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Now included in our Debian images & available via our GitLab, you can build a complete, working BL31 (Boot Loader stage 3.1), and replace the closed binary blob with an open-source binary that anyone can compile. View the full article

Bumps setuptools from 70.1.1 to 70.2.0. Changelog Sourced from setuptools's changelog. v70.2.0 Features Updated distutils including significant changes to support Cygwin and mingw compilers. (#4444) Bugfixes Fix distribution name normalisation (:pep:625) for valid versions that are not canonical (e.g. 1.0-2). (#4434) Commits 3accd5c Bump version: 70.1.1 → 70.2.0 719192a Merge pull request #4430 from pypa/infra/refresh-skeleton e32f8df Merge pull request #4444 from pypa/feature/distutils-f3b225449 343ac6f Merge https://github.com/pypa/distutils into feature/distutils-f3b225449 4e6d97d Prefer relative imports for better portability. 449021c Merge pull request #4…

Description also bump: rk3288 xt-q8l-v10 target rk322x-box target (was already v2024.07-rc5) rk3318-box target (was already v2024.07-rc5) rk322x-box and rk3318-box were already at v2024.07, since u-boot v2024.07 has been released some days ago, they have been moved from rc5 to release (see https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6855) Asus Tinkerboard/S and xt-q8l-v10, which are both rk3288 targets, have been bumped from v2022.04 to v2024.07, trying to keep all the features working. I guess now the workaround cited here could be removed as well. GitHub issue reference: Jira reference number AR-2406 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Built image for both rk3288 targets su…

Description orangepi5-plus u-boot patch dir has been detached to allow patching in kaslr support 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 new warnings View the ful…

Collabora will be at Embedded Software Engineering Kongress! Catch our talk as we share our expertise in training large open source models. View the full article

Released as UnitedXR wraps up in Brussels, this latest update to the cross-platform Open-Source OpenXR runtime delivers major improvements across hand tracking, device support, and the core runtime infrastructure. View the full article

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…

Image building in ubuntu jammy on aarch64 platform breaks with diagnostic [ o.k. ] Calling image customization script [ customize-image.sh ] [ o.k. ] No longer needed packages [ purge ] [ o.k. ] Unmounting [ /root/armbian/.tmp/rootfs-4a58bdb8-aac0-472d-8f05-0d11ef0816e8 ] [ o.k. ] Preparing image file for rootfs [ odroidn2 jammy ] [ o.k. ] Current rootfs size [ 1285 MiB ] [ o.k. ] Creating blank image for rootfs [ 1612 MiB ] [ o.k. ] Creating partitions [ root: ext4 ] [ error ] ERROR in function check_loop_device [ main.sh:588 -> main.sh:549 -> debootstrap.sh:97 -> debootstrap.sh:658 -> image-helpers.sh:112 -> general.sh:0 ] [ error ] Device node /dev/loop…

DevTerm modular, portable Linux terminal initially designed for modules based on Raspberry Pi CM3 form factor, can now work with Raspberry Pi CM4 for extra performance and memory thanks to a $19 adapter. The Devterm was initially launched in 2020 with a 6.8-inch IPS screen, a keyboard with 67 keys, and a battery module, all connected through the ClockworkPi v3.14 carrier board taking a choice of core modules based on Allwinner H6 or Rockchip RK3399 (now supported in Armbian), besides the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 mentioned above. More recently, it also got an Allwinner D1 RISC-V module. The Raspberry Pi CM4 module should bring performance similar to the Rockchip RK33…

After a year-long development cycle, the much anticipated release was made available recently. With it came a number of exciting new features we're especially proud of, including per-element latency tracer and support for planar or non-interleaved audio. View the full article

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

Description General rk322x current and edge device tree tidying up: added proper coolings maps to handle overheating enabled DEVFREQ_THERMAL config option to let devfreq devices be used in cooling maps generic tvbox ir remote kernel mappings were missing in current 5.15 kernel, added patch removed unneded patches restored AUFS config options for edge kernel How Has This Been Tested? [x] Current kernel debs built and tested on live system [x] Edge kernel debs built and tested on live 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-underst…

odroidm1: use mainline 6.1-rc5, grab DTS only from mmind/v6.2-armsoc/dts64 as single patch mmind/v6.2-armsoc/dts64 is old, and stuck in -rc1 View the full article

uefi: bump kernel to 6.1.y; remove dangling symlinks View the full article

It's with excitement and nervousness that I'm writing this post, sitting on a plane heading to Boston where I will attend the MIT Reality Hack as a mentor. View the full article

U-boot-rockchip64 rk3399-ehci-probe-usb2.patch. No code changes. Original patch applied and new patch generated then mbox tweaked to retain relevant details. Prevents patching errors in armbian-next. Jira reference number AR-1499 [ ] Builds without errors on master [ ] Builds without errors on armbian-next Checklist: [ ] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

LattePanda Sigma is a 3.5-inch single board computer (SBC) with an Intel Core i5-1340P Raptor Lake-P processor and a Microchip ATmega32U4 microcontroller to control I/Os with Arduino programming. The board comes with 16GB soldered-on LPDDR5 RAM, supports M.2 NVMe/SATA SSDs and SATA drives for storage, offers HDMI 2.1, eDP, and USB-C DisplayPort video outputs, dual 2.5GbE networking, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, and three M.2 sockets for expansion sich as WiFi or 4G/5G modules. LattePanda Sigma specification SoC – Intel Core i5-1340P 12-core (4P+8E)/16-thread Raptor Lake hybrid processor @ up to 4.6 GHz (Performance cores), 3.4GHz (Efficient cores), 12MB L2 Cache, 80EU Intel …

Description We somehow ended with non-bootable image yet again. Jira reference number AR-1692 How Has This Been Tested? Does not work yet, while it boots with defconfig. 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

u-boot: log what the BOOTCONFIG is when building u-boot: log what the BOOTCONFIG is when building View the full article

cli-patch: don't ask about desktop/server builds during patch rewrite/to-git cli-patch: don't ask about desktop/server builds during patch rewrite/to-git add to-do for real fix later View the full article

Description Add support for RPi5 in our bcm2711 kernel. This is mostly but not entirely based on changes from Raspberry Pi kernel PR 5618. After enabling those options, I noticed that even though hdmi was working, kernel was not able to find the sdcard and usb was also not working. So I had to use diffconfig to compare our configs with the vendor config and enable some more options. Raising the PR so that others can also play with it as well. Meanwhile I will work on getting Trixie Desktop Image running with mesa 23.3-rc5 from experimental repo. As part of that I will split RPi 5 into separate board config until recent version of mesa is made available in current debian …

rockchip-rk3588 6.8.y: nanopct6: Add NanoPC T6 SPI Flash (v6.8.y version) rockchip-rk3588 6.8.y: nanopct6: Add NanoPC T6 SPI Flash (v6.8.y version) 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…

Collabora is headed to Tokyo for the Linux Plumbers Conference! Join us for our talks exploring stability for Rockchip boards, the latest Tyr Rust-based GPU, and more. View the full article

Seeed Studio has launched two Nordic nRF52840-based Bluetooth LE e-paper kits preloaded with the OpenDisplay open-source firmware for e-paper displays and supporting Home Assistant integration. The OpenDisplay 4.26″ Mono features a 4.26-inch monochrome/grayscale display with 800×480 resolution and partial refresh support, while the OpenDisplay 7.3″ Color Kit is equipped with a 7.3-inch Spectra 6 color e-paper with the same resolution. Both are powered by a 2,000 mAh battery and feature a few buttons for control and reset. Seeed Studio OpenDisplay kits specifications: MCU – Nordic Semi nRF52840 CPU – Arm Cortex-M4F microcontroller @ up to 64 MHz Memory – 256 KB SRAM Storag…

Description This commit forces cgroup v1 usage as a workaround for docker / runc BPF issues until a proper fix is submitted Context Docker 20.10+ cannot run on our Asus Tinkerboard, it throws BPF related errors (Like opencontainers/runc#2959 , especially this comment). I tried a lot of armbian flavors (focal, jammy, bullseye + current, edge and legacy kernels), and even building an image with CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y as suggested by this comment but it didn't fix the issue. The only thing that fixed docker was to add extraargs=systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0 to /boot/armbianEnv.txt. Until someone else does a proper fix to make cgroup v2 working, I suggest downgrading to …

Description In gnome when I insert a u disk and want to click eject from the left dock, I get no eject command error. After installing eject package, I can eject the u disk successfully now. 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

Now that we've studied the mainstream way of developing and using eBPF programs on top of the low-level VM mechanisms, we'll look at projects taking different approaches, attempting solutions to some of the unique problems faced by embedded Linux. View the full article

Vancouver, Canada August 12-14, 2014: SIGGRAPH, visit ARM at Booth #933 in the Mobile Pavilion to meet with Collabora. SIGGRAPH attracts 20,000 international attendees from across the globe and many creative and technical disciplines. It is the only conference and exhibition that draws the leaders from the world in this exciting and innovative industry. View the full article

Description CSC build target. Untested, no hardware. Jira reference number AR-1301 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

Amazon has just launched the “all new” Fire TV Cube streaming device with an Amlogic POP1-G octa-core Cortex-A73/A53 processor that we never heard of, but that appears to be almost the same as the Amlogic A311D2 processor that we reviewed in Khadas VIM4 SBC. The Amlogic POP1-G (aka Amlogic – AML Popcorn) also integrates an Arm Mali-G52 MP8 GPU clocked at 800 MHz, and the third generation Fire TV Cube features 2GB LPDDR4/x memory, 16GB storage, WiFi 6E and Fast Ethernet, as well as an HDMI port. Fire TV Cube 2022 specifications: SoC – Amlogic POP1-G (Amlogic AML Popcorn) octa-core processor with four Cortex A73 cores @ 2.2 GHz, four Cortex-A53 cores @ 2.0 GHz, Arm Mali-G52…

Description meson: legacy: bump to 5.10.155 How Has This Been Tested? [X] Build, burn and run Checklist: [ ] 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

It’s the last day of the year and the time to look at some of the highlights of 2022, some traffic statistics from CNX Software website, and speculate on what 2023 may bring us. The semiconductors shortage continued in 2022, but things are looking brighter in 2023 with the full reopening of the world mixed with forecasts of difficult economic times that should keep the demand/supply equation in check. On the Arm processor front the biggest news of the year, at least in this corner of the Internet, was the launch of the Rockchip RK3588 octa-core Cortex-A76/A78 processor together with interesting single board computers that we’ll discuss below. Announced last year, the Amlo…

The MNT Pocket Reform, a smaller version of the MNT Reform laptop, with a 7-inch display has just launched on Crowd Supply with an NXP i.MX8M Plus system-on-module, but also compatible with an NXP Layerscape LS1028A module, Raspberry Pi CM4, Pine64 SOQuartz, and an AMD Kintex-7 FGPA module. The open-source modular laptop also comes with a 128GB eMMC flash, 8GB RAM, WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity on-module, an optional 1TB NVMe SSD, a backlit 60-key mechanical keyboard with an optical trackball and four buttons, a micro HDMI port to connect an external display, a few USB ports, and Ethernet through an ix industrial connector. MNT Pocket Reform specifications: SoM – …

Description Upgrade vcgencmd without tmp vulnerability and inclusion for bananapim2ultra See also https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/5095#issuecomment-1521626783 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Pine64 [x] Rock64 [x] Banana Pi M2 Ultra 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

rkdevflash: don't wait for "Loader" mode after sending spl_loader; show the loop counter rkdevflash: don't wait for "Loader" mode after sending spl_loader; show the loop counter I thought sending the spl_loader blob puts it into "Loader" mode, but... ... turns out "Loader" mode is a separate (rockusb, etc) mode. So if in Maskrom mode, just send the loader, and trust it can now WriteLba still keeps the timeout, for when a loader is not accepted View the full article

Dear Armbians, It’s been a month since our last newsletter. We hope you are enjoying our new release! Here are the topics we are working on: Infra We are aware that our primary repository management and rsync servers need serious upgrades, as it takes hours and hours to deliver a release. Past week we have enabled two additional servers and several others are waiting for the upgrade. This will further improve time to deliver updates and new images. Documentation We are working on improving the documentation, focusing on the build framework. The current build framework documentation is largely outdated, which poses a challenge for those unfamiliar with the tool. Builds …

rockchip-rk3588: add -Wno-error=address to u-boot CFLAGS so it builds with gcc 12+ rockchip-rk3588: add -Wno-error=address to u-boot CFLAGS so it builds with gcc 12+ this applies to all u-boots in this family this is in addition to the the -Wno-error=enum-int-mismatch needed for gcc 13+ View the full article

Description Moving use of dbeinder's repo to fifteenhex repo for xradio driver as fifteenhex seems to give more consistent speeds. This also allows us to drop all of our xradio patches as we can now build right from fifteenhex code. 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] Test wifi on Orange Pi Zero 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…

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] Documentation summary for feature / change Please delete this section if entry to main documentation is not needed. If documentation entry is predicted, please provide key elements for further implementation into main documentation and set label to "Needs Documentation". You are welcome to open a PR to documentation or you can leave following information for technical writer: [ ] short description (copy / paste of PR title) [ ] summary (description rel…

Description Fix the typo in config file concerning dtb How Has This Been Tested? build/boot tested Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

Description Added patches and config for BigTreeTech CB2/Pi2 GitHub issue reference: Jira reference number AR-2332 How Has This Been Tested? Build and load on BTT Pi 2, test peripherals [ ] UART on the type-c port [ ] Ethernet [ ] WiFi [ ] NVMe [ ] HDMI [ ] other peripherals 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

In the latest Linux kernel release, Collabora’s engineering team delivers multiple contributions including Tyr, a Rust driver for CSF-based Arm Mali GPUs, as well as ongoing hardware enablement and improved support for MediaTek SoCs. View the full article

Description As the issue @catalinii mentioned in #3271, when a sdcard has got flashed with radxa rock3a image or manjaro-arm rock3a image before, armbian can't boot on this sd card after flashed with ether. Here is the root cause: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12352-orange-pi-4/page/3/#comment-94322. We can avoid this issue by using the same gpt partition type as radxa and manjaro, and use the same fat /boot partition to aviod the bad support for ext4 filesystem from rockchip legacy u-boot. 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] Prepare a sd card,…

A previous post introduced the SPURV Android compatibility layer for Wayland based Linux environment. In this post, we're going to dig into how you can run an Android application on the very common i.MX6 based Nitrogen6_MAX board. View the full article

Cambridge, England August 5-8, 2014: With so many silicon vendors and OEMs visiting Cambridge England, August 5-8 transforms the univeristy town into the world's center of innovation for one week. Cambridge in August attracts international leaders in the semiconductor space from across the globe. Collabora is delighted to be headquartered here with so many of its great partners. Should you be in town, don't hesitate to contact us. View the full article

ASRock Industrial has released the iEPF-9010S and iEP-9010E high-end, rugged Edge AIoT platforms powered by 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake S processors, equipped with up to 128GB RAM, 4G LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, and real-time TSN/TCC networking. The I/O rich embedded computers are designed for highly demanding workloads and mission-critical industrial applications such as factory automation, machine automation, robotic control, AI-enabled AOI (automated optical inspection), autonomous vehicles, smart cities, and more. The ASRock iEPF-9010S Expandable AIoT Edge platforms come with the following specifications: SoC – Intel 12th Gen Core, Pentium or Celeron …

Description add information to the places where people might looking for it try to resolve confusions remove unnecessary infos Jira reference number AR-1284 How Has This Been Tested? Text changes only. 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

armbian,spi-dev hacks also for rockchip64-5.18, .19, and 6.0.y Original PR's https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/3737 https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/3812 Just rolling these forward to 5.18/19 and 6.0 View the full article

URVE Board Pi is a single board computer (SBC) powered by a Rockchip RK3566 quad-core Cortex-A53 processor, 2GB RAM, 8GB eMMC flash, plus the same interfaces as the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B as well as an RTC with a coin-cell battery and an M.2 SSD socket. More specifically, the Rockchip RK3566 board comes with a 4Kp60 capable HDMI 2.0 port, a MIPI DSI/LVDS display interface, a MIPI CSI camera connector, Gigabit Ethernet, four USB 3.0/2.0 ports, a dual-band WiFi 5.0 and Bluetooth 4.2 wireless module, and the usual 40-pin GPIO header. URVE Board Pi specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3566 Quad Core Cortex-A55 processor @ 1.8 GHz with Arm Mali-G52 GPU, 0.8 TOPS NPU System Memory…

Description Split adding a board with reworking patches for Opi3 and Opi3LTS that are preventing this hw from functional lan / audio. Jira reference number AR-1487 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build test on 6.1.y, 6.2.y 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

Beelink EQ12 is a mini PC powered by an Intel Processor N100 “Alder Lake-N” quad-core processor offered with 8GB or 16GB DDR5 memory, a 512GB NVMe SSD for storage, as well as two 2.5GbE ports, and a WiFi 6 & Bluetooth 5.2 wireless module. The actively cooled computer also comes with two 4K capable HDMI ports, three USB 3.2 ports, and a 10Gbps USB Type-C that also supports DisplayPort Alternate Mode enabling the EQ12 to drive up to three 4K displays. Beelink EQ12 specifications: SoC – Intel Processor N100 Alder Lake-N quad-core processor @ up to 3.4 GHz (Turbo) with 6MB cache, 24 EU Intel HD graphics @ up to 750 MHz; TDP: 6W System Memory – 8GB or 16GB DDR5 4800 MHz RA…

A few years ago I reviewed the ICE Tower CPU cooling fan for Raspberry Pi 4 which is an oversized heatsink with a cooling fan and some RGB LEDs that obviously does its job at cooling the board, but the main benefit is really its aesthetics. 52Pi has now designed another ICE Tower cooling fan for the Orange Pi 5 SBC, and the new Orange Pi 5B, with the same concept except for its low-profile design. It’s probably not needed for the Orange Pi 5 which should do fine with a heatsink, but it may help for the Orange Pi 5B due to the extra heat from the WiFi 6 module. A company representative for 52Pi told us that: I have seen this Orange Pi 5B motherboard posted on your site, th…

Description We voted to switch before release. Jira reference number AR-1695 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Boot Nanopi M4v2 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 After merging #4958 many patches are breaking the build. We need to adjust them. Jira reference number AR-1780 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Boot test Nanopi Neo 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

rockchip-rk3588 collabora: new branch (by @lanefu) rockchip-rk3588 collabora: new branch (by @lanefu) bsdextrautils for kernel 6.4 (only if collabora branch) kernel 6.4 major, but skip rtw88 driver patching View the full article

Description On devices using uwe5622 wireless, a kernel warn message and corresponding stacktrace is shown in dmesg for incorrect netdev-dev_addr. 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] Tested that warning message is gone on Orange Pi 3 LTS when booted with a kernel with this patch applied and that wireless 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 ha…

Description working：WiFi，HDMI，SATA，ETH not work：digital display，IR... 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 This fixes armbian-firmware-full missing the symlinks from linux-firmware How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build an image with armbian-firmware-full and confirmed the symlinks were there and pointed to the right location 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 As per title. Jira reference number AR-2103 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Manual build 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 support for Recore boards Adding support for Recore 3D printer control boards A5 through A8. There is support for these boards in an older version of build, but they don't seem to have been propagated. There are some improvements in this version (thus the "update" in the description) and also support for a newer version of the hardware. Recore is a 3D printer control board. Documentation summary for feature / change [x] short description (copy / paste of PR title) [x] summary (description relevant for end users) How Has This Been Tested? It has been tested on the following hardware: [x] Recore A5 [x] Recore A6 [x] Recore A7 [x] Recore A8 Checklist: [x] I h…

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

As an active member of the freedesktop community, Collabora was busy at XDC 2025. Our graphics team delivered five talks, helped out in two more sessions, and ran a workshop for newcomers. View the full article

Description Due to changes in Opi legacy kernel, one out of the tree wireless driver broke down. We have patch it for modern kernel, but for this one another patch or adjustment is needed. This can be done later, but in order to have things build-able, lets disable it. 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 [ ] 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…

Light sensors are used to turn on/off lights, adjust the brightness of displays, and more. But I’ve come across a use case I never thought of: object presence detection. In the digital signage work, such features if called “lift and learn”, and light sensors are used to detect when an object is present and play a video or display information about the product. That concept came to my attention when I saw a photo of Mekotronics R29 digital signage player with several cables coming out of the device and attached to what looked like white hockey pucks and turned out to be light sensors. Apart from the light sensors, Mekotronics R29 specifications are pretty standard: SoC – R…

Mekotronics R58 is a cost-optimized Rockchip RK3588 mini PC and SBC that sells for as little as $169 with 4GB and 32GB eMMC flash. The company has now sent me a model with 8GB RAM and 64GB flash for evaluation, and in the first part of the review, I’ll do an unboxing, check out the hardware more closely, and boot it up for a quick check. Mekotronics R58 Unboxing There’s no retail package so to speak with just a white box and a sticker reading “MINI 8+64G” indicating the RAM and storage capacity for the device. The mini PC ships with a 12V/3A power adapter and cord, an IR remote control with two AAA batteries, two WiFi antennas, an HDMI cable, and a USB-A to USB-C cable pr…

In part 1 and 2 of this series, we took a condensed in-depth look at the eBPF VM. In part 3, we define the high-level components of an eBPF program, including the backend, loader, frontend and data structures. View the full article

Raspberry Pi Today interviews Collabora's Daniel Stone about Collabora and the Raspberry Pi Foundation's work on Wayland and WebKit. View the full article

Description Show more informations in first-login Jira reference number AR-1216 How Has This Been Tested? [X] Build Checklist: [ ] 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

MaxLinear has just announced the availability of the first three AnyWAN broadband SoCs featuring Intel Atom cores with the MxL25641, URX850, and URX851 processors designed for 5Gbps and 10 Gbps broadband routers and gateways, usually referred to as CPEs (customer premise equipment). When I first read the news of MaxLinear releasing Intel Atom SoCs, I could not quite compute how it was possible, as I can’t remember any third-party releasing Intel processors and I thought it might be a system-in-package instead. But MaxLinear keeps calling those Intel Atom SoCs, and the reason is that the company acquired Intel’s Home Gateway Platform Division in 2020. MaxLinear AnyWAN x86 …

We’ve seen Rockchip RK3568 system-on-modules before, but the Geniatech SOM-3568-SMARC core board is the first to comply with the SMARC 2.1 standard with a 314-pin MXM connector exposing the many I/Os from the quad-core Cortex-A55 processor. The module comes with up to 8GB RAM, 128GB eMMC flash, integrates a WiFi and Bluetooth module as well as two Gigabit Ethernet transceivers, and is designed to be used in advanced NVRs, cloud terminals, industrial automation, IoT applications, digital signage, and more. Geniatech SOM-3568-SMARC specifications: SoC – Rockchip RK3568 quad-core Cortex-A55 processor @ 2.0 GHz with Arm Mali-G52 2EE GPU with support for OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.2,…

tinkerboard-2: move to "legacy" 21.07 u-boot; firmware & kernel DTS fixes (5.18/19,6.0) notes in the board file about the RAM issues (tested, confirmed working blob change of #4383 by @pinhaozhang working with u-boot 21.07; blobless also works with ATF v2.7 on my known-good-RAM boards) tinkerboard-2: add full firmware, for the rtl8822ce PCIe Wifi default card in the tb2 as shipped by ASUS tinkerboard-2: uboot: rename TARGET_TINKER-2_RK3399 to TARGET_TINKER2_RK3399 to avoid warnings all over tinkerboard-2: slower but working Tinkerboard 2S eMMC (HS400+ES to HS200) both for u-boot and kernel. should not affect 2, only 2S View the full article

The focus in 2022 was on maturing the Wayland driver and keeping up to date with the Wine upstream internal changes, which involved updating it for the latest internal driver APIs, and making preparations to support WoW64. View the full article

Description Breaks building of certain desktops. Jira reference number AR-1489 View the full article

AAEON has just launched the UP Xtreme i12 Edge mini PC based on the company’s UP Xtreme i12 SBC equipped with an Intel Core i7-1280PE and other Alder Lake processors, up to 32GB LPDDR5 memory, and support for two M.2 NVMe SSD as well as SATA storage The Xtreme i12 Edge is the successor of the Xtreme i11 Edge Compute Enabling Kit powered by a choice of Intel Tiger Lake processors. It also comes with 2.5GbE and GbE networking, one USB4 port, several USB 3.2 Gen2 ports, HDMI and DisplayPort video outputs, plus some COM ports and a terminal block for GPIOs. UP Xtreme i12 Edge mini PC specifications: Alder Lake-P SoC (One or the other) Intel Core i7-1270PE 12-core/16-thread pr…

Netgear “Nighthawk” RS700 is the first WiFi 7 (802.11be) router from the company, with the tri-band router being rated “BE19000” meaning it can deliver a combined ~19Gbps link rate on all three bands. The router is based on the Broadcom BCM67263 Arm processor and with that kind of wireless bandwidth it comes with two 10GbE ports one WAN port to connect to the internet, and one LAN port to connect to the local networks plus four extra Gigabit Ethernet ports, and a USB 3.0 port for network storage. Netgear RS700 specifications: SoC – Broadcom BCM67263 quad-core WiFi 7 processor @ 2.6 GHz System Memory – 1GB RAM Storage – 512MB NAND flash for OS Networking 802.11be WiFi 7 Wi…

AMD Alveo MA35D media accelerator PCIe card is based on a 5nm ASIC capable of transcoding up to 32 Full HD (1080p60) AV1 streams in real-time and designed for low-latency, high-volume interactive streaming applications such as watch parties, live shopping, online auctions, and social streaming. AMD says the Alveo MA35D utilizes a purpose-built VPU to accelerate the entire video pipeline, and the ASIC can also handle up to 8x 4Kp60, or 4x 8Kp30 AV1 streams per card. H.264 and H.265 codecs are also supported, and the company claims its “next-generation AV1 transcoder engines” deliver up to a 52% reduction in bitrate at the same video quality against “an open source x264 ver…

Reduce failed to get tx report from firmware dmesg spam. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20210713104524.47101-1-pkshih@realtek.com/ https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e140d551b78670fbf99c83a59438cb13de50420f 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

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

Initiated as a joint effort by the Google Chrome OS team and Collabora, the recent KernelCI hackfest brought the addition of new tests including the ability to detect regressions on the Linux kernel that can directly affect cameras. 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 Fix #6857 and add 10 seconds network timeout to initramfs ssh daemon waiting for cryptroot-unlock password GitHub issue reference: #6857 Jira reference number [AR-2401] How Has This Been Tested? [x] Succesfully running CRYPTROOT_ENABLE="y" nanopi-r5c [x] Succesfully running CRYPTROOT_ENABLE="y" orangepi5-plus 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 Follow-up to #6927 Bind mount /dev into the container Remove previous attempt via MKNOD capability which actually didn't affect the issue GitHub issue reference: #6568 Jira reference number AR-2132 Documentation summary for feature / change The issue has been found in other projects as well, and they end up bind mounting /dev into the container: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/27886 https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/16160 The issues have a lot of discussion on the various aspects of the problem and solutions. The most accepted one is binding /dev into the container. The MKNOD capability doesn't solve the issue, as it turns out. Testing in #6927 w…

Description Right before release its best time to verify if board is still interested to be kept under support. Or to pull community supported under our wings. We need to know the status, someone has to be behind, etc. tl;dr; Board Support Rules - Armbian Documentation review maintainers review kernel build targets review test targets How Has This Been Tested? Smoke tests will be tested via this branch to determine best test targets. Checklist: [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downs…

GStreamer's logging system is an incredibly powerful ally when debugging but it can sometimes be a bit daunting to dig through the massive amount of generated logs. I often find myself writing small scripts processing gst logs when debugging. View the full article

It is no great secret that my colleagues at Collabora have been doing work with the Raspberry Pi Foundation. View the full article

Description Jira reference number AR-1361 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Booting both kernels [ ] Check basic functions: BT, audio, 3D acceleration, ... 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 Update odroidxu4-current kernel to 5.4.225. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Reboot of my Odroid HC1 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 Maintanace. Jira reference number AR-1444 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Run View the full article

Description Just a couple of fixes to a video4linux2 patch for rk322x and rockchip, plus some kernel option fixes to rk322x. Should be harmless. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Built rk322x image without issues 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

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Add possibility of nilfs2 fs based image generation. nilfs2 automatically does snapshots and allow to restore any file to state back in time until it purged. 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: [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 [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and publ…

Description Bumped kernel versions Current: 6.1.38 -> 6.1.39 Edge: 6.4.2 -> 6.4.4 Modified thermal-sun8i-Be-loud-when-probe-fails.patch to fix patch application failure Disabled drm-sun4i-Fix-wrong-location-of-clk_prepare_enable.patch to fix patch failure and as its not needed after the upstream change Rest of the disabled patches for 6.4.4 are upstreamed U-boot: 2023.07 -> 2023.07.02. This is very trivial bump. It only removes the -rc6 extra version from the Makefile which was not removed when 2023.07 was released. 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 r…

In Debian and derivative systems, there are many ways to build images. The simplest tool of choice is often debootstrap. It works by downloading the .deb files from a mirror and unpacking them into a directory which can eventually be chrooted into. View the full article

Description Small followup fix https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6006 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 and boot rk3318-box from second partition 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 This PR makes Khadas Edge 2 usable on mainline and update USB patches on rk3588 edge. What is not working: MCU fan control. The driver is exists on upstream kernel but VIM3 has different fan control register and logic, needs new implementation. Type-C port Wlan and Bluetooth Jira reference number AR-2082 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-und…

add gmac0 ethernet support add poweroff support fix typo in dts 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=rock-5a BRANCH=edge COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=sha,gpg,xz DEB_COMPRESS=xz [x] gmac0 ethernet is enabled on h88k [x] poweroff command can shut down h88k now 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 [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warning…

mainline-kernel: bump to 6.10-rc7 mainline-kernel: bump to 6.10-rc7 just rockchip-rk3588 for now rockchip-rk3588 / edge: rebase onto 6.10-rc7 win: notice how one can actually spot relevant changes now case in point, 1022-arm64-dts-rockchip-support-poweroff-on-rock-5a.patch -- will drop it in separate commit rockchip-rk3588 / edge: drop patch that landed in 6.10-rc7 1022-arm64-dts-rockchip-support-poweroff-on-rock-5a.patch landed https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d05f7aff7ac23884ed9103a876325047ff9049aa View the full article

Avnet RZBoard V2L is an Arm Linux SBC for AI vision applications that’s about the size of a business card (or a Raspberry Pi), and powered by a Renesas RZ/V2L Cortex-A55/M33 processor with an on-chip DRP-AI accelerator. The board also comes with 2GB DDR4, 32GB eMMC flash, 16MB QSPI flash, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0, multiple USB ports, MIPI DSI/CSI interfaces, as well as a Pi HAT compatible 40-pin GPIO header. RZBoard V2L specifications: SoC – Renesas RZ/V2L with 2x Arm Cortex A55 cores @ up to 1.2 GHz, 1x Arm Cortex M33 real-time core @ 200 MHz, Arm Mali G31 GPU @ 500MHz, DRP-AI accelerator, DRP Simple ISP (full HD), and a H.264 Hardware Video Enc/Dec (fu…

Description Continuation of work on the development of a unified package installation function in the armbian build system. Sometimes we need to install a package as a package file that is located in the local directory. Now the function will independently calculate the package dependencies and install these dependencies and the package file itself. How Has This Been Tested? It is well tested. We can start using this new opportunity. [x] The installation of packages that are not available in the available repositories has been tested. The packages were taken\downloaded from third-party sources. Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I…