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Also just tested ubuntu-rockchip - this one works perfectly (6.1 vendor) and is stable so there must be some patches missing in the armbian-linux repo. I don't mind looking into that but no clue how to test this with armbian-build

So current aka 6.12 is a no-go because armbian/bcmdhd-dkms: Broadcom ap6xxx dkms package doesn't build yet on 6.12 (support for the Orange Pi 5 Max with kernel 6.13-rc1 by shenmintao · Pull Request #7537 · armbian/build) Vendor 6.1 is unstable, after boot, lsmod, modprobe are broken and there are pcie errors. I'm going to assume something is wrong with the dts file. I was hoping to try some hacks there... From what I understand that one is hosted on armbian/linux-kernel but how can I tweak it for the build? I see the dts files in the uboot/legacy but is there any way to customize the dts files without cloning the whole linux kernel repo?

I'm happy to help - but so far the build is unstable and hangs when I request lsmod. The wifi doesn't seem to be enabled out of the box. I checked on the orange pi build and they use the wl module (broadcomm) however I think there are some serious pcie exceptions in the armbian journal that cause the box to blow up. I will probably try ubuntu rockchip version and see if their figured out all the opi max 5 details. If so, I assume this could be a start to bring more board features to armbian?

Oh lol of course 😛 Are there only trunk releases for the opi-max? Was hoping to get a current build instead, anyway, if this doesn't exist, I will build my own image. I got the opi 5 max working by changing the dtb on the 5 plus image - booted fine except I have no wifi.

Was looking at the build repo and noticed there is already support for Orange pi 5 max (add support for orangepi5 max · armbian/build@b38e4b2). Any specific reason there are no "official" community builds, or did I miss it?

That is sad to see,.. were there specific reasons that Joshua did not contribute to Armbian instead? Has the Armbian team had better luck with Rockchip? The issues he mentiosn with SDK sound quite serious.

This is insanely good!!! I have a custom HA setup but was wondering if the armbian HA builds support the official add-ons. I think the official add-ons let you install MQTT, databases and other docker images with a single click.

Hopefully this is not a stupid question but I came across Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip: Ubuntu for Rockchip RK35XX Devices (github.com) when searching for my video playback issues. Does anyone know how this compares with the current armbian release with vendor kernel? Are all the fixes from that release integrated in armbian or does it go the other way?

I have the latest armbian 6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx (ubuntu with gnome desktop) installed and everything works perfectly except that some videos are hanging in chromium. In dmesg I get [23230.260311] [drm:rockchip_vop2_mod_supported] *ERROR* Esmart0-win0 unsupported format modifier 0x800000000000351 and then boom, the whole thing stops playing and hangs. No other error anywhere. This happens with specific mp4 videos on specific frames. Any suggestions?

The overlay for the ap6275p seems to be missing in the new fresh 6.10 images. Haven't tried to compile a custom image yet (so might just be disabled in current build), but how could I help to bring this overlay to the official image?

Figured it out - somehow my /lib/modules/5.10.x were not compatible with my boot image that I pulled from the latest 24.2 image. I copied the /lib/modules/5.10.160-legacy-rk35xx from working armbian image to my system and wifi is back

I upgraded my 5.10 install to 6.1 kernel got everything working including wifi using armbian-config - change kernel but after I noticed that video acceleration was broken with vlc I decided to rollback. The initial rollback somehow failed, after some tweaking, I've been able to boot the system again and run kernel 5.1 but now I don't have my ap6275 working anymore and the video acceleration modules from 5.x seem to be gone. I have the overlay for the ap6275 but it is not loading any module. What am I missing?

I finally got wifi working on a fresh install of 24.5.1. Video acceleration is working perfectly in Chromium but I am not having any luck playing h264 mp4 videos with hardware acceleration in vlc or mpv. Is this possible or am I missing something? CPU is around ~30% with chromium playing 4k youtube but if I play one of my mp4 files it's a solid 130%

Would you know by any chance what is missing to have this one show up in the hardware section in armbian-config? In 6.1, there are only two options available. Or is this a pre-release thing? I will try that other change for the 6.8 to enable it, but any reason this is not included in the current build?

I tried both the 6.8.10 and 6.1.43 releases from CI pipeline and none of these has the ap6275p wifi option in the armbian-config tool. There was a previous post that mentioned that the module got merged for the new kernels but is there an ETA to have this one in the CI releases? I'm curious to try vlc but haven't been able to install that one yet with the new releases.