kreck90

360 patches + drivers? Cool. Debian is recommending Armbian on the Wiki. They should give you access to the main repo and build infrastructure. (Debian 10 on laptop and Debian Bullseye on Surface Go tablet - I call it rolling release ;-))

Thank you very much for the quick answer. I did RTFM ;-) - including intro, quick facts and some other pages... Looking at my Debian 10 desktop (laptop), I'm running "linux-image-4.19.0-6-amd64". Looking at the Armbian Build project, it seems that the kernel is build from source and most likely has different build options for different SoC (for example my Orange Pi Zero with Armbian Buster is running linux-image-next-sunxi. Looking at Debian repo I can find http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-signed-arm64/linux-image-4.19.0-6-arm64_4.19.67-2+deb10u1_arm64.deb. Do you know the purpose for the Debian kernel linux-image-4.19.0-6-arm64? I'm assuming there is no board that can run this generic ARM kernel. from Orange Pi Zero: dpkg --list | grep linux ii binutils-arm-linux-gnueabihf 2.31.1-16 armhf GNU binary utilities, for arm-linux-gnueabihf target ii console-setup-linux 1.191 all Linux specific part of console-setup ii libselinux1:armhf 2.8-1+b1 armhf SELinux runtime shared libraries ii linux-base 4.6 all Linux image base package ii linux-buster-root-next-orangepizero 5.91 armhf Armbian tweaks for buster on orangepizero (next branch) ii linux-dtb-next-sunxi 5.91 armhf Linux DTB, version 4.19.59-sunxi ii linux-image-next-sunxi 5.91 armhf Linux kernel, version 4.19.59-sunxi ii linux-libc-dev:armhf 4.19.37-5 armhf Linux support headers for userspace development ii linux-u-boot-orangepizero-next 5.91 armhf Uboot loader 2019.04 ii util-linux 2.33.1-0.1 armhf miscellaneous system utilities

Hi all, First let me thank you for your work. Armbian is fantastic. Thank you. I’m surprised that nobody has asked this question or at least I’m unable to find it on the forum / in docs. My understanding is: 1. Debian x86 Linux kernel is same on all devices since regardless if it is laptop or server, it has BIOS or UEFI that will ”tell” the kernel what hardware, what buses, what addresses, etc. it has… 2. ARM boards don’t have BIOS and therefore Linux Kernel is different for every board. I checked that on my Orange Pi Zero by default the /etc/apt/source.list and /etc/apt/source.list.d/ are default Debian repos and one Armbian repo. Poking around in https://apt.armbian.com/pool/main/l/ using Firefox I found a lot of kernels which leads me into the following assumption. My assumption is Linux Kernel and packages armbian-config, armbian-firmware and armbian-tools-buster are updated from http://apt.armbian.com/ and everything else from Debian repository. Could you please tell me am I right or is the topic more complicated? Thank you. Kind regards, Karel