[News from Armbian] - Github Highlights

This week's updates center on new hardware enablement, a broad U-Boot v2026.07 modernization, and build system hardening for toolchain and infrastructure changes.

Board support expanded across multiple SoC families, including the X88 PRO RK3566 TV box, Avnet MaaXBoard 8ULP (i.MX8ULP), EASY EAI Nano (RV1126), and the AYN Odin3. The Youyeetoo R1 v3 was promoted to standard support with named audio outputs, while the Radxa Dragon Q8B gained an edge kernel (7.1) target. Rockchip work included RK3588 CAN support for kernels 6.18/7.1/7.2, HDMI-RX fixes on the OrangePi 5 Ultra, and Mixtile Blade3 refinements on the 7.2 bleeding edge.

A coordinated U-Boot bump to v2026.07 landed across Helios4, Odroid HC4/M1, Turing RK1, Radxa E52C, Qidi X6, Mekotronics R58X-Pro, and the Espressobin/Macchiatobin (paired with TF-A 2.14.0). This surfaced toolchain issues on Trixie, addressed through SWIG 4.3 pylibfdt compatibility, demotion of gcc 14 int-conversion and implicit-declaration errors to warnings, and related pin cleanups.

Infrastructure work strengthened build reliability and CI. The rootfs stage gained DNS fallback and apt retry hardening for chroot operations, armbian-firstlogin received power-loss recovery with atomic writes, and armbian-install now reports bootloader write failures explicitly. Docker framework updates enable native riscv64 image generation on trixie and noble runners, while new extensions introduce sysrq serial trigger, kernel-debug tiers, ram-boot via rkusbboot, and generic SATA park-on-shutdown enabled by default on the Odroid HC4.

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Changes

• Add support for X88 PRO RK3566 TV box. by @Ovaday in armbian/linux-rockchip#500
• Add AI-driven README updater (central, cross-repo). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#359
• Add Avnet MaaXBoard 8ULP (i.MX8ULP) support. by @govindsi in armbian/build#9991
• Add AYN Odin3 firmware. by @kasimling in armbian/firmware#136
• Add ayn-odin3 board image. by @kasimling in armbian/armbian.github.io#358
• Add board: EASY EAI Nano RV1126. by @hqnicolas in armbian/build#10154
• Add minimal SWT6621S firmware support for KICKPI K3B. by @retro98boy in armbian/firmware#134
• armbian-firstlogin: power-loss recovery and atomic writes. by @mingzhangqun in armbian/build#9954
• armbian-install: report bootloader write failures instead of "Done.". by @iav in armbian/build#10204
• artifact-rootfs: surface git-log failure when computing configng hash. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9849
• board: aml-c400-plus: Fix eMMC boot format and partition layout. by @jomadeto in armbian/build#9911
• boards/easy-eai-nano: enable usb and brcm wifi. by @hqnicolas in armbian/build#10177
• brcm: add brcmfmac firmware aliases for easy-eai nano (rv1126). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/firmware#133
• bsp: generic SATA park-on-shutdown (HDD_PARK_ON_SHUTDOWN), enable on Odroid HC4. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10191
• bsp: use kernel version argument in ABL postinst scripts (fixes #10108). by @rorystandley in armbian/build#10109
• can: rockchip: add RK3588 CAN support (for kernel v6.18 / v7.1 / v7.2). by @lch08 in armbian/build#10184
• ci(board-assets): don't check out fork head under pull_request_target. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10194
• cix-acpi: bump edge to 7.1.y. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10167
• Cleanup patches. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10174
• csc board: NORCO EMB-3531: Do not reset LTE moden. by @retro98boy in armbian/build#10222
• docker/framework: build riscv64 images on native runners (trixie, noble). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/docker-armbian-build#34
• docker/framework: generate riscv64 images (trixie, noble, resolute). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/docker-armbian-build#33
• docker/riscv64: fix cross-compiler availability for generate-dockerfile. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9589
• docker: allow overriding host_arch for foreign-arch Dockerfile generation. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10211
• docs: refresh README (AI-assisted). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/ci#29
• Enable memory compaction and RK630 PHY on Rockchip vendor kernels . by @lukaszsobala in armbian/build#10175
• Enable pwm gpio. by @frank-f in armbian/build#10238
• extensions/nvidia: per-distro version detection + runtime auto-disable on no-GPU hosts. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#9845
• extensions/radxa-aic8800: use local dir as download cache. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10156
• extensions/rkusbboot: easy ramboot mainline u-boot on Rockchip devices. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10158
• feat(extensions): sysrq-serial-trigger + kernel-debug-tiers (on-device kernel debugging via serial console). by @iav in armbian/build#9776
• feat(flash): keep the success screen when verification is cancelled. by @SuperKali in armbian/imager#166
• Fix build for Linux 7.1. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/bcmdhd-dkms#7
• fix hdmi rx on orangepi5 ultra by adding hpd-gpios. by @pdapandapda in armbian/build#10172
• fix Radxa U-Boot ITB dependency. by @yisding in armbian/build#10196
• Fix sata2 target-supply for Orange Pi 3B and Station M2. by @dust-7 in armbian/build#10137
• fix the hdmirx HPD patch against kernel6.18 & kernel 7.1. by @pdapandapda in armbian/build#10180
• fix(offline): honor OFFLINE_WORK in git-ref2info and memoize TTL. by @iav in armbian/build#9797
• gha: disable build cronjobs (moved to armbian/ci). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os#482
• git: match safe.directory literally, not as a regex. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10223
• git: silence spurious SUBSHELL error annotation from safe.directory check. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10225
• helios4: bump u-boot to v2026.07. by @iav in armbian/build#10183
• helios4: drop stale u-boot patch dir v2025.10/board_helios4. by @iav in armbian/build#10189
• input: remotectl: rockchip-pwm: prefer dedicated channel-3 IRQ. by @rpardini in armbian/linux-rockchip#503
• k3: sk-am62-lp: shrink R5 SPL to fit SRAM + silence k3 cp noise. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10230
• luckfox-lyra-ultra-w: Add spidev overlay with 2 CS. by @vidplace7 in armbian/linux-rockchip#505
• mainline: bump bleedingedge to v7.2-rc3. by @EvilOlaf in armbian/build#10181
• mekotronics-r58x-pro: u-boot: bump to v2026.07. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10232
• mixtile-blade3: edge: u-boot: fancy it up (lwIP, mbedTLS, efi, btrfs, etc). by @rpardini in armbian/build#10234
• mvebu64: modernize EspressoBin/MacchiatoBin firmware (u-boot 2026.07 + TF-A 2.14.0 + A3720 fixes). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10213
• odroidhc4: u-boot: bump to v2026.07, drop upstreamed patch. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10233
• odroidm1: bump u-boot to v2026.07. by @iav in armbian/build#10201
• Qidi X6: update to u-boot 2026.07. by @Shadowrom2020 in armbian/build#10228
• radxa-dragon-q8b: add edge kernel (7.1) target. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#10215
• radxa-e52c: bump uboot to v2026.07. by @okrc in armbian/build#10135
• Rk3588 es8388 codec silence log. by @CT1IQI in armbian/build#10198
• rockchip64-6.18: rework rk3588-0010-fix-clk-divisions to avoid patching include/linux/math.h. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10207
• rockchip64-7.2: bleedingedge: enable REALTEK_PHY_HWMON. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10206
• rockchip64-7.2: rk3588-mixtile-blade3, many fixes and additions. by @rpardini in armbian/build#10203
• rootfs-image: move pre_install_distribution_specific inside install_distribution_specific(). by @rpardini in armbian/build#10157
• rootfs: DNS fallback for build-time chroot resolv.conf. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10205
• rootfs: harden chroot apt against transient fetch failures (retries + fail-fast update). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10202
• rootfs: pin tar for resolute kernel deb install (all families). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10187
• rootfs: revert resolute tar pin (#10187) — fixed upstream. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10209
• runner-clean: drop stale amlogic FIP source caches. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/actions#28
• runner-clean: ensure tree is installed on the host. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/actions#27
• runner-clean: register qemu binfmt handlers on the host. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/actions#26
• sc8280xp: fix wrong LINUXCONFIG name for the sc8280xp branch. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10227
• SpacemiT: Defconfig: Enable CONFIG_PWM_PXA. by @fkpwolf in armbian/build#10182
• sun55iw3-syterkit: skip TF-A build (SyterKit is self-contained). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10214
• targets: drop resolute from riscv64 userspace builds (RVA23 vs RV64GC). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/ci#27
• turing-rk1: bump u-boot v2024.04 → v2026.07 (fix SWIG 4.3 build break on trixie). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10216
• u-boot: bump 2026.07-rc4/rc5 pins to final v2026.07. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10186
• u-boot: don't error on implicit declarations (gcc ≥ 14 / trixie). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10221
• u-boot: fix old pylibfdt build against SWIG ≥ 4.3 (trixie). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10217
• u-boot: sync btrfs zstd short-extent fix into shadowed board/pool copies. by @iav in armbian/build#10208
• uboot: demote int-conversion & incompatible-pointer-types to warnings (gcc 14). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10224
• Up rtw8822b to v30.20.0. by @farwayer in armbian/firmware#135
• update Helios4 BSP postinst. by @leggewie in armbian/build#9065
• workflows: add Delete Old Releases (copied from os). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/ci#26
• workflows: enable build cronjobs (taking over from armbian/os). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/ci#25
• youyeetoo-r1-v3: bump mainline u-boot to v2026.04. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#10219
• youyeetoo-r1-v3: promote to standard support and name audio outputs. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#10220

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