Description

The mt7623 family only has one board (BananaPi R2) and has not been properly maintained in many years. Instead of fully removing the family, bump the kernel to 'current' 6.6 since the SoC and also the BananaPi R2 is mainlined and shouldn't cause too many troubles. No need for 'edge' kernel unless someone plans to step in as maintainer who bumps and tests it on every new kernel release.

Also:

• Add armhf support to Trixie (was this disabled for a specific reason? If so, please let me know. It builds fine though)
• Move the NETWORKING_STACK in main config to after family config to allow the family config to change it.

Please note: I do not own the hardware. Inspiration for changed were made from this 1.5 years old PR: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4873

By the way, when this is done, there will be no 4.x kernels anymore 🎉 (5.x I'm coming for you soon™ as well 😈)

GitHub issue reference: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/6821 Jira reference number AR-2392

How Has This Been Tested?

• [x] ./compile.sh BOARD=bananapir2 BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=trixie
• [x] ./compile.sh BOARD=bananapir2 BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=noble

Checklist:

• [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project
• [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code
• [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• [x] My changes generate no new warnings
• [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules

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