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Last month I gave a short talk about the Chamelium board from the ChromeOS team, a board that is getting more and more usage outside of Google as it can help you automate the testing of your display (and not only!) code and hardware. View the full article

Description As our CI progresses into a complicated suite, we are finding new and new small issues that its best to work on under one Jira story. Jira reference number AR-1238 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Test B Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Update maintainers and board status synced status from the database rename to .csc where we don't have anyone If you want to become a board maintainer, adjust data here. Ref: Board Maintainers Procedures and Guidelines View the full article

Event Dispatcher, part of the upcoming WirePlumber 0.5 configuration system refactoring, is a custom PipeWire event scheduling mechanism designed to address many of the fundamental issues in WirePlumber. View the full article

This will reset bluetooth host-wake-gpios, enabling it to come back upon reboots. Jira reference number AR-1724 How Has This Been Tested? [X] On cold boot and reboot. Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [X] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

There are already Python editors such as Thonny, but the BBC thought those were not good enough and released a new web-based Python editor specifically designed for the micro:bit education board targeting 11 to 14 years old pupils. The micro:bit Python editor includes drag and drop code examples, code structure & error highlighting, auto-complete feature, a simulator to test the code before uploading it to the micro:bit board, and a Quick ideas section to help pupils get started with projects. The BBC’s micro:bit Python editor works with both the micro:bit V1 and V2, but note the simulator shows a micro:bit V2, so if you are using the previous generation micro:bit, so…

We're very excited to be sponsoring and speaking at the very first Linux Developer Conference Brazil, taking place on November 11 at the Instituto de Computação in Campinas! View the full article

A team at Samsung (and many core Linux contributors) started adding new type of drivers to the Linux Media Infrastructure API (also known as Video4Linux 2). View the full article

Description Bump U-boot to 2023.01. Backported dts patch from 2023.07-rc4 to fix compilation of bigtreetech-cb1 board. Jira reference number AR-1753 How Has This Been Tested? [X] Built images for all of the Maintained and community supported allwinner boards [X] Booted on Nanopiduo2 and checked that crust continues to work fine Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [X] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published …

Description Tested only for assembly at this point. It needs further optimisations. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test [ ] Booted image with i3wm Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Collabora presents "Bringing BitNet to ExecuTorch via Vulkan" at PyTorch Conference Europe in Paris (April 7-8) and attends ICLR in Rio de Janeiro (April 23-27). Connect with our team to discuss machine learning and open source innovation! View the full article

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Description Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. Please also include relevant motivation and context. List any dependencies that are required for this change. Jira reference number [AR-9999] How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [ ] Test A [ ] Test B Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no ne…

With the upcoming 0.5 release, WirePlumber's Lua scripts will be transformed with the new Event Dispatcher. More modular and extensible with very little redundant processing, they will look and feel completely different. View the full article

Description longanpi-4b: add support for Sipeed LonganPi 4B. Add virt drivers for sun55iw3-syterkit. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Successfully built. [x] System startup. 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 View the full article

Description Bump rockchip64 edge kernel config to v5.18 disabled csgpio patch on v5.15 due to clashing with mainline added register values in tinkerboard 2 patch to avoid warnings How Has This Been Tested? Untested, just upgraded the kernel config and checked with git diff that no extra options were removed 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] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules …

Description We call ssh-keygen when building with CRYPTROOT=yes, but openssh-client is not mentioned into EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS in extensions/fs-cryptroot-support.sh which can make the build to fail. This PR fixes the same How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [X] Created a build with CRYPTROOT=yes and ARTIFACT_IGNORE_CACHE=yes and made sure it no longer fails because of missing ssh-keygen in docker image Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, parti…

Single board computers running Armbian offer incredible flexibility and power, but like any mini-computer, they can occasionally hit a snag. When your trusty SBC goes quiet or acts erratically, a systematic approach to troubleshooting can save you hours of frustration. Here are some fundamental steps to get your Armbian-powered device back on track. 1. The power supply: often the culpritBefore you dive into complex software diagnostics, always, always check your power supply. Undervoltage is perhaps the most common cause of instability, random reboots, and even failure to boot on SBCs. Avoid cell phone chargers: While many cell phone chargers feature a USB output and prov…

Description enable BTRFS and virtiofs on midstream kernel. View the full article

HTC Vive (Pro) and Valve Index hardware users can now experiment with positional tracking in Monado, thanks to the implementation of a libsurvive driver using the libsurvive library developed by Charles Lohr, David Berger and many contributors. View the full article

Description armbian-bsp-cli: fix 10-wifi-disable-powermanagement.rules corrected "iw" path made rule better targeted at wifi devices switched from %k (kernel) to $name variable to better integrate with user-provided rules How Has This Been Tested? [x] Tested new rule with actual wifi devices --> udeavdm test /sys/class/net/wlan0 output: Queued commands: RUN{program} : /usr/sbin/iw dev wlan0 set power_save off Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

Description Related to auto-test system only. View the full article

How the use of Yocto and OpenEmbedded helps corporations migrate to free software. View the full article

this patch will fix ps4 controllers not working correctly on legacy and vendor kernel View the full article

Description Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. Please also include relevant motivation and context. List any dependencies that are required for this change. Jira reference number AR-1268 AR-1269 AR-1270 The fixMACaddress udev rules are generic enough to be used on all boards where random MAC addresses are a problem. However, for now, the feature is only enabled as part of the RockPi S BSP. Other BSPs could also copy the directory package/bsp/fixMACaddress to the $destination if desired. How Has This Been Tested? Generated new images, verified that WiFi address is now fixed across reboots. Verified that applying SDIO clock speed DT overlay …

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Description Bumps edge kernel to v6.4. Megous patches are synced from orange-pi-6.4-20230619-0323 tag. Following heuristic was used to disable some of the Megous patches patch was already disabled for previous kernel patch also had a revert patch patch had rockchip, rk3xxx or pinephone-pro in name Following armbian patches were modified a bit to fix patch application failures drv-iio-adc-axp20x_adc-arm64-dts-axp803-hwmon-enable-thermal.patch drv-pmic-add-axp313a.patch drv-rgb-add-ws2812.patch drv-rtc-sun6i-support-RTCs-without-external-LOSCs.patch drv-touchscreen-tsc2007-polling.patch Following armbian patches were modified to fix compilation issues Add-dump_reg-…

Description Add parallel compression for xz with the option XZ_OPT="--threads=0" gzip and bzip were already using parallel compressors. xz has this option built-in, so add the argument to make use of it. Source: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200901151002.988547791@linuxfoundation.org/ Also change KBUILD user and host to make cat /proc/version show something like Linux version 6.9.8 (build@armbian) instead of Linux version 6.9.8 (armbian@next). build@armbian refers to the Armbian build framework (this repository) How Has This Been Tested? [x] ./compile.sh build BOARD=nanopi-r6c BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=trixi…

Android 13 has just been released rolling out to Google Pixel devices initially, and later to other devices from Samsung Galaxy, Asus, HMD (Nokia phones), iQOO, Motorola, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, Sharp, Sony, Tecno, vivo, Xiaomi and more. Google also pushed Android 13 source code to AOSP (The Android Open Source Project). Most of the changes to the new version of the Android operating system were introduced with the first Android 13 developer preview – released in February 2022 – adding privacy, security, and productivity improvements, and even some hidden gems such as virtualization enabling Pixel 6 to run Linux and Windows 11, although the feature was mostly implemented f…

meson64: edge: rework to kernel 5.19 JIRA AR-1231 [x] based on the work done by @adeepn on #3898 -- thanks! [x] took the opportunity to finally remove CONFIG_ARCH_ROCKCHIP=y from meson64 .config [x] bumped to 5.19-rc3 without issue [x] backported a bunch of fixes I had done on 5.10 back in #3154 - namely: [x] remove meson_drv_shutdown revert patch, instead CONFIG_DRM_MESON=y and its dependencies in .config (this allows proper shutdown on non-ODROID, while keeping ODROID rebooting nicely -- reference https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/7h4kfjpe07.fsf@baylibre.com/T/ ) [x] N2(+): do NOT enable SD UHS mode, which cause next-reboot u-boot to not be able to use SD (vo…

Andes Technology has unveiled the high-end AndesCore AX60 series out-of-order 64-bit RISC-V processors at the Linley Fall Processor Conference 2022 with the new cores designed for compute-intensive applications such as advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), artificial intelligence, augmented/virtual reality, datacenter accelerators, 5G infrastructure, high-speed networking, and enterprise storage. AndesCore AX65 is the first member of the family and supports RISC-V scalar cryptography extension and bit manipulation extension. It is a 4-way superscalar core with Out-of-Order (OoO) execution in a 13-stage pipeline and can fetch 4 to 8 instructions per cycle. The company…

patch obsolete, fixes present in ATF 2.6 https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware/commit/7fb82d82863d94eb5938119f149299558deeca46, introduced to armbian https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/6bf936d2e3eeae8cddadb294ead89d0e1ce89c7d Description Obsolete patch removal How Has This Been Tested? Patch not applied so removed Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and publi…

While we like open-source tools such as KiCAD, Altium has added a pretty cool feature to the Altium Designer program with a 3D layout tool, which as its name implies, allows the design of 3D PCBs… The new 3D layout tool relies on 3D-MID technology that combines electrical circuits with three-dimensional mechanical parts. I’m not sure who really needs this, but I have to admit the results look pretty neat. Altium explains the design process is quite similar to standard 2D PCBs, and designers would create a layout on the surface of a 3D substrate using the standard library components and with the connectivity driven by the schematic design in the same way as with a standard…

Description Force netplan to use DHCP only on interface e* and not also on the docker interface Jira reference number AR-2430 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Test by user on forum Checklist: [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Enable Security Scorecards - Security health metrics for Open Source projects Jira reference number AR-1229 How Has This Been Tested? Tested on user repository. Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Quick copy from Focal. Doesn't work properly yet ... Jira reference number AR-1364 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Made x86 and arm64 image Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Lets us put down the hammer. Cleaned 6.1, 6.3 and added 6.2 patch set. Simplified function: rtw88_driver This PR was created in order to ease the pain here https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/5276 and add support for the current edge branch 6.2. Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [X] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Rewrite patches since we have stable git hash length KERNELPATCHDIR is no longer $LINUXFAMILY-$BRANCH, so declare it in board config file Bump kernel to 6.7.y Add support for nintendo pro/joycon controller since this device can run yuzu emulator well. How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] ./compile.sh kernel BOARD=xiaomi-elish BRANCH=sm8250 DEB_COMPRESS=xz KERNEL_GIT=shallow [x] Xiaomi elish boots fine Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have comm…

Description Enable BINFMT_MISC for box86. Enable UHID for bluetooth LE keyboard I have a bluetooth LE keyboard with pairing issue: unexpected SMP command 0x06 unexpected SMP command 0x07 The root cause might be a race condition, but the kernel patch which just pass two SMP code check just works. How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] xiaomi-elish kernel build success [x] My bluetooth keyboard is paired and work fine. Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have co…

Description Prepare for support JetHub D1p device. All working now. uboot 2022.07 (only jethome devices) update uboot jethome patches (add support for amlogic unifykey in eMMC, rewrite is needed) some updates for kernel patchset (update in jethub device tree) all changes only for jethub devices. Work will be progress. Jira reference number AR-1232 How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [X] JetHub D1p [] Test B Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented m…

Bump sharkdp/bat from 0.23.0 to 0.24.0 by bumping BATCAT_VERSION in lib/functions/general/bat-cat.sh. Release notes Sourced from sharkdp/bat's releases. Please note that this only shows the release notes for the latest release. v0.24.0 Features Add environment variable BAT_PAGING, see sharkdp/bat#2629 (@einfachIrgendwer0815) Add opt-in (--features lessopen) support for LESSOPEN and LESSCLOSE. See sharkdp/bat#1597, sharkdp/bat#1739, sharkdp/bat#2444, sharkdp/bat#2602, and sharkdp/bat#2662 (@Anomalocaridid) Bugfixes Fix more not being found on Windows when provided via BAT_PAGER, see sharkdp/bat#2570, sharkdp/bat#2580, and sharkdp/bat#2651 (@mataha) Switched default …

GStreamer's support for diverse hardware and software platforms extends to its upstream Machine Learning capabilities, exemplified by its cross-platform ONNX Runtime implementation. View the full article

thinkpad-x13s: bump to jhovold's wip/sc8280xp-6.11-rc5; userspace fixes thinkpad-x13s: bump to jhovold's wip/sc8280xp-6.11-rc5; userspace fixes replace mantic support with oracular add mtools pkg, remove UEFI_MOUNT_POINT_SKIP_FSTAB (thanks to the wdk2023 maintainer for the tip) re-enable fprintd/limpam-fprintd pkg install across all releases (Trixie fixed it recently) do no alsa-ucm-conf hacks for Trixie, as 1.2.12 landed there cleanup commented out stuff from years ago update .config (no changes except BTF enablement) thinkpad-x13s: kernel: update vs jhovold's wip/sc8280xp-6.11-rc5 johan_defconfig View the full article

Before being able to write firmware data to any production Chromebook device, the Write-Protect screw has to be removed. View the full article

Description OrangePi 5 Plus Bump current and edge to mainline 2024.10-rc3 ensure ARMV8_CRYPTO is disabled (currently broken) enable creation of /chosen/kaslr-seed node (to enable Kernel address space layout randomization) How Has This Been Tested? [x] Built, installed, and succesfully booted trixie current and edge 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 View the full article

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Bumps ossf/scorecard-action from 2.3.3 to 2.4.0. Release notes Sourced from ossf/scorecard-action's releases. v2.4.0 What's Changed This update bumps the Scorecard version to the v5 release. For a complete list of changes, please refer to the v5.0.0 release notes. Of special note to Scorecard Action is the Maintainer Annotation feature, which can be used to suppress some Code Scanning false positives. Alerts will not be generated for any Scorecard Check with an annotation. :seedling: Bump github.com/ossf/scorecard/v5 from v5.0.0-rc2 to v5.0.0 by @spencerschrock in ossf/scorecard-action#1410 :bug: lower license sarif alert threshold to 9 by @spencerschrock in ossf/sc…

Predictable media latency, low power usage and vastly improved A/V sync. Wayland versus X11 explained on ARM MALI View the full article

Description nanopi-r5c u-boot patch dir has been detached to allow version bump to 2024.07 and add kaslr support patchset this PR includes general 2024.07 patches to board such as: general-btrfs-fix-out-of-bounds-write.patch general-dwc-otg-usb-fix.patch general-dw-hdmi-disable.patch general-fix-inno-phy-macro.patch note to users and maintainers: sorry for forgetting to include those patches in my first PR How Has This Been Tested? [x] Succesfully built and ran u-boot 2024.07 Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] My changes generate no n…

Bumps ossf/scorecard-action from 2.1.0 to 2.1.2. Release notes Sourced from ossf/scorecard-action's releases. v2.1.2 What's Changed Fixes 🌱 Bump scorecard dependency to v4.10.2 to remove a CODEOWNERS printf statement. by @​spencerschrock in ossf/scorecard-action#1054 Full Changelog: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/compare/v2.1.1...v2.1.2 v2.1.1 Scorecard version This release use Scorecard's v4.10.1 Full Changelog: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/compare/v2.1.0...v2.1.1 Commits e38b190 Bump docker tag for release. (#1055) 7da02bf Bump scorecard to v4.10.2 to remove a CODEOWNERS printf statement. (#1054) 013c0f8 :seedling: Bump actions/depende…

dpkg-deb: don't use fakeroot, we're already root; don't add fakeroot dep either dpkg-deb: don't use fakeroot, we're already root; don't add fakeroot dep either dpkg-deb: rename fakeroot_dpkg_deb_build -> dpkg_deb_build View the full article

Description RK3328 devices often have I2S1 bus available on expansion pins. This PR introduces an overlay to enable the I2S1 bus for Rock Pi E to enable external PCM5102 DAC; I2S1 is shared for internal audio codec and external GPIO pins, so the overlay also disables the internal audio codec. This has been tested and proved to work on Rock Pi E, should work on other boards with similar board wiring setup, but can be also used as a base for other board/DAC combos in the future. Jira reference number AR-1670 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Kernel compiles successfully with patch applied [x] Manually installed the dtbo on a living community image for rockpi-e running edge…

In this second article of a three-part series, I look at how Matt Godbolt uses modern C++ features to try to protect against misusing an API that deals with destructive state transition based on a talk he gave on making code easy to use and hard to misuse. View the full article

Description KDE plasma desktop for Debian Sid Jira reference number [AR-9999] How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Build and boot Odroid N2 image Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Bump mainline from 6.8-rc7 to 6.8 stable This currently affects only rk3588-edge Bump UEFI-edge from 6.7 to 6.8 [DOES NOT COMPILE YET!!!] Kernel configs updated via ./compile.sh rewrite-kernel-config Kernel patches updated via ./compile.sh rewrite-kernel-patches The uefi-edge kernel does not compile without errors yet, because of drivers/net/wireless/rtl8192eu and the likes. Some patches need to be added or adapted for 6.8 in patch/misc, but I honestly don't know where to get these patches from. I could not find folders like /drivers/net/wireless/rtl8192eu/os_dep/ in the mainline kernel. Help is appreciated! ❤️ Build log for BOARD=uefi-arm64 BRANCH=ed…

Description Jira reference number [AR-1641](https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1641) How Has This Been Tested? I run the segment of the bash script into test.sh to check it locally cp /boot/armbianEnv.txt armbianEnv2.txt BLACKLIST_SIMPLEDRM="module_blacklist=simpledrm" if grep -q "meson64" /etc/armbian-release; then echo "extraargs=${BLACKLIST_SIMPLEDRM}" >> armbianEnv2.txt fi #Line extraargs should appear cat armbianEnv2.txt bash test.sh outputs: verbosity=1 console=both overlay_prefix=meson bootlogo=true rootdev=UUID=f9f9535f-bd89-4be4-9ef4-1f1e312cc20a rootfstype=ext4 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u,0x1058:0x0730:u extraargs=m…

Description If its not fixed today, lets revert and debug slowly. This reverts commit bc62c8cd42530f5ec7418775fb7cdc6e2fae5832. View the full article

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Description We have an arg UBOOT_MIRROR and it can be set to gitee to use mirror https://gitee.com/mirrors/u-boot.git. We have to fix Makefile url for it. How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] PREFER_DOCKER=no ./compile.sh uboot BOARD=fl700n BRANCH=edge UBOOT_MIRROR=gitee. fl700n is a board using uboot config firefly-rk3288_defconfig I am playing these days. Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ]…

Description irony of using bleeding edge uboot was to take advantage of the native rock 4SE support in uboot....which is broken. using generic rockpi-4i uboot defconfig for now.. which works.. leaving placeholder so that we can one day, embrace what is pure. View the full article

it is alone in 6.8 dir :) View the full article

Description Closing https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/3755 Jira reference number AR-1179 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test 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 [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

As of today, NVK, the new Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs, has landed in the main Mesa branch and will be included as an experimental driver in the 23.3 release of Mesa. View the full article

Description by double quoting ${ENABLE_EXTENSIONS} we make sure framework doesn't crash during initrd build while interpreting a possible space-separated second extension from config file or command line Might be an alternative to PR #7182 Bonus: this also saves armbian-add-overlay from same behavior [x] Succesfully build orangepi5-plus current while multiple extensions were enabled Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

Description After some inspections related to pwm patch recently introduced and reverted on v5.18 kernel patchset (see https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/3928), it turned out that some boards (OrangePI 4/LTS, Tinkerboard 2) use a pinctrl configuration name active which is inherited from legacy kernel. Mainline kernel does not use such pinctrl configuration name, but wants default. This effect of this misnaming is an increased voltage supplied to "vdd_log" regulator and an increased power consumption since the configuration active is just ignored on mainline kernel. Power consumption has been tested using a regular multimeter, on my OrangePI 4 LTS board, and with the …

The 4-day event is dedicated to everything open source and will showcase a program of 250+ talks. Collaborans will once again be actively participating in the week's activities, with no less than eight presentations, a BoF on KernelCI, and two panel discussions! View the full article

Update maintainers and board status synced status from the database rename to .csc where we don't have anyone If you want to become a board maintainer, adjust data here. Ref: Board Maintainers Procedures and Guidelines View the full article

After missing the last few GStreamer hackfests I finally managed to attend this time. It was held in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city. The city is located by the sea side and the entire hackfest and related activities were either directly by the sea or just a couple blocks away. View the full article

Banana Pi has started selling an inexpensive 2.5Gbps SFP to RJ45 adapter for their Banana Pi BPI-R3 WiFi 6 router board that goes for $17.89 plus shipping ($25 shipped here) on Aliexpress. The BPI-R3 router includes five Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 ports as well as two 2.5GbE SFP cages, but since not everybody has equipment that takes SFP cables, they used to sell it with a $30 TP-Link adapter. The company now appears to have found a cheaper model marked “SFP-2.5G-T” module that works with their board. It’s designed to be inserted into one of the 2.5GbE SFP cages and provide a more common 2.5GbE RJ45 port to the user. There’s very little information about the module except its …

Description CI process build images from repository by default. Sometimes we would need an option to build from sources. View the full article

This does not change the current boot order and requires additional hardware. Hardware used in my testing: BananaPi BPI-CM4IO Baseboard with BPI-CM4 Module Mini PCI-E PCI Express to SATA 3.0 Dual Ports Adapter Converter Hard Drive Extension Card https://a.co/d/0G679qW Kingston 120GB A400 SATA 3 2.5" Internal SSD https://a.co/d/fB2qf3r External power supply for Hard Drive 2.5" 3.5" https://www.ebay.com/itm/114620135743 bananapi: ~ $ lspci 00:00.0 PCI bridge: Synopsys, Inc. DWC_usb3 / PCIe bridge (rev 01) 01:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) bananapi: ~ $ sudo blkid /dev/mmcblk1p1: LABEL="EMMC" UUID="67ea5c62-c9cb-4…

Collabora will be at NeurIPs this week to dive into the latest academic findings in machine learning and research advancements that are changing the industry. View the full article

Earlier this week, Linux Kernel 5.1 was released, and with it came over 13,000 commits from developers all around the world, including Collaborans. This time around, no less than 12 different developers contributed commits (64), sign-offs (111) & more. View the full article

Improved support for hardware accelerated video decoders, new GTK+ integration for Wayland rendering, and further Meson enhancements to make GStreamer shine on embedded, Collabora's multimedia team made a number of key contributions for this latest release. View the full article

Description As per title and move RK3588 EDGE tag to 6.6.y branch enable EDGE on Khadas Edge 2 Jira reference number AR-1913 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

The configuraiton now works by default. Such progress... It also provides a nginx installation, so that the user can just go on its port 80 and have a nice message. Signed-off-by: Myy Miouyouyou myy@miouyouyou.fr View the full article

DFRobot UniHiker is a STEM education platform with a 2.8-inch touchscreen display, a Rockchip RK3308 quad-core Cortex-A35 processor, a GD32V RISC-V microcontroller, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, as well as various headers for expansion, and a BBC Micro:bit compatible edge connector. The UniHiker runs Debian 10 Linux and can be used to teach programming using Mind+ visual programming IDE or Jupyter open-source interface, as well as IoT and AI basics thanks to tutorials and lessons available in Chinese only as the platform clearly targets the education market in mainland China at this point in time. Unihiker specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3308 Quad-core Arm Cortex-A3…

Description Please include a summary of the change and which issue is fixed. Please also include relevant motivation and context. List any dependencies that are required for this change. Jira reference number [AR-9999] How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] Build test passing Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no n…

Imagination IMG RTXM-2200 32-bit RISC-V real-time CPU core is the first member of the company’s Catapult family comprised of four distinct RISC-V families for dynamic microcontrollers, real-time embedded CPUs, high-performance application CPUs, and functionally safe automotive CPUs. The company says it’s a highly scalable real-time, deterministic, 32-bit embedded CPU, that is feature-rich and flexible in design for mainstream devices, but, excuse the pun, leaves most of the details to your imagination… The new core will mostly be used as a helper core (aka co-processor) in more complex SoCs for 5G modems, cellular base stations, networking solutions for data transfer, pac…

Eoxys Xeno+ Nano ML is a wireless machine learning (ML) board with either Nuvoton NuMicro M2354 or STMicro STM32L4 microcontroller, InnoPhase IoT’s Talaria TWO ultra-low power Wi-Fi and BLE 5.0 module, and the Syntiant Core 2 NDP120 neural decision processor we first noticed in the Arduino Nicla Voice module a few weeks ago. The boards/modules are designed for intelligent and secure IoT devices for smart home, industrial, and medical automation applications, and the company claims it can be used in Wi-Fi IoT sensors with up to 10+ years thanks to the low-power chips and circuitry used in the design. Eoxys Xeno+ Nano ML specifications: General purpose MCU (one or the other…

Since joining the graphics team at Collabora as a Software Engineering Intern last November, I have implemented several Vulkan API extensions for NVK, an open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa. View the full article

Description It depends on https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/pull/76 https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/5519#pullrequestreview-1549880906 Jira reference number [AR-9999] How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [ ] Test A [ ] Test B Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes h…

With the advent of meson and gst-build, it is now possible to set up a GStreamer Windows development environment that rivals the finest Linux has to offer, with full support for Visual Studio debugging into the library. View the full article

use hooks for main kernel/u-boot version defaulting/overriding; remove symlink usage from many families [cleanup] extensions: flash-kernel: removed (and a few references to it) thanks to Gunjan for replacing it [cleanup] rk3399: remove defunct patches & dangling symlinks for rk3399-legacy and rk35xx-legacy [cleanup] rockchip64 legacy: remove long dead 4.4 patches (family/common didn't define legacy branch for a while) core: semantic change, KERNELSOURCE must be explicitly 'none' to avoid kernel compilation (not unset) main-config: mark mirror variables readonly; add todo's lib/family config: remove resquices of KERNELDIR which is completely unused for a long time …

Description Maint. How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Compile at CI Checklist: [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Desktop doesn't install properly from CLI for several reasons. This commit addresses those problems. move skel and PSD configuration directly to the desktop package postins script move sources from desktop to cli image so we can make proper upgrades switch gdm3 de-instsall logic by adding it as a conflicting package to the armbian desktops as we only use lightdm Jira reference number AR-1326 AR-1327 AR-1328 How Has This Been Tested? On top of CLI and repository with updated package placed to local repository: apt -y --no-install-recommends install lightdm-gtk-greeter lightdm apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" --allow-downgrades -y --install-reco…

For the very first time, the GStreamer Conference will be taking place in North America, and we're prepped and ready with no less than 9 talks to share! Catch the latest developments and AI advancements for this multimedia framework. View the full article

My precious! How Has This Been Tested? Daily Driving Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [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 [X] Blood Donated [X] Tears produced [X] Contract with the devil signed View the full article

Description Currently, PocketBeagle 2 edge images cannot build (without patch 1) and fails to boot (without patch 3). The patch one just defines the missing variable for OPTEE. Patch 3 specifies root using path instead of UUID. For some reason, UUID does not work with PocketBeagle 2 U-boot. How Has This Been Tested? Tested on PocketBeagle 2 rev A0 Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [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 pub…

Description Since upgrading u-boot on sunxi to 2022.07 we lost key mapping for breaking the boot sequence. The former working patch has been updated to work for U-Boot v2022.07 now again to let U-Boot Autoboot being interrupted by pressing the -key as it was working for U-Boot 2021.10 before. This fix resolves Jira reference number AR-1322 Tested: [x] The current Armbian build includes the patch with success [x] Tested booting a Cubietruck board Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding change…

Intel has just discontinued PathFinder Eclipse-based development environment for RISC-V processors with the website now reading: We regret to inform you that Intel is discontinuing the Intel Pathfinder for RISC-V program effective immediately. Since Intel will not be providing any additional releases or bug fixes, we encourage you to promptly transition to third-party RISC-V software tools that best meet your development needs. PathFinder was a pre-silicon open-source development environment with support for vairous RISC-V cores, a set of other IP’s, multiple operating systems, and toolchains. It allowed designers to create RISC-V SoCs to and run them on FPGA platforms su…

Description This PR adds support for Recore A5, A6, and A7 hardware. Recore is a 3D printer control board based on Allwinner A64. Since the board uses the AR100 for real time stepping, the SCP is disabled and instead a version of Klipper is loaded instead. How Has This Been Tested? The patches have been tested by building the current and legacy kernels with the minimal images. [ ] Minimal image with current kernel [ ] Minimal image with legacy kernel Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding c…

Update maintainers and board status synced status from the database rename to .csc where we don't have anyone If you want to become a board maintainer, adjust data here. Ref: Board Maintainers Procedures and Guidelines View the full article

This partnership ensures customers can build embedded products with long-term maintenance viability that will meet the challenges of tomorrow, such as compliance with the CRA, all built on proven Toradex platforms and upstream-first software. View the full article

One year ago, we announced a new partnership with Microsoft to build OpenGL mapping layers to DirectX 12. Today, we're excited to share that the we have passed the OpenGL 3.3 conformance tests, and have now upstreamed the D3D12 driver in Mesa 3D! View the full article

Banana Pi is better known for its Arm Linux boards, but the company’s Banana Pi BPI-Leaf-S3 board features Espressif ESP32-S3 dual-core WiFi & BLE AI processor, with compatibility with ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1 minus a built-in USB to TTL chip, and added support for battery and an I2C connector. Banana Pi Leaf (BPI-Leaf-S3) specifications: Wireless MCU – Espressif Systems ESP32-S3 dual-core Tensilica LX7 @ up to 240 MHz with vector instructions for AI acceleration, 512KB RAM, wireless connectivity Storage/Memory – 8MB flash, 2MB SPRAM Connectivity via ESP32-S3 2.4 GHz 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi 4 with 40 MHz bandwidth support Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.0 and Mesh connectivity with…

Description Enable new font, then clear. Jira reference number AR-1346 View the full article

Description AR-1546 New kernel based on latest rockchip sdk release rkr3.6: https://github.com/amazingfate/linux-rockchip How Has This Been Tested? [x] kernel build success [x] kernel works on my rock-5b Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Added missing build targets where we have maintainers and some cosmetic fixes. Jira reference number AR-1083 View the full article

This selection did get disabled by the BUILD_ONLY option implementation This fix will re-enable the KERNEL_ONLY selection for intermediate backward compatibility Description @The-going This PR is due to a comment from @igorpecovnik on #4455, asking, if it was inteded to switch off the interactive KERNEL_ONLY selection. I guess for now we should keep this interactive feature in for backward compatibility. This PR would fix it. This is a followup to fix this introduced by #4455 Test [x] Interactive call of ./compile.sh - the interactive KERNEL_ONLY selection dialog appears again and KERNEL_ONLY=yes is propagated to BUILD_ONLY as expected Checklist: [x] My code follows…