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Description rework to apply cleanly on 6.10.5 and 6.6.46 - root cause GitHub issue reference: #7087 Jira reference number AR-2467 special thanks: @EvilOlaf How Has This Been Tested? [x] Patch applies cleanly to meson64 edge 6.10.5 - compiling ok [x] Patch applies cleanly to meson64 current 6.6.46 - compiling ok 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 When m.2 wifi module has a usb bluetooth, it can get detected but has error when loading driver: rejected 1 configuration due to insufficient available bus power This commit will add a udev rule setting all usb device attr bConfigurationValue to 1 if it has a null value, which will fix the bluetooth usb device. Hint from https://community.nxp.com/t5/i-MX-Processors/USB-1-0-disable-100mA-current-limit-permanently/td-p/1600252 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 BOARD=armsom-w3 BRANCH=vendor BUILD_MINIMAL=no DEB_COMPRESS=…

This week's updates center on new board enablement, Rockchip platform refinements, and tooling and kernel maintenance. Board support expanded across multiple silicon families, with the addition of Seeed Studio reComputer RK3576/RK3588 DevKits and the Anbernic RG DS handheld image. The EasePi A2/R2 received substantial revisions to its board configurations and device trees, alongside a vendor logo transition to Linkease. SpacemiT K1 boot support was updated, and per-SoC LINUXCONFIG separation was introduced for the TQ family to better isolate kernel configurations. Rockchip received the bulk of low-level improvements. Notable changes include AUX recovery for USB-C DP Alt M…

This week's changes center on expanded board and platform support, a modernized build and release pipeline anchored on Debian Trixie and ISO output, and a substantial documentation and release-process overhaul. On the hardware side, the EmbedFire LubanCat 4 (RK3588S) and Xiaomi Pad 6S Pro (sheng) join as new boards, Tanix TX6S is promoted to Supported, and Banana Pi R2 (MT7623) returns with kernel 6.18, edge 7.1, and U-Boot 2026.07. The reComputer RK3588 moves to the Panthor open-source GPU stack, NanoPCT6 U-Boot advances to v2026.07, and reComputer RK3576/RK3588 receives U-Boot fixes for SPI boot, NVMe, and rockusb. Several Rockchip and Qualcomm device trees are correcte…

AAElectronics’ LocalDot is an open-source replacement mainboard that converts a 3rd-generation Amazon Echo Dot into a local voice assistant compatible with Home Assistant. The board replaces one of the two original PCBs while reusing the existing microphones, speaker, buttons, LEDs, and enclosure, so the device works without relying on Amazon’s cloud services. The board combines an ESP32-S3 for WiFi connectivity and device control with an ESP32-P4 for audio processing. It supports the original four-microphone array with beamforming, on-device wake-word detection, and local voice commands through Home Assistant. Installation requires no soldering or enclosure modifications…

As one should have expected after Nordic Thingy:52 and Thingy:91 IoT devkits were introduced in 2017 and 2019 respectively, the Norwegian company has now launched the Thingy:53 platform based on Nordic Semi nRF5340 dual-core Arm Cortex-M33 SoC for IoT prototyping with Bluetooth Low Energy, Thread, Matter, Zigbee, IEEE 802.15.4, NFC, and Bluetooth mesh RF protocols. The development kit also incorporates the nPM1100 PMIC and nRF21540 Front End Module (FEM), a power amplifier/low noise amplifier (PA/LNA) range extender, as well as multiple motion and environmental sensors, as well as a rechargeable 1350 mAh Li-Po battery for power. Nordic Thingy:53 specifications: SoC – Nord…

Thanks to a new, low overhead extension in Mesa, OpenGL and Vulkan applications can now talk to each other, bringing more flexibility to application developers while easing the transition path between the industry-standard Khronos® APIs. View the full article

Collabora is proud to once again be a Gold Sponsor of this year's DebConf, the annual Debian conference for developers! This year's week-long conference takes place from August 6 to 12 at Collège de Maisonneuve in beautiful Montréal, where one of our two offices is located! View the full article

Texas Instruments Sitara AM623 and AM625 Arm Cortex-A53 AIoT processors were just introduced last month, but Forlinx has already introduced the OK6254-C SBC powered by the Sitara AM6254 quad-core processor with up to 2GB DDR4, and an 8GB eMMC flash. The board features two Gigabit Ethernet ports, CAN FD and RS485 interfaces, plus plenty of I/O headers, support for up to three displays via LVDS and parallel RGB interfaces, as well as optional support for 4G/5G cellular connectivity that makes it suitable for all sorts of industrial applications. Forlinx OK6254-C specifications: FET625x-C SoM SoC – Texas Instruments AM6254 quad-core Cortex-A53 processor @ 1.4GHz with Corte…

Description This PR follows the discussion of the previous PR about introducing LibreELEC patches into rockchip64 family patch tree. There is no Jira reference number yet, since this is yet a proposal. If there is general consensus, a ticket will be opened and linked here. As like as @AdamLantos did, I first let LibreELEC patches apply and then armbian ones, so if an armbian patch clashes, I remove it and keep the libreelec variant. This is so because LibreELEC patches usually are already queued for being upstreamed into mainline kernel and then downloaded from https://patchwork.kernel.org This time, following the requests coming from the previous PR, LibreELEC patches…

Description Maint & not supported target. Jira reference number AR-1334 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build and boot Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] I have performed a self-review of my own code [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation [x] My changes generate no new warnings [x] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Without this, when mkimage fails (for example because the boot partition is too small), install.log shows an error like: mkimage: Write only 16310208/17794920 bytes, probably no space left on the device But this does not terminate the build, so the compile script shows no error and an image is generated, but it is unbootable. This runs the script with -e, so when mkimage fails, the script fails, which makes update-initramfs fail, which makes the build fail. How Has This Been Tested? Please describe the tests that you ran to verify your changes. Please also note any relevant details for your test configuration. [x] Build image for Orange Pi PC with BOOTFS_TYPE="fat" …

I’ve now had time to play with TwoTrees TS2 laser engraver after doing an unboxing and providing assembly instructions last month, so I can report my experience in this review using LaserGRBL program and MKSLaser mobile app. Note that this is my first laser engraver, and I’ll detail the many issues and mistakes I’ve come across so it might be useful to other beginners. Testing TS2 laser engraver assembly Before doing some engravings and cuts, we’ll have to test the TS2 to make sure it was properly assembled and we can operate it normally. The company is recommending the open-source and free LaserGRBL or the paid Lightburn program to control the TS2. I went with the former…

aml-s9xx-box: Move board specific bsp file handling to the board config file from from the family config file Changes to be committed: modified: config/boards/aml-s9xx-box.tvb modified: config/sources/families/meson-gxl.conf [x] Built and verified files in aml-s9xx-box build View the full article

Single board computer manufacturer Orange Pi Ltd is working on a portable gaming console that will come with either a Rockchip RK3588S processor for Android/Linux gaming, or AMD Ryzen 7 7800U/6800U for Windows gaming. The industrial design looks to be the same for all models with a 7-inch touchscreen display, a D-Pad, two joysticks, XBOX-styled ABXY buttons, two customisable buttons on the back, two microphones, stereo speakers, three USB ports including one only for charging, The Orange Pi portable gaming console will be offered in three variants when it launches in China in October during Golden Week: AMD Ryzen 7 7840U processor with 16GB RAM, 512GB storage running Wi…

drivers_network: fix bluetooth stuff landed in 6.1.30/6.3.4 but not in 6.2.y drivers_network: wireless-driver-for-uwe5622-park-link-v6.1-post: fix for 6.1.30 drivers_network: rtl8723cs bt: disable landed patches in 6.1.30/6.3.4; keep for 6.2, which is EOL rockchip64/current 6.1.y: fix broadcom bt serdev hack for 6.1.30 rockchip64/edge 6.3.y: fix broadcom bt serdev hack for 6.3.4 Only after doing this I saw https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/5240 -- sorry View the full article

Backport updates from Linux 6.3. In my testing this has no ill effects on SDIO 8822CS and fixes USB 8821CU dmesg | grep rtw [ 8.684999] rtw_8821cu 4-1:1.0: Firmware version 24.11.0, H2C version 12 [ 9.426555] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtw_8821cu lsmod | grep rtw88 rtw88_8821cu 16384 0 rtw88_8821c 81920 1 rtw88_8821cu rtw88_usb 20480 1 rtw88_8821cu rtw88_core 131072 2 rtw88_usb,rtw88_8821c mac80211 458752 2 rtw88_core,rtw88_usb cfg80211 331776 2 rtw88_core,mac80211 Checklist: [ ] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [ ] I have performed a self-review of my o…

Description Adjusting logic due to upstream changes https://github.com/actions/labeler/releases/tag/v5.0.0 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Tested on demo repository Checklist: [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project [x] My changes generate no new warnings View the full article

Dear Armbian Community, It’s been an eventful two weeks since our last point release of 2023. Despite facing some challenges, we’ve been hard at work ensuring the continued excellence of Armbian. Point Release Recap Unfortunately, we encountered unexpected issues since our release. A batch of images was accidentally deleted, requiring a complete restart of the generation process. Additionally, our main rsync server experienced IPv6 connectivity issues, resulting in delays in mirror synchronization for several days. However, we’ve successfully generated our first set of images, now available by checking out the builds script to v23.11. Enhanced Support Policies To strea…

Description Update shellcheck to version 0.10.0 which was released a few weeks ago. How Has This Been Tested? [x] sudo lib/tools/shellcheck.sh Output: Running shellcheck version: 0.10.0 against 308 config files, severity 'SEVERITY=error', please wait... Congrats, no error's detected in config/sources. Running shellcheck version: 0.10.0 against 'compile.sh' -- lib/ checks, severity 'SEVERITY=critical', please wait... All params: --check-sourced --color=always --external-sources --format=tty --shell=bash --severity=warning --exclude=SC2034 --exclude=SC2207 --exclude=SC2046 --exclude=SC2086 --exclude=SC2206 Congrats, no critical's detected in lib/ code. Checklist: [x]…

Ethernet is supposedly broken by design. While Xunlong is working on a hw revision of this board it is to be expected that it will be released under the same name which will then ultimately contribute to users confusion why on some boards eth works and on others not. Therefore get rid of this one altogether. https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/6587 View the full article

Description Enabling KDE Neon at Noble How Has This Been Tested? [ ] Build test [ ] Running desktop inspection 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 generate no new warnings [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream modules View the full article

Description Helping @alexl83 with his OrangePi 5 Plus 😄 Support for this board with SPI image was added to U-Boot this january: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/7c084fd51c0c52b24facdbcfeeaf2c70fba03406 Also add the latest DDR and BL31 blobs, this should fix issues like recently on the NanoPC T6. Marked as WIP to give room for testing. How Has This Been Tested? [x] Build success: ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi5-plus BRANCH=edge RELEASE=trixie EXPERT=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no uboot [ ] @alexl83 please test freshly built edge kernel image [ ] @alexl83 please test freshly built vendor kernel image (vendor u-boot should be applied) [ ] …

Description packages/extras-buildpkgs was a leftover from years ago and is not used in the build framework anymore. See https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/6820#issuecomment-2198054353 With it, remove some references for hostapd and htop. The htop customization in the firstrun script is incompatible with the new versions and throws errors in the firstrun service (see the systemd status of this service after it ran). GitHub issue reference: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/6820 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 …

Description rework to apply cleanly on 6.10.5 and 6.6.46 - root cause GitHub issue reference: #7087 Jira reference number AR-2467 special thanks: @EvilOlaf How Has This Been Tested? [x] Patch applies cleanly to rockchip64 edge 6.10.5 - compiling ok [x] Patch applies cleanly to rockchip64 current 6.6.46 - compiling ok 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 Bump edge kernel to 6.11 for rockchip 32 bit family. Notably: several driver have the .remove hook which is now void in place of int (upstream kernel devs changed this) the patch to compile the device tree overlays (actually, it is for the .scr files) has been adapted because of minor changes from 6.10 GitHub issue reference: Jira reference number AR-2494 How Has This Been Tested? [x] Kernel built successfully [x] Kernel testedon a live rk322x board [x] Kernel tested on a live rk3288 board 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 h…

Improving access, flexibility, and CI integration for development boards, making it easier for developers to work with embedded hardware, no matter where they are. View the full article

This week's development centers on expanded board support and vendor kernel work, mainline kernel progression to 7.3 with CI resilience improvements, and a substantial refresh of the Armbian Imager. New hardware enablement spans multiple SoC families, including the Boardcon SBC3568 (RK3568), ELTAY RM66 (RK3566) with vendor HDMI and power-domain workarounds, the Anbernic RG Rotate on the new Unisoc UMS512 family, and the NanoPi M6 V2. The NanoPi R6S, R6C, M6/M6V2, and NanoPC T6/T6-LTS have been unified under a single image with shared aliases, reducing duplication across the FriendlyELEC RK3588 lineup. On the vendor side, an initial rk35xx-vendor-next branch based on 6.12-…

We moved our Home Assistant to a bigger board, and nothing needed re-pairingOur house runs on Armbian, and it has for years. Its Home Assistant setup started on an Allwinner H5 NanoPi K1 Plus. In 2025, it moved to the Rockchip NanoPi R3S LTS as soon as that board came out. This month it moved again, to the NanoPi M6. It was a live install: a Z-Wave mesh, a Zigbee network, a pile of automations and years of history. We expected at least one evening of re-pairing sensors. It took about half an hour, and every device came back on its own. Before: NanoPi R3S LTS After: NanoPi M6 V2 SoC Rockchip RK3566 Rockchip RK…