Armbian Weekly Leaflet

 First week of April , 2025

This week’s Armbian update delivers a solid mix of wireless driver enhancements, board refinements, and quality-of-life improvements across the build system. Notably, rtw88 and rtw89 drivers are now enabled for kernel 6.12+, and Radxa Zero 3 receives mainline U-Boot and WiFi upgrades. Rock 3A sees multiple U-Boot tweaks, while NanoPi R3S and Odroid M2 benefit from version bumps and cleanup. Whether you’re maintaining a fleet or tweaking a personal project, there’s plenty in here to streamline your next build.

Kernel & Driver Enhancements

• rtw88 & rtw89 wireless drivers are now enabled for kernel 6.12+ configs.
  By Igor Pecovnik
• RTL8812AU driver updated for kernel 6.14.y thanks to upstream merge.
  By Ricardo Pardini
• Reverted hacky RTL8812AU workaround now that upstream is in.
  

Board Support Updates

• Radxa Zero 3
  • WiFi extension now enabled by default.
    
  • Upgraded to mainline U-Boot v2025.01.
    
• NanoPi R3S
  • U-Boot bumped to v2025.01 for current.
    
  • Board config cleanup.
    
• Rock 3A
  • U-Boot .itb build fixed.
    
  • Back-and-forth on code duplication optimizations… but it’s finally clean now.
    Final Fix
• Odroid M2
  • U-Boot patches updated to v2025.04-rc5.
    
  • Cleaned up patch naming and rewrote without functional changes.
    

Infrastructure & System Improvements

• Cloud QCOW2 images now auto-resize filesystem to include 16GB of free space on boot.
  By Igor Pecovnik
• NETKIT support added to all kernel builds 6.7+.
  
  Docstrings added to netkit for clarity.
  By CodeRabbit AI
• Automatic board status synchronization occurred twice this week.
  #1 | #2

Miscellaneous

• armbian-leds.conf added for Radxa E20C
  
• Examples removed from hooks for leaner builds
  
• Vendor colors now included in BSP & artifact hashing
  

Stay tuned for next week’s highlights!
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