[News from Armbian] - Github Highlights

This week in Armbian development saw significant progress across board support, kernel updates, and codebase improvements. Notable additions include support for the SpacemiT MusePi Pro and Friendlyelec NanoPi Zero2, alongside expanded compatibility for TI AM62x SoC boards. Multiple platforms, such as Rockchip, Meson64, and Sunxi, received kernel bumpst to new LTS 6.18.y and patch refinements, enhancing stability and hardware support. The team also improved consistency in function naming, streamlined vendor relations, and addressed driver issues for Rockchip64. Workflow enhancements were made to enforce image availability for new boards and reduce review noise. Additionally, legacy UEFI images for WSL2 were removed, and documentation output processes were refined. These updates reflect Armbian’s ongoing commitment to robust hardware support and development efficiency.

• Add board SpacemiT MusePi Pro and update linux patching. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#9058
• Add support for Friendlyelec NanoPi Zero2. by @sapphic-kitten in armbian/build#8886
• adjust function names for the sake of consistency. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9108
• Board vendors adjustements for generic targets. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9109
• Bump Rockchip edge to 6.18.y. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9104
• CodeRabbit review noise reduction. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9074
• compress-checksum: introduce COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=zst. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9101
• DevTree overlays to enable RK3308 UARTS. by @brentr in armbian/build#9072
• extensions/gen-sample-extension-docs: output Markdown to userpatches/extensions. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9075
• Fix missing board vendor relations. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9110
• Fix PR comments for forked submissions. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9089
• GHA: Enforce board and vendor image availability for newly added boards. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9087
• meson64: 6.18: drop cacheref S922X fix patch as it landed on 6.18.2. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9100
• Meson64: linux-6.18.y: Improve 6.18.y support for G12/SM1. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#9070
• radxa-e24c: enable edge branch by picking from Kwiboo's WiP tree. by @rpardini in armbian/build#9102
• rockchip64: Fix IEP driver. by @fwolter in armbian/build#9107
• rpi4b: bump legacy, current and edge to new major version. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9097
• rpi4b: enable EXTRAWIFI again for edge. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9073
• sunxi: adjust patch for H616 overlays. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9096
• sunxi: bump current and edge to latest minor, rewrite patches. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9103
• sunxi: bump edge to 6.18. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9049
• sunxi: fix missing dt overlays. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9094
• TI SK-AM62-SIP Remove Edge Target. by @Grippy98 in armbian/build#9105
• ti: configs: boards: Add additional AM62x SoC board support. by @jonaswood01 in armbian/build#9081
• ti: configs: family: k3: Update baseline to 11.02.08. by @jonaswood01 in armbian/build#9091
• Update odroidxu4-current to 6.6.119. by @belegdol in armbian/build#9037
• WSL2: Drop UEFI images designed specially for WSL2. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9098

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