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Years ago, I joined the open-source community with a passion and a mission: to enable equal access to high-quality computing via open-source software. With this mission, I co-founded Panfrost, aiming to create an open-source driver for the Mali GPU. View the full article

Collabora contributions to the Linux kernel 3.17 View the full article

Description We need at least one build target in the family & it doesn't need to build image. View the full article

Description Maint. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Patches applies well View the full article

Creality Ender-3 S1 Pro is a 3D printer that can be converted into a laser engraver thanks to a choice of 1.6W, 5W, and 10W laser modules, making it in theory a space-saving machine that can print 3D objects and engrave & cut materials. The company sent me a full kit with a 10W laser module, so after looking at the 3D printer’s specifications, I’ll check the various packages, and report my experience assembling the 3D printer, and then converting it into a laser engraver in this article, before actually testing both functions in the second part of the review. Since Karl reviewed the Ender-3 Pro 3D printer over two years ago, I asked about the difference and was told t…

ESP32 MPY-Jama is a cross-platform MicroPython IDE specifically designed for ESP32 boards with a file manager, a REPL terminal, real-time dashboards, and various ESP32-specific features. The IDE is an open-source Python program using pyWebView and pySerial plus some JavaScript for the user interface, and the developer of the program, Jean-Christophe Bos, provides binaries for Windows 64-bit and macOS 64-bit Arm or x86. It’s also possible to use it in Linux but needs to be built from source. Some of the key features of the ESP32 MPY-Jama IDE include: MicroPython code editor with syntax highlighting REPL interface Access to information dashboards with real-time data about …

rockchip64 legacy: fix, rebase, archeology, update .config kernel: wifi driver_uwe5622_allwinner: only ever apply for kernels >= 6.0 case in point, rockchip64-legacy, which is 4.4-something and can't handle this rockchip64 legacy: drop duplicated patch rockchip64 legacy: rebase+archeology all patches against ayufan's refs/tags/4.4.202-1237-rockchip-ayufan rockchip64 legacy: update .config, no changes View the full article

docker: default COLUMNS env var to 160 if unset / not-interactive docker: default COLUMNS env var to 160 if unset / not-interactive View the full article

artifact: kernel: force D0000 drivers hash for artifact_version if EXTRAWIFI=no artifact: kernel: force D0000 drivers hash for artifact_version if EXTRAWIFI=no View the full article

Description Removed lcd node when screen is not attached. Turns out the Khadas u-boot has some code hidden deep within pxe.c file to enable and disable lcd screen. As we don't use extlinux for vim1s and vim4, that doesn't get executed for us leaving the device to detect ghost screens. Hence copied the code to bootscript in order to disable the lcd screens when they are not really present. This makes the vim4 and vim1s a lot more responsive. Also fixes issue where we can't login to gnome because login screen was being rendered on non-existent lcd screen. Fixed issue that prevented armbian-bsp-cli package for meson-s4t7 family to uninstall because of the added /etc/initram…

Bumps setuptools from 71.1.0 to 72.1.0. Changelog Sourced from setuptools's changelog. v72.1.0 Features Restore the tests command and deprecate access to the module. (#4519) (#4520) v72.0.0 Deprecations and Removals The test command has been removed. Users relying on 'setup.py test' will need to migrate to another test runner or pin setuptools before this version. (#931) Commits 441799f Bump version: 72.0.0 → 72.1.0 59aff44 Merge pull request #4522 from pypa/feature/graceful-drop-tests c437aaa Restore the tests command and deprecate access to the module. a6726b9 Add celery and requests to the packages that test integration. Ref #4520 5e1b3c4 Bump version: 71.1…

This week's work advances on three fronts: kernel and bleedingedge alignment across Rockchip and Sunxi trees, board and platform enablement spanning RV1106 to SpacemiT, and CI hardening with self-hosted runner maintenance. On the kernel side, bleedingedge was bumped to 7.1-rc3, accompanied by cfg80211 API fixes and re-enablement of the rtl8189fs and rtl8852bs drivers for the new release. Both the rockchip64 and sunxi patch stacks for current and edge were rewritten, an upstream ptrace fix for CVE-2026-46333 was backported to linux-rockchip, and the odroidxu4-current kernel moved to 6.6.139. Platform enablement was broad. The Ayn Odin2 gained 7.0 kernel support, the Mekotr…

Running Gemma 4 E2B on a Mali GPU with LiteRT-LMThis guide should work on any armbian minimal/console (trixie) system with a working Mali-g610 GPU. DO NOT USE DESKTOP Verified on: Orange Pi 5 Max (Rockchip RK3588, Arm Mali-G610 MC4), Armbian/Debian 13 (trixie), aarch64, 8 GB RAM. Status summary: Both CPU (XNNPACK) and GPU (WebGPU/Dawn → Vulkan → panvk → panthor) work on the mainline panthor kernel — numbers below. The GPU path needed one line of local patching in Mesa's panvk driver (raise maxImageDimension3D 512 → 2048 to meet the WebGPU minimums that LiteRT's Dawn library enforces; recipe in §5, rationale in §7.1). The model is multimodal (Text + Vision + Audio): the …

This week's work centers on expanded board support, Rockchip and Realtek platform maturation, and continued refinement of installation and BSP tooling. New hardware enablement spans several SoC families. Initial build support arrives for the Altera Agilex 5 SoCDK, Banana Pi R3 Mini, Firefly AIBOX-K3, and the Allwinner H5 PBS TV Stick, while a new realtek-rtd129x family brings mainline kernel and U-Boot to the Banana Pi W2. The MangoPi MQ Pro gains Debian GRUB EFI boot and a proper maintainer, and the Radxa CM5-IO transitions to mainline kernel and U-Boot. Supporting firmware updates include Tegra210 USB, GPU and VIC blobs, Amlogic VDEC firmware, Realtek rtl8261c, and Qual…

Raspberry Pi has announced yet another price increase, this time for most models with 16GB of RAM. The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB now sells for $385, an $80 increase compared to the last price hike in April, and the Raspberry Pi CM5 system-on-module gets a $40 increase, starting at $375 for the Lite model without wireless. The “good news” is that the Raspberry Pi 500+ mechanical keyboard PC stays at the same price, starting at $410. I suppose they can afford it on that model, because it’s already richly priced and the demand must be lower than for single board computers and compute modules. Here’s the updated price list for the Compute Module 5 16GB variants. Interestingly, the …

Qualcomm unveiled a new Wireless AR Smart Viewer Reference Design powered by the Snapdragon XR2 platform last week with very few details, but the company has now demonstrated the system to some members of the press, so let’s have a closer look. The reference design aims to provide a similar level of performance as a headset connected to PC or premium smartphone, but with some of the processing offloaded to the Snapdragon XR2 processor, thereby eliminating the need for a cord while still achieving lag-free experiences in combination with the Qualcomm FastConnect 6900 WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 solution. It is supposed to offer a 40% thinner profile and a more balanced weight…

A few days ago, coding began for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects. Along with four GStreamer and Wayland related projects, this year's edition also includes two Debian projects for which Collaborans will be mentors. View the full article

Eight security issues were discovered, fixed and attributed a CVE. View the full article

Description add CONTRIBUTING.md document View the full article

Russian company Prombit has unveiled the BITBLAZE Titan BM15 Arm Linux Laptop equipped with Baikal-M1 octa-core Arm Cortex-A57 processor manufactured by TSMC, up to 128GB RAM, SSD storage, and a 15.6-inch Full HD display. Baikal-M1, also called Baikal-M, was already found in desktop PCs and All-in-One Arm Linux computers launched last year for the Russian government and businesses, but I think it’s the first time it shows up in a laptop. BITBLAZE Titan BM15 specifications: SoC – Baikal M1 ((BE-M1000) octa-core Cortex-A57 processor @ up to 1.5 GHz with Arm Mali-T628 GPU; 28nm manufacturing process System Memory – 16GB RAM, upgradeable up to 128 GB thanks to the two SO-DIMM…

Was playing with mailcow and stumbled across their support terms which inspired me to rephrase ours. No idea if wanted/needed/usable. Just want to throw that idea into the room. View the full article

Description Based on https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4267 Jira reference number AR-1387 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test of all kernels 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 Adding in kernel module for controller support for the rk3588 currently disabled in the kernel How Has This Been Tested? Untested 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 [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Add support for NanoPi R4SE, which has eMMC for R4S. The dts file mostly come from lede When upgrade to kernel 6.0, it will be much simple since the FriendlyElec already contrib it, armbian should only need this. How Has This Been Tested? I have compiled this patch in userpatches and running on R4SE hardware for a month (kernel upgrades disabled). 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 [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes h…

kernel: drop dead code & patches from long-disabled kernel-drivers.sh/drivers_network.sh stuff kernel: drop dead code & patches from long-disabled kernel-drivers.sh/drivers_network.sh stuff this has been dead code (never called) for some 6 months now having it there makes it hard to find the actual/real callpoints of non-dead code View the full article

rockchip64_common: default, but do not overwrite, BL31_BLOB and MINILOADER_BLOB rockchip64_common: default, but do not overwrite, BL31_BLOB and MINILOADER_BLOB rockchip64_common: move the TB2's special DDR_BLOB out from family file into board file View the full article

Add community support configuration (CSC) for RK3588s Indiedroid Nova. Updated rk3588 legacy kernel config to enable r8169 driver for ethernets and RTL8821CS for wifi Current State Legacy kernel boots fine. Bluetooth works. Wifi needs some debugging Collabora has device tree but needs attention Edge device tree was accepted in 6.5 View the full article

Description Created udev config for renaming interfaces to WAN, LAN1, LAN2 Created device tree overlay rockchip-nanopi-r5s-leds for enabling front panel status LED's for NICs. enabled by default How Has This Been Tested? Built image. Leds work when cable plugged in. interface names are friendly root@nanopi-r5s:~# ip link 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: wan: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 12:ad:f7:2a:2f:a3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff altname…

radxa-zero2: bump u-boot to v2023.10 radxa-zero2: rewrite u-boot 2022.10 patches, no changes radxa-zero2: bump u-boot to v2023.10 View the full article

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…

Description After last rework of Armbian repository management, a new $RELEASE key was created, but that would require changes to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list In order to not touch this file and revert this, we rather make change on repository side and move: base-files, bsp → RELEASE-utils desktop-bsp → RELEASE-desktop Their incoming folder is under: output/debs/extra/RELEASE-utils output/debs/extra/RELEASE-desktop Jira reference number AR-2445 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Generate image, generate repo, update from repo / check lists Mandatory [ ] Stable repository re-created from scratch Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this proj…

Avnet ZUBoard 1CG is a development board featuring the new entry-level AMD Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ZU1CG dual-core Cortex-A53 MPSoC with 81K FPGA system logic cells, equipped with 1GB LPDDR4 RAM, as well as SYZYGY connectors and mikroBus expansion for Click boards. Priced at $159, the board may offer a good opportunity to get started with Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, as it’s quite cheaper than boards based on ZU3 devices such as Ultra96-V2 or MYD-CZU3EG. Avnet says the board is suitable for artificial intelligence, machine learning, embedded vision, embedded processing, and robotics applications. ZUBoard 1CG specifications: SoC – AMD/Xilinx ZU+ MPSoC ZU1CG with Dual Cortex-A53…

Avnet MaaxBoard 8ULP will be one of the first single board computers (SBC) based on the new NXP i.MX 8ULP Cortex-A35/M33 processor designed for Edge audio and HMI applications, and featuring NXP’s EdgeLock for device-to-cloud security. The board will come with 2GB RAM, 32GB eMMC flash, a MIPI DSI display connector, a MIPI CSI camera connector, Fast Ethernet and WiFi 5 connectivity, a digital microphone, and a 3.5mm stereo audio jack, and provide expansion capabilities via a 40-pin header for Raspberry Pi HATs and a 16-pin Shuttle Click header for MikroE Click add-on boards. MaaXBoard 8ULP SBC specifications: SoC – NXP i.MX 8ULP processor with 2x Arm Cortex-A35 core @ 1.0 …

With virtme, you can run a custom built kernel on top of our running root filesystem. In this post, we explore another example of virtme in action, and see how to test Video4Linux2 drivers on bleeding edge GStreamer builds. View the full article

A discussion of dynamic relocation, position independent code, the -fPIC flag and how it affects generated assembly. The focus would be on the practical implications of it all, including when to (and when not to) use -fPIC. View the full article

Description Preliminary work on the branding of the kernel package version Jira reference number AR-1233 This is a template. It is necessary to discuss the design. You can build the kernel package yourself and see what happened. [ ] 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 have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

ELECFREAKS Pico:ed V2 is a Raspberry Pi RP2040 board heavily inspired by the BBC Micro:bit with an edge connector exposing rings suitable for crocodile clips, a 17×7 LED matrix display, and designed for the classroom. We’ve seen several BBC Micro:bit clones – or rather adaptations – over the years with boards such as the SiFive Learn Inventor, Elecrow Mbits, and HiHope “Big Brother” board. The Pico:ed V2 adds to the list, and the main differences are that it is based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller instead, and does not come with wireless connectivity relying on a USB interface only. ELECFREAKS Pico:ed V2 specifications: MCU – Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core Cor…

Aetina AIE-CP1A-A1 is a compact, ASIC-based Edge AI system powered by the Blaize Pathfinder P1600 embedded system-on-module (SoM) equipped with dual-core Cortex-A53 processor, the Blaize Graph Streaming Processor (GSP) architecture delivering up to 16 TOPS, and 4GB RAM. The Aetina AI inference system also comes with 8GB eMMC flash, HDMI video output, Gigabit Ethernet, two USB 3.2 ports, and a serial interface, with the small-sized embedded computer targetting computer vision applications such as object detection, human motion detection, and automated inspection. Aetina AIE-CP1A-A1 specifications System-on-Module – Blaize PathFinder P1600 SoM SoC – Blaize 1600 dual ArmCort…

ADLINK has launched an IP-i IoT Prototype Kit based on their Express-ADP COM Express Type 6 Basic “Alder Lake-H” module with either an Intel Core i5-12600H 12-core (4P+8E) processor clocked at up to 4.5 GHz or a Core i3-12300H 8-core (4P+4E) processor reaching up to 4.3 GHz. The kit also includes the Express-BASE6 R3.1 carrier board, a thick heatsink with an active fan, a debug board (DB30 x86), and various cables for SATA storage, a DB9 COM port, and I/Os, and the kit can be used to develop applications for industrial automation and control, medical ultrasound, image processing and analysis, high-speed video encoding and streaming, predictive traffic analysis, multi came…

fixes for general 32-bit bootloader compile on sunxi/sunxi64 and sun50iw9 legacy u-boot postprocess sun50iw9/legacy: armbian-next'ify, add logging, avoid changing global PATH, use host dtc utility, make write_uboot_platform() verbose sunxi-tools: bring in gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi hostdep required for building sunxi's boot stages (even on arm64 targets) View the full article

boot-rk3588-legacy bootscript: add a lot of debugs boot-rk3588-legacy bootscript: add a lot of debugs rk's 3588 vendor u-boot (and Radxa's, etc) have trouble with our usage of load+import, add echo's to debug what breaks View the full article

multiple boards: bump u-boot from v2024.07-rcX to v2024.07 final u-boot v2024.07: rewrite patches against v2024.07 final rk322x-box: rewrite u-boot patches against v2024.07-rc5 rk3318-box: rewrite u-boot patches against v2024.07-rc5 jethubj200: rewrite u-boot patches against v2024.07 final multiple boards: bump u-boot from v2024.07-rcX to v2024.07 final after this, all patches were rewritten, but zero changes. success! View the full article

This update ensures that ./userpatches/kernel/pre-config.sh runs before the kernel's make menuconfig command. Users can now place configuration instructions in this file instead of manually configuring the kernel. The pre-config.sh file may include instructions like: scripts/config --enable CONFIG_DEBUG_FS scripts/config --enable CONFIG_KGDB scripts/config --enable CONFIG_UBSAN The scripts/config utility is provided by the kernel to facilitate configuration changes through scripts. View the full article

since armbian 24.8.0-trunk.205 this board stop working find a fix on station-p2 for it forum thread How Has This Been Tested? H96-MAX-RK3566 V56 4GB 32GB internal MMC 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 View the full article

Collabora is proud to sponsor this year's annual Debian conference, taking place in Brest, France. Join us as we showcase the latest with Apertis, discuss Debian running on mobile devices, and more. View the full article

With openwrt-one-debian, you can now install and run a full Debian system leveraging the OpenWrt One’s NVMe storage, enabling everything from custom services and containers to development tools and lightweight server workloads, all on open hardware. View the full article

Kontron D3723-R is an industrial mini-ITX motherboard equipped with the just-announced AMD Ryzen Embedded R2000 processor family that delivers higher performance than Ryzen R1000 Series while keeping the costs lower than AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000 solutions, and enabling Windows 11 support. Manufactured in Germany, the Kontron D3723-R will be offered with Ryzen R2312, R2314, R2514 and R2544 SKUs, and be particularly suitable for embedded graphics applications such as professional casino gaming systems, medical displays, thin clients, industrial PCs, infotainment, and digital signage systems. Kontron D3723-R specifications: SoC (one of the other) AMD Embedded R2312 dual-core…

Introducing cmtp-responder - a permissively licensed Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) responder implementation which allows embedded devices to provide MTP services and supports a core set of MTP operations. View the full article

Düsseldorf, Germany October 16-17, 2014: the GStreamer Conference is a conference for developers, decision-makers, community members, industry partners, and anyone else interested in the GStreamer multimedia framework or Open Source and cross-platform multimedia. View the full article

HIGOLE introduced the GOLE1 mini PC with a touchscreen display in 2015 mostly to get a free and legal Windows 10 license, but over the years the company launched more Intel models inspired by the original design. However, their latest model, the GOLE 1 R, is based on Rockchip RK3588 octa-core Arm Cortex-A76/A55 SoC instead and running Android 12 by default. The GOLE 1 R is equipped with 8GB RAM, 128GB eMMC flash, a 5.5-inch touchscreen display, Gigabit Ethernet and WiFi connectivity, a microphone, speaker, a gravity sensor, and a 2,500 mAh battery. The company also sells the GOLE 1 RN mini PC without a display, a microphone, a speaker, or a battery for power. GOLE 1 R/RN …

There are many network related driver patchs in the kernel patch script although they are indeed in kernel.Separating the network driver patchs makes the code clearer. View the full article

Description Suppress Shellcheck warnings. Jira reference number AR-1433 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Manual test 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 [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 View the full article

Description For some reason, the same config overhaul happened again in upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1, just like https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4442 This fixes again the rockchip64 config with inherited options, plus enables MGLRU by default for increased performance. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Built deb packages for edge kernel and tested on a live rk3318/rk3328 system 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 …

/bin/bash doesn't exists on Nix-like Operating systems + it's malpractice to hardcode binary path as it will depend on file system hierarchy This solution replaces that to use environment for binaries + adds option to change Bash binary during runtime through using BASH variable View the full article

The Wi-R protocol is a non-radiative near-field communication technology that uses Electro-Quasistatic (EQS) fields for communication enabling the body to be used as a conductor and that consumes up to 100x less energy per bit compared to Bluetooth. In a sense, Wi-R combines wireless and wired communication. Wi-R itself only has a wireless range of 5 to 10cm, but since it also uses the body to which the Wi-R device is attached, the range on the conductor is up to 5 meters. While traditional wireless solutions like Bluetooth create a 5 to 10-meter field around a person, the Wi-R protocol creates a body area network (BAN) that could be used to connect a smartphone to a pace…

Silicon Labs has just announced the tiny BG27 Bluetooth LE and MG27 multiprotocol wireless SoCs designed for small devices, and they will be especially useful in connected health applications, or the so-called Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), as well as wearables, sensors, switches, smart locks, and commercial and LED lighting. Both chips feature a Cortex-M33 core clocked at 76.8 MHz, up to 768KB flash, and up to 64KB RAM, but the BG27 only supports Bluetooth LE, Mesh, and propriety 2.4 GHz connectivity, while the MG27 also adds an 802.15.4 radio for Zigbee, OpenThread, and Matter protocols Silicon Labs BG27 and MG27 specifications: CPU – Arm Cortex-M33 @ 76.8 MHz with …

linux-rk35xx-legacy.config: update .config, no changes (.110 -> .160) linux-rk35xx-legacy.config: update .config, no changes (.110 -> .160) View the full article

The latest mainline Linux kernel (v6.5) includes 22 patches that enable support for the AV1 uAPI and for two stateless video decoders: one for the Rockchip RK3588 and one for MT8195, a MediaTek SoC. View the full article

Sunny Spain will have multimedia developers on speed dial next week for the 11th edition of the GStreamer Conference, taking place at the Palexco Convention Centre in A Coruña from September 25 to 26. View the full article

Bumps github/codeql-action from 2 to 3. Release notes Sourced from github/codeql-action's releases. CodeQL Bundle v2.15.4 Bundles CodeQL CLI v2.15.4 (changelog, release) Includes the following CodeQL language packs from github/codeql@codeql-cli/v2.15.4: codeql/cpp-queries (changelog, source) codeql/cpp-all (changelog, source) codeql/csharp-queries (changelog, source) codeql/csharp-all (changelog, source) codeql/go-queries (changelog, source) codeql/go-all (changelog, source) codeql/java-queries (changelog, source) codeql/java-all (changelog, source) codeql/javascript-queries (changelog, source) codeql/javascript-all (changelog, source) codeql/python-queries (chan…

Remark: This PR is based off v23.11 for now and will be rebased of main/master branch before review Description Running "uefi-x86" board image on qemu-system-x86_64 --display none --serial stdio ... did not: allow GRUB boot without GUI display display early kernel boot messages on the serial console display the console prompt on serial console Jira reference number: None 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: Boot uefi-x86 board image on qemu-system-x86_64 --display none --serial stdio ... [ ] Test B: Boot uefi-x86 board image on qemu-s…

Adding myself as a maintainer for the Orange Pi PC+ View the full article

u-boot: embed armbian artifact version in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION u-boot: embed armbian artifact version in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION we're hacking at it anyway, so why not use it to uniquely identify the exact build View the full article

At this year's edition of FOSDEM Collabora will be present with 6 talks! Join us to get the latest on video capture on Rockchip SoCs, Tyr, machine learning in GStreamer, and more! View the full article

Welcome to the latest Armbian Newsletter: your source for the latest developments, community highlights, and behind-the-scenes updates from the world of open-source ARM and RISC-V computing. JetHome boosts Armbian CIJetHome (Shenzhen JetHome Technology Co.) donated a build server for Armbian. The server compiles Armbian images, kernels and U-Boot packages. Thank you, JetHome. HW Specifications CPU 2 × Intel Xeon Gold 6148, 80 threads Memory 384 GB Storage 3.84 TB SSD, plus 20 TB of disk Network 2 × 1Sponsored Github HighlightsThis week’s work centers on Rockchip platform maturation, kernel and toolchain modernization, and board-level enablement across vendors. Rockchip r…

This week's work centers on expanded board support, Rockchip and Realtek platform maturation, and continued refinement of installation and BSP tooling. New hardware enablement spans several SoC families. Initial build support arrives for the Altera Agilex 5 SoCDK, Banana Pi R3 Mini, Firefly AIBOX-K3, and the Allwinner H5 PBS TV Stick, while a new realtek-rtd129x family brings mainline kernel and U-Boot to the Banana Pi W2. The MangoPi MQ Pro gains Debian GRUB EFI boot and a proper maintainer, and the Radxa CM5-IO transitions to mainline kernel and U-Boot. Supporting firmware updates include Tegra210 USB, GPU and VIC blobs, Amlogic VDEC firmware, Realtek rtl8261c, and Qual…

Allwinner V853 SoC combines an Arm Cortex-A7 core with a Xuantie E907 RISC-V core, and a 1 TOPS NPU for cost-sensitive AI Vision applications such as smart door locks, smart access control, AI webcams, tachographs, and smart desk lamps. Manufactured with a 22nm process, the SoC comes with an ISP image processor and Allwinner Smart video engine capable of up to 5M @ 30fps H.265/H.264 encoding and 5M @ 25fps H.264 decoding, offers parallel CSI and MIPI CSI camera interfaces, and well as MIPI DSI and RGB display interfaces. Allwinner V853 specifications: CPU Arm Cortex-A7 CPU core @ 1 GHz with 32 KB I-cache, 32 KB D-cache, and 128 KB L2 cache Alibaba Xuantie E907 RISC-V core…

Description sunxi-5.15: adapting patches for the version 5.15.43 Checklist: [ ] Test build sunxi [ ] Test build sunxi64 View the full article

Up until now, talking in-depth about userspace tracing was deliberately avoided because it merits special treatment, hence this part devoted to it. We'll now look at the why of it, and we'll examine eBPF user tracing in two categories: static and dynamic. View the full article

Collabora has been working with the Raspberry Pi Foundation on various projects including a web browser optimised for the Raspberry Pi. Since the first beta release we have made huge improvements; now the browser is more responsive, it’s faster, and videos work much better (the first beta could play 640×360 videos at 0.5fps, now we can play 25fps 1280×720 videos smoothly). View the full article

Description Jira reference number AR-1359 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. [ ] Build test [ ] Boot 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 Enabling several minimal images as per user request. We already enabled images on targets where such images might be interesting. They are also coming to all community builds. Why this is useful? Some people prefer or need as images that contains nothing but bare system. Initial root size only at around 0.5Gb!!! (size differs from kernel and user space architecture) Tests was done on very old and slow 32bit device. Only there such measures really means something. Nanopi Neo v1 booted up in less then 20s with all standard services ... (systemd-analyze: Startup finished in 5.052s (kernel) + 14.010s (userspace) = 19.063s) View the full article

Description General: disable kernel boot splash > 6.1 We don't use it anymore and its time to go rest. Adjust 881xau, 8811cu, 88xbu @adeepn you have a patch for 6.1 ready? For jethome-ru/rtl88x2cs Jira reference number AR-1432 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] 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 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-1488 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 H1/D1/D1+ bullseye image View the full article

Variscite VAR-SOM-AM62 is a System-on-Module (SoM) powered by a Texas Instruments Ti AM625x quad-core Cortex-A53 processor @ up to 1.4 GHz with a 400MHz Cortex-M4F cores and 333MHz PRU real-time co-processors to control I/Os. The module also supports up to 4GB RAM and 128GB eMMC flash, features a single or dual-band WiFi + BT/BLE5.2 module, and offers up to 3x CAN Bus, dual GbE, audio, camera in, and dual USB, among other interfaces. It is designed for industrial applications with a -40 to 85°C operating temperature range. VAR-SOM-AM62 specifications: SoC – Texas Instruments Sitara AM62x (AM6252 or AM6254) with Up to 4x Arm Cortex-A53 @ 1.4 GHz 1x Ar, Cortex M4F up to @ 4…

Description As extlinux is not matured within the armbian tools (armbian-config in particular), revert change until such a time as the proponents of extlinux mature the Armbian utilities. -Fixes use of overlays 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 [X] Boot 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 …

mekotronics: refactor vendor conf/hooks; vendor uboot with new patches; new blobs mekotronics: refactor vendor conf/hooks; vendor uboot with new patches; new blobs meko: don't use Radxa's Rock-5A u-boot anymore, switch to rockchip vendor next-dev branch meko: my own (horrible) patches for MAC address stability / defconfig meko: cherry picked a few patches for getting rid of BL32/read Bl31 from env and other fixes from Radxa meko: add OTP node to 3588 dtsi (so we don't need kern-dtb in ITS for working OTP) meko: refactor common code across 3 (soon to be 4) board files into vendor conf and hooks meko: bump DDR/BL31 blobs for all Meko boards View the full article

Bumps actions/upload-artifact from 3.1.3 to 4.0.0. Release notes Sourced from actions/upload-artifact's releases. v4.0.0 What's Changed The release of upload-artifact@v4 and download-artifact@v4 are major changes to the backend architecture of Artifacts. They have numerous performance and behavioral improvements. For more information, see the @​actions/artifact documentation. New Contributors @​vmjoseph made their first contribution in actions/upload-artifact#464 Full Changelog: https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact/compare/v3...v4.0.0 Commits c7d193f Merge pull request #466 from actions/v4-beta 13131bb licensed cache 4a6c273 Merge branch 'main' into v4-…

Description thead: update current&edge kernel, fix pinctrl config. 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] 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

Description GitHub job summaries do not support colored output, but the kernel hardening script is using colored output. Thus, the job summary in the Actions panel is littered with ugly characters. This commit replaces them with emojis to enhance visibility. Before: After: How Has This Been Tested? [x] run locally: kernel-hardening-checker -m show_fail -c linux-rockchip64-edge.config | sed 's/^/ /; s/\x1b\[32m/✅ /; s/\x1b\[31m/❌ /; s/\x1b\[0m//' 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 View the full article

Description Renaming network device to eth0 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Generated image Checklist: [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

odroidm1: bump to u-boot v2024.07; replace defconfig patches with hook odroidm1: bump to u-boot v2024.07; replace defconfig patches with hook bump "armbian" env to reset env in SPI on first run View the full article

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

A deep dive on the current status of Chromium enablement on MediaTek Genio SoCs, including what the numbers look like when MediaTek’s hardware codecs are driven by Chromium’s V4L2 paths. View the full article

This week's work centers on a consolidated uwe5622 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth driver, CI and repository infrastructure changes, and board and toolchain enablement across multiple SoC families. The uwe5622 driver has been relocated to a dedicated repository and unified across kernel versions. Initial commits address a use-after-free in mtty_probe(), resolve 157 -Wmissing-prototypes warnings, correct dev_addr const guards for kernels 5.17–6.18 under clang, and fix sdio_pub_int_init for the newer gpiod int_ap API on GCC 14. The build system now sources the driver from this repository, adds a GitHub Actions test workflow, and refactors the associated DVFS patch and kernel configuration.…

Armbian builds for hundreds of boards. A kernel bump that is clean on one SoC can leave another unbootable and no build log will tell you. So there is a rack, and the rack boots them. Compiling is not evidence. A kernel that builds, packages that install, an image that flashes — none of it proves a board comes back after reboot. Armbian supports a very large number of boards across a dozen vendors and twenty SoC families, maintained largely by volunteers who each own one or two of them. The failure mode that hurts is not a broken build. It is a change that builds perfectly and quietly bricks the boot path on hardware nobody happened to have on their desk that week. The au…

AMD has just introduced the 15W Ryzen 5000 C-Series “Zen 3” processors for premium Chrome OS devices designed for work and collaboration. The processors can with up to eight cores and sixteen threads and are said to offer all-day battery life. AMD Ryzen 5000 C-Series processors for Chrome OS are expected to offer up to 67% faster responsiveness and up to 85% better graphics performance when comparing a Chromebook based on AMD Ryzen 7 5825C against an earlier model based on AMD Ryzen 7 3700C introduced in 2020 using respectively WebXPRT 3 and Motion Mark 1.2 benchmarks. Multitasking performance comparison using Geekbench 5 shows a 107% improvement that is probably mostly d…

Description cpu opp table for sun8i-a83t can only be a multiple of the integer 24 * 8 * n Checklist: [ ] Test build [ ] Test work on board 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

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 This patch is needed only for extra additional wireless drivers under EXTRA_WIFI. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Built two kernels 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

Description Jira reference number AR-1360 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

khadas-vim3l: add asound file View the full article

meson64: switch edge kernel to 6.1.y branch (from 6.1-rc8 tag) View the full article

Description enabled kernel modules pine64 for CSI and camera drivers Jira reference number AR-1647 How Has This Been Tested? Yes by installation on the PINE64 hardware. 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

AMD has just unveiled the new power-efficient Ryzen Z1 “Zen4” Series processor family designed for handheld gaming consoles running Windows and equipped with AMD RDNA 3 architecture-based graphics. The new series features two processors at launch, namely the Ryzen Z1 hexa-core processor with 4 RDNA 3 Compute Units and the Ryzen Z1 Extreme octa-core processor with 12 RDNA 3 Computer Units for “ultimate high-performance for handheld gaming”. Highlights of Ryzen Z1 and Z1 extreme specifications: Both processors support LPDDR5/LPDDR5x memory, and USB4 interface, as well as the following AMD technologies: AMD Link – Mobile app to connect your phone, tablet, TV, or Windows-base…

Description Bumped current kernel to 6.1.33. Also disabled some Rockchip patches thats gets applied on the sunxi kernel. How Has This Been Tested? [X] Compiled an image and booted it on Nanopiduo2 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

rock-5-cmio: add a .wip for Radxa CM5 with I/O board rock-5-cmio: add a .wip for Radxa CM5 with I/O board use OPi5's uboot, don't ask me. View the full article

Description Deleted merged patches in kernel v6.8-rc1 and fix other patch errors. Add a new patch 0033-tools-Makefile-delete-missing-cgroup_clean.patch to fix make clean error in tools. 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 with command ./compile.sh kernel BOARD=rock-5b BRANCH=edge DEB_COMPRESS=xz KERNEL_GIT=shallow [x] Boot on rock5b 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 commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made …

Description This patch fixes the high interrupt issue on the Orange Pi5 Plus. Forum discussion available here. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/33360-orangepi-5-plus-rtc-hym8563-irq-issue/ The patch also adds poweroff support. Right now the Orange Pi 5 Plus just reboots when poweroff or shutdown -h now is executed. Third fix of the patch is to correct gpio_pwrctrl1 typo. 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 command ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi5-plus BRANCH=edge RELEASE=trixie KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes BUILD_DESKTOP=no COMPRESS_OUT…