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This cycle centers on expanded board and SoC support, kernel maintenance across sunxi, rockchip, and sophgo families, and infrastructure refinements to installer, extensions, and CI tooling. New platform enablement covers a broad range of vendors and architectures. Notable additions include the EmbedFire LubanCat 3 v2 and Seeed reComputer RK3576 devkits, the TQ-Systems MBa62xx/MBa67xx TI K3 boards, the Tanix TX6s (Allwinner H616), and the ZTL A568 (RK3568). The Allwinner A733 line advances with a full HDMI display pipeline (DE33/RCQ), PCIe/NVMe, and U-Boot 2026.07 integration for sun55iw3, while the Sophgo SG200x family bumps edge to 7.2, gains TPU support for the Milk-V Duo S, and doubles the /boot partition to 256 MB. Kernel work spans multiple maintenance streams. The sunxi 6.18 and 7.2 patch sets were rewritten against upstream changes, with fixes for a sun8i_thermal NULL-caldata Oops that also resolves a reboot hang, and a correction for H616/H618 analog LINEOUT playing at half speed. Rockchip receives an RK3588 SDMMC fix for bus-width > 1, plymouth and ttyGS0 gadget console improvements on RK35xx, and Radxa E24C network fixes. Amlogic meson64 gains GPIO wakeup sources, PCIe port service requirements, and a rebased MPS series, while the cix-6.18 sky1 PDC driver was converted to the new syscore API. Tooling and distribution changes improve reliability and lifecycle handling. A new backward-compatible switch-alias mechanism formalizes deprecation, armbian-install gains an "spi" mode for self-contained boot on NVMe, SATA, or USB, and armbian_firmware now installs linux-headers before linux-image to satisfy first-pass DKMS. GitHub release lookups are checked and authenticated with GITHUB_TOKEN propagated through CI, kernel-deb postinst symlinks are made resilient to hook failures, and download-external mirrors only the newest version of each package to reduce archive bloat. #Armbian #EmbeddedLinux #Rockchip #Allwinner #KernelDevelopment Changesa bunch of cosmetics across board configs, and removed outdated readmes. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10764Add board image for Tanix TX6s. by @lagosproject in armbian/armbian.github.io#451Add Boardcon SBC3568 board assets. by @boardcon-arm in armbian/armbian.github.io#456Add EmbedFire LubanCat 3 v2 (RK3576) support. by @hqnicolas in armbian/build#10689add overlay to restore orangepi 5 pro fan params.. by @eebssk1 in armbian/build#10737arm64: dts: rockchip: bunch of Radxa E24C network fixes. by @rpardini in armbian/linux-rockchip#553armbian-install: add "spi" mode for self-contained boot on NVMe/SATA/USB. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1024armbian_firmware: don't silently swallow old-kernel purge failures on switch. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1025armbian_firmware: install linux-headers before linux-image (first-pass DKMS). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1026armbian_firmware: resolve RK3588 kernel family by branch on install. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1027bcm2711: enable the serial console by default on Raspberry Pi. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10726board assets: add ZTL A568 image and vendor logo. by @yanhy2000 in armbian/armbian.github.io#464board-images: add mba62xx/mba67xx board images. by @schmiedelm in armbian/armbian.github.io#457board: add reComputer RK3576 Module Dev Kit support. by @Lesords in armbian/build#10693board: add ZTL A568 (DC_A568, RK3568). by @yanhy2000 in armbian/build#10761Board: fix u-boot mainline for JP-Tvbox Rk3566. by @hqnicolas in armbian/build#10752board: name Lyra Ultra and Ultra W together. by @stevenjoezhang in armbian/build#10754board: nanopi-r28s: remove obsolete Bluetooth workaround. by @wukibaka in armbian/build#10753boards: add MBa62xx and MBa67xx (TQ-Systems TI K3 boards). by @schmiedelm in armbian/build#10724bsp: end hdmi-hotplug and sheng-ucm-init.sh with a newline. by @iav in armbian/build#10758ci: pass GITHUB_TOKEN into the build so release lookups authenticate. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/ci#76cix-6.18: convert sky1 PDC driver to the new syscore API. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10715cix-6.18: rebase SCMI ACPI patch onto 6.18.52. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10706cloud-init: stop persisting zram swap into /etc/fstab (slow cloud boot). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10324deprecations: backward-compatible switch-alias mechanism. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10525Disable fast for mba62xx and exclude mba62xx/mba67xx from stable builds. by @schmiedelm in armbian/armbian.github.io#459docs(contribute): ask for build servers, the way we ask for mirrors. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1291docs(contribute): modernize the automation page. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1261docs(datacenter): describe what the lab can actually do. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1241download-external: mirror only the newest version of each package. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#463extensions: add seeed-extension wrapper pinning Seeed's external repo. by @Mkiring in armbian/build#10698extensions: add uboot-mainline-mmc-env-storage. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10658extensions: make the GitHub release lookup checked and authenticated. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10720external: drop armhf where upstream no longer builds it. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os#488external: drop the $Version floors from aptly GLOBs. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os#489families: don't call display_alert in write_uboot_platform (runs on target). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10765feat(board): add Tanix TX6s (Allwinner H616 with AXP305 PMIC). by @lagosproject in armbian/build#10699feat: Add Seeed Studio reComputer RK3576 Module devkit dts. by @Lesords in armbian/linux-rockchip#550firstlogin: start the setup on the console where Enter is pressed. by @enthropy7 in armbian/build#10716github_latest_release_tag: say whether the lookup was authenticated. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10762i18n: add Greek (el) and Serbian Cyrillic (sr) translations. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/imager#169kernel-debs: relink /boot kernel symlinks even when postinst.d hooks fail. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10766kernel/sc8280xp-edge: fix QPS615 (TC956x) never linking at 1G on Radxa Dragon Q8B. by @yuskesh in armbian/build#10683kernel: rtc-pcf8563: fix oops on the first alarm interrupt. by @iav in armbian/build#10729lint-scripts: name files shfmt flags without a hunk. by @iav in armbian/build#10759mainline: bump to v7.3-rc3. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10700meson64: allow GPIO interrupts to act as wakeup sources. by @iav in armbian/build#10738meson64: move the pending MPS series from v7 to v9. by @iav in armbian/build#10743meson64: require the PCIe port services on boards that have PCIe. by @iav in armbian/build#10739meson64_common: uboot_gxl_postprocess_ng: run aml_encrypt_gxl under run_host_x86_binary_logged. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10755mvebu, spacemit: drop patches that landed upstream, fix K3 xsk call. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10709mvebu: alternate implementation of WoL. by @neheb in armbian/build#10595mvebu: gpio and mmc backports. by @neheb in armbian/build#10730odroidhc4: let the ethernet PHY wake the board. by @iav in armbian/build#10741profile: lead with what to do next. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/.github#2python: pylibfdt: drop fork, use upstream release 1.7.2-2 with swig 4.4.x. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10756qcs6490: enable CONFIG_HIDRAW. by @cfarley137 in armbian/build#10736radxa-cubie-a5e: u-boot: fall back to alternative DRAM parameters. by @Guation in armbian/build#10694readme workflow: open PRs as armbianworker, not a person. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#454release-targets: blacklist xiaomi-sheng from community builds. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#462release-targets: fix the delimiter on two dead extension-map entries. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#465Remove 'odroidc2' from targets-release-nightly blacklist. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#461remove experimental status for PARALLEL_PATCHES. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/documentation#1260Remove sk-am62-lp from blacklist and add uefi-loong64. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#453reorder contributors. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/documentation#1250rewrite sunxi 6.18 and 7.2 patches. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10768rk35xx vendor: enable CONFIG_LED_TRIGGER_PHY. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10757rk35xx: bound plymouth-quit-wait to fix headless boot deadlock. by @Mkiring in armbian/build#10719rk35xx: enable ttyGS0 gadget serial console with clean first connect. by @Mkiring in armbian/build#10697rockchip64: rk3399: keep the watchdog from resetting the board in sleep. by @iav in armbian/build#10705soc: rockchip: grf: Fix SDMMC not working on RK3588 with bus-width > 1. by @evtest-hash in armbian/linux-rockchip#554sophgo-sg200x-7.2: drop DMA compatible patch, it is upstream. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10710sophgo-sg200x: add TPU support for the Milk-V Duo S (mainline port of the vendor driver). by @leafpmpmp in armbian/build#10760sophgo-sg200x: bump edge to 7.2 and bleedingedge to 7.3, fix SDHCI clocks, run Duo S eMMC at HS200. by @lukaszsobala in armbian/build#10714sophgo-sg200x: increase the /boot partition size from 128 MB to 256 MB. by @lukaszsobala in armbian/build#10751SpacemiT K3: Update OpenSBI / U-Boot to k3-br-v1.0.8. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#10742sun55iw3: HDMI display pipeline (DE33/RCQ), PCIe/NVMe on U-Boot 2026.07 and board support. by @juanesf in armbian/build#10587sun60iw2/orangepizero3w: fix GPU 600MHz clock cap (PowerVR, 1008MHz + matching voltage). by @davidhfrankelcodes in armbian/build#10702sun60iw2: drop dead pd_gpu_core_test override from cubie-a7z DTS. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10747sun60iw2: fix cubie-a7z patch broken by upstream dtb Makefile change. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10744sun60iw2: re-anchor the GPU clk_rate hunk below the power-domains line. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10771sunxi-6.12: resync three patches with 6.12.110. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10711sunxi-6.18: drop upstreamed patch and rewrite the rest. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10704sunxi-6.18: fix sun8i_thermal NULL-caldata Oops (also fixes reboot hang). by @trueell in armbian/build#10727sunxi-7.2: adjust patches to compensate upstream changes in 7.2.6. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10703sunxi-7.2: fix sun8i_thermal NULL-caldata Oops (also fixes reboot hang). by @trueell in armbian/build#10728sunxi64-edge: rewrite kernel config against 7.2.6. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10767sunxi: fix H616/H618 analog LINEOUT playing at half speed after HDMI clock fix. by @vdju in armbian/build#10745sunxi: mellowflyc5: prefer SD card over eMMC in U-Boot boot order. by @deece in armbian/build#10749switches: document backward-compatible switch renaming (deprecation aliases). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1251tanix-tx6s: fix u-boot build hang — add missing CONFIG_DRAM_SUNXI_TPR6. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10748targets-extensions: enable seeed-extension for reComputer boards. by @Mkiring in armbian/armbian.github.io#452u-boot: aml-c400-plus: clean up defconfig, correct DTSI naming and fi…. by @jomadeto in armbian/build#10750uefidt: bump edge to 7.2. by @amazingfate in armbian/build#10734wireless: fix Realtek USB drivers against 6.6.157. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10708Automatic refresh repository README. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/actions#41Automatic refresh repository README. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/ci#72Automatic refresh repository README. by @igorpecovnik in 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September 22Sep 22

This cycle centers on expanded board and SoC support, kernel maintenance across sunxi, rockchip, and sophgo families, and infrastructure refinements to installer, extensions, and CI tooling. New platform enablement covers a broad range of vendors and architectures. Notable additions include the EmbedFire LubanCat 3 v2 and Seeed reComputer RK3576 devkits, the TQ-Systems MBa62xx/MBa67xx TI K3 boards, the Tanix TX6s (Allwinner H616), and the ZTL A568 (RK3568). The Allwinner A733 line advances with a full HDMI display pipeline (DE33/RCQ), PCIe/NVMe, and U-Boot 2026.07 integration for sun55iw3, while the Sophgo SG200x family bumps edge to 7.2, gains TPU support for the Milk-V Duo S, and doubles the /boot partition to 256 MB. Kernel work spans multiple maintenance streams. The sunxi 6.18 and 7.2 patch sets were rewritten against upstream changes, with fixes for a sun8i_thermal NULL-caldata Oops that also resolves a reboot hang, and a correction for H616/H618 analog LINEOUT playing at half speed. Rockchip receives an RK3588 SDMMC fix for bus-width > 1, plymouth and ttyGS0 gadget console improvements on RK35xx, and Radxa E24C network fixes. Amlogic meson64 gains GPIO wakeup sources, PCIe port service requirements, and a rebased MPS series, while the cix-6.18 sky1 PDC driver was converted to the new syscore API. Tooling and distribution changes improve reliability and lifecycle handling. A new backward-compatible switch-alias mechanism formalizes deprecation, armbian-install gains an "spi" mode for self-contained boot on NVMe, SATA, or USB, and armbian_firmware now installs linux-headers before linux-image to satisfy first-pass DKMS. GitHub release lookups are checked and authenticated with GITHUB_TOKEN propagated through CI, kernel-deb postinst symlinks are made resilient to hook failures, and download-external mirrors only the newest version of each package to reduce archive bloat. #Armbian #EmbeddedLinux #Rockchip #Allwinner #KernelDevelopment Changesa bunch of cosmetics across board configs, and removed outdated readmes. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10764Add board image for Tanix TX6s. by @lagosproject in armbian/armbian.github.io#451Add Boardcon SBC3568 board assets. by @boardcon-arm in armbian/armbian.github.io#456Add EmbedFire LubanCat 3 v2 (RK3576) support. by @hqnicolas in armbian/build#10689add overlay to restore orangepi 5 pro fan params.. by @eebssk1 in armbian/build#10737arm64: dts: rockchip: bunch of Radxa E24C network fixes. by @rpardini in armbian/linux-rockchip#553armbian-install: add "spi" mode for self-contained boot on NVMe/SATA/USB. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1024armbian_firmware: don't silently swallow old-kernel purge failures on switch. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1025armbian_firmware: install linux-headers before linux-image (first-pass DKMS). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1026armbian_firmware: resolve RK3588 kernel family by branch on install. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1027bcm2711: enable the serial console by default on Raspberry Pi. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10726board assets: add ZTL A568 image and vendor logo. by @yanhy2000 in armbian/armbian.github.io#464board-images: add mba62xx/mba67xx board images. by @schmiedelm in armbian/armbian.github.io#457board: add reComputer RK3576 Module Dev Kit support. by @Lesords in armbian/build#10693board: add ZTL A568 (DC_A568, RK3568). by @yanhy2000 in armbian/build#10761Board: fix u-boot mainline for JP-Tvbox Rk3566. by @hqnicolas in armbian/build#10752board: name Lyra Ultra and Ultra W together. by @stevenjoezhang in armbian/build#10754board: nanopi-r28s: remove obsolete Bluetooth workaround. by @wukibaka in armbian/build#10753boards: add MBa62xx and MBa67xx (TQ-Systems TI K3 boards). by @schmiedelm in armbian/build#10724bsp: end hdmi-hotplug and sheng-ucm-init.sh with a newline. by @iav in armbian/build#10758ci: pass GITHUB_TOKEN into the build so release lookups authenticate. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/ci#76cix-6.18: convert sky1 PDC driver to the new syscore API. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10715cix-6.18: rebase SCMI ACPI patch onto 6.18.52. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10706cloud-init: stop persisting zram swap into /etc/fstab (slow cloud boot). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10324deprecations: backward-compatible switch-alias mechanism. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10525Disable fast for mba62xx and exclude mba62xx/mba67xx from stable builds. by @schmiedelm in armbian/armbian.github.io#459docs(contribute): ask for build servers, the way we ask for mirrors. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1291docs(contribute): modernize the automation page. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1261docs(datacenter): describe what the lab can actually do. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1241download-external: mirror only the newest version of each package. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#463extensions: add seeed-extension wrapper pinning Seeed's external repo. by @Mkiring in armbian/build#10698extensions: add uboot-mainline-mmc-env-storage. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10658extensions: make the GitHub release lookup checked and authenticated. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10720external: drop armhf where upstream no longer builds it. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os#488external: drop the $Version floors from aptly GLOBs. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os#489families: don't call display_alert in write_uboot_platform (runs on target). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10765feat(board): add Tanix TX6s (Allwinner H616 with AXP305 PMIC). by @lagosproject in armbian/build#10699feat: Add Seeed Studio reComputer RK3576 Module devkit dts. by @Lesords in armbian/linux-rockchip#550firstlogin: start the setup on the console where Enter is pressed. by @enthropy7 in armbian/build#10716github_latest_release_tag: say whether the lookup was authenticated. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10762i18n: add Greek (el) and Serbian Cyrillic (sr) translations. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/imager#169kernel-debs: relink /boot kernel symlinks even when postinst.d hooks fail. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10766kernel/sc8280xp-edge: fix QPS615 (TC956x) never linking at 1G on Radxa Dragon Q8B. by @yuskesh in armbian/build#10683kernel: rtc-pcf8563: fix oops on the first alarm interrupt. by @iav in armbian/build#10729lint-scripts: name files shfmt flags without a hunk. by @iav in armbian/build#10759mainline: bump to v7.3-rc3. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10700meson64: allow GPIO interrupts to act as wakeup sources. by @iav in armbian/build#10738meson64: move the pending MPS series from v7 to v9. by @iav in armbian/build#10743meson64: require the PCIe port services on boards that have PCIe. by @iav in armbian/build#10739meson64_common: uboot_gxl_postprocess_ng: run aml_encrypt_gxl under run_host_x86_binary_logged. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10755mvebu, spacemit: drop patches that landed upstream, fix K3 xsk call. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10709mvebu: alternate implementation of WoL. by @neheb in armbian/build#10595mvebu: gpio and mmc backports. by @neheb in armbian/build#10730odroidhc4: let the ethernet PHY wake the board. by @iav in armbian/build#10741profile: lead with what to do next. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/.github#2python: pylibfdt: drop fork, use upstream release 1.7.2-2 with swig 4.4.x. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10756qcs6490: enable CONFIG_HIDRAW. by @cfarley137 in armbian/build#10736radxa-cubie-a5e: u-boot: fall back to alternative DRAM parameters. by @Guation in armbian/build#10694readme workflow: open PRs as armbianworker, not a person. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#454release-targets: blacklist xiaomi-sheng from community builds. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#462release-targets: fix the delimiter on two dead extension-map entries. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#465Remove 'odroidc2' from targets-release-nightly blacklist. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#461remove experimental status for PARALLEL_PATCHES. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/documentation#1260Remove sk-am62-lp from blacklist and add uefi-loong64. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#453reorder contributors. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/documentation#1250rewrite sunxi 6.18 and 7.2 patches. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10768rk35xx vendor: enable CONFIG_LED_TRIGGER_PHY. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10757rk35xx: bound plymouth-quit-wait to fix headless boot deadlock. by @Mkiring in armbian/build#10719rk35xx: enable ttyGS0 gadget serial console with clean first connect. by @Mkiring in armbian/build#10697rockchip64: rk3399: keep the watchdog from resetting the board in sleep. by @iav in armbian/build#10705soc: rockchip: grf: Fix SDMMC not working on RK3588 with bus-width > 1. by @evtest-hash in armbian/linux-rockchip#554sophgo-sg200x-7.2: drop DMA compatible patch, it is upstream. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10710sophgo-sg200x: add TPU support for the Milk-V Duo S (mainline port of the vendor driver). by @leafpmpmp in armbian/build#10760sophgo-sg200x: bump edge to 7.2 and bleedingedge to 7.3, fix SDHCI clocks, run Duo S eMMC at HS200. by @lukaszsobala in armbian/build#10714sophgo-sg200x: increase the /boot partition size from 128 MB to 256 MB. by @lukaszsobala in armbian/build#10751SpacemiT K3: Update OpenSBI / U-Boot to k3-br-v1.0.8. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#10742sun55iw3: HDMI display pipeline (DE33/RCQ), PCIe/NVMe on U-Boot 2026.07 and board support. by @juanesf in armbian/build#10587sun60iw2/orangepizero3w: fix GPU 600MHz clock cap (PowerVR, 1008MHz + matching voltage). by @davidhfrankelcodes in armbian/build#10702sun60iw2: drop dead pd_gpu_core_test override from cubie-a7z DTS. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10747sun60iw2: fix cubie-a7z patch broken by upstream dtb Makefile change. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10744sun60iw2: re-anchor the GPU clk_rate hunk below the power-domains line. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10771sunxi-6.12: resync three patches with 6.12.110. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10711sunxi-6.18: drop upstreamed patch and rewrite the rest. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10704sunxi-6.18: fix sun8i_thermal NULL-caldata Oops (also fixes reboot hang). by @trueell in armbian/build#10727sunxi-7.2: adjust patches to compensate upstream changes in 7.2.6. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10703sunxi-7.2: fix sun8i_thermal NULL-caldata Oops (also fixes reboot hang). by @trueell in armbian/build#10728sunxi64-edge: rewrite kernel config against 7.2.6. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10767sunxi: fix H616/H618 analog LINEOUT playing at half speed after HDMI clock fix. by @vdju in armbian/build#10745sunxi: mellowflyc5: prefer SD card over eMMC in U-Boot boot order. by @deece in armbian/build#10749switches: document backward-compatible switch renaming (deprecation aliases). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1251tanix-tx6s: fix u-boot build hang — add missing CONFIG_DRAM_SUNXI_TPR6. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10748targets-extensions: enable seeed-extension for reComputer boards. by @Mkiring in armbian/armbian.github.io#452u-boot: aml-c400-plus: clean up defconfig, correct DTSI naming and fi…. by @jomadeto in armbian/build#10750uefidt: bump edge to 7.2. by @amazingfate in armbian/build#10734wireless: fix Realtek USB drivers against 6.6.157. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10708Automatic refresh repository README. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/actions#41Automatic refresh repository README. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/ci#72Automatic refresh repository README. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/distribution#15View the full article

September 22Sep 22

This week's work centers on new board and SoC enablement, a broad wireless driver and firmware overhaul, and continued kernel, boot, and installer refinements. Board support expanded on multiple fronts. A new RK3562 family was introduced alongside the KICKPI K3B with mainline U-Boot and Linux, and mainline 7.2 bring-up landed for the S5P6818 platform covering NanoPC-T3+, NanoPi M3, and Fire3. The FriendlyELEC NanoPi R28S, Wildfire Lubancat 3 v2, OrangePi CM5 Base edition, and SpacemiT Musebook (current branch) were added, while the Mixtile Edge2 and Blade 3, Orange Pi 5 Max/Ultra, and Banana Pi M2 Ultra received targeted fixes for Bluetooth, eMMC, Ethernet, and thermal behavior. Wireless support saw substantial cleanup and expansion. The rtl8723ds driver underwent an extensive warning-elimination pass — addressing -Wmissing-prototypes, -Wempty-body, -Wmaybe-uninitialized, -Wrestrict, and -Warray-bounds findings — with parallel improvements to rtl8189es/fs, rtl8192eu, rtl8852bs, and uwe5622. Firmware additions include MT7986 Wi-Fi and Airoha EN8811H blobs, AIC8800 D80 SDIO names, and AP6212 NVRAM for S5P6818 boards, complemented by Bluetooth and 5 GHz Wi-Fi fixes on Rockchip and AYN Odin 2 targets. On the platform side, the mainline kernel was bumped to 7.3-rc2, a critical stmmac resume-ordering backport restores Ethernet after suspend on RK3588, and sunxi 6.18 and 7.2 gained fixes for eMMC boot hangs and post-reboot Ethernet loss. The installer engine now supports extlinux boards and native USB/NVMe boot on RPi-style hardware, zram-config was corrected for modern kernels, and BSP changes make SSH host key regeneration power-loss safe. Build infrastructure improvements include ORAS gitball use for U-Boot, better shallow-export handling during merge windows, and expanded CI coverage. #Armbian #EmbeddedLinux #Rockchip #SBC #KernelDevelopment ChangesAdd board image for lubancat-3-v2. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#450Add board-images/bananapir3mini.png. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#445Add CI to build kernel module on chance. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/wifi-rtl8852bs#29add watchdog for failed workflows. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/wifi-rtl8852bs#30aic8800: add generic D80 SDIO firmware names. by @sormy in armbian/firmware#138aml-c400-plus: fix boot chain migration and resolve OverlayFS CI failure. by @jomadeto in armbian/build#10682aml-c400-plus: migrate to modern U-Boot v2026.07 and improve boot chain. by @jomadeto in armbian/build#10548arm64: dts: rockchip: add FriendlyELEC NanoPi R28S. by @wukibaka in armbian/linux-rockchip#542arm64: dts: rockchip: add Wildfire Lubancat 3 v2. by @hqnicolas in armbian/linux-rockchip#549arm64: dts: rockchip: mixtile-edge2: fix Bluetooth wake GPIOs and enable eMMC HS400ES. by @evtest-hash in armbian/linux-rockchip#544armbian-install: sd mode on RPi-style boards, + native (full USB/NVMe boot). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1021Ayn Odin 2: add SDL gamepad mappings. by @Clownacy in armbian/build#10681AYN Odin2 updates. Edge kernel to 7.2.3, fixing 5GHz wifi not working. by @kasimling in armbian/build#10625BACKPORT rkr5.1: ARM: dts: rockchip: rk3502: add 2M alignment for CMA address. by @vidplace7 in armbian/linux-rockchip#543be nicer to git upstreams; use ORAS gitball for u-boot as well as kernel. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10655board images: add a minimum object size, re-crop the 32 images outside the bounds. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#442board-images: add NanoPC-T3/T3 Plus and NanoPi Fire3/M3 renders. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#443board-images: add reComputer RK3576 Module Dev Kit. by @Lesords in armbian/armbian.github.io#449board: add FriendlyELEC NanoPi R28S. by @wukibaka in armbian/build#10601brcm: add AP6212 (BCM43430) NVRAM for FriendlyARM S5P6818 boards. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/firmware#140bsp: survive power loss during SSH host key regeneration. by @Mkiring in armbian/build#10696cfg80211: keep the ndev alias alive for the wdev-based ops (fix the CONFIG_RTW_DEBUG=y build). by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#24ci(unit-tests): post-merge dispatch runs the tests the merge changed. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1006ci: auto-label PRs "Work in progress" from review state. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10294Declare the last two undeclared functions (-Wmissing-prototypes 2 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#23desktops/xmonad: run the session under GNOME Flashback, add autostart. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1019docs(contribute): add S5P6818 as a new-board(-family) example. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1208docs: publish software category hubs at /software//. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1020docs: retire the /User-Guide_Armbian-Software/ URLs. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1202download-images-report: do not flag virtual boards as non-standard. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1217download-images-report: drop the virtual boards listing. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1219Draw dialog borders with Unicode box characters. by @iav in armbian/configng#1016Extension Brostrend-AIC8800: skip for kernel > 7.2. by @Shadowrom2020 in armbian/build#10652firmware: refresh the apt index before the repository madison check. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1022firstlogin: prefer the GNOME Flashback xmonad session when it can start. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10663Fix -Wempty-body (114 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#11Fix -Wformat-truncation in the 8723D coex debug output (13 -> 0). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/rtl8723ds#21Fix -Wmaybe-uninitialized in the proc write handlers (36 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#13Fix -Wrestrict (58 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#12Fix clang warnings: -Wmissing-prototypes (330 → 2) and mismatched header guards. by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#6fix shallow export during merge window, rework mirrors across retries. by @rpardini in armbian/shallow#13fix sunxi edge build and patch maint. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10664Fix two clang findings: dead recv-frame helpers, inverted HT/VHT test in phydm_debug. by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#17fix(autoconfig): add missing Wi-Fi country codes. by @hlhc in armbian/imager#190fix(rockchip64): fix Bluetooth on Orange Pi 5 Max and Ultra. by @fbernier in armbian/build#10673fix(rockchip64): remove conflicting rfkill node on orangepi-5-max. by @fbernier in armbian/build#10667generate_targets: classify S5P6818 as slow HW (XFCE, not GNOME). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#448gl-mt2500-v2: stop shipping Airoha firmware in the BSP. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10686gnome: add gnome-tweaks and libopengl0 to minimal tier. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#929helios64: fix stray /thermal_zone0 symlink. by @iav in armbian/build#10640images: generate /etc/armbian-release so repository switching works. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/docker-armbian-build#42Import two long-carried armbian/build patches, with authorship. by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#7initial introduction of OrangePi-CM5-Base edition. by @ECO1AI in armbian/build#10643install engine: read the partition table without opening the disk for writing. by @iav in armbian/configng#1017install-engine: support extlinux boards when repointing root. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#985Introduce RK3562 family and KICKPI K3B (mainline U-Boot and mainline Linux). by @retro98boy in armbian/build#10613Introduce xiaomi-sheng-thp to fix touch issues. by @code002-2 in armbian/build#10631Keep the log arguments referenced when CONFIG_RTW_DEBUG is off. by @iav in armbian/wifi-rtl8852bs#27luckfox-rk3308b-nova: use bootph-all for the SPL console. by @crackerjacques in armbian/build#10688mainline: bump to 7.3-rc2. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10661maintenance-private-packages: also render the table on the run summary. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/ci#68mediatek: add MT7986 Wi-Fi and Airoha EN8811H firmware. by @SuperKali in armbian/firmware#141menu: draw dialog borders with Unicode box characters. by @iav in armbian/build#10660modules/software: add HedgeDoc (and fix module_postgres sidecar handling). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#741Move cfg80211_roam_info off the stack in rtw_cfg80211_indicate_connect(). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/rtl8723ds#22mvebu: fix the carried patches (PWM, atheros, gpio-keys) and enable drivetemp. by @iav in armbian/build#10605net: stmmac: fix dead Ethernet after suspend on RK3588 (backport the 6.15 phylink/stmmac resume ordering). by @defcom5-rockchip in armbian/linux-rockchip#548oci: link pushed packages to their GitHub repository. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10584patching.py: render the failed-patches table at the terminal width. by @iav in armbian/build#10641phydm: fix broken include guards in phydm_features.h and phydm_kfree.h. by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#8proc: read only what was written in the sa_query / tx_deauth / tx_auth handlers. by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#16recomputer-rk35xx-common.inc‎: fix ttyGS0 login loop under PrivateDevices. by @Mkiring in armbian/build#10475Revert "aml-c400-plus: migrate to modern U-Boot v2026.07 and improve boot chain". by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10665rockchip64-7.2: Mixtile Blade 3: fix pwm-fan tacho & regulator; levels. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10656rtl8189es/fs: bump pins to c204f13 / 1c2f168. by @iav in armbian/build#10670rtl8189es/fs: move the pins to 2fef6c67 / 185ab67f (warning cleanup). by @iav in armbian/build#10691rtl8192eu: move the pin to e84384b5 and drop the set_monitor_channel patch. by @iav in armbian/build#10695rtl8723ds: bump pin to b5c8a00 (warning fixes, 7.3 compat). by @iav in armbian/build#10669rtl8852bs: bump pin to 643a4990 (no_printk log stubs). by @iav in armbian/build#10676runners: fix label fallback, runner listing and parameter handling. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1023S5P6818 (NanoPC-T3+ / NanoPi M3 / Fire3): mainline 7.2 bring-up. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10674SpacemiT K1: Disable CSI by default on BPI-F3 and MusePI Pro. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#10685SpacemiT K1: Musebook: Add to current branch. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#10659sunxi-6.18: add sun8i-r40-emmc compatible, fixes eMMC boot hang (Banana Pi M2 Ultra). by @trueell in armbian/build#10635sunxi-6.18: dwmac-sun8i: fix Ethernet lost after warm reboot on external-PHY H616/H618 boards. by @seupedro in armbian/build#10492sunxi-6.18: enable USB0 OTG as host on Banana Pi M2 Ultra (sun8i-r40). by @trueell in armbian/build#10636sunxi-7.2: add sun8i-r40-emmc compatible, fixes eMMC boot hang (Banana Pi M2 Ultra). by @trueell in armbian/build#10637sunxi-7.2: enable USB0 OTG as host on Banana Pi M2 Ultra (sun8i-r40). by @trueell in armbian/build#10672tests: add Proxmox VE install test (trixie only). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1015u-boot/filogic: fix two defects in the Airoha PHY driver. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#10679uefi-x86-7.2: update applet2 patches from t2linux/linux-t2-patches@1637df4. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10657unisocwifi: size the reply buffers with sizeof instead of a runtime length (-Wvla-larger-than 2 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/uwe5622#21Update cfg80211_port_authorized conditions to match 6.1.172 rk35xx. by @ii343hbka in armbian/bcmdhd-dkms#9Use C99 flexible array members for the trailing variable-length arrays (-Warray-bounds 30 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#18uwe5622: bump pin to 6eb2184 (-Wvla-larger-than 2 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/build#10671zram-config: don't write read-only max_comp_streams on modern kernels. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10677Automatic refresh repository README. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/bcmdhd-dkms#10Automatic refresh repository README. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/ci#34Automatic refresh repository README. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/hastebin-ansi#8View the full article

September 15Sep 15

This week's work centers on new board and SoC enablement, a broad wireless driver and firmware overhaul, and continued kernel, boot, and installer refinements. Board support expanded on multiple fronts. A new RK3562 family was introduced alongside the KICKPI K3B with mainline U-Boot and Linux, and mainline 7.2 bring-up landed for the S5P6818 platform covering NanoPC-T3+, NanoPi M3, and Fire3. The FriendlyELEC NanoPi R28S, Wildfire Lubancat 3 v2, OrangePi CM5 Base edition, and SpacemiT Musebook (current branch) were added, while the Mixtile Edge2 and Blade 3, Orange Pi 5 Max/Ultra, and Banana Pi M2 Ultra received targeted fixes for Bluetooth, eMMC, Ethernet, and thermal behavior. Wireless support saw substantial cleanup and expansion. The rtl8723ds driver underwent an extensive warning-elimination pass — addressing -Wmissing-prototypes, -Wempty-body, -Wmaybe-uninitialized, -Wrestrict, and -Warray-bounds findings — with parallel improvements to rtl8189es/fs, rtl8192eu, rtl8852bs, and uwe5622. Firmware additions include MT7986 Wi-Fi and Airoha EN8811H blobs, AIC8800 D80 SDIO names, and AP6212 NVRAM for S5P6818 boards, complemented by Bluetooth and 5 GHz Wi-Fi fixes on Rockchip and AYN Odin 2 targets. On the platform side, the mainline kernel was bumped to 7.3-rc2, a critical stmmac resume-ordering backport restores Ethernet after suspend on RK3588, and sunxi 6.18 and 7.2 gained fixes for eMMC boot hangs and post-reboot Ethernet loss. The installer engine now supports extlinux boards and native USB/NVMe boot on RPi-style hardware, zram-config was corrected for modern kernels, and BSP changes make SSH host key regeneration power-loss safe. Build infrastructure improvements include ORAS gitball use for U-Boot, better shallow-export handling during merge windows, and expanded CI coverage. #Armbian #EmbeddedLinux #Rockchip #SBC #KernelDevelopment ChangesAdd board image for lubancat-3-v2. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#450Add board-images/bananapir3mini.png. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#445Add CI to build kernel module on chance. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/wifi-rtl8852bs#29add watchdog for failed workflows. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/wifi-rtl8852bs#30aic8800: add generic D80 SDIO firmware names. by @sormy in armbian/firmware#138aml-c400-plus: fix boot chain migration and resolve OverlayFS CI failure. by @jomadeto in armbian/build#10682aml-c400-plus: migrate to modern U-Boot v2026.07 and improve boot chain. by @jomadeto in armbian/build#10548arm64: dts: rockchip: add FriendlyELEC NanoPi R28S. by @wukibaka in armbian/linux-rockchip#542arm64: dts: rockchip: add Wildfire Lubancat 3 v2. by @hqnicolas in armbian/linux-rockchip#549arm64: dts: rockchip: mixtile-edge2: fix Bluetooth wake GPIOs and enable eMMC HS400ES. by @evtest-hash in armbian/linux-rockchip#544armbian-install: sd mode on RPi-style boards, + native (full USB/NVMe boot). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1021Ayn Odin 2: add SDL gamepad mappings. by @Clownacy in armbian/build#10681AYN Odin2 updates. Edge kernel to 7.2.3, fixing 5GHz wifi not working. by @kasimling in armbian/build#10625BACKPORT rkr5.1: ARM: dts: rockchip: rk3502: add 2M alignment for CMA address. by @vidplace7 in armbian/linux-rockchip#543be nicer to git upstreams; use ORAS gitball for u-boot as well as kernel. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10655board images: add a minimum object size, re-crop the 32 images outside the bounds. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#442board-images: add NanoPC-T3/T3 Plus and NanoPi Fire3/M3 renders. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#443board-images: add reComputer RK3576 Module Dev Kit. by @Lesords in armbian/armbian.github.io#449board: add FriendlyELEC NanoPi R28S. by @wukibaka in armbian/build#10601brcm: add AP6212 (BCM43430) NVRAM for FriendlyARM S5P6818 boards. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/firmware#140bsp: survive power loss during SSH host key regeneration. by @Mkiring in armbian/build#10696cfg80211: keep the ndev alias alive for the wdev-based ops (fix the CONFIG_RTW_DEBUG=y build). by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#24ci(unit-tests): post-merge dispatch runs the tests the merge changed. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1006ci: auto-label PRs "Work in progress" from review state. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10294Declare the last two undeclared functions (-Wmissing-prototypes 2 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#23desktops/xmonad: run the session under GNOME Flashback, add autostart. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1019docs(contribute): add S5P6818 as a new-board(-family) example. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1208docs: publish software category hubs at /software//. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1020docs: retire the /User-Guide_Armbian-Software/ URLs. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1202download-images-report: do not flag virtual boards as non-standard. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1217download-images-report: drop the virtual boards listing. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#1219Draw dialog borders with Unicode box characters. by @iav in armbian/configng#1016Extension Brostrend-AIC8800: skip for kernel > 7.2. by @Shadowrom2020 in armbian/build#10652firmware: refresh the apt index before the repository madison check. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1022firstlogin: prefer the GNOME Flashback xmonad session when it can start. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10663Fix -Wempty-body (114 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#11Fix -Wformat-truncation in the 8723D coex debug output (13 -> 0). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/rtl8723ds#21Fix -Wmaybe-uninitialized in the proc write handlers (36 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#13Fix -Wrestrict (58 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#12Fix clang warnings: -Wmissing-prototypes (330 → 2) and mismatched header guards. by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#6fix shallow export during merge window, rework mirrors across retries. by @rpardini in armbian/shallow#13fix sunxi edge build and patch maint. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10664Fix two clang findings: dead recv-frame helpers, inverted HT/VHT test in phydm_debug. by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#17fix(autoconfig): add missing Wi-Fi country codes. by @hlhc in armbian/imager#190fix(rockchip64): fix Bluetooth on Orange Pi 5 Max and Ultra. by @fbernier in armbian/build#10673fix(rockchip64): remove conflicting rfkill node on orangepi-5-max. by @fbernier in armbian/build#10667generate_targets: classify S5P6818 as slow HW (XFCE, not GNOME). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#448gl-mt2500-v2: stop shipping Airoha firmware in the BSP. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10686gnome: add gnome-tweaks and libopengl0 to minimal tier. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#929helios64: fix stray /thermal_zone0 symlink. by @iav in armbian/build#10640images: generate /etc/armbian-release so repository switching works. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/docker-armbian-build#42Import two long-carried armbian/build patches, with authorship. by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#7initial introduction of OrangePi-CM5-Base edition. by @ECO1AI in armbian/build#10643install engine: read the partition table without opening the disk for writing. by @iav in armbian/configng#1017install-engine: support extlinux boards when repointing root. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#985Introduce RK3562 family and KICKPI K3B (mainline U-Boot and mainline Linux). by @retro98boy in armbian/build#10613Introduce xiaomi-sheng-thp to fix touch issues. by @code002-2 in armbian/build#10631Keep the log arguments referenced when CONFIG_RTW_DEBUG is off. by @iav in armbian/wifi-rtl8852bs#27luckfox-rk3308b-nova: use bootph-all for the SPL console. by @crackerjacques in armbian/build#10688mainline: bump to 7.3-rc2. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10661maintenance-private-packages: also render the table on the run summary. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/ci#68mediatek: add MT7986 Wi-Fi and Airoha EN8811H firmware. by @SuperKali in armbian/firmware#141menu: draw dialog borders with Unicode box characters. by @iav in armbian/build#10660modules/software: add HedgeDoc (and fix module_postgres sidecar handling). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#741Move cfg80211_roam_info off the stack in rtw_cfg80211_indicate_connect(). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/rtl8723ds#22mvebu: fix the carried patches (PWM, atheros, gpio-keys) and enable drivetemp. by @iav in armbian/build#10605net: stmmac: fix dead Ethernet after suspend on RK3588 (backport the 6.15 phylink/stmmac resume ordering). by @defcom5-rockchip in armbian/linux-rockchip#548oci: link pushed packages to their GitHub repository. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10584patching.py: render the failed-patches table at the terminal width. by @iav in armbian/build#10641phydm: fix broken include guards in phydm_features.h and phydm_kfree.h. by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#8proc: read only what was written in the sa_query / tx_deauth / tx_auth handlers. by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#16recomputer-rk35xx-common.inc‎: fix ttyGS0 login loop under PrivateDevices. by @Mkiring in armbian/build#10475Revert "aml-c400-plus: migrate to modern U-Boot v2026.07 and improve boot chain". by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10665rockchip64-7.2: Mixtile Blade 3: fix pwm-fan tacho & regulator; levels. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10656rtl8189es/fs: bump pins to c204f13 / 1c2f168. by @iav in armbian/build#10670rtl8189es/fs: move the pins to 2fef6c67 / 185ab67f (warning cleanup). by @iav in armbian/build#10691rtl8192eu: move the pin to e84384b5 and drop the set_monitor_channel patch. by @iav in armbian/build#10695rtl8723ds: bump pin to b5c8a00 (warning fixes, 7.3 compat). by @iav in armbian/build#10669rtl8852bs: bump pin to 643a4990 (no_printk log stubs). by @iav in armbian/build#10676runners: fix label fallback, runner listing and parameter handling. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1023S5P6818 (NanoPC-T3+ / NanoPi M3 / Fire3): mainline 7.2 bring-up. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10674SpacemiT K1: Disable CSI by default on BPI-F3 and MusePI Pro. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#10685SpacemiT K1: Musebook: Add to current branch. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#10659sunxi-6.18: add sun8i-r40-emmc compatible, fixes eMMC boot hang (Banana Pi M2 Ultra). by @trueell in armbian/build#10635sunxi-6.18: dwmac-sun8i: fix Ethernet lost after warm reboot on external-PHY H616/H618 boards. by @seupedro in armbian/build#10492sunxi-6.18: enable USB0 OTG as host on Banana Pi M2 Ultra (sun8i-r40). by @trueell in armbian/build#10636sunxi-7.2: add sun8i-r40-emmc compatible, fixes eMMC boot hang (Banana Pi M2 Ultra). by @trueell in armbian/build#10637sunxi-7.2: enable USB0 OTG as host on Banana Pi M2 Ultra (sun8i-r40). by @trueell in armbian/build#10672tests: add Proxmox VE install test (trixie only). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#1015u-boot/filogic: fix two defects in the Airoha PHY driver. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#10679uefi-x86-7.2: update applet2 patches from t2linux/linux-t2-patches@1637df4. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10657unisocwifi: size the reply buffers with sizeof instead of a runtime length (-Wvla-larger-than 2 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/uwe5622#21Update cfg80211_port_authorized conditions to match 6.1.172 rk35xx. by @ii343hbka in armbian/bcmdhd-dkms#9Use C99 flexible array members for the trailing variable-length arrays (-Warray-bounds 30 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/rtl8723ds#18uwe5622: bump pin to 6eb2184 (-Wvla-larger-than 2 -> 0). by @iav in armbian/build#10671zram-config: don't write read-only max_comp_streams on modern kernels. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10677Automatic refresh repository README. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/bcmdhd-dkms#10Automatic refresh repository README. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/ci#34Automatic refresh repository README. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/hastebin-ansi#8View the full article

September 15Sep 15

There is likely a memory leak somewhere. Quick search does not reveal how much real RAM this XU4 has so please can you mention that. I only know it is 32-bit Samsung Exynos SoC. But 6GB of swap makes no sense I assume unless you have a very dedicated use-case with a small working-set but mayb lager virtual memory needed over a long period of time, much longer than lowest speed random 4kB I/O spoeed for your storage. Still no proper option if there is a memory leak. Main question is, how is your swap space organized? I hope you know Btrfs needs dedicated command to set up swapspace on the filesystem. But maybe you used separate swap partition, that is at least what I do on all computers, also on ancient RaspberryPi1 with 512M RAM and Btrfs rootfs with option compress-force=zstd for many years. Same for NanoPi-NEO's, including a variant with just 256M RAM. I disable Armbian zram swap mostly, so please also mention how and if you use that. The kernels on mentioned systems are 6.18 based and even 7.1.8-edge-sunxi runs without issues. But 6.6 and Exynos I am not so sure how robust/stable that is under load. Also what profile are you using? Please show output of: sudo btrfs device usage /

Hello. Thanks for the reply. Since a new version has been released yesterday, I give it a try and no dice. The module ssv6051 shipped with the kernel does not work in my tv-box, it gives lots of trace in dmesg and the error "RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted". For now I switch to stable channel, installed the driver by @eloirotava and hold the kernel, headers and firmware packages. Below the console output: [ OK ] Reached target graphical.target - Graphical Interface. Armbian_community 26.11.0-trunk.33 Trixie tty1 rk322x-box login: root Password: _ _ _ _ _ /_\ _ _ _ __ | |__(_)__ _ _ _ __ ___ _ __ _ __ _ _ _ _ (_) |_ _ _ / _ \| '_| ' \| '_ \ / _` | ' \ / _/ _ \ ' \| ' \ || | ' \| | _| || | /_/ \_\_| |_|_|_|_.__/_\__,_|_||_| \__\___/_|_|_|_|_|_\_,_|_||_|_|\__|\_, | |__/ v26.11 rolling for rk322x-box running Armbian Linux 6.18.48-current-rockchip Packages: Debian stable (trixie) Support: for advanced users (rolling release) IPv4: (LAN) 192.168.1.247 (WAN) Performance: Load: 40% Uptime: 1m Memory usage: 5% of 1.94G CPU temp: 60øC Usage of /: 17% of 7.0G Tips: Becoming a sponsor? https://github.com/sponsors/armbian Commands: Configuration: armbian-config Monitoring : htop root@rk322x-box:~# ip link set wlan0 up RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted root@rk322x-box:~# dmesg | grep ssv | tail [ 19.098501] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'ssv6xxx_rate_control' [ 134.526425] SSV WLAN driver ssv6200: chip id: RSV6200A0-201311, tag: 2014012420010960 [ 134.689135] SSV WLAN driver ssv6200: Failed to allocate packet buffer of 904 bytes in 0 type. [ 134.689224] SSV WLAN driver ssv6200: opps allocate pbuf error [ 134.689268] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1371 at drivers/net/wireless/ssv6051/smac/init.c:608 ssv6xxx_init_mac+0xc28/0xc30 [ssv6051] [ 134.689407] Modules linked in: snd_soc_hdmi_codec ir_nec_decoder snd_soc_spdif_tx gpio_ir_recv gpio_keys snd_soc_audio_graph_card2 cpufreq_dt ssv6051 snd_soc_simple_card_utils mac80211 dw_hdmi_i2s_audio dw_hdmi_cec hantro_vpu rockchip_rg a rockchip_vdec v4l2_jpeg v4l2_vp9 v4l2_h264 lima videobuf2_dma_contig snd_soc_rk3228 snd_soc_rockchip_spdif snd_soc_rockchip_i2s gpu_sched v4l2_mem2mem snd_soc_core snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_pcm snd_timer rockchip_thermal snd rk_crypto soundco re dw_wdt crypto_engine cfg80211 zram 842_decompress 842_compress lz4hc_compress lz4_compress binfmt_misc sch_fq_codel fuse nfnetlink ip_tables x_tables btrfs blake2b_generic blake2b_neon [ 134.690277] warn_slowpath_fmt from ssv6xxx_init_mac+0xc28/0xc30 [ssv6051] [ 134.690365] ssv6xxx_init_mac [ssv6051] from ssv6200_start+0x34/0x190 [ssv6051] [ 134.690486] ssv6200_start [ssv6051] from drv_start+0x48/0xfc [mac80211] [ 134.694102] SSV WLAN driver ssv6200: Failed to initialize mac, ret=1 root@rk322x-box:~# ip link show wlan0 3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether e0:f5:af:82:83:5b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff altname wlxe0f5af82835b root@rk322x-box:~# setterm --dump --file ssv.dump

September 2Sep 2
30 replies

Hi @Werner, So i have some good news. I managed to install properly the CIX-acpi KDE image : CIX-acpi images Armbian 1) At first, my network is a 2.5G LAN so the network is not functional at the very first boot / installation. Plugged it in a 1Gbit and the link is up. However, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth were still not detected. 2) I ran a full sudo apt update / upgrade The "magic trick" that made all network functions work was: sudo apt install armbian-firmware-full After that, Wi-Fi and BT are fully operational, and it seems to have activated the major ACPI devices. I can even connect my BT audio amplifier. Video acceleration also appears to be working well. ( For example I can take advantage of my 144Hz screen... and 2.5 Gbit LAN is fine... ) So i can connect it my BT audio amplifier. I'm attaching the dmesg debug output in case it can help. dmesg.txt giovanni@cix-acpi:~$ lsmod | column -t Module Size Used by uinput 28672 1 snd_seq_dummy 12288 0 snd_hrtimer 12288 1 snd_seq 98304 7 snd_seq_dummy rfcomm 98304 4 snd_seq_device 16384 1 snd_seq qrtr 45056 2 algif_hash 16384 1 algif_skcipher 12288 1 af_alg 28672 6 algif_hash,algif_skcipher bnep 32768 2 dm_mod 180224 0 bfq 102400 10 sunrpc 696320 1 snd_soc_hdmi_codec 24576 3 optee_rng 12288 0 binfmt_misc 24576 1 zram 53248 2 842_decompress 20480 1 zram 842_compress 24576 1 zram lz4hc_compress 20480 1 zram lz4_compress 24576 1 zram btusb 73728 0 btrtl 32768 1 btusb btintel 69632 1 btusb btbcm 24576 1 btusb btmtk 28672 1 btusb nls_ascii 12288 1 bluetooth 921600 40 btrtl,btmtk,btintel,btbcm,bnep,btusb,rfcomm nls_cp437 16384 1 vfat 24576 1 fat 98304 1 vfat ecdh_generic 16384 2 bluetooth aes_ce_blk 32768 4 aes_ce_cipher 12288 1 aes_ce_blk polyval_ce 12288 0 ghash_ce 20480 0 gf128mul 16384 1 ghash_ce sha3_ce 16384 0 mt7921e 24576 0 mt7921_common 77824 1 mt7921e mt792x_lib 65536 2 mt7921e,mt7921_common mt76_connac_lib 86016 3 mt792x_lib,mt7921e,mt7921_common mt76 147456 4 mt792x_lib,mt7921e,mt7921_common,mt76_connac_lib mac80211 1314816 4 mt792x_lib,mt76,mt7921_common,mt76_connac_lib cfg80211 1159168 4 mt76,mac80211,mt7921_common,mt76_connac_lib snd_hda_codec_alc269 131072 1 snd_hda_scodec_component 20480 1 snd_hda_codec_alc269 rfkill 40960 9 mt7921e,bluetooth,cfg80211 snd_hda_codec_realtek_lib 57344 1 snd_hda_codec_alc269 libarc4 12288 1 mac80211 snd_hda_codec_generic 106496 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek_lib,snd_hda_codec_alc269 ramoops 28672 0 reed_solomon 20480 1 ramoops snd_hda_cix_ipbloq 24576 1 optee 69632 0 snd_hda_codec 184320 4 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec_realtek_lib,snd_hda_codec_alc269,snd_hda_cix_ipbloq ffa_core 20480 1 optee trilin_dpsub 131072 0 snd_hwdep 20480 1 snd_hda_codec tee 45056 2 optee,optee_rng snd_hda_core 135168 5 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_realtek_lib,snd_hda_codec_alc269,snd_hda_cix_ipbloq snd_soc_sky1_card 24576 0 snd_soc_cdns_i2s_mc 24576 6 drm_display_helper 233472 1 trilin_dpsub snd_soc_rt5682s 90112 0 panthor 176128 42 cec 61440 1 drm_display_helper amvx 344064 0 drm_gpuvm 40960 1 panthor rc_core 65536 1 cec videobuf2_dma_sg 20480 1 amvx linlon_dp 147456 10 snd_soc_core 360448 4 snd_soc_sky1_card,snd_soc_hdmi_codec,snd_soc_cdns_i2s_mc,snd_soc_rt5682s gpu_sched 57344 1 panthor videobuf2_memops 16384 1 videobuf2_dma_sg drm_exec 12288 2 drm_gpuvm,panthor drm_client_lib 12288 1 linlon_dp videobuf2_v4l2 32768 1 amvx drm_shmem_helper 28672 1 panthor drm_dma_helper 24576 2 linlon_dp squashfs 77824 9 videodev 335872 2 videobuf2_v4l2,amvx snd_compress 28672 1 snd_soc_core drm_kms_helper 217088 6 drm_dma_helper,linlon_dp,trilin_dpsub,drm_shmem_helper,drm_display_helper,drm_client_lib snd_pcm_dmaengine 16384 1 snd_soc_core snd_pcm 172032 8 snd_hda_codec,snd_soc_hdmi_codec,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_soc_cdns_i2s_mc,snd_hda_core,snd_soc_rt5682s,snd_pcm_dmaengine videobuf2_common 77824 4 videobuf2_v4l2,videobuf2_dma_sg,amvx,videobuf2_memops snd_timer 45056 3 snd_seq,snd_hrtimer,snd_pcm loop 32768 18 mc 77824 3 videodev,videobuf2_v4l2,videobuf2_common snd 126976 17 snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep,snd_hda_codec,snd_soc_hdmi_codec,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_realtek_lib,snd_compress,snd_hda_codec_alc269,snd_soc_core,snd_hda_cix_ipbloq,snd_pcm cppc_cpufreq 24576 0 soundcore 16384 1 snd sg 40960 0 joydev 32768 0 evdev 28672 11 i2c_dev 24576 0 efi_pstore 12288 0 configfs 57344 1 efivarfs 24576 0 autofs4 53248 2 btrfs 1888256 0 blake2b_generic 20480 0 xor 12288 1 btrfs xor_neon 16384 1 xor raid6_pq 106496 1 btrfs nvme 53248 0 i2c_hid_acpi 12288 0 sbsa_gwdt 12288 0 i2c_hid 40960 1 i2c_hid_acpi drm 712704 40 gpu_sched,i2c_hid,drm_kms_helper,drm_exec,drm_dma_helper,linlon_dp,drm_gpuvm,trilin_dpsub,drm_shmem_helper,drm_display_helper,drm_client_lib,panthor nvme_core 200704 1 nvme nvme_keyring 20480 1 nvme_core r8169 118784 0 nvme_auth 28672 1 nvme_core hkdf 12288 1 nvme_auth fixed 16384 0 realtek 45056 2 pwm_bl 16384 0 arm_dma350 28672 3 cdns3_pci_wrap 16384 0 sd_mod 73728 2 hid_generic 12288 0 usbhid 77824 0 hid 266240 3 i2c_hid,usbhid,hid_generic uas 28672 2 usb_storage 86016 1 uas scsi_mod 282624 4 sd_mod,usb_storage,uas,sg scsi_common 16384 5 scsi_mod,sd_mod,usb_storage,uas,sg One question: what is the real difference between the MinisForum dedicated section images and these CIX ACPI dedicated section board images? Normally, the MinisForum is considered a standard "UEFI-ACPI" type of computer, right? Thanks, See'ya

Is it actually zram and not zswap you are using? They are not the same thing and should not be running simultaneously, zswap will take president over zram. And isn't it a partition you want? Where is that partition located? If zram: Make sure you are actually using zram before doing any of this, dmesg should probably tell you: 'sudo dmesg | grep zram', or 'zramctl' should tell you if it is in use, if not it will return nothing. If you are, did you try to blacklist the module? "echo 'blacklist zram' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf" Or mask the service? 'sudo systemctl mask systemd-zram.service' (or whatever the service is called, check with 'systemctl --type swap') I agree with that it should work with your config, but if it doesn't, a blacklist of the module should make it impossible for the kernel to load it after a reboot. If zswap: 'sudo dmesg | grep zswap' or 'cat /sys/module/zswap/parameters/enabled' (Y or N if it's enabled or not) If it's zswap you want to disable, it IS the kernel parameter 'zswap.enabled=0' But you don't have to disable this to use a "classic" partition, you can just mkswap & swapon as usual. (and swapoff if there is anything you want to remove) https://chrisdown.name/2026/03/24/zswap-vs-zram-when-to-use-what.html

July 28Jul 28
10 replies
- rock-5b

It seems I can't disable Zram in any way ahah This is my /etc/default/armbian-zram-config ENABLED=false SWAP=false RAMLOG_ALGORITHM=zstd ZRAM_MAX_DEVICES=8 ZRAM_PERCENTAGE=25 TMP_ALGORITHM=zstd TMP_SIZE=500M SWAP_ALGORITHM=lzo MEM_LIMIT_PERCENTAGE=25 This is my /boot/armbianEnv.txt verbosity=1 bootlogo=false console=both extraargs=cma=256M extraargs=zswap.enabled=0 extraargs=systemd.zram=0 overlay_prefix=rockchip-rk3588 fdtfile=rockchip/rk3588-rock-5b.dtb rootdev=UUID=c7e46bb0-ad20-43d9-bd05-0ca6267e014c rootfstype=ext4 extraargs=video=2560x1440@60 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u Tried echo 0 > /sys/class/zram-control/hot_remove and also nothing. I always get the same 3.8GB Zswap partition, which strangely is not even the size specified in armbian-zram-config (I have an 8GB board) I don't know what to try anymore

July 27Jul 27
10 replies
- rock-5b

Orange Pi 4A (Allwinner T527 / A523, sun55i-a523) — new mainline image coming in a few days Hi all, A quick heads-up for anyone following the Orange Pi 4A / Allwinner T527 (A523) mainline effort: a new image, v0.3, is coming in the next few days. It's based on mainline Linux 6.18 (longterm) and it's a decent step up from v0.2, so I wanted to give some advance notice. What's new in v0.3: Hardware video decode (VPU): H.264/H.265 decoded on the Cedar VPU — smooth video in the bundled web browser (WebKitGTK), using Allwinner's own cedar + libcedarc stack. GNOME on Wayland (replaces Plasma), accelerated by Panfrost (Mali-G57). The X11 session is intentionally not used — Wayland is much faster on this GPU for both desktop and video. Low-RAM fix: compressed in-RAM swap (zram) is on by default, so the 2 GB board stays responsive under a browser + video instead of freezing. Robustness: the VPU driver now survives a client crashing mid-decode without wedging the board, plus a round of code-audit fixes across the clock, PCIe, DRM, VPU and audio-codec drivers. Everything from before still works: display/KMS, GPU, HDMI + analog audio (headphones with jack detection), Ethernet, WiFi, USB, PCIe/NVMe (not yet tested with a real drive), thermal and cpufreq/DVFS. How it's built: on top of mainline Linux and public community work (linux-sunxi, Armbian and others — credited in the tree), with Allwinner's public documentation and vendor BSP as the hardware reference, plus the project's own patches, each one validated on real hardware. Some of this has been posted to the linux-sunxi / upstream lists and picked up by maintainers. This is a spare-time hobby project, shared as-is (async, no live support). Sources, patches and images are on GitHub — I'll post here again when the release is up: GitHub: https://github.com/ut-slayer/orangepi-4a-mainline Testers and feedback are very welcome. Thanks!

July 25Jul 25
212 replies
1
- orangepi4a

512M seems too low: [ 70.791346] containerd: page allocation failure: order:1, mode:0x40820(GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_COMP), nodemask=(null),cpuset=containerd.service,mems_allowed=0 [ 70.791404] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1727 Comm: containerd Not tainted 6.18.10-current-meson64 #1 PREEMPT [ 70.791410] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) [ 70.791414] Call trace: [ 70.791417] show_stack+0x20/0x38 (C) [ 70.791427] dump_stack_lvl+0x74/0x90 [ 70.791436] dump_stack+0x18/0x28 [ 70.791441] warn_alloc+0x134/0x1c0 [ 70.791449] __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x780/0xe70 [ 70.791457] alloc_pages_mpol+0xbc/0x1c8 [ 70.791463] alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x50/0xd0 [ 70.791468] new_slab+0x2ec/0x3a8 [ 70.791474] ___slab_alloc+0x654/0xbb8 [ 70.791480] __slab_alloc.isra.0+0x50/0xa8 [ 70.791485] __kmalloc_noprof+0x410/0x638 [ 70.791491] virtqueue_add_sgs+0x2e4/0x6d0 [ 70.791499] virtblk_add_req+0xb8/0x130 [ 70.791507] virtio_queue_rq+0x80/0x208 [ 70.791513] blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x104/0x6f0 [ 70.791521] __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x45c/0x570 [ 70.791527] blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x38/0x88 [ 70.791532] blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x25c/0x2d0 [ 70.791538] blk_mq_dispatch_list+0x110/0x420 [ 70.791545] blk_mq_flush_plug_list+0x5c/0x190 [ 70.791551] __blk_flush_plug+0xf0/0x158 [ 70.791559] blk_finish_plug+0x40/0x60 [ 70.791565] read_pages+0x130/0x2c8 [ 70.791573] page_cache_ra_unbounded+0x1e4/0x300 [ 70.791580] page_cache_ra_order+0x41c/0x488 [ 70.791586] filemap_fault+0x5d8/0xb68 [ 70.791592] __do_fault+0x44/0x240 [ 70.791599] __handle_mm_fault+0x9e4/0x18a0 [ 70.791604] handle_mm_fault+0x194/0x2e0 [ 70.791609] do_page_fault+0x110/0x6f8 [ 70.791616] do_translation_fault+0x54/0x80 [ 70.791623] do_mem_abort+0x4c/0xa8 [ 70.791630] el0_ia+0x50/0xd0 [ 70.791637] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xe0/0xe8 [ 70.791644] el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x1a0 [ 70.791650] Mem-Info: [ 70.791832] active_anon:11944 inactive_anon:39978 isolated_anon:0 [ 70.791832] active_file:11107 inactive_file:13422 isolated_file:0 [ 70.791832] unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:8 [ 70.791832] slab_reclaimable:5622 slab_unreclaimable:10672 [ 70.791832] mapped:6999 shmem:423 pagetables:2117 [ 70.791832] sec_pagetables:0 bounce:0 [ 70.791832] kernel_misc_reclaimable:0 [ 70.791832] free:912 free_pcp:426 free_cma:29 [ 70.791874] Node 0 active_anon:47776kB inactive_anon:159912kB active_file:44428kB inactive_file:53688kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB mapped:27996kB dirty:0kB writeback:32kB shmem:1692kB shmem_thp:0kB shmem_pmdmapped:0kB anon_thp:0kB kernel_stack:6016kB pagetables:8468kB sec_pagetables:0kB all_unreclaimable? no Balloon:0kB [ 70.791907] Node 0 DMA free:3648kB boost:4096kB min:6768kB low:7436kB high:8104kB reserved_highatomic:2048KB free_highatomic:56KB active_anon:47776kB inactive_anon:159912kB active_file:44428kB inactive_file:53460kB unevictable:0kB writepending:32kB zspages:76228kB present:524288kB managed:484516kB mlocked:0kB bounce:0kB free_pcp:1960kB local_pcp:908kB free_cma:116kB [ 70.791945] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 [ 70.791963] Node 0 DMA: 276*4kB (MEC) 54*8kB (MEH) 90*16kB (MEH) 20*32kB (UE) 2*64kB (U) 0*128kB 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 4000kB [ 70.792025] Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=1048576kB [ 70.792038] Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=32768kB [ 70.792051] Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=2048kB [ 70.792063] Node 0 hugepages_total=0 hugepages_free=0 hugepages_surp=0 hugepages_size=64kB [ 70.792076] 24919 total pagecache pages [ 70.792084] 33 pages in swap cache [ 70.792091] Free swap = 184kB [ 70.792098] Total swap = 242256kB [ 70.792105] 131072 pages RAM [ 70.792112] 0 pages HighMem/MovableOnly [ 70.792119] 9943 pages reserved [ 70.792126] 32768 pages cma reserved [ 70.792133] 0 pages hwpoisoned [ 70.792140] SLUB: Unable to allocate memory on CPU 1 (of node 0) on node -1, gfp=0x820(GFP_ATOMIC) [ 70.792154] cache: kmalloc-8k, object size: 8192, buffer size: 8192, default order: 3, min order: 1 [ 70.792168] node 0: slabs: 29, objs: 116, free: 0 ... and many OOM killer actions to follow, but could type: poweroff It might be that is no zram swap and swap on disk, that is could work, but from some earlier HA topic here I remember that was a swapping hell on a 4-core Cortex-A53 and SD-card, way too slow. My KVM is image on NVME on ROCK5B, so fastest available more or less for 'cheap' ARM64 SBC. To compare: Domoticz did run OK with about the same amount of objects on a NanoPi-NEO (4x Cortex-A7, 512MiB, SD-card). It still does, but I moved most objects to a 2x Cortex-A55 1G RAM (KVM on same ROCK5B). # free -m total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 963 330 77 2 635 632 Swap: 981 45 936 BUT I see also something with 'containers' when ZigBee in my google search. I would maybe see what exactly is needed. After many years, I also figured out that my 433MHz transceiver internally is just a 38k4 serial thing tied to an serial-to-USB chip. It was driven as serial port by Domoticz via USBIP on that NanoPi-NEO, but that needs explicit sync/reconnect actions at reboot. Now done via ser2net, swapping/replacing the device from serial to LAN in Domoticz, same database history, no actions at reboot/powercycle and with ser2net point-to-multipoint, also also available to multiple softwares in the home LAN or VPN etc if needed. Of course respecting write/send operations to be exclusive, just one. Same ser2net trick with electricity meter, that is why I can easily run HA/HAOS simultaneously with my normal home automation software stuff.

I changed allocated RAM for the virtual machine from 2G to 1G, still 4x Cortex-A55 vCPUs from RK3588 ROCK5B yesterday. At reboot and first login, it showed on 2 container, while earlier it showed a lot more. So now manual stats: root@lepotato:/etc/update-motd.d# ./10-armbian-header ; ./15-ap-info ; ./25-containers-info ; ./30-armbian-sysinfo _ _ _ /_\ _ _ _ __ | |__(_)__ _ _ _ / _ \| '_| ' \| '_ \ / _` | ' \ /_/ \_\_| |_|_|_|_.__/_\__,_|_||_| v26.2.1 for Le potato running Armbian Linux 6.18.10-current-meson64 Packages: Debian stable (trixie) Containers: hassio_multicast, hassio_audio, hassio_dns, hassio_cli, homeassistant, hassio_observer, hassio_supervisor Performance: Load: 5% Uptime: 12h 18m Memory usage: 64% of 975M Zram usage: 56% of 487M Usage of /: 79% of 7.8G RX today: 54 MiB Only thing it really does is showing energy page, is 4x 10s sampled data (2x solar and power and delivery). Various Tasmota modules via MQTT don't claim that much resources I think. But strange is a rather constant regular dmesg like this: [44265.955953] hassio: port 2(vethf224414) entered disabled state [44265.957193] vethed7ef10: renamed from eth1 [44266.109287] hassio: port 2(vethf224414) entered disabled state [44266.116189] vethf224414 (unregistering): left allmulticast mode [44266.116262] vethf224414 (unregistering): left promiscuous mode [44266.116357] hassio: port 2(vethf224414) entered disabled state [44266.186986] docker0: port 1(veth76765bf) entered disabled state [44266.187218] veth1a28eaf: renamed from eth0 [44266.285174] docker0: port 1(veth76765bf) entered disabled state [44266.292147] veth76765bf (unregistering): left allmulticast mode [44266.292219] veth76765bf (unregistering): left promiscuous mode [44266.292256] docker0: port 1(veth76765bf) entered disabled state [44268.119635] docker0: port 1(veth51c04e7) entered blocking state [44268.119726] docker0: port 1(veth51c04e7) entered disabled state [44268.119797] veth51c04e7: entered allmulticast mode [44268.120352] veth51c04e7: entered promiscuous mode [44268.245380] eth0: renamed from veth916ebeb [44268.251728] docker0: port 1(veth51c04e7) entered blocking state [44268.251798] docker0: port 1(veth51c04e7) entered forwarding state [44268.384290] hassio: port 2(vethaf9bc59) entered blocking state [44268.384376] hassio: port 2(vethaf9bc59) entered disabled state [44268.384423] vethaf9bc59: entered allmulticast mode [44268.384986] vethaf9bc59: entered promiscuous mode [44268.513343] eth1: renamed from veth48fb602 [44268.520780] hassio: port 2(vethaf9bc59) entered blocking state [44268.520872] hassio: port 2(vethaf9bc59) entered forwarding state [44274.819685] audit: type=1400 audit(1784532963.305:477): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" info="same as current profile, skipping" profile="unconfined" name="hassio-supervisor" pid=35485 comm="apparmor_parser" [44274.819758] audit: type=1400 audit(1784532963.305:478): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" info="same as current profile, skipping" profile="unconfined" name="hassio-supervisor///usr/bin/gdbus" pid=35485 comm="apparmor_parser" [44274.819829] audit: type=1400 audit(1784532963.305:479): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" info="same as current profile, skipping" profile="unconfined" name="hassio-supervisor///usr/bin/git" pid= Maybe that is because the minimal KVM QEMU arguments: if ! test -f /usr/lib/u-boot/qemu_arm64/u-boot.bin ; then apt install u-boot-qemu fi cd /local/s0/vmimg taskset --cpu-list 0-3 qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 4 \ -bios /usr/lib/u-boot/qemu_arm64/u-boot.bin \ -drive if=none,file=armimg.img,format=raw,id=hd0 \ -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 \ -netdev bridge,id=hn1 -device virtio-net,netdev=hn1 \ -nographic I think I will further limit to 512M and see if it still works; My older own HA Supervised used Btrfs as rootfs (compress-force=zstd:3 mount option), for this fake/KVM lepotato still Ext4 and I did: truncate -s8G armimg.img before 1st boot. For reference, I initially did change boot.cm/boot.scr to something rather static I had done long time ago for virtualizing ROCK3A, but it is more effective if this extlinux method is added to the image (need loopmount it before 1st boot, it assumes extlinux overrides boot.scr method): root@lepotato:/boot# cat extlinux/extlinux.conf menu title Select the kernel variant DEFAULT default TIMEOUT 80 LABEL default KERNEL /boot/Image INITRD /boot/uInitrd APPEND root=LABEL=armbi_root rootwait rw earlyprintk loglevel=7

@Nick_Sl @bickns — CLI/headless image is coming. It's the same debootstrap base and the same kernel, just without Plasma/Mesa/Discover, so it's mostly "subtracting", not extra work — a small ~300–500 MB image. Nick, I'll ping you when there's something to test. 🙂 Before I build it: is there anything you'd want baked in by default? Thinking headless/server use — things like NetworkManager vs systemd-networkd, docker/podman, python3, build tools, an ssh-only footprint, zram on by default, etc. If you tell me your use case I'll pick sane defaults rather than guessing. Good news on audio in the meantime: both HDMI and the analog 3.5 mm jack are working now (with jack-detect hotplug), so that's no longer a blocker for either image.

@bedna Thanks for the pointers, I'll try tonight or tomorrow. And yes, my plan was to set up a swap file on the SSD. @SteeMan I don't know if I'm doing something else wrong, but on my /etc/default/armbian-zram-config I have ENABLED=false and SWAP=false, but I keep seeing the swap mounted on lsblk and listed on htop

July 10Jul 10
10 replies
- rock-5b

Or probably the easier way is to edit /etc/default/armbian-zram-config

July 9Jul 9
10 replies
- rock-5b

@Biasio95 Wait, I'm an idiot, the kernel parameter disables zSWAP, not zram. sry. Try "swapoff /dev/zram0" (or whatever the dev is named) and then remove the module with "modprobe -r zram" "echo 'blacklist zram' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf", add another swap and reboot. Or you could disable the zram-generator with the kernel parameter "systemd.zram=0", that way no zram should be able to be created. One of the methods should work, but I have not actually tried it on armbian, so there might be configs that can throw errors if you just remove the module, IDK. If not, read: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/blockdev/zram.html#add-remove-zram-devices and remove the device in /sys/class/zram-control/hot_remove, I would assume that would stick. I assume you know how to setup a "normal" swap partition, because running without swap altogether is prob not a good idea.

July 9Jul 9
10 replies
- rock-5b

@bedna I tried disabling zram, both with armbian-config (so disabling it in /etc/default/armbian-zram-config) and also adding extraargs=zswap.enabled=0 on /boot/armbianEnv.txt, but the swap still show up htop and mounted in the lsblk output. What am I missing?

July 9Jul 9
10 replies
- rock-5b

Theoretically no, because the game won't occupy all the ram, so when you start to fill it up, the kernel should start compressing and move other stuff to zram, but theory is not always how it works in practicality. As for how to disable zram, add zswap.enabled=0 to your kernel parameters and it won't be available after a reboot. To stop zram during operation, IIRC, stop (not disable) systemd-zram-setup@zram0.service. If it's not you should be able to figure out what to stop by listing relevant unit files with systemctl --type swap

July 8Jul 8
10 replies
- rock-5b

You disable the zram swap, I forgot how, I think look in /etc/default/ambian* files. Else disable or mask the specific .service file.

July 7Jul 7
10 replies
- rock-5b

Thanks for the reply @eselarm. I was wondering if the install script was doing more than just flashing the SPI and cloning the partition, but if that's all it does I'm good. Regarding Zram and ramlog, I'm not concerned about how much the Nvme SSD gets written, I mainly use the Rock 5B as a low power NAS for temporary files, it downloads a ton of stuff that get shared on the other devices on my LAN, and after a while the files get deleted, so the work load is already more intense than what a bit of swapping and logging is going to do. But I sometimes use it to host simple game servers for my friends, so from time to time I need all the possible RAM, would disabling ZRAM and ramlog be beneficial, considering the SSD is fast enough to act as an efficient swap?

July 7Jul 7
10 replies
- rock-5b

As far as my experience is, there is no difference in final result if you do manual 'install' like you did. It runs the usual (user) setup scripts. It is even the same when you start an image as container, done that many times for various platforms. In fact writing SPI-flash is non-automatic, is manual as can be quite invasive. With modern ARM64 SBC like ROCK5B also people might threat it like a PC, with difference that PC comes with a motherboard that has already firmware/bootloader/UEFI/BIOS written by the manufacturer. Although some motherbaords also can use open source, like coreboot I think, but guessing. What to do as further tuning and customization depends on what you want to do with the ROCK5B. There is 1.5 decades between the single core ARMv6 based RaspberryPi1 and the current high-end SBC's that are 100x faster and can be treated like an Intel/AMD PC. I actually have no NVME for x86-64 (is still SATA SSD although also M.2 slot as well), but use my 500GB Samsung 970 EVO+ in the ROCK5B. I use Btrfs and compress-force=zstd for almost all Linux rootfs, so always create an extra swap partition, although a swapfile also works nowadays with special create options. I rather not use the (currently very expensive) RAM for swap when 4-lane PCIE v3 NVME is there. But that is also because my ROCK5B acts as a server, containers and KVM etc and also I use the RAM and NVME for caching a large HDD. So in terms of wear of flash storage, that caching is just way more demanding than what happens on a decade old SD-card only SBC. But NVME/SATA SSD's have perfectly readable stats and many good brands can write more TeraBytes than the specs mention from manufacturer. SD-cards can be very poorly design internally, and have no stats. So you simply don't know when they will break. If the SBC only does some simple things like camera streaming or some sensor's on GPIO pins, it makes sense to keep as much as possible in RAM. So then just keep it like it is. Or even disable journal to non-volatile storage if never any issues and only enable if troubles. One problem I had with zram swap is that on a 256MiB NanoPi-NEO, it failed when media streaming under memory pressure. mp3 or opus or h264 etc don't compress and can still buffer a lot, so the OOM killer started acting. I was not able to change the whole media stuff so stopped zram swap and put swap on normal extra swap partition.

July 7Jul 7
10 replies
- rock-5b

Hi, I just switched from an ancient ubuntu-rockchip install to armbian ubuntu 26.04 with the mainline kernel. I did a bit of an unorthodox installation, I wanted to install on an nvme drive, and instead of using a microSD and then copying the system with armbian-install, since I didn't have a working microsd available I did a "manual" installation, I flashed rkspi_loader.img into the SPI taken from the armbian image and then flashed the armbian img directly to the nvme drive with an usb adapter from my PC. All is good and working fine, but I'm wondering if I'm missing any settings that gets applied during the armbian-install process (are there any?) that are specific for nvme. And regarding Zram, ram2log and other optimizations that armbian uses for SDs, how should I configure them? My setup is a Radxa Rock 5B with 8GB of RAM with a Samsung 970 evo plus, should I disable zram and create a swapfile? Any other setting to look out for? I think my hdparm -t speed is a bit low, around 1300 MB/s. Thanks in advance

July 6Jul 6
10 replies
- rock-5b

@eselarm Good question, not yet sure what to do. First off, new stock Raspbian worked (for me) out of the box, at least for both V4L2 and libcamera. I'd have yelled at them if they didn't, as that's Raspberry hardware and software up and down the stack, so they have no excuses. I mostly want to use libcamera, but for me, libcamera and V4L2 were in total agreement on both Raspbian and Armbian. On Raspbian, both detected the IMX708, and on Armbian, neither did -- or, rather, /dev/video0 never got set up, despite the module loading fine and dmesg logging it in Armbian. To add, also, with the zram swap system in place, I can't actually compile libcamera (or the apps) on the Armbian Zero 2W, due to lack of memory (!). I ran out the will to work around that at the time. So I built the Debian libcamera packages (all of them) on a Pi 5 and copied them over. Only the trixie-backports modules actually ran through okay, but they did. That seemed to work fine -- and as I said, neither V4L2 nor libcamera set up an accessible camera device -- and they agree -- so I think the issue is kernel-side, not in userspace. I suspect it's in the device tree somewhere. My guess is if we get V4L2 happy, then libcamera will be. The main advantage of V4L2 is that the device list is a clear tell for camera detection on boot, one that doesn't need a much installation work. Also, I didn't yet get to the rpicam apps framework. I will, because I actually use it for the cow I want to deploy. But that's an extra layer beyond libcamera itself. the standard libcamera-tools package contains the cam binary which is enough to detect devices. If I can get V4L2 happy, or if cam can capture an image, then I know the kernel side is fine, and it's all my problem. I'll be happy to take it from that point. Your point about raspi-firmware is very helpful. That would fit some of what I've seen here. I'll dig in and check on that. I would not assume it's using a Raspberry vendor kernel. I didn't try that. And Broadcom shenanigans apart, I hope I don't need to. What's weird is the IMX708 kernel module is definitely loaded and active and detecting the hardware on the Armbian Debian trixie. Most of the Broadcom stuff is there -- all the hardware encoders show up. Just not the camera itself. Many thanks -- I'll dig in today and see if I can progress.

June 24Jun 24
5 replies
- rpi4b

I attempted to file a bug using `reportbug`, but since the kernel package is from Armbian and the report went to Debian, I assume that is a dead end. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1137721 I will mostly copy/paste from that report, here, but I also ran `armbianmonitor -u`. https://paste.armbian.com/wenegucita I run a home backup server with a 1TB SSD attached to an ODroid HC1 board. There is no redundancy, but I do keep a limited history of snapshots, taken hourly and trimmed down to a small number of hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly snapshots. There should be at most about 20 snapshots existing at a time. I have a daily cron job to run a balance operation. The mount point is `/backup` . Relevant line from /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/backup /backup btrfs noatime,noauto,nodev,nosuid,noexec,compress=zlib:9 0 0 Command used for daily balance: btrfs balance start --full-balance '/backup' The filesystem only seems to be about half full: ansible@backup:~ $ sudo btrfs filesystem df --si /backup Data, single: total=430.57GB, used=428.24GB System, DUP: total=67.11MB, used=81.92kB Metadata, DUP: total=3.22GB, used=2.48GB GlobalReserve, single: total=536.87MB, used=49.15kB ansible@backup:~ $ My best understanding is that the messages that follow indicate that something is attempting to address space beyond 16TB, and that seems like a bug because my disk is only 1TB total. I would appreciate anyone with a firmer grasp of the topic at least confirming whether that is an accurate reading of the warnings and errors. If not, I might suggest that the warnings and errors could be improved, but I am open to correction if I just failed to understand what they are telling me. The problem seems to be triggered by any attempt to rebalance metadata or system data with a usage limit of 1 or higher. Excerpt from a command session: ansible@backup:~ $ time sudo btrfs balance start -musage=1 /backup; echo $? ERROR: error during balancing '/backup': Read-only file system There may be more info in syslog - try dmesg | tail real 0m0.304s user 0m0.040s sys 0m0.082s 1 ansible@backup:~ $ sudo umount /backup && sudo mount -o skip_balance /backup && sudo btrfs balance cancel /backup ansible@backup:~ $ time sudo btrfs balance start -f -susage=1 /backup; echo $? ERROR: error during balancing '/backup': Read-only file system There may be more info in syslog - try dmesg | tail real 0m0.321s user 0m0.023s sys 0m0.096s 1 ansible@backup:~ $ Excerpt from dmesg from that time: [114023.693265] BTRFS info (device dm-0): balance: start -musage=1 -susage=1 [114023.695656] BTRFS error (device dm-0): extent buffer 18905857064960 is beyond 32bit page cache limit [114023.695669] BTRFS error (device dm-0): reached 32bit limit for logical addresses [114023.695677] BTRFS error (device dm-0): due to page cache limit on 32bit systems, metadata beyond 16T can't be accessed [114023.695686] BTRFS error (device dm-0): please consider upgrading to 64bit kernel/hardware [114023.695699] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [114023.695706] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 30371 at fs/btrfs/space-info.h:208 btrfs_space_info_update_bytes_may_use+0x9c/0x1c0 [btrfs] [114023.695813] Modules linked in: aes_arm_bs crypto_simd dm_crypt cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave sunrpc zram zsmalloc binfmt_misc evdev sg nfnetlink ip_tables x_tables ipv6 autofs4 btrfs blake2b_generic xor xor_neon raid6_pq li bcrc32c sd_mod t10_pi crc64_rocksoft uas usb_storage scsi_mod scsi_common gpio_keys [114023.695959] CPU: 4 PID: 30371 Comm: btrfs Tainted: G W 6.6.122-current-odroidxu4 #1 [114023.695969] Hardware name: Samsung Exynos (Flattened Device Tree) [114023.695980] unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14 [114023.696000] show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x40/0x4c [114023.696014] dump_stack_lvl from __warn+0x78/0x154 [114023.696025] __warn from warn_slowpath_fmt+0x1b4/0x1bc [114023.696035] warn_slowpath_fmt from btrfs_space_info_update_bytes_may_use+0x9c/0x1c0 [btrfs] [114023.696127] btrfs_space_info_update_bytes_may_use [btrfs] from btrfs_block_rsv_release+0x1f4/0x2f4 [btrfs] [114023.696300] btrfs_block_rsv_release [btrfs] from btrfs_alloc_tree_block+0x118/0x6b4 [btrfs] [114023.696465] btrfs_alloc_tree_block [btrfs] from btrfs_force_cow_block+0x148/0xa60 [btrfs] [114023.696628] btrfs_force_cow_block [btrfs] from btrfs_cow_block+0xe4/0x2bc [btrfs] [114023.696792] btrfs_cow_block [btrfs] from btrfs_search_slot+0x6dc/0xc08 [btrfs] [114023.696957] btrfs_search_slot [btrfs] from btrfs_update_device+0xa4/0x248 [btrfs] [114023.697122] btrfs_update_device [btrfs] from btrfs_chunk_alloc_add_chunk_item+0xcc/0x638 [btrfs] [114023.697287] btrfs_chunk_alloc_add_chunk_item [btrfs] from reserve_chunk_space+0xec/0x180 [btrfs] [114023.697451] reserve_chunk_space [btrfs] from check_system_chunk+0x6c/0x74 [btrfs] [114023.697615] check_system_chunk [btrfs] from btrfs_inc_block_group_ro+0x228/0x234 [btrfs] [114023.697780] btrfs_inc_block_group_ro [btrfs] from btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x94/0x48c [btrfs] [114023.697945] btrfs_relocate_block_group [btrfs] from btrfs_relocate_chunk+0x3c/0x180 [btrfs] [114023.698108] btrfs_relocate_chunk [btrfs] from btrfs_balance+0x864/0x13b8 [btrfs] [114023.698272] btrfs_balance [btrfs] from btrfs_ioctl+0x248c/0x28c4 [btrfs] [114023.698436] btrfs_ioctl [btrfs] from sys_ioctl+0x288/0xc60 [114023.698533] sys_ioctl from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54 [114023.698547] Exception stack(0xf2575fa8 to 0xf2575ff0) [114023.698556] 5fa0: 00000000 00000003 00000003 c4009420 bebe7fd0 bebe7f70 [114023.698565] 5fc0: 00000000 00000003 bebe7fd0 00000036 005bfb78 bebe86f4 00000001 0058b190 [114023.698572] 5fe0: 00000036 bebe7f58 b6d718b1 b6cdf736 [114023.698580] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [114023.698802] BTRFS error (device dm-0): extent buffer 18905857064960 is beyond 32bit page cache limit [114023.698821] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [114023.698827] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 30371 at fs/btrfs/block-group.c:2783 btrfs_create_pending_block_groups+0x674/0x67c [btrfs] [114023.698925] BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -75) [114064.918054] Modules linked in: aes_arm_bs crypto_simd dm_crypt cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave sunrpc zram zsmalloc binfmt_misc evdev sg nfnetlink ip_tables x_tables ipv6 autofs4 btrfs blake2b_generic xor xor_neon raid6_pq libcrc32c sd_mod t10_pi crc64_rocksoft uas usb_storage scsi_mod scsi_common gpio_keys [114064.918234] CPU: 5 PID: 30410 Comm: btrfs Tainted: G W 6.6.122-current-odroidxu4 #1 [114064.918245] Hardware name: Samsung Exynos (Flattened Device Tree) [114064.918256] unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14 [114064.918272] show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x40/0x4c [114064.918284] dump_stack_lvl from __warn+0x78/0x154 [114064.918296] __warn from warn_slowpath_fmt+0x130/0x1bc [114064.918307] warn_slowpath_fmt from btrfs_create_pending_block_groups+0x674/0x67c [btrfs] [114064.918399] btrfs_create_pending_block_groups [btrfs] from __btrfs_end_transaction+0x38/0x2a0 [btrfs] [114064.918567] __btrfs_end_transaction [btrfs] from btrfs_inc_block_group_ro+0x1f0/0x234 [btrfs] [114064.918733] btrfs_inc_block_group_ro [btrfs] from btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x94/0x48c [btrfs] [114064.918899] btrfs_relocate_block_group [btrfs] from btrfs_relocate_chunk+0x3c/0x180 [btrfs] [114064.919065] btrfs_relocate_chunk [btrfs] from btrfs_balance+0x864/0x13b8 [btrfs] [114064.919231] btrfs_balance [btrfs] from btrfs_ioctl+0x248c/0x28c4 [btrfs] [114064.919397] btrfs_ioctl [btrfs] from sys_ioctl+0x288/0xc60 [114064.919491] sys_ioctl from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54 [114064.919505] Exception stack(0xf26b9fa8 to 0xf26b9ff0) [114064.919516] 9fa0: 00000000 00000003 00000003 c4009420 beae9fc0 beae9f60 [114064.919527] 9fc0: 00000000 00000003 beae9fc0 00000036 0057fb78 beaea6f1 00000001 0054b190 [114064.919537] 9fe0: 00000036 beae9f48 b6d118b1 b6c7f736 [114064.919614] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [114064.919632] BTRFS: error (device dm-0: state A) in btrfs_create_pending_block_groups:2783: errno=-75 unknown [114064.919647] BTRFS info (device dm-0: state EA): forced readonly [114064.920025] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [114064.920039] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 30410 at fs/btrfs/space-info.h:208 btrfs_space_info_update_bytes_may_use+0x9c/0x1c0 [btrfs] [114064.920182] Modules linked in: aes_arm_bs crypto_simd dm_crypt cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave sunrpc zram zsmalloc binfmt_misc evdev sg nfnetlink ip_tables x_tables ipv6 autofs4 btrfs blake2b_generic xor xor_neon raid6_pq libcrc32c sd_mod t10_pi crc64_rocksoft uas usb_storage scsi_mod scsi_common gpio_keys [114064.920385] CPU: 5 PID: 30410 Comm: btrfs Tainted: G W 6.6.122-current-odroidxu4 #1 [114064.920398] Hardware name: Samsung Exynos (Flattened Device Tree) [114064.920409] unwind_backtrace from show_stack+0x10/0x14 [114064.920426] show_stack from dump_stack_lvl+0x40/0x4c [114064.920441] dump_stack_lvl from __warn+0x78/0x154 [114064.920454] __warn from warn_slowpath_fmt+0x1b4/0x1bc [114064.920466] warn_slowpath_fmt from btrfs_space_info_update_bytes_may_use+0x9c/0x1c0 [btrfs] [114064.920559] btrfs_space_info_update_bytes_may_use [btrfs] from btrfs_block_rsv_release+0x1f4/0x2f4 [btrfs] [114064.920729] btrfs_block_rsv_release [btrfs] from btrfs_trans_release_chunk_metadata+0x2c/0x40 [btrfs] [114064.920900] btrfs_trans_release_chunk_metadata [btrfs] from __btrfs_end_transaction+0x38/0x2a0 [btrfs] [114064.921070] __btrfs_end_transaction [btrfs] from btrfs_inc_block_group_ro+0x1f0/0x234 [btrfs] [114064.921239] btrfs_inc_block_group_ro [btrfs] from btrfs_relocate_block_group+0x94/0x48c [btrfs] [114064.921406] btrfs_relocate_block_group [btrfs] from btrfs_relocate_chunk+0x3c/0x180 [btrfs] [114064.921572] btrfs_relocate_chunk [btrfs] from btrfs_balance+0x864/0x13b8 [btrfs] [114064.921741] btrfs_balance [btrfs] from btrfs_ioctl+0x248c/0x28c4 [btrfs] [114064.921913] btrfs_ioctl [btrfs] from sys_ioctl+0x288/0xc60 [114064.922009] sys_ioctl from ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x54 [114064.922024] Exception stack(0xf26b9fa8 to 0xf26b9ff0) [114064.922036] 9fa0: 00000000 00000003 00000003 c4009420 beae9fc0 beae9f60 [114064.922046] 9fc0: 00000000 00000003 beae9fc0 00000036 0057fb78 beaea6f1 00000001 0054b190 [114064.922057] 9fe0: 00000036 beae9f48 b6d118b1 b6c7f736 [114064.922067] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [114064.922111] BTRFS info (device dm-0: state EA): balance: ended with status: -30 I tried balancing data, starting with low usage limits and moving up to no limit. That all went smoothly. The problem still occurred when trying to balance metadata, but the extent buffer number named in dmesg errors changed. I do not know whether that is significant or whether balancing data should be expected to be of any benefit in this situation. I did not keep full context from dmesg, but these are the commands issued: btrfs balance start -dusage=1 /backup btrfs balance start -dusage=10 /backup btrfs balance start -dusage=50 /backup btrfs balance start -dusage=75 /backup btrfs balance start -dusage=85 /backup btrfs balance start -dusage=95 /backup btrfs balance start -d /backup Most of those were pretty fast. The last one took several hours. I also checked my SSD for SMART errors, running a short self test and then a long one. No errors are reported. I do not know whether this is an architecture specific bug. It may be specific to 32 bit systems, or to ARM 32 bit, or it may not. I do not know whether this is an upstream bug, but it seems likely. The behavior in question seems to be related to the btrfs kernel component. The recommended fix is to attach the SSD to a 64 bit system to complete any operations requiring addresses that cannot be handled by the 32 bit system. I have not done that, yet, and I will hold off for a while, as it seems like that will only be a temporary fix. If I can gather any more relevant information while the system is still in this state, please let me know. -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: armhf (armv7l) Kernel: Linux 6.6.122-current-odroidxu4 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- no debconf information

Hi, still have problem with 5C lite and NVME. When i boot form SD, lsblk shows ZRAM, MMCBLK and NVME - when I install Armbian to NVME it boots from SSD only once and then, after seting up user and enviroment lsblk shows only zram and nvme...and next boot is KO. I have tried all the magic with SPI overlay on RADXA OS, in lsblk there is zram, mmcblk1 with three partitions and nvme - but when updating SPI BOOT, there is following error: radxa@rock-5c:~$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS mmcblk1 179:0 0 29G 0 disk ├─mmcblk1p1 179:1 0 16M 0 part /config ├─mmcblk1p2 179:2 0 300M 0 part /boot/efi └─mmcblk1p3 179:3 0 28.6G 0 part / zram0 253:0 0 7.8G 0 disk [SWAP] nvme0n1 259:0 0 953.9G 0 disk └─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 944.3G 0 part radxa@rock-5c:~$ sudo rsetup [sudo] password for radxa: /usr/lib/u-boot/rock-5c-spi/setup.sh: line 3: ERROR_REQUIRE_FILE: readonly variable /usr/lib/u-boot/rock-5c-spi/setup.sh: line 4: ERROR_ILLEGAL_PARAMETERS: readonly variable /usr/lib/u-boot/rock-5c-spi/setup.sh: line 5: ERROR_REQUIRE_TARGET: readonly variable /dev/mtd0 is missing. also kernel is weird... radxa@rock-5c:~$ uname -r 6.1.84-8-rk2410 I'm maybe too carefull, but I know, I wouldn't be able to fix broken bootloader:-] So please help, if you can Tried both vendor and current kernels (6.18 and 6.1) but results are the same Regards Jan

April 30Apr 30
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