[News from Armbian] - Github Highlights

This week's updates center on new board enablement, Rockchip platform refinements, and tooling and kernel maintenance.

Board support expanded across multiple silicon families, with the addition of Seeed Studio reComputer RK3576/RK3588 DevKits and the Anbernic RG DS handheld image. The EasePi A2/R2 received substantial revisions to its board configurations and device trees, alongside a vendor logo transition to Linkease. SpacemiT K1 boot support was updated, and per-SoC LINUXCONFIG separation was introduced for the TQ family to better isolate kernel configurations.

Rockchip received the bulk of low-level improvements. Notable changes include AUX recovery for USB-C DP Alt Mode in the dw-dp driver, device-tree-based LED configuration for the r8169/r8125 controllers, and an updated patch ensuring stable PCIe Ethernet MAC addresses across many boards. Additional fixes resolve slow WiFi on the NanoPi R76S via SDIO SDR104, enable Bluetooth on the Orange Pi 5 Ultra edge kernel, and restore the tm16xx driver on current kernels.

On the tooling and maintenance side, Armbian Imager 2.0 was released, the mainline kernel was bumped to 7.1-rc6, and the rtl8192eu driver was re-enabled following a cleanup of compilation warnings. A previously merged USB gadget NULL pointer fix was reverted pending further evaluation.

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Changes

• mainline: bump to 7.1-rc6. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9922
• Add Anbernic RG DS board image and Anbernic vendor logo. by @crackerjacques in armbian/armbian.github.io#326
• Add jellyfin-ffmpeg release constraints and ip-wrapper for easepi-r2. by @ifroncy01 in armbian/build#9942
• arm64: dts: overlay: add radxa display 8hd for rock5t. by @Ken-Vamrs in armbian/linux-rockchip#498
• board-vendor-logos: update EasePi vendor logo to Linkease. by @ifroncy01 in armbian/armbian.github.io#321
• drm: rockchip: dw-dp: add AUX recovery for USB-C DP Alt Mode. by @mingzhangqun in armbian/linux-rockchip#494
• easepi-r2/a2: fix device tree. by @jjm2473 in armbian/linux-rockchip#491
• feat(boards): Add Seeed Studio reComputer RK3576/RK3588 DevKit support. by @baorepo in armbian/build#9719
• Give each TQ SoC family its own LINUXCONFIG. by @schmiedelm in armbian/build#9924
• Introducing Armbian Imager 2.0. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#143
• Milk-V Jupiter disable EEPROM node. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#9944
• nanopi-r76s: fix slow WiFi by enabling SDIO SDR104. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#9929
• net: r8169: add device tree based LED configuration for r8125. by @mingzhangqun in armbian/linux-rockchip#497
• orangepi5-ultra: enable Bluetooth on edge kernel via hci_bcm. by @pdapandapda in armbian/build#9697
• Revert "rockchip64: fix USB gadget NULL pointer crash in eth_get_drvinfo (6.18 + 7.0)". by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9926
• rockchip64: enable back tm16xx driver for current kernel. by @paolosabatino in armbian/build#9941
• rockchip64: update "describe PCIe Ethernet controllers" patch for stable MAC (many boards). by @rpardini in armbian/build#9933
• rtl8192eu: re-enable and fix tons of compilation warnings. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9927
• SpacemiT: Update K1 boot support. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#9930
• Treat imx93 as slow hardware. by @schmiedelm in armbian/armbian.github.io#323
• Update EasePi A2/R2 board configs and device trees for improved hardware support. by @ifroncy01 in armbian/build#9907
• Update VERSION. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#9938

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