Michal Fita

Whoa. I'm not representing Rockchip in anyway - just need to use RK3566 in a project. Without these drivers the support for the chip is incomplete from the perspective of the Armbian user. I don't have powers, energy and money to push particular chip drivers into mainline - there are several vendors our there who don't have theirs and Ubuntu still doing distros for these (👀 Xilinx/AMD).
 
 
If that's the case what's the usefulness of Armbian for average tinkerer who want to run Rockchip based SBC with CSI-2 cameras? In Windows world you take the installer and add drivers to the system - in Linux world at best someone could cook DKMS package with extra set, but that's at the moment probably significantly more effort than set of patches for Armbian's build.
 
 
Money, money, money. SBC makers doesn't pay them enough to justify effort required and they probably deliver customized kernels as part of paid support to they customers under NDAs. These things happen probably in violation of GPL license, but no one is willing to pay layers to chase this especially as 5.10 is out to the world.
 
 
I don't have to PR my changes if you don't like such approach. That, however, doesn't change my need to do this as I need to boot the board with CSI-2 support and working GPU 🤷

sudo apt install linux-image-current-bcm2712=24.2.1 Would suffice for now.