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Join us at the NürnbergMesse in Nuremberg, Germany, as we take part in Embedded World 2025, one of the largest trade fairs of its kind, and a global platform for the embedded community! View the full article

ZeroWire Robotics Q8botOne is an open-source, palm-sized quadruped robot built around an ESP32-C3 MCU and ROBOTIS DYNAMIXEL smart actuators. Designed with a unique wire-free architecture, the robot integrates all components onto a central printed circuit board also used as the structural chassis. The robot is roughly the size of a smartphone and can jog, jump, and carry up to twice its 250-gram weight. The main PCB uses a dedicated 6V/16A step-down converter for motor power and includes a battery management system for two 14500 Li-ion cells. For control, the kit includes a separate ESP32-C3 controller PCB with an Adafruit Mini I2C Gamepad. Q8botOne specifications: Wireles…

A step-by-step guide on how to enable 3D acceleration of Vulkan applications in QEMU through the new Venus experimental Vulkan driver for VirtIO-GPU with a local development environment. View the full article

We recently assisted a customer who wanted to upgrade their system from X11 to Wayland. The problem: they use CEF as a runtime for web applications and CEF was not Wayland-ready. View the full article

Description Prepare for support JetHub D1p device. This is first step. uboot 2022.07-rc5 (only jethome devices) update uboot jethome patches some updates for kernel patchset all changes only for jethub devices. Jira reference number AR-1232 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 builds ok [X] no kernel patch error added 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 cha…

Description RTL882XCE wireless card need rtw88 driver, just enable 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] Kernel build success [x] My RTL8822CE works well. 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

Nicolai Electronics’ rp2040-ic2-interface open-source firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico (or other Raspberry Pi RP2040 boards) converts the board into an I2C to USB bridge to connect any I2C sensor or module to a PC or other hardware without GPIOs. The firmware implements the USB protocol expected by the I2C-Tiny-USB kernel driver used by the original I2C-Tiny-USB project for Microchip ATMega 8-bit AVR microcontrollers. The RP2040 is however not a fork of the original project, but instead a complete re-implementation of the firmware. You’ll need to connect your I2C sensor, display, or another module to the SDA (GPIO 2) and SCL (GPIO 3) pins of the Raspberry Pi RP2040 micr…

Description Ability to collect correct kernel headers for a version greater than or equal to 5.19. These changes in the names of kernel configuration variables currently affect only arch/x86. Checklist: [x] Test build View the full article

Achronix Semiconductor has recently announced the general availability of the Speedster7t AC7t1500 FPGA designed for networking, storage, and compute (AI/ML) acceleration applications. The 7nm Speedster7t FPGA family offers PCIe Gen5 ports and GDRR6 and DDR5/DDR4 memory interfaces, delivers up to 400 Gbps on the Ethernet ports, and includes a 2D network on chip (2D NoC) that can handle 20 Tbps of total bandwidth. Achronix Speedster7t highlights: Two-dimensional network on chip (2D NoC) enabling high bandwidth data flow throughout and between the FPGA fabric and hard I/O and memory controllers and interfaces MLP (Machine Learning Processors) blocks with arrays of multiplie…

Description When the system temporary folder is mounted as tmpfs, it makes sense to mount the temporary compiler cache folder in /tmp. This speeds up the compilation process and saves the hard disk resource. About the SSD resource, I think that it is clear to everyone. How Has This Been Tested? For my virtual machine 6 spu frequency 3.6G Compile Time before: Runtime 46:43 min Compile time after: Runtime 35:42 min Checklist: [x] Test build 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 …

congatec conga-STDA4 is a SMARC Computer-on-Module (CoM) based on Texas Instruments TDA4VM or DRA829J Jacinto 7 processor with two Cortex-A72 cores, six real-time Cortex-R5 cores for functional safety, accelerated vision and AI processing capabilities, and plenty of interfaces. The first Texas Instruments-powered CoM from the company is designed for industrial mobile machinery requiring near-field analytics, such as automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots, construction and agricultural machinery, as well as any industrial or medical solutions requiring energy-efficient computer vision at the edge. conga-STDA4 specifications: SoC – Texas Instruments Jacinto …

rootfs-to-image: find, warn, and remove dangling symlinks in FAT32 /boot otherwise rsync gags. it should not happen, but if it does, we get a nice warning now View the full article

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 Update odroidxu4-current kernel to 5.4.255. 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

prepare-host/host-release: enable noble for building; noble also doesn't have python2 anymore prepare-host/host-release: enable noble for building; noble also doesn't have python2 anymore python-tools: bump PyYAML to 6.0.1 to fix build failures on sid/trixie/noble etc View the full article

Description As mentioned here: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6810#issuecomment-2194178735 Out of date blobs can be an issue if the vendor ships boards with new blobs, as recently seen for FriendlyElec with the NanoPC T6 for example. The release docs do not mention any incompatibilities between versions for rk3528 and rk3568: https://github.com/armbian/rkbin/blob/master/patch-notes/RK3528_EN.md https://github.com/armbian/rkbin/blob/master/patch-notes/RK3568_EN.md For rk3566, only one warning is listed for rk3566_ddr_1056MHz_ultra_v1.19.bin but we're not using the ultra blob (what's the difference?): https://github.com/armbian/rkbin/blob/master/patch-notes/RK3566…

Description ROCK Pi E 1000M port is not working due to following error: rk_gmac-dwmac ff540000.ethernet end0: __stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19) Documentation summary for feature / change this patch fixes above error and make 1000M port usable. How Has This Been Tested? [x] connect 1000M port and see dmesg [x] connect 1000M port and see ip a 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 [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View th…

For the very first time, the GStreamer Conference will be taking place in North America, and we're prepped and ready with no less than 9 talks to share! Catch the latest developments and AI advancements for this multimedia framework. View the full article

Today, Khronos announced the release of the Vulkan 1.4 specification, and NVK is one of the day-zero conformant Vulkan 1.4 implementations! Vulkan 1.4 support in NVK has been merged into Mesa and will be part of the Mesa 25.0 release in early 2025. View the full article

Collabora's contributions to Git 2.54 and the upcoming 2.55 add powerful config-based hooks with better visibility, opt-in parallel hook execution, and safer submodule handling via path-collision fixes. View the full article

Efinix has introduced the Sapphire RV64 SoC, a configurable 64-bit RISC-V soft-core processor designed for its Titanium and Trion FPGAs. It is based on the VexiiRiscv core and can be configured with one to four RISC-V cores running at up to 400 MHz. The Sapphire RV64 has a seven-stage pipeline, configurable L1 caches, optional 64–512 KB L2 cache, and 4–512 KB of on-chip RAM. It supports DDR3, LPDDR4x, and HyperRAM with up to 512-bit AXI interfaces and external memory from 4 MB to 8 GB. Other features include an optional FPU, branch predictor, prefetchers, SV39 MMU, up to 32 GPIOs, five I²C, three SPI, three UARTs, timers, watchdog, and up to eight user interrupts. Efinix …

It might be smaller than the last few kernels, but with well above 10,000 non-merge changes, the latest Linux kernel release still packs a punch. Released on October 31, kernel 5.15 brings lots of exciting new features. View the full article

For a second time this year, Collabora is proud to be sponsoring the latest round (Round 15) of Outreachy internships! More specifically, Collabora has chosen to sponsor the Linux kernel projects for the December 2017 - March 2018 semester. View the full article

Benjamin VERNOUX has launched the HydraUSB3 V1 board based on WCH CH569 RISC-V MCU as a developer platform to experiment with high-speed protocols like HSPI and SerDes through a USB 3.0 interface. It’s the third board from Benjamin we feature here, after the STM32-based HydraBUS and the HydraNFC v2 shield delivering up to 1600 mW for NFC charging and connectivity. The HydraUSB3 v1 is quite different since it does not involve NFC at all, and instead leverages the CH569’s high-speed interfaces including USB 3.0 (5 Gbps), HSPI (3.8Gbps), and SerDes (>1.2Gbps). HydraUSB3 V1 specifications: MCU – WCH CH569 32-bit RISC-V (RISC-V3A) RV32IMAC MCU @ 120MHz with 16KB 32-bit SRAM…

Description The recent update of linux will cause build fail when enabling bootsplash. This isn't the best solution but is the easily one. The bestest solution may be to create patch for each version? How Has This Been Tested? No enough Test [X] 5.18 [ ] 5.15 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

Neuromorphic AI accelerator chips relying on spiking neural networks (SNN), which we’ve seen from companies such as Innatera or Brainchip, will be used more and more in the future as they provide much higher efficiency compared to traditional deep neural networks (DNN) solutions. Intel is also working on SNN, and recently announced the Loihi 2 second-generation neuromorphic research chip with up to 1 million neurons (the human brain has 86 billion of those on average) that delivers up to 175x lower energy to learn a new object instance with similar or better speed and accuracy compared to conventional methods running on a central processing unit (CPU). The new Loihi 2 neu…

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

extensions: rkdevflash: simplify usage of rkdeveloptool (on Linux) only works bare Linux, not Docker. to flash Rockchip images to eMMC either during image build or separately with flash CLI command included in https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/5055 Usage: ./compile BOARD=xxx [...] EXT=rkdevflash Will build rkdeveloptool for you, and after image is built, enters a loop waiting for device. Then either uploads rkbin loader if in Maskrom mode, or straight flashes the image if in Loader mode. Finally it reboots the device after flashing. Working with rk3588's loader with changes included in https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/5056 View the full article

HealthyPi 5 is an open-source sensor platform for biosignal acquisition based on Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller and ESP32-C3 WiFi & BLE module used to capture vitals such as electrocardiogram (ECG), respiration, photoplethysmography (PPG), oxygen saturation (SpO₂), and body-temperature data. It is a complete redesign of the HealthyPi v4 Raspberry Pi HAT with many of the same features. While the HealthyPi 5 also follows the Raspberry Pi HAT form factor and can be connected to a Raspberry Pi SBC to analyze the data, it can also be used as a standalone device with the processing handled by the RP2040 dual-core Cortex-M0+ microcontroller and connectivity through an E…

artifacts: introduce calculate_hash_for_variables() which normalizes the input; use in kernel/uboot/etc Does not look like it, but this is a bugfix -- UBOOT_TARGET_MAP might contain $SRC (due to BL31=, etc) and that is hashed into something only ever matches by accident Also fixes artifact-armbian-desktop vs appgroups/config_base differences some hashed variables might contain "${SRC}", so hashes never match, unless built in Docker - this strips away SRC from all vars and adds debugging so we can detect more later. artifact-uboot: include more variables into hash, for ATF & rk stuff artifact-armbian-desktop: - hashed vars actually contain /armbian in different…

armbian-desktop/aggregation: introduce DESKTOP_COMMON aggregation variant, where arch/config/appgroups are ignored; see #5439 (re-submitted) armbian-desktop/aggregation: introduce DESKTOP_COMMON aggregation variant, where arch/config/appgroups are ignored; see #5439 (re-submitted) this has been tested with complete/default targets and works View the full article

Description phytium_embedded: update kernel config from phytium repo. The kernel repository has patched the rtw88 driver, so set EXTRAWIFI="no". How Has This Been Tested? [x] Successfully built. [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

Description Previously, only the type "Generic Linux filesystem" was used for the root filesystem. Use the correct type "Linux root ($ARCHITECTURE)" for the root filesystem. For other little improvements, please refer to the single commits: Add some comments to improve readbility Output the partitioning options to the debug log [Add check to use legacy BIOS boot partition with GPT only, not MBR(https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/c134638fb65f7863fba81fb74819a083b975f9ed) How Has This Been Tested? [x] Boot success on nanoPi R6C with build: ./compile.sh BOARD=nanopi-r6c BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=trixie FIXE…

This week in Armbian development saw a broad range of updates spanning kernel enhancements, desktop improvements, and infrastructure refinements. Notable changes include new developer documentation for the desktop submodule, expanded GPU and multimedia support for vendor-kernel desktops, and several kernel version bumps for various platforms. The build system received fixes for filesystem resizing and improved dependency handling, while CI workflows were optimized with increased timeouts and better error handling. New hardware targets were added, including Radxa Dragon Q6A and Nio 12L, alongside updates to u-boot and kernel drivers for multiple devices. Additional improve…

DSPi is a full-featured audio DSP firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico, Pico 2, and other Raspberry Pi RP2040/RP2350 boards, which turns them into a USB sound card with an integrated DSP. It allows users to make use of essential tools like room correction, active crossovers, parametric EQ, time alignment, and more, and essentially works as a regular sound card on your computer. DSPi firmware’s capabilities: Dual-Core DSP – EQ processing is split across both cores on both RP2040 and RP2350. USB Audio Interface – Supports 16-bit and 24-bit PCM input at 44.1, 48, and 96 kHz, working on macOS, Windows, Linux, and iOS. S/PDIF Input – 24-bit PCM stereo audio at 44.1 or 48kHz. 24-…

After the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4S which we discovered in April, it appears Raspberry Pi Trading has launched another Compute Module for their industrial and commercial customers with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3E (CM3E) equipped with the same Raspberry Pi RP30A0 SiP found in Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and an 8GB eMMC flash. The new system-on-module (SoM) has not been officially announced but was discovered by Twitter user “Pi 0 in your Pocket” inside an electric vehicle (EV) charger by Wallbox. Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3E specifications (preliminary): SiP – Raspberry Pi RP3A0 with Broadcom BCM2710A1 quad-core Cortex-A53 processor @ 1.0 GHz with VideoCore IV GPU s…

Today marks a very exciting day as Fedora 35 has now been released, and with it comes WirePlumber as the default session manager for PipeWire! Under development by Collabora since 2019, WirePlumber has now entered the linux desktop space. View the full article

With less than 12 days to go before Christmas, here are 12 reasons, from 12 different people who became Collaborans this year, on why you should consider joining our team! View the full article

add wayland support to kde-plasma builds View the full article

The ModBerry 500 R1 industrial computer features a Radxa CM3 system-on-module that follows the Raspberry Pi CM4 form factor, but is powered by a Rockchip RK3566 quad-core Cortex-A55 processor instead. The ModBerry 500 CM4 DIN-rail industrial computer with a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 was launched in 2020, but the Raspberry Pi shortage got in the way, even for commercial customers, and Poland-based TECHBASE had to find an alternative to Raspberry Pi CM4 to offer shorter lead times to its customers, and so the ModBerry 500 R1 based on Radxa CM3 system-on-module was born. ModBerry 500 R1 specifications: SoM – Radxa CM3 module with Rockchip RK3566 quad-core Cortex-A55 proc…

4K HDMI to USB 3.0 dongles based on Macrosilicon MS2130 video and audio acquisition chip are starting to show up on Aliexpress for around $19 with free shipping. We first discovered the MS2130 chip in the YuzukiLOHCC PRO open-source hardware board that claims to have a bills-of-material cost of about $10. But you have to build it and source the components yourself, so it’s not for everyone. Now USB 3.0 adapters capable of recording or streaming up to 1080p60 uncompressed video from an HDMI input up to 4Kp30 are available to anyone with around $20. “Mini U3” HDMI to USB 3.0 video capture dongle specfications: Main chip – MacroSilicon/UltraSemi MS2130 USB 3.2 Gen 1 high-def…

Transfers DTB to a package shared with the kernel DEB. Solves the problem of missing DTB when using an assembly from the package repository. View the full article

Description Those patches are coming to 6.2 / 6.3, reworked patch for clock phase by @rpardini Jira reference number AR-1532 How Has This Been Tested? Armbianmonitor: https://paste.armbian.com/ahinakixad [x] Generate image and boot [x] Install to eMMC [x] Verify wireless 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

extensions: add v4l2loopback-dkms, very similar to the zfs extension Raison d'être: prove linux-headers work, at least, minimally View the full article

artifacts (all): implement DONT_BUILD_ARTIFACTS=any (so we don't need to list them all for CI image builds) View the full article

kernel / drivers-harness: use the kernel git SHA1 ($KERNEL_GIT_SHA1) instead of $KERNEL_MAJOR_MINOR for drivers cache key kernel / drivers-harness: use the kernel git SHA1 ($KERNEL_GIT_SHA1) instead of $KERNEL_MAJOR_MINOR for drivers cache key this should avoid (late) patching errors that might happen during a point release bump like 6.4.5 -> 6.4.6 cos we'd be using the wrong cached drivers patch using the SHA1 will instead (possibly) trigger the "real patching failure", during drivers-harness when building a new driver patch cache also try to cleanup old caches in the old format so we've not many leftovers -- each patch is ~150mb View the full article

Description rkr5.1 is already synced with rkr4. Tested on rock5b. 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] Rock5b kernel build success [x] Kernel works on rock5b 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 Removing sections from patch that find a way upstream. 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 documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules 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 View the full article

Last month in Nice, active media developers came together for the annual Linux Media Summit to exchange insights and tackle ongoing challenges in the media subsystem. Here’s a brief summary of the key discussions and upcoming areas of focus. View the full article

This week in Armbian development saw a broad range of updates spanning kernel enhancements, desktop improvements, and infrastructure refinements. Notable changes include new developer documentation for the desktop submodule, expanded GPU and multimedia support for vendor-kernel desktops, and several kernel version bumps for various platforms. The build system received fixes for filesystem resizing and improved dependency handling, while CI workflows were optimized with increased timeouts and better error handling. New hardware targets were added, including Radxa Dragon Q6A and Nio 12L, alongside updates to u-boot and kernel drivers for multiple devices. Additional improve…

Nuvoton has added MA35D05KH67C, MA35D05KI67C, and MA35D05KJ67C, three new LQFP128 MPUs, to the NuMicro MA35D0 series, along with the NuMaker-IoT-MA35D0-A2 (Chili Pro) evaluation board. Designed for industrial AI, smart gateways, and renewable energy systems, this heterogeneous MPU has two 64-bit Arm Cortex-A35 cores at up to 650 MHz, plus a dedicated 180 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 for real-time work. Nuvoton’s press release calls Chili Pro the “industry’s smallest Linux platform,” but the board is 45 × 45 mm, which is bigger than other boards we wrote about previously, like the VoCore2 (25.4 × 25.4 × 2.8 mm), the Milk-V Duo 256M (51 × 21 mm), NanoPi NEO (40 × 40 mm), and even the …

Description This PR adds support for kernel 5.15 and 5.17 for Orange Pi 4 LTS board. Work is mostly based upon existing Orange Pi 4 device tree and code. The LTS board differs from the ancestor because uses Spreadtrum/Unisoc uwe5622 wifi/bluetooth chip and es8316c sound codec. uwe5622 wifi patches have been brought in from allwinner family patches and enabled via kernel config modifications. Some other minor fixes have been brought in to avoid kernel warnings or trivial errors. Wifi part is working, bluetooth part is not yet ready because the kernel driver crashes and thus has been disabled. The Unisoc driver is suboptimal since it is not very compliant against kernel gu…

Updating patch to hide u-boot (latest version) on-screen tty on Allwinner Sunxi platform. View the full article

Maintaining a non-trivial set of GStreamer patches can be tricky. Thanks to the recent move to a single, unified git repo, you can now easily run a GStreamer continuous integration pipeline on your own GitLab instance. Here's how. View the full article

Recently, Sean Paul from Google's ChromeOS team, submitted a patch series to enable HDCP - or High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection - support for the Intel display driver. View the full article

Description Maintenance View the full article

Description G12/GXL boards with memory of 1GB or lower are unable to boot because the CMA memory pool is set to high. Leaving CMA at the default 256M and providing an overlay for those who need or want the CMA higher, makes more sense than not supporting all possible memory options provided by said SoC(s). As an aside; I've noticed people have been unable to boot the Radxa Zero 512MB/1GB models using the current Armbian images. 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. [x] Installed and booted kernel without the current CMA…

Description Beta builds are not able to start X11 since 3dsupport group is exists on images. Oibaf PPA is definitely incompatible with RK3588 boards. It's not also exists on main target config. I also added beta build option for CLI. If you are not OK to that, i can remove it. How Has This Been Tested? [x] I didn't test it but i'm sure 3dsupport breaks X11 on RK3588 boards. (I built an image that have Oibaf PPA and it wasn't also able to get X11) 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 chan…

Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense Rev2 is a new revision of the Nano 33 BLE Sense machine learning board with basically the same functionality but some sensors have changed along with some other modifications “to improve the experience of the users”. The main changes are that STMicro LSM9DS1 9-axis IMU has been replaced by two IMUs from Bosch SensorTech, namely the BMI270 6-axis accelerometer and gyroscope, and the BMM150 3-axis magnetometer, a Renesas HS3003 temperature & humidity sensor has taken the place of an STMicro HTS221, and the microphone is now an MP34DT06JTR from STMicro instead of an MP34DT05. All of the replaced parts are from STMicro, so it’s quite possible the…

Add WiP Mekotronics R58 boards (rockchip-rk3588) mekotronics.com rockchip-rk3588: add new board mekotronics-r58-minipc.wip (Mekotronics R58 MiniPC, and variants) rockchip-rk3588: add new board mekotronics-r58x.wip (Mekotronics R58X) rockchip-rk3588: add new board mekotronics-r58x-4g.wip (Mekotronics R58X-4G); add u-boot patches rockchip-rk3588: set ROCKUSB_BLOB for RockUSB Maskrom -> Loader mode u-boot: same as Radxa Rock-5A. RockUSB and UMS works; boot from eMMC only. No USB, no NVMe. Can stop u-boot by holding Shift-M during boot on serial console. Kernel: was handled at https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/pull/12 and https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockch…

Description We call ssh-keygen when building with CRYPTROOT=yes, but openssh-client is not mentioned into EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS in extensions/fs-cryptroot-support.sh which can make the build to fail. This PR fixes the same How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [X] Created a build with CRYPTROOT=yes and ARTIFACT_IGNORE_CACHE=yes and made sure it no longer fails because of missing ssh-keygen in docker 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, parti…

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

Description Add support for armsom-sige7 board Dependencies required for this change：https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/pull/131 armsom-sige7 related document links: How Has This Been Tested? Compile command: ./compile.sh 2.5Gb Network *2 ok Headphone ok usb 3.0 * 2 ok typec ok hdmi tx ok 40pin-Header ok LED ok debug ok Fan ok M2 E key ok Checklist: [√ ]My code follows the style guidelines of this project [√ ]I have performed a self-review of my own code [√ ]I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [√ ]I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [√ ]My changes generate no new warnings [√ ]Any dependent changes have been mer…

One of the key high-level challenges of building Mesa drivers these days is figuring out how to best share code between a Vulkan driver and a Gallium driver when Gallium isn't really capable of implementing Vulkan. Here's how. View the full article

Changes upstream rarely match exactly what is happening this far downstream. So let's take control by moving the old and patching a new. This gives us more freedom to make edits when we want or need to and avoid errors. View the full article

Description removing network manager dependency. Left over from moving networking into extensions. address errors when wireless networking is still not detected Jira reference number AR-2390 Documentation summary for feature / change How Has This Been Tested? [x] Several images on board without wifi only [x] Tested making wrong wifi password 3x, exits with "Unable to connect to AP" [x] Connecting with correct credentials [x] Choosing to not connect to wireless [x] Tested on NM and systemd networkd Checklist: [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Towards the end of 2024, MediaTek and Collabora started on a journey to improve upstream support for MediaTek Genio devices. Here's where things stand. View the full article

Welcome to the latest Armbian Newsletter: your source for the latest developments, community highlights, and behind-the-scenes updates from the world of open-source ARM and RISC-V computing. The past two months have been particularly active for the embedded ecosystem. At EMBEDDED WORLD 2026, developers, hardware vendors, and open-source communities gathered to showcase the latest innovations shaping the future of embedded computing. In parallel, the Armbian project continues to evolve with new releases, expanded board support, and ongoing improvements to the build framework driven by the contributions of its global community and the growing demand for reliable Linux on AR…

Kernel 7.0 is out with broad hardware enablement and performance updates. Collabora contributed 227 patches from 24 developers, spanning major graphics work, multimedia fixes, and substantial enablement for Rockchip and MediaTek. View the full article

The XIMEA MU003TG-SY-UC is a miniature industrial Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera with a 0.3MP Sony IMX556 CMOS sensor, global shutter, 640 × 480 resolution, and a 60 FPS frame rate. Its compact 26.4 × 26.4 × 28.67 mm enclosure and 31-gram weight make it suitable for space-limited embedded vision systems, robotics, UAVs, kiosks, 3D scanning, face recognition, and other machine-vision applications. The module uses a USB 3.2 Gen 1 interface through a 14-pin I-PEX Cabline SS connector for data, power, and control. A separate 10-pin Cabline V connector provides synchronization with external VCSEL illumination. The camera does not include an illumination source or optical band-pas…

NXP has announced a new MCX general-purpose Arm Cortex-M MCU family designed for advanced industrial and IoT edge computing and integrating an NXP neural processing unit (NPU) capable of delivering over 30 times higher performance than running the AI inference tasks on an Arm Cortex-M33 core alone. The new MCX portfolio builds upon the earlier NXP LPC and Kinetis microcontroller families, but does not replace these, and aims to improve machine learning performance and security for a variety of applications including machine learning, wireless, voice, motor control, analog, and more. The new MCX family will be available in four series: MCX N Advanced series Designed for se…

Earlier this year, I joined Collabora as an intern to work on improving testing in libcamera and automating it through KernelCI. Having recently completed the internship, here's a look back at this experience and what was accomplished. View the full article

Getting ChromiumOS building is reasonably easy, but running it under QEMU requires some work. Here's a guide to help you build all of the software needed to do so. View the full article

Geehy APM32F103 is a clone of STMicro STM32F103 MCU that has been tested by at least one person who claims it was just a drop-in replacement and PCB, code, hex, testing, and production did not have to be changed at all. Most STM32 microcontrollers are in short supply with 52+ weeks lead times and prices going through the roof, so people may be looking into the long list STM32 clones and fakes including APM32F103. They all claim to be pin-to-pin and firmware compatible, but when theory meets reality, things may go wrong. For instance, last year I had a conversation with one person who switched to GD32 microcontroller and had all sorts of issues (translated from French): I …

Description sunxi-5.19: Initial state for megous patches Checklist: [ ] Test build for sunxi [ ] Test build for sunxi64 View the full article

A couple of months ago, we wrote about the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3E (CM3E) equipped with the Raspberry Pi RP3A0 SiP found in the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W board. It looks like an OEM product from Raspberry Pi trading, and as such is close to impossible to purchase. But if somehow, you’d like to have the guts of the Pi Zero 2 W into CM3 module form factor, Waveshare has designed the Zero-to-CM3 adapter for the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W that should be compatible with most carrier boards designed for Raspberry Pi CM3 or CM3+. As you can see, it is also using pogo pins to connect to the test points on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W board in order to route the USB, USB OTG, and SD ca…

STMicroelectronics has just announced the STM32Cube.AI Developer Cloud opening access to a suite of online AI development tools for the STM32 microcontrollers (MCUs) allowing developers to generate, optimize, and benchmark AI working on the company’s 32-bit Arm microcontrollers. The company sus the STM32Cube.AI Developer Cloud is based on the existing STM32Cube.AI ecosystem of desktop tools with the added benefit of being able to remotely benchmark models on STM32 hardware through the cloud in order to save on workload and cost. Some of the highlights of the online tools include: An online interface to generate optimized C-code for STM32 microcontrollers without requiring…

Description I'm running ./conmpile.sh on a CentOS7 host with selinux. I got this error when I have a fat32 boot partition: rsync: [receiver] rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr("/armbian/.tmp/mount-9164f469-ce45-41ce-af3d-07556d8996aa/boot","security.selinux") failed: Operation not supported (95) Since we will rsync boot partition later it should be harmless if we just exclude the whole /boot directory. Related issue from other project: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen/pull/261 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 success on my selinux enabled cento…

GL.iNet are better known for their routers, but the company is also offering IoT gateways and Smart Home hubs such as the GL-S10 BLE to MQTT IoT gateway. The company is now preparing to launch the GL.iNet GL-S200 Thread Border Router in early April, and I’ve been asked to do some beta testing before launch, so GL.iNet have sent me a kit with the GL-S200 and three Thread development boards acting as IoT nodes. A Thread Border Router acts as a WiFi or/and Ethernet gateway connecting to battery-powered Thread sensor nodes equipped with a low-power 802.15.4 radio. In this first post, I’ll go through the hardware and specifications, before reporting my finding in a separate po…

rpardini's bunch of lib changes - mid-April'23 Themes: actually working JSON dumps, both for images and artifacts; also fast, via CONFIG_DEFS_ONLY actually working rootfs artifacts / remote OCI .debs per-release moar power to extensions, standardize some mechanisms fixes cli: flash: introduce flash CLI command; introduce hook post_build_image_write config: refactor calculate_image_version() out of create_image_from_sdcard_rootfs(), make more flexible, predict IMAGE_FILE_ID during config default IMAGE_INSTALLED_KERNEL_VERSION="generic" instead of "linux" artifact: rootfs: fix artifact_rootfs_config_dump() to include all inputs to aggregation logging: better loggin…

New boards & fixes; this de-media-fies the khadas-edge2 khadas-edge2: switch to rockchip-rk3588 legacy kernel add bluetooth-hciattach for working bluetooth most of the work done by @monkaBlyat mekotronics (all boards): use new bluetooth-hciattach extension for out-of-the-box working bluetooth rock-5a: add support for Rock-5A, WiP, using rockchip-rk3588 - by @monkaBlyat bluetooth-hciattach: new generic extension to facilitate adding hciattach systemd service, given the correct params this is not specific to rk3588 and can be reused by others View the full article

add armsom-w3.wip github: https://github.com/ArmSoM/armsom-w3-bsp wiki: http://wiki.armsom.org/index.php/ArmSoM-w3 How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. 2.5Gb Network r8125 ok Headphone ok usb 2.0 * 2 ok typec ok usb3.0 ok hdmi tx * 2 ok 40pin-Header ok LED ok RTC ok debug ok Fan ok M2 E key ok POE ok Checklist: My code follows the style guidelines of this project I have performed a self-review of my own code I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas I have made corresponding changes to the documentation My changes generate no ne…

Description The issue When using ./compile.sh rewrite-kernel-config and then running the menuconfig with ./compile.sh kernel-config, just exiting and saving without any manual changes, the kernel config may still change. This is because rewrite-kernel-config does force some kernel options without any additional checks e.g. for dependencies. Using the config menu with kernel-config does those checks automatically and solves all dependencies. Example: Using ./compile.sh kernel-config on linux-rockchip64-edge.config (e.g. with BOARD=nanopi-r5c), the option CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y is automatically selected, since it is a dependency for CONFIG_EXPERT=y, which is selected in thi…

Description Due to changes in https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/drivers/usb/typec/tcpm/tcpm.c?h=v6.6.31&id=789326cafbd1f67f424436b6bc8bdb887a364637 we need to adjust patch How Has This Been Tested? [x] Patch applies well [ ] 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

Description This reverts commit 11245601d095645d2973a0e765ee0f9a01d51cc1. Fix doesn't work correctly. 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 Reverse commit 75317a0 since this is a special case. Eliminate the real reason for the inability to boot the kernel. Linux kernel hangs in early boot on 32-bit ARM platform, when ftrace 4-byte "mcount" function call location for "_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore" function straddles icache lines. The problem is present for (cross-compiler) GCC 10, 11, 12. It does not happen when the kernel is compiled with GCC 9, even when condition (1) is satisfied. Detailed description: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/41339-linux-image-legacy-sunxi2451-kernel-6192-is-broken-stuck-at-starting-kernel/?do=findComment&comment=196528 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Test build fo…

Armbian continues to evolve with key updates across board configurations, hardware support, and kernel enhancements. This week introduces significant improvements, including switching CM3588 to mainline A-TF and upgrading RK322X-Box and RK3318-Box to U-Boot v2025.01. Armbian’s updated images now come with Home Assistant Core 2025.3 preinstalled, offering users enhanced smart home integration. Hardware support sees notable bug fixes such as reset and power down problem on ODROID SM1 units, LCD panel overlay additions for Hinlink-H88K, and enabling CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_MIPI_DBI for Rockchip64-Edge and Current branches. Additionally, extensions for Radxa-AIC8800 was added to Ro…

The first quarter of 2026 has been a period of significant technical consolidation for the Armbian project. Driven by the v26.02 (Goa) release cycle, the project has focused on three core pillars: aggressive framework refactoring, the stable rollout of the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel, and the maturation of the Armbian Imager utility. Core Framework RefactoringA primary objective this quarter was the reduction of technical debt within the armbian/build repository. The development team initiated a systematic cleanup to improve build reliability and maintenance. Toolchain Optimization: Through a series of pull requests, including #9218, #9252, and #9256, significant "dead code" wa…

The GEEKOM A5 Pro 2026 Edition is a pocket-sized 0.47L mini PC available at a $70 discount for the company’s Prime Day Sale until October 7. Powered by the 6-core Ryzen 5 7530U (up to 4.5GHz), it handles browsing, documents, video calls, and AI-agent tasks such as drafting, summarizing, and planning with ease. Dual HDMI 2.0 and dual USB-C ports support up to four displays (or one 8K display), enabling efficient multi-window workflows. Meanwhile, dual SO-DIMM slots (up to 64GB) and dual M.2 slots (up to 5TB total) provide plenty of room for future upgrades. With 2.5GbE, Wi-Fi 6E, six USB ports, an SD card reader, and VESA mounting support, along with an aluminum body that …

With the LLVM toolchain seeing increasing development and adoption alongside the older, more established GNU toolchain, projects needing to support both, in particular the GNU C library (glibc), are facing challenges and questions. View the full article

We're delighted to be one of the 33 new members of the Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) Alliance, a group dedicated to accelerating interoperability of video streaming solutions and fostering collaboration with industry leaders to achieve lower latency internet video transport. View the full article

Description The type names will cause build problem in focal (use sfdisk v2.34) and bullseye (use sfdisk v2.36) The partition type is given in hex for MBR (DOS) where 0x prefix is optional; a GUID string for GPT; a shortcut or an alias. It’s recommended to use two letters for MBR hex codes to avoid collision between deprecated shortcut 'E' and '0E' MBR hex code. For backward compatibility sfdisk tries to interpret type as a shortcut as a first possibility in partitioning scripts although on other places (e.g. --part-type command) it tries shortcuts as the last possibility. Since v2.36 libfdisk supports partition type aliases as extension to shortcuts. The alias is a si…

patch/kernel/rockchip-rk3588-legacy: add mainline kernel patches: from 5.10.73 to 5.10.149 Tested by myself: https://github.com/unifreq/linux-rock5b View the full article

Earlier this year, I joined Collabora for a six-month internship to learn how V4L2 (Video4Linux2) supports stateless video hardware decoding, and build a utility that traced and replayed stateless decoding from a userspace perspective. View the full article

Description Update odroidxu4-current kernel to 5.4.232. 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

In this article, we will show you how to set up a WireGuard server on Ubuntu in order to use it for remote login. Introduction to WireGuard First of all, let’s first understand, what is WireGuard? WireGuard is a very simple and fast VPN tool with state-of-the-art encryption. Its goal is to be faster, simpler, more streamlined, and easy to use than IPsec, while avoiding the hassle of large-scale configuration. WireGuard is designed as a general-purpose VPN to run on embedded interfaces and supercomputers in many different environments. Originally released for the Linux kernel, WireGuard is now widely deployed and supported across platforms (Windows, macOS, BSD, iOS, Androi…

Description This set of changes tries to handle the requirement of reducing cache misses by removing the REVISION prefix from the tag of the OCI cache. It works by making use of a tag that doesn't include the version prefix. Once the artifact is fetched, if the filename is not what we expect, then the file is renamed to the expected file name. This can be required in cases when REVISION is bumped but no changes are done for the artifact. In that case, for example, we might be looking for a artifact with version 23.08.1-trunk prefix while the artifact thats available and is identical to the needed artifact might have version starting with 23.08.0-trunk. Only the OCI tags …

Description Allwinner H6 boards like Orange Pi 3 LTS has this problem where u-boot spl sometimes detects the ram incorrectly as 4 GB instead of 2GB and because of that board doesn't boot any further until its forcefully power cylcled. I have noticed that adding a bit of delay in the ram detection function after calling mctl_core_init seems to fix 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] Built and booted image on Orange Pi 3 LTS (sun50i H6). Changed default systemd target to reboot.target and left board rebooting overnight while serial console…