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For the past few years a clear trend of containerization of applications and services has emerged. Having processes containerized is beneficial in a number of ways. It both improves portability and strengthens security. View the full article

Some ultra-compact 4G LTE wireless routers housed in what looks like a largish USB dongle are based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 401 (MSM8916) quad-core Cortex-A53 processor and have been hacked to run Debian 11 with Linux 5.15 instead of the pre-loaded Android OS. Soon after Extrowerk had purchased a ~$20 “4G LTE WiFi modem” USB dongle, he noticed it would show as “Android” when connected to his PC. It also turned out that Chinese hacker HandsomeYingYan had already done some work on the device modding the lk2nd bootloader and the Linux kernel for the OpenStick project for “mainline Linux on msm8916-based 4G USB modem”, and documented his work (in Chinese) to run Debian 11 on t…

Espressif Systems ESP8684 is a single-core RISC-V microcontroller with 2.4 GHz WiFi 4 and Bluetooth 5.0 LE (BLE) connectivity that also integrates 1, 2, or 4MB flash into a tiny 4x4mm QFN package. The SoC is listed under the ESP32-C2 product family on the Espressif website and can be found in MINI and WROOM modules, as well as the ESP8684-DevKitM-1 development kit. All three parts, namely ESP8684H1, ESP8684H2, and ESP8684H4, are designed to work in the -40 to 105°C temperature range, ESP8684 specifications: CPU – 32-bit RISC-V processor up to 120 MHz; 305.42 CoreMark; 2.55 CoreMark/MHz Memory – 272 KB SRAM (16 KB for cache) Storage – 576 KB ROM, 1 to 4MB flash (SiP) Wi…

Description As per description. Jira reference number AR-1751 View the full article

Remove stmmac change from net-phy-Support-yt8531c.patch as its causing 32-bit allwinner boards to hang on boot Description The 32-bit allwinner boards are known to hang with 6.1.30 kernel. On investigation, I was able to narrow the issue down to the above mentioned patch. The patch is supposed to add support for yt8531c, but it was also modifying stmmac ethernet driver to add a fix for realtek chip. This doesn't make sense to me and removing that code solved the issue. Jira reference number AR-1764 How Has This Been Tested? Created an bookworm current image for nanopi duo2 with and without stmmac part removed. [X] Removing the stmmac part of the patch results into bo…

Description Instead of requesting to install gcc-or1k-bin package unconditionally, request it only when building images with crust support. Also consolidated crust related configuration into a separate file. Jira reference number AR-1786 How Has This Been Tested? [X] ./compile.sh DOCKER_ARMBIAN_BASE_IMAGE="debian:bullseye" BOARD=nanopineo works as it doesn't need crust support [X] ./compile.sh DOCKER_ARMBIAN_BASE_IMAGE="debian:bullseye" BOARD=nanopiduo2 fails as it bullseye doesn't include gcc-or1k-bin package and hence reported as unsupported system [X] ./compile.sh BOARD=nanopiduo2 works as default release is jammy that has the required package Checklist: [X] My co…

Today, Imagination Technologies announced they are now using Zink for full OpenGL 4.6 support. This is the first time we've seen a hardware vendor trust Zink enough to completely side-step a native OpenGL driver and use it in a shipping product. View the full article

Description Some sd cards are unable to access in uboot when using miniloader. These cards are able to access when using spl instead. Spl is not related to DDR initialization so it is unlikely to introduce DDR problems. How Has This Been Tested? [x] System boots [x] 5 minutes stress test 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 artic…

Description Khadas Edge 2 images has been shipped without Uboot and it may cause some problems like not-booting when eMMC and SPI is empty. This PR adds vendor's uboot to Edge 2 images. I've also added BL32 blob because the board doesn't boot when SPI has BL32 blobs and SD card doesn't have. cc @rpardini @viraniac How Has This Been Tested? [x] SPI + SD card [ ] Empty SPI + SD card [ ] SPI + eMMC [ ] Empty SPI + eMMC Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [ ] 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 [ ] My changes gener…

Description drivers:regulator:fan53555 When I use fan53555, I see an error: FAN53555-regulator 0-0060: Chip ID 0 with rev 12 not supported! So I fixed this bug 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 [ ] restart 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…

Description Background In PR #6617, we've added the ethernet and pwm driver for zero2w for kernel version 6.6 and 6.7, now in 6.10, the pwm drvier interface have been changed that makes our driver failed to compile, here's a PR to fix that. Changes: Fix compiling error at the patch drivers-pwm-Add-pwm-sunxi-enhance-driver-for-h616.patch, adapt to new 6.10 pwm interface At sunxi64 edge config, enable CONFIG_PWM_SUNXI_ENHANCE as module How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build and install to zero2w, the ethernet works well 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, pa…

The latest Linux kernel brings expanded hardware support for MediaTek and Rockchip, enhanced graphics drivers, and more. Collabora played a key role in this release, with no less than 20 authored contributors! View the full article

Description There is a drawback to configuring audio routing using asound.state. Although you can specify the device of the axg-sound card via commands to output sound to either HDMI or the internal speaker, in a desktop environment, there is only one analog output (defaulting to HDMI). This is because the device actually has only one sound card. By using ALSA UCM to manage sound instances and audio routing, you can freely choose between HDMI or the built-in speaker output in a desktop environment. This is because PipeWire/WirePlumber will parse ALSA UCM and create sinks. How Has This Been Tested? build image boot form usb drive test sound in CLI and DE Checklist: …

Getting into kernel development can be daunting. There are layers upon layers of knowledge to master, but no clear roadmap, especially when it comes to debugging drivers or navigating userspace-kernel issues. View the full article

China-developed Ubuntu Kylin 20.04 is now supporting RISC-V architecture with an image for HiFive Unmatched mini-ITX motherboard, and work will be done on an unnamed Starfive SBC that should be the VisionFive board with a GPUless JH7100 dual-core RISC-V SoC or an upgraded version with JH7110 SoC featuring an Imagination IMG BXE-4-32 GPU. You may have read recent reports about China asking government entities, including state-owned enterprises (SOE), to replace foreign hardware and software within a two-year period. So that means avoiding systems based on Intel and AMD processors, so working on RISC-V open architecture makes perfect sense, since over time, Chinese manufact…

The latest release of Armbian, version 22.05, is now out with hundreds of Linux kernel and user space-related bug fixes, a focus on stabilizing existing platforms, while still adding four new boards with Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS (RK3328), Radxa Zero (Amlogic S905Y2), Radxa Rock 3A (RK3568), and DevTerm A06 (RK3399). The community also added two new maintainers for ESPRESSObin and Radxa Rock Pi 4 (Model A) SBCs which should mean the images for those boards will be tested more regularly and potential issues fixed more quickly. You may want to read the more detailed changelog to see if any changes may impact the board(s) you are using. The new Armbian 22.05 release succeeds Arm…

It has been just over a year since we first announced our effort to implement a Wayland driver for Wine. Here's a recap of what has been done since then to improve both the functionality and stability of the driver. View the full article

Linux Kernel 4.15 was released yesterday, and it once again contained patches contributed by Collabora, including bigger patchsets like V4L2 Explicit Synchronization and UTF-8 case insensitive lookups for EXT4. View the full article

Description Since latest changes to the partition handling we need to add new dependency to the build host & docker as builds are failing. Jira reference number AR-1332 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Starting from a clean Docker image 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

It’s that time of year… CNX Software giveaway week! For the 9th edition, we’ll have seven items to give away, five that I will send myself, and two that will be sent directly from two companies that accepted to add their own products to the giveaway. We’ll start the giveaway with NanoPi R5S router based on Rockchip RK3568 SoC with 2 GB DDR4 RAM, 8GB eMMC flash plus an M.2 socket for NVMe SSD, two 2.5GbE Ethernet ports, one Gigabit Ethernet port, as well as HDMI 2.0 video output and two USB 3.0 ports. I reviewed the NanoPi R5S router with OpenWrt and Ubuntu 20.04 “FriendlyCore”, but I had to call this a “preview” since 2.5GbE was far from optimal, sometimes only a little…

KC12 is a mini PC powered by either an Intel Core i5-1240P or Core i7-1260P Alder Lake-P hybrid processor with up to 64GB DDR4, SATA and NVMe storage options, HDMI and DisplayPort for up to four 4K displays, as well as two 2.5GbE networking interfaces. The actively-cooled computer also comes with six USB ports, four of which are USB 3.x, audio jacks for a headphone and a microphone, an optional WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 module, an RS232 COM port, and a Kensington lock slot. KC12 mini PC specifications: Alder Lake-P SoC (one or the other) Intel Core i7-1260P 4P+8E (16 threads) processor @ 3.40/4.70GHz with Intel Xe graphics; 28W TDP Intel Core i5-1240P 4P+8E (16 threads) pr…

Description A user from the forum reports that a new rockchip rk3288-based board Tinkerboard S R2.0 has no wifi (see discussion here). After some talk, it seems that this board revision uses a Realtek rtl8723ds chip, whereas the R1.01 board uses rtl8723bs. This PR enabled the rtl8723ds wifi module that curiously was previously enabled in kernel 5.15 but somehow has been disabled in the advancement to 6.1. Current and edge kernel on rockchip family are both on 6.1 right now. The board actually is in a limbo where probably much of the design is shared with regular Tinkerboard/S, but other differences are unknown. Enabling a kernel module to let wifi work is a relatively s…

ELECFREAKS Wukong 2040 is a multifunctional breakout board designed for Raspberry Pi Pico. It is equipped with interfaces for four DC motors, up to twelve servos, a buzzer, A\B buttons, RGB “rainbow” lights, a Reset button, etc… The board can be powered by a single 18650 3.7V LiPo battery and integrates a power management IC that monitors the battery level and can also charge the battery via a USB charger. Battery life is typically 60 minutes per charge but can last over 120 minutes depending on the load. Wukong 2040 key features and specifications Description of the Wukong 2040 interfaces Specifications and dimensions of the Wukong 2040 Expansion Board for Raspberry Pi…

Description Espressobin had some package removal optimisations which are anyway deprecated with minimal images. How Has This Been Tested? Bug was found in build-all images scenario ... while switching to Bookworm target instead of Sid. View the full article

Description Enable INNOLUX_AFJ101_BA2131 panel on rk3588 legacy kernel Jira reference number [AR-9999] How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build kernel Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding 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 licheepi-4a: add a .wip for Sipeed LicheePi 4A board The u-boot of LicheePi 4A can be updated without the need to flash the system. Users can manually update it according to the instructions provided by Sipeed's wiki when needed. The opensbi used in LicheePi 4A is not packaged within u-boot using a fit image. Therefore, it is stored in the repository as a binary file. During startup, LicheePi 4A requires loading audio and aon firmware. These two files will also be stored in the repository in binary format. 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 configuratio…

Enable bcachefs filesystem support in rk3588 kernel config (copied from armbian rockpro64 edge config). Description This adds support for the bcachefs filesystem in the rk3588 edge kernel config. Bcachefs is a new and exciting filesystem that is similar to btrfs / zfs, but simpler to use. The relevant kernel options were already in other configs, such as the rockpro64 edge config, but not in the rk3588 edge one. This needs kernel version 6.7+. How Has This Been Tested? custom kernel build Checklist: Please delete options that are not relevant. [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code [ ] I have comment…

Information: https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI-F3/BananaPi_BPI-F3 https://gitee.com/bianbu-linux Boot log: https://paste.armbian.com/ucabodotet.yaml Linux dmesg: https://paste.armbian.com/exagihupok.yaml Currently booting from SPI is an unknown. Flashing u-boot to eMMC: (This is not apart of the PR and needs to be added in the future.) echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk2boot0/force_ro sleep .50 dd if="bootinfo_emmc.bin" of="/dev/mmcblk2boot0" bs=512 conv=notrunc dd if="FSBL.bin" of="/dev/mmcblk2boot0" bs=512 seek=1 conv=notrunc dd if="FSBL.bin" of="/dev/mmcblk2boot0" bs=512 seek=512 conv=notrunc dd if="fw_dynamic.itb" of="/dev/mmcblk2" bs=512 seek=1280 conv=notrunc dd if="…

Description Add initial support for board Luckfox Nova W. Luckfox Nova W is recently produced board on SoC Rockchip RK3308B: 4 x Cortex-A35 CPU, 512 RAM, 8 GB eMMC. It also has Ethernet, WIFI & BT, USB-A and USB-C ports, soldered microphone. Product page: https://www.luckfox.com/Luckfox-Nova?ci=646 But beware: it is very fresh board, has almost no documentation and only buildroot SDK with kernel 5.10 is available from vendor. Documentation I decided to create separate directory for vendor kernel patches. This kernel must be the same as rk35xx-vendor-6.1, but this SoC is not RK35XX. Used U-Boot is mainline. Instead of DKMS AIC8800 driver I enabled the one from kerne…

MeLE has released a new and updated version of the Quieter mini PC called the Quieter3Q. Like before, it is a passive mini PC but now features the latest low-powered Intel Celeron Jasper Lake CPU and an upgraded PCIe 3.0 x2 M.2 2280 NVMe SSD slot. MeLE has kindly sent one for review and I’ve looked at performance running both Windows and Ubuntu and connecting an eGPU. MeLE Quieter3Q Hardware Overview The MeLE Quieter3Q is physically the same as before consisting of a 131 x 81 x 18.3mm (5.16 x 3.19 x 0.72 inches) rectangular plastic case with a metal base plate. The top half of the case is finely grooved to mimic the fins of a heat spreader but is made of plastic rather th…

With over 350 patches authored and nearly 200 reviewed and tested in multiple subsystems, 2021 was a great year for Linux kernel development at Collabora. Here is a look at some of our achievements during the year. View the full article

Brussels, here we come! We're thrilled to be sponsoring this year's edition of FOSDEM, taking place in just over a week's time (February 3 & 4), at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Come say hello, or catch one of a dozen talks given by Collaborans! View the full article

Description Due to reports of possible corruption in images, we need to implement more checks. Jira reference number AR-1236 How Has This Been Tested? Not working yet. Just POC. 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

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MeLE has launched a new range of passive mini PCs known as the ‘Quieter HD Series’ and first in the lineup is the Quieter HD3Q. Not only does this new mini PC address the main criticism of their earlier models by now including dual-channel memory, but it is also slightly larger allowing the ability to add a 2.5” SATA drive, and also has a higher power limit to improve performance. MeLE kindly sent one for review and I’ve looked at performance running both Windows and Ubuntu. MeLE Quieter HD3Q hardware overview The MeLE Quieter HD3Q consists of a 150 x 105 x 37mm (5.91 x 4.13 x 1.46 inches) rectangular plastic case with a metal base plate. Gone are the faux heat spreader f…

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

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

The Linux Foundation has just announced the full schedule for the Embedded Open Source Summit, which will take place on June 27-30, 2023 in Prague, Czech Republic, as well as virtually starting on June 26. Over 175 sessions, birds of a feather (BoF) tracks, and workshops related to embedded and open-source innovation will be presented at the event itself comprised of six micro conferences: Automotive Linux Summit Europe, Embedded IoT Summit, Embedded Linux Conference, LF Energy Embedded Summit, Safety-Critical Software Summit, and Zephyr Project Developer Summit. Even though I’m not going to attend personally, I’ve gone through the schedule to create my own little virtual…

Adding in support for new desktop being added . i3 lxde lxqt and others to be added as made View the full article

thinkpad-x13s: bump to steev's lenovo-x13s-linux-6.6.y (currently 6.6.0) thinkpad-x13s: bump to steev's lenovo-x13s-linux-6.6.y (currently 6.6.0) View the full article

Description We are using unudhcpd from pmos for usb gadget network dhcp server. But this package is not upstreamed to debian, and it's the only package we use for qcom abl that is not upstreamed, so replace it with dnsmasq. Difference between unudhcpd and dnsmasq: 1, unudhcpd is a very simple dhcp server which only provides one ip address to the client. While dnsmasq will provide different ip address on every usb gadget network connect because the mac address of usb gadget network client always changes. 2, When usbgadget network is disabled by command systemctl status usbgadget-rndis.service, dnsmasq will get stopped. If dnsmasq is not stopped, client won't get address …

Description Ubuntu Noble is not yet in Jammy deboostrap. Lets patch the system with an extensions, so we con't mess up with a framework itself. This will eventually become deprecated anyway. Jira reference number AR-2004 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Manual run ./compile.sh ENABLE_EXTENSIONS="ubuntu-noble" Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description 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. TI maintains its own repository of debian packages here. This PR adds this repository in TI images by-default through a new extension. So when the user performs apt update, apt install etc in Armbian images for TI boards, even TI's packages can be installed. Further, the PR also installs a few of TI's packages by-default in its images. Additionally: it also changes TI's U-boot link from git.ti.com to Github. How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify yo…

The Linux desktop in VR goes headless! Introducing wxrd, a standalone Wayland compositor for xrdesktop based on wlroots, with minimal dependencies. View the full article

The kernelci.org project aims at continuously testing the mainline Linux kernel, from stable branches to linux-next on a variety of platforms. When a revision fails to build or boot, kernel developers get informed via email reports. View the full article

Raspberry Pi Trading announced the Raspberry Pi Pico W board basically based on the same design as the original Raspberry Pi Pico board with RP2040 dual-core Cortex-M0+ microcontroller but adding a wireless module with WiFi 4 and Bluetooth LE 5.2, although the latter is not enabled on the board at this time. The company sent me a sample for review/evaluation, and I’ll focus on the WiFi part since the Raspberry Pi Pico W supports the same MicroPython and C/C++ SDKs as for the Raspberry Pi Pico board plus additional APIs for wireless connectivity. Raspberry Pi Pico W unboxing The board I received was cut from a 480-unit reel, and I also got a one-meter long micro USB to USB…

uefi-(arm64|x86)-edge/5.19: bump to 5.19.y uefi-arm64-edge/5.19: add patch for ACPI enablement of PHYT0004 onboard network card reworked 5.10 version of patch to 5.19, trivial datatype change sent by Dragonbox/Pythium person via @lanefu uefi-(arm64|x86)-edge/5.19: split patch dir from x86, otherwise identical Description This was mostly done and tested together with https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/3941 in terms of builds and tests. View the full article

Description These two kernel features are required for the serial console to be usable in early userspace of an Allwinner H6 based board - ie, the init process. The debian initramfs loads these modules which is fine when things go well, but you won't get any logs from the init script which is problematic for debugging and/or customizing it. This made debugging very challenging as I had no way to get output from the board after the kernel had handed control to init. After this change, the serial console is available and functional by the time init runs, and any logs from init will be output as expected. Note: I've put these changes into the "next" config, but my testing…

Realtek RTD1319D is the first set-top box processor to support H.266 (aka Versatile Video Coding) video compression standard. The new SoC also provides a GPU with 10-bit graphics, support for multiple Conditional Access Systems (CAS), and HDMI 2.1a video output capable of up to 4Kp60 with HDR. One would have thought the royalty-free AV1 video codec might have killed licensed codecs such as H.266, but it’s clearly not the case, since Realtek decided to launch the RTD1319D processor with the new codec, and the primary reason may be because the H.266/VCC codec was added to the DVB specification last February for both 4K (3840×2160) and 8K (7680×4320) resolutions. Realtek RTD…

Description This address https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4189#issuecomment-1279676914 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

The Green Metrics Tool (GMT) is an open-source framework that allows the measurement, comparison, and optimization of the energy consumption of software with the goal of empowering both software engineers and users to make educated decisions about libraries, code snippets, and software in order to save energy along with carbon emissions. While the firmware of battery-powered embedded devices and the OS running on your smartphone are typically optimized for low power consumption in order to extend the battery life, the same can not be said of most software running on SBCs, desktop computers, and servers. But there are still benefits of having power-optimized programs on th…

Description Update u-boot to use 2023.01, which contains fixes to u-boot environment handling How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Test on ebin v5 [ ] Test on ebin v7 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

Fix path for img in the lightdm login background View the full article

armbian-desktop: remove "Conflicts: gdm3"; some sddm support rootfs-desktop: disable sddm as well as lightdm and gdm3 in desktop_postinstall() lightdm, gdm3 already had this armbian-firstlogin: shellfmt, no changes armbian-firstlogin: better dm detection + add simple no-op sddm support armbian-desktop: remove "Conflicts: gdm3" if you installed gdm3 (even if you don't use it), you lose Armbian wallpapers View the full article

Description Also group all u-boot make environment variables together for easier maintainability Fixes u-boot requiring pyelftools Fixes commit https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/04f619dc06d12449b1315f01bb8fe70003316761 GitHub issue reference: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6799#issuecomment-2196438786 How Has This Been Tested? [x] sudo apt remove python3-pyelftools and then ./compile.sh uboot ARTIFACT_IGNORE_CACHE=yes BOARD=nanopi-r6c BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no RELEASE=trixie [x] ./compile.sh uboot ARTIFACT_IGNORE_CACHE=yes BOARD=radxa-zero3 BRANCH=edge BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no EXPERT=yes KERNEL_C…

Description I'm sorry, I have created a monster 🧌 But this happens when you create a monster by embedding dependency versions inside shell script files 😅 This workflow is carefully crafted though and works surprisingly well imo :) Some of our scripts download tools from a repo. These can't be bumped by dependabot, so this workflow is a self-created dependabot to bump versions of those tools to stay up-to-date. This workflow only creates a PR if the version was actually updated. Tools currently supported: Shellcheck (in 2 different files) Shellfmt oci-oras Bat This will only run once a month since the tools we use are usually not updated frequently. Maybe every two …

Linux kernel 7.1 brings improvements across filesystems, networking, scheduling, graphics, Rust, and hardware enablement, with Collabora contributing 65 patches from 16 engineers across Panthor, DRM, Rockchip, MediaTek, and driver fixes across the kernel. View the full article

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Description Ditch bash spaghetti code to advance in Github actions. Jira reference number AR-1230 How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Hundred times 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

A year of online conferences that began with linux.conf.au will end on a high note next week as Collaborans present three talks at Open Source Summit Japan + Automotive Linux Summit 2021. Join us! View the full article

Widely recognized as the best conference of its kind in Europe, the 2018 edition of FOSDEM promises to be no different, with a jam-packed schedule of over 600 lectures, lightning talks, developer rooms, and more. View the full article

Description Fix typo in boot.cmd for jethub devices Jira reference number AR-1232 How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [ ] 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

Description Cosmetic fix. View the full article

Description This is a followup to #4455 to overcome the BUILD_ONLY empty value "dilemma" for keeping interactive dialog selection of initial BUILD_ONLY values in case nothing was set. In addition to the current state we allow the value "any" for BUILD_ONLY. "any" will have the same logical behavior as empty String By default BUILD_ONLY will be empty String - as is currently If BUILD_ONLY is empty string, we will open interactive dialog with the following pre-defined selection options (close to former KERNEL_ONLY): "u-boot" - "U-Boot only build" "u-boot,kernel" - "U-Boot and Kernel build only" "any" - "Full SD card image build" A mix of "any" with oth…

Description Adds i2c3, pwm1, pwdm2, spi0 and uart1 nodes to rk3568-odroid-m1.dts. Adds patch to remove spi-dev warning Adds patch with support for overlay compilation Adds DTS overlays for spi, uart0, uart1, pwm1, pwm2, pwm9, i2c0 and i2c1 How Has This Been Tested? This was tested with a 4GB M1 board. The [x] SPI0: tested with a SPI OLED display [x] uart0, uart1: loopback test [x] pwm1, pwm2, pwm9: with scope [x] i2c0, i2c1: with scope 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 …

Rack Robotics’ Powercore is an Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) kit that converts your existing 3D printer (or CNC router) into a machine capable of cutting high-precision and detailed metal parts. We’ve already seen 2-in-1 3D printers and laser engravers such as the Creality Ender 3 S1 Pro, but while this type of machine can usually cut plywood or engrave stainless steel, the laser is not powerful enough to cut through aluminum. The Powercore EDM kit changes that by enabling the cutting of aluminum parts up to 4mm thick, although aluminum sheets that are 1mm or thinner are recommended. But before we get into Powercore details, what is Electrical Discharge Machining e…

We’ve received a sample of the Pico:ed V2 board developed by ELECFREAKS and will show how to use it as a replacement for the BBC micro:bit in a project using CircuitPython. We’ve already covered the board in detail with specifications, block diagram, and pinout diagram before, and it’s basically a Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 board with BBC Micro:bit form factor including a 17×7 Dot Matrix LED display, some buttons, a buzzer, but no wireless connectivity, relying only on USB instead. CircuitPython firmware installation on the Pico:ed V2 board The board supports C/C++, MicroPython, and CircuitPython programming languages, and for this review, we’ve decided to download the Circ…

more of rpardini's GHA & pipeline stuff (early May/23) pipeline: cli: add proper gha- prefix to CLI commands that have something to do with GitHub Actions (thus gha-matrix now, and the new gha-template) stop at the correct places for inventory and targets non-GHA-specific commands handle gha-template first (and return), since it does not really depend on any info/targets/etc batcat the output for show-off pipeline: add output-gha-workflow-template.py utility, for rendering GHA workflow YAML templates with chunks python-tools: add Jinja2. Incredible how we made it this far without it. output-gha-workflow-template: a double-templater, first runs jinja with a custom…

image: sanity check: warn if any deb artifacts' actually-installed version does not match artifact-built version this catches problems with outdated/crazy repos, customize doing wrong things, wrong pinning, etc View the full article

pipeline: debs-to-repo-download is now done in parallel; default cores*2 limited to 16 or PARALLEL_DOWNLOADS_WORKERS pipeline: debs-to-repo-download is now done in parallel; default cores*2 limited to 16 or PARALLEL_DOWNLOADS_WORKERS also avoid log archiving during individual download jobs via SKIP_LOG_ARCHIVE=yes I've tested with PARALLEL_DOWNLOADS_WORKERS=16 and it saturates my gigabit link, ghcr.io is great at reads more than ~16-ish might be too much though View the full article

riscv64: fixes/skips for building (sans Docker) ON riscv64 oci-oras: use ORAS 1.2.0-beta.1 for riscv64 prepare-host: add libffi-dev host dependency, needed for Python3 setuptools (when prebuilt wheel not found) fixes errors that show up only when building on non-arm64/amd64, when there's no prebuilt wheel (eg on riscv64) shellcheck: skip running shellcheck, with a warning, if running on riscv64 someone go add riscv64 to https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck batcat: skip running batcat, with a warning, if running on riscv64 someone go add riscv64 to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat View the full article

In PR6507 the use of cpufrequtils was removed and the functionality put into armbian-hardware-optimization This commit removes the remaining now unused installs of the deprecated cpufrequtils package Changes to be committed: modified: config/cli/bullseye/main/packages modified: config/cli/common/main/packages modified: config/cli/jammy/main/packages Description How Has This Been Tested? [x] jammy cli build 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 View the full article

Description Add some patches to fix the ethernet PHY on orangepi zero2w, includes: drv-pwm-sun50i-h616-enhance-pwm.patch sunxi pwm enhance driver from this commit: linux-orangepi#c68ef342eba3673c7f1f5aa1ab819b06da1f60c6 drv-pwm-sun50i-h616-enhance-pwm.patch sunxi gmac and ac200 phy driver, from this commit: linux-orangepi#97b476246bc79756423cf6c1d4907606c9633d4b Had to change a bit around the exported function and dependency config to make it possible to load as module 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 pro…

Join us at the NürnbergMesse in Nuremberg, Germany, as we take part in Embedded World 2025, one of the largest trade fairs of its kind, and a global platform for the embedded community! View the full article

SparkFun introduced two new development boards called IoT RedBoard, both based on the ESP32-P4 v3.x (ESP32-P4X) and compatible with the Arduino UNO R3 form factor. The main difference is that one features an ESP32-C5 for Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, Zigbee, and Thread connectivity, while the PoE version includes 10/100 Mbps Ethernet and Power over Ethernet (PoE) support. They also include MIPI CSI/DSI camera and display connectors, two USB-C ports, a microSD card slot, Qwiic expansion, Arduino R3-compatible headers, and LiPo battery charging and monitoring. These features make it suitable for HMI, edge computing, and IoT applications. SparkFun IoT RedBoard ESP32-P4 specificat…

A step-by-step guide on how to enable 3D acceleration of Vulkan applications in QEMU through the new Venus experimental Vulkan driver for VirtIO-GPU with a local development environment. View the full article

We recently assisted a customer who wanted to upgrade their system from X11 to Wayland. The problem: they use CEF as a runtime for web applications and CEF was not Wayland-ready. View the full article

Description Prepare for support JetHub D1p device. This is first step. uboot 2022.07-rc5 (only jethome devices) update uboot jethome patches some updates for kernel patchset all changes only for jethub devices. Jira reference number AR-1232 How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [X] jethub builds ok [X] no kernel patch error added 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 cha…

Description RTL882XCE wireless card need rtw88 driver, just enable it. How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] Kernel build success [x] My RTL8822CE works well. 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

Nicolai Electronics’ rp2040-ic2-interface open-source firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico (or other Raspberry Pi RP2040 boards) converts the board into an I2C to USB bridge to connect any I2C sensor or module to a PC or other hardware without GPIOs. The firmware implements the USB protocol expected by the I2C-Tiny-USB kernel driver used by the original I2C-Tiny-USB project for Microchip ATMega 8-bit AVR microcontrollers. The RP2040 is however not a fork of the original project, but instead a complete re-implementation of the firmware. You’ll need to connect your I2C sensor, display, or another module to the SDA (GPIO 2) and SCL (GPIO 3) pins of the Raspberry Pi RP2040 micr…

Description Ability to collect correct kernel headers for a version greater than or equal to 5.19. These changes in the names of kernel configuration variables currently affect only arch/x86. Checklist: [x] Test build View the full article

Achronix Semiconductor has recently announced the general availability of the Speedster7t AC7t1500 FPGA designed for networking, storage, and compute (AI/ML) acceleration applications. The 7nm Speedster7t FPGA family offers PCIe Gen5 ports and GDRR6 and DDR5/DDR4 memory interfaces, delivers up to 400 Gbps on the Ethernet ports, and includes a 2D network on chip (2D NoC) that can handle 20 Tbps of total bandwidth. Achronix Speedster7t highlights: Two-dimensional network on chip (2D NoC) enabling high bandwidth data flow throughout and between the FPGA fabric and hard I/O and memory controllers and interfaces MLP (Machine Learning Processors) blocks with arrays of multiplie…

Description When the system temporary folder is mounted as tmpfs, it makes sense to mount the temporary compiler cache folder in /tmp. This speeds up the compilation process and saves the hard disk resource. About the SSD resource, I think that it is clear to everyone. How Has This Been Tested? For my virtual machine 6 spu frequency 3.6G Compile Time before: Runtime 46:43 min Compile time after: Runtime 35:42 min Checklist: [x] Test build View the full article

Description This reverts commit 99313504830558bf7524a92899939887f9ed8f56. After this images compilation stop working under Docker / Github Actions. ORAS is looking for cache in the repository where we are running it from and ignoring definitions in lib/functions/artifacts/artifact-kernel.sh Wrong: Error: ghcr.io/armbian/os/kernel-rk3568-odroid-edge:23.05.0-trunk--6.2.7-Safe5-D2a58-P0000-Cc2daHfe66-Bc6dc: not found Correct: Error: ghcr.io/armbian/cache-kernel/kernel-rk3568-odroid-edge:23.05.0-trunk--6.2.7-Safe5-D2a58-P0000-Cc2daHfe66-Bc6dc: not found Closing https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/4959 Jira reference number AR-1617 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Run …

congatec conga-STDA4 is a SMARC Computer-on-Module (CoM) based on Texas Instruments TDA4VM or DRA829J Jacinto 7 processor with two Cortex-A72 cores, six real-time Cortex-R5 cores for functional safety, accelerated vision and AI processing capabilities, and plenty of interfaces. The first Texas Instruments-powered CoM from the company is designed for industrial mobile machinery requiring near-field analytics, such as automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots, construction and agricultural machinery, as well as any industrial or medical solutions requiring energy-efficient computer vision at the edge. conga-STDA4 specifications: SoC – Texas Instruments Jacinto …

rootfs-to-image: find, warn, and remove dangling symlinks in FAT32 /boot otherwise rsync gags. it should not happen, but if it does, we get a nice warning now View the full article

display-alert: strip newlines as well as ANSI colors if ANSI_COLOR=none display-alert: strip newlines as well as ANSI colors if ANSI_COLOR=none ANSI_COLOR=none is used when we're driving compile.sh from Python some debugging messages had newlines in them, thus making Python mark those as [LEAKED] View the full article

Description Update odroidxu4-current kernel to 5.4.255. 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

prepare-host/host-release: enable noble for building; noble also doesn't have python2 anymore prepare-host/host-release: enable noble for building; noble also doesn't have python2 anymore python-tools: bump PyYAML to 6.0.1 to fix build failures on sid/trixie/noble etc View the full article

Description As mentioned here: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6810#issuecomment-2194178735 Out of date blobs can be an issue if the vendor ships boards with new blobs, as recently seen for FriendlyElec with the NanoPC T6 for example. The release docs do not mention any incompatibilities between versions for rk3528 and rk3568: https://github.com/armbian/rkbin/blob/master/patch-notes/RK3528_EN.md https://github.com/armbian/rkbin/blob/master/patch-notes/RK3568_EN.md For rk3566, only one warning is listed for rk3566_ddr_1056MHz_ultra_v1.19.bin but we're not using the ultra blob (what's the difference?): https://github.com/armbian/rkbin/blob/master/patch-notes/RK3566…

Description ROCK Pi E 1000M port is not working due to following error: rk_gmac-dwmac ff540000.ethernet end0: __stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19) Documentation summary for feature / change this patch fixes above error and make 1000M port usable. How Has This Been Tested? [x] connect 1000M port and see dmesg [x] connect 1000M port and see ip a 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 [x] My changes generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View th…

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

Today, Khronos announced the release of the Vulkan 1.4 specification, and NVK is one of the day-zero conformant Vulkan 1.4 implementations! Vulkan 1.4 support in NVK has been merged into Mesa and will be part of the Mesa 25.0 release in early 2025. View the full article

Collabora's contributions to Git 2.54 and the upcoming 2.55 add powerful config-based hooks with better visibility, opt-in parallel hook execution, and safer submodule handling via path-collision fixes. View the full article

This cycle is defined by three themes: broad new board enablement, a coordinated U-Boot v2026.10 refresh across Rockchip and Allwinner platforms, and substantial Rockchip kernel, media, and wireless work. Board support expanded on multiple SoC families, including the EasePi R1 and Pine64 Quartz64 Zero on RK3568, the ArmSoM CM7s IO board and Boardcon EM3588 on RK3588, Forlinx OK3572-C, and the Skysi X5 laptop. The Banana Pi BPI-M4 (RTD1395) and Cubieboard 4 returned with full enablement including A80 cpufreq, thermal, HDMI, and audio. Qualcomm support advanced with the Lenovo Legion Y700 Gen 4 on an SM8750 edge kernel bumped to 7.2.11, while the NVIDIA Jetson Nano joined t…

It might be smaller than the last few kernels, but with well above 10,000 non-merge changes, the latest Linux kernel release still packs a punch. Released on October 31, kernel 5.15 brings lots of exciting new features. View the full article

For a second time this year, Collabora is proud to be sponsoring the latest round (Round 15) of Outreachy internships! More specifically, Collabora has chosen to sponsor the Linux kernel projects for the December 2017 - March 2018 semester. View the full article

Benjamin VERNOUX has launched the HydraUSB3 V1 board based on WCH CH569 RISC-V MCU as a developer platform to experiment with high-speed protocols like HSPI and SerDes through a USB 3.0 interface. It’s the third board from Benjamin we feature here, after the STM32-based HydraBUS and the HydraNFC v2 shield delivering up to 1600 mW for NFC charging and connectivity. The HydraUSB3 v1 is quite different since it does not involve NFC at all, and instead leverages the CH569’s high-speed interfaces including USB 3.0 (5 Gbps), HSPI (3.8Gbps), and SerDes (>1.2Gbps). HydraUSB3 V1 specifications: MCU – WCH CH569 32-bit RISC-V (RISC-V3A) RV32IMAC MCU @ 120MHz with 16KB 32-bit SRAM…

Description The recent update of linux will cause build fail when enabling bootsplash. This isn't the best solution but is the easily one. The bestest solution may be to create patch for each version? How Has This Been Tested? No enough Test [X] 5.18 [ ] 5.15 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

Neuromorphic AI accelerator chips relying on spiking neural networks (SNN), which we’ve seen from companies such as Innatera or Brainchip, will be used more and more in the future as they provide much higher efficiency compared to traditional deep neural networks (DNN) solutions. Intel is also working on SNN, and recently announced the Loihi 2 second-generation neuromorphic research chip with up to 1 million neurons (the human brain has 86 billion of those on average) that delivers up to 175x lower energy to learn a new object instance with similar or better speed and accuracy compared to conventional methods running on a central processing unit (CPU). The new Loihi 2 neu…