petrkalos

Thanks for the suggestions but I would prefer to use Oleg's precompiled kernel and drivers, dealing with all the dependencies and installing the kernel modules for each different version can be a long process. About the benefits of upgrading, well Amlogic platform is getting new features/fixes very frequently (e.g VPU drivers), so why not having those?

I am running Bionic from eMMC and I suppose Armbian/Ubuntu upgrades are just fine by doing "apt upgrade"/"dpkg -i balbe's.dpkgs" yet kernel remains unchanged. To give you an example I was trying to upgrade from balbes 5.76 -> 5.78, installed the dpkgs but /boot partition remained unchanged hence it was still booting with the old kernel.

Have anyone found a way to upgrade to a new release? I saw the deb files but those will upgrade a few stuff like dtbs, headers etc, how would you do it for the kernel (boot partition), /lib/modules/, firmware directory? Tried to modify the install.sh script without success, was anyone more successful? Thanks