735915313659944/858684386806595584/1061788329793822841 Upstream novella https://lore.kernel.org/linux-amlogic/1j7czj2s8r.fsf@starbuckisacylon.baylibre.com/ Image for testing: https://github.com/rpardin…

Description On DIFF between PR and master. This should hopefully help finding out mistakes we do in scripting. After brief testing, this will become mandatory to deal with. When we change a script, we need to deal with ShellCheck problems. Jira reference number AR-1399 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Running snippet by hand 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 dow…

ADLINK has launched an IP-i IoT Prototype Kit based on their Express-ADP COM Express Type 6 Basic “Alder Lake-H” module with either an Intel Core i5-12600H 12-core (4P+8E) processor clocked at up to 4.5 GHz or a Core i3-12300H 8-core (4P+4E) processor reaching up to 4.3 GHz. The kit also includes the Express-BASE6 R3.1 carrier board, a thick heatsink with an active fan, a debug board (DB30 x86), and various cables for SATA storage, a DB9 COM port, and I/Os, and the kit can be used to develop applications for industrial automation and control, medical ultrasound, image processing and analysis, high-speed video encoding and streaming, predictive traffic analysis, multi came…

Description I have changed label for pull request that is more telling what it means. This action depends on label change, so we need to adjust it. How Has This Been Tested? None. Parameter name change 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

Description meson bump current to v6.1 edge to v6.2 How Has This Been Tested? [X] Build and run current [X] Build and run edge 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

In the first part we covered the main concepts behind Explicit Synchronization for the Linux Kernel. Now in the second part of the series we are going to look to the Android Sync Framework, the first (out-of-tree) Explicit Fencing implementation for the Linux Kernel. View the full article

I’ve been fortunate enough lately to attend the largest virtual reality professional event/conference : SVVR. This virtual reality conference’s been held each year in the Silicon Valley for 3 years now. This year, it showcased more than 100 VR companies on the exhibit floor and welcomed more than 1400 VR professionals and enthusiasts from all around the world. View the full article

At Collabora, our multimedia team is always looking to improve QA tools in GStreamer. This week, we're introducing a new QA tool: a GStreamer tracer to track leaked objects. View the full article

Description Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. Please also include relevant motivation and context. List any dependencies that are required for this change. Jira reference number [AR-9999] How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [ ] Test A [ ] Test B Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no ne…

Make the two Y/n questions that firstlogin asks behave consistently with each other, and more in line with user expectation: Reject anything that is not Y, y, N, n or . Previously the "Connect via wireless? [Y/n]" question would interpret Y, y and as "yes", and everything else as "no", whereas the "Set user language based on your location? [Y/n]" question would loop until the user selected Y, y, N or n. Make pressing enter equivalent to the default "Y", since that is the capitalized option. Echo back what the user typed. View the full article

Description This reverts commit f952ae89fb2c5e58e566860c74b46e127186f1c2. Breaks artefacts creation. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Tested without View the full article

Description CSC target, not tested on hardware View the full article

Since the last Debian release, a number of changes have been made in the Debian Cloud Team, both on the technical & organisational level within the community. Here's a look at what's in store for Buster! View the full article

Description Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. Please also include relevant motivation and context. List any dependencies that are required for this change. Jira reference number [AR-9999] How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [ ] Test A [ ] Test B Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no ne…

Over the past few weeks, I have been working for Collabora on plumbing DRM format modifier support across a number of components in the graphics stack. This post documents the work and the related consequences/implications. View the full article

Description Deleted merged patches in kernel v6.8-rc1 and fix other patch errors. Add a new patch 0033-tools-Makefile-delete-missing-cgroup_clean.patch to fix make clean error in tools. 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 with command ./compile.sh kernel BOARD=rock-5b BRANCH=edge DEB_COMPRESS=xz KERNEL_GIT=shallow [x] Boot on rock5b fine Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made …

Description Simple change to h616 OrangepiZero2 LED's functioning. Resembles Legacy kernel behavior, symbolically signifies more active development OrangepiZero2 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Test A compiled and booted with expected result [ ] Test B Checklist: [x] 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 [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description We use mkbootimg in rootfs which is installed only for jammy before. It's better to use mkbootimg from build host because this is a python script and may not run if build host and target rootfs are not the same release. This commit only make build for debian pass, but debian images won't work because of lacking packages. 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 build BOARD=xiaomi-elish BRANCH=sm8250 BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes DEB_COMPRESS=xz EXPERT=yes GITHUB_MIRROR=ghproxy KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no KERNEL_GIT=shallow MAINLIN…

Description Those are just small left over fixes for AR-1444 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Manual repo generation Checklist: [ ] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

Description https://github.com/badges/shields/issues/8671 Jira reference number AR-1437 View the full article

Description Found we had cvbs support for allwinner H3 for current kernel. It had bits to make it working for H5 as well with only thing missing was the overlay to enable the it. Hence added the overlay for H5. Also as the patch was missing in edge kernel, added 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] Created a server image for OrangePi Prime and attached a CVBS/AV display to it. The console was also shown on the AV monitor. Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own cod…

Collabora and MediaTek are advancing upstream Linux support for the latest Genio IoT boards and Chromebook Plus laptops, enabling full hardware functionality, improved security, and broader access to the open source community. View the full article

Collabora is proud to once again be a Gold Sponsor of this year's DebConf, the annual Debian conference for developers! This year's week-long conference takes place from August 6 to 12 at Collège de Maisonneuve in beautiful Montréal, where one of our two offices is located! View the full article

mixtile-blade3: bump rk3588 blobs: DDR to 1.11 and BL31 to 1.38 mixtile-blade3: bump rk3588 blobs: DDR to 1.11 and BL31 to 1.38 tested on actual board, works perfectly View the full article

thinkpad-x13s: firmware PR has landed, remove usage of rogue fw fork thinkpad-x13s: firmware PR has landed, remove usage of rogue fw fork View the full article

Linux Kernel 4.9 was released this week and once more Collabora developers took part on the kernel development cycle. This time we contributed 36 patches by 11 different developers, our highest number of single contributors in a kernel release ever. Remember that in the previous release we had our highest number total contributions. View the full article

In the previous post, I gave an overview of the Open Build Service software architecture. In this second part, a tutorial on setting up a package build with OBS from Debian packages is presented. View the full article

Coding hss begun for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects, announced earlier last month. The 2020 edition selected 1,199 students from 66 countries, to work with 199 mentoring organizations over the course of the summer. View the full article

Description Maint. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test Checklist: [x] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

correction of bpir2pro frequency control and changing the composition of images View the full article

Description The size labeler is failing on PRs. Adding permissions to fix the same. 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 6.1.75. 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 For populating repository we need to obtain all artefacts that are in OCI_TARGET_BASE How Has This Been Tested? [x] Test run in development 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

Description Closing https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/4197 View the full article

Description Update meson64 edge kernel branch to linux-6.2.y Jira reference number AR-1551 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 new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

docker (launcher): small fixes docker (launcher): fix un-needed grep escape \: (fixes "grep: warning: stray \ before :" on recent coreutils) docker (launcher): fix DOCKER_PASS_GIT=yes to actually work it still sucks (very slow) but is a way to get ${SRC}/.git in Docker if needed eg for patching archeology View the full article

Description Bump crust to v0.6. Doesn't change anything for us other than version shown on serial console and dmesg log as the commits that went in from what we were using only includes 2 defconfig changes and some changes in readme file. 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 crust builds and works as expected on Nanopiduo2 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 correspond…

Description Any mounted directory should not be copied but also mounted on the new boot device when booting. Jira reference number AR-2043 Closing https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/6242 How Has This Been Tested? Need testing ! [ ] Fresh install to eMMC media [ ] Install to eMMC with configured zfs device Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

With virtme, you can run a custom built kernel on top of our running root filesystem. In this post, we explore another example of virtme in action, and see how to test Video4Linux2 drivers on bleeding edge GStreamer builds. View the full article

RFC: DO NOT MERGE: patching: rewrite: try to stabilize patch index stanzas as well as From lines RFC: DO NOT MERGE: patching: rewrite: try to stabilize patch index stanzas as well as From lines git format-patch --zero-commit doesn't affect index xxx...yyy lines, only From: so use the classy "use a regex with a callback" solution as git format-patch doesn't offer one this will make all patches change when rewritten, but hopefully for the last time ! not sure what other impacts this might have though - git am might not work any more? we need to preserve index 000000000000..xxx as zeros, which indicate new file creation, thus: new file creations are rewritten as index…

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kernel-debs: headers: hack/fix for 6.5-rc1's "tools/counter: Makefile: Remove lingering 'include' directories on make clean" kernel-debs: headers: hack/fix for 6.5-rc1's "tools/counter: Makefile: Remove lingering 'include' directories on make clean" introduced at https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/228354ed692faa08f40f2630658c0771f77da457 simply creating the dir solves it reported to author, let's hope for an -rc2 fix. better logging when DEBUG=yes (don't pass "-s"(ilent) to make clean) View the full article

Description Switch to correct image targets before release. Jira reference number AR-1538 View the full article

Description We probably don't want to bother people with upstream release upgrades as they are outside our power. How Has This Been Tested? Not tested yet. Configuration change. 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 [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description linux-rk3399-legacy.conf is unused. Remove it. How Has This Been Tested? No references to file found in build system, only to linux-rockchip64-legacy.conf, which is for the same 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-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

This commit is cosmetic. Beyond the name changes and formatting, nothing should be different. 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

Why is creating object graphs hard in Rust? In part 1, we looked at a basic pattern, where two types of objects refer to one another. In this part we'll follow up in more detail and examine the different approaches that can be applied. View the full article

Description Update odroidxu4-current kernel to 5.4.242 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

Two months ago we announced a first proposal for a Wayland driver for Wine, the compatibility layer for Windows applications. Here's an update on this effort, which contains more details and instructions for building and running the Wayland driver. View the full article

Twitter counter is broken so remove it until fixed be more precise in terms of 64 bit View the full article

Description Stop unnecessary log flooding. Jira reference number AR-1340 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build image View the full article

Despite the many obstacles brought on by the pandemic, Collabora continues to build and strengthen its engineering and administration teams for the road ahead. Join us in welcoming Angelica, Raghavendra, Doug, Italo and Theodotos! View the full article

Electronic components have shrunk a lot over the year, but batteries are usually one of the larger items in a design. ITEN changes that with solid state lithium-ion micro-batteries in the shape of SMD components with up to 100 µAh capacity. This is clearly not going to power your next smartphone, but ITEM micro-batteries could be found in ultra-low-power sensors potentially replacing non-rechargeable coin cell batteries with much higher capacities (e,g. 100 mAh). ITEN says their solid-state micro-batteries are superior to coin cell batteries because those are polluting, difficult to assemble on PCB, costly to recycle and require periodic maintenance once a battery is de…

Description Quick fix to hdmi patch due to mainlined hunks. How Has This Been Tested? [x] New fixed patch apply on 6.8.9 edge kernel [x] Compiled rockchip drm code on the fly to check it works Did not check the real functionality, but I hope I did not break anything, the patch is minimal... 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 View the full article

Description Looks like a solution for this. Jira reference number AR-1650 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Build an image, setup and RDP to it 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

mekotronics: refactor vendor conf/hooks; vendor uboot with new patches; new blobs mekotronics: refactor vendor conf/hooks; vendor uboot with new patches; new blobs meko: don't use Radxa's Rock-5A u-boot anymore, switch to rockchip vendor next-dev branch meko: my own (horrible) patches for MAC address stability / defconfig meko: cherry picked a few patches for getting rid of BL32/read Bl31 from env and other fixes from Radxa meko: add OTP node to 3588 dtsi (so we don't need kern-dtb in ITS for working OTP) meko: refactor common code across 3 (soon to be 4) board files into vendor conf and hooks meko: bump DDR/BL31 blobs for all Meko boards View the full article

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

Description In the tittle. How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Build test View the full article

Description merge and remove special kernel config drop rk3568-odroid kernel family port DT from mainline 6.6 to rockchip64-current with a single patch No other changes, board is staging, probably will go to community maintained, should be safe to merge. Jira reference number AR-1737 How Has This Been Tested? [x] build and boot current 6.1 image [x] build and boot current 6.6 image 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 Jira reference number AR-2385 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Tested on forums, officially released images will be tested before relese Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project View the full article

Description Add bluetooth support for Khadas VIM1S and VIM4. Jira reference number AR-1917 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 scanning for nearby bluetooth devices works on VIM1S [X] Tested scanning for nearby bluetooth devices works on VIM4 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 depe…

Fix: dtb dtbo install, wrong select media sensors Disable incorrectly designed patches. They need to be aligned with the kernel code. How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] Test build sunxi [ ] Test build sunxi64 View the full article

lib: drop old boot_logo code; keep png/gif as they're used for plymouth lib: drop old boot_logo code; keep png/gif as they're used for plymouth origins of what's being dropped: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/2065 View the full article

Description Update odroidxu4-current kernel to 5.4.252. 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 Another small adjustment / optimisation of board configs and statuses similar to https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6569 How Has This Been Tested? Status changes. Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project View the full article