Adam Bresnay

@SteeManOkay, will do. Thank you for your time.

@SteeManThank you, and again my apologies, I left out a crucial detail. I'm not actually running straight armbian. I'm running dietpi, technically. But, when I first installed, I wanted to be able to put / on the internal flash (I believe it's referred to as eMMC), and the only I was able to get it to work was to initially use the straight armbian image to boot. Then had to go in and make whatever changes to the boot order of things I had to make, which I take it were then written to I think SPI storage, so it sticks and the boot order is maintained regardless of what OS image I then use on top of it. I believe the newest actual dietpi images are using kern version 6.10 or so. Whatever the version, I believe it's not susceptible to those latest security flaws so I'd like to end up there. End goal: * Install newest kernel version that supports my hardware * Do so without having to do a full reinstall of the entire OS * Maintain the current boot order and ability to boot from eMMC drive Apologies for that pretty important omission there. Thank you - AB

Hello, Please forgive me if this is not the correct place to ask this, but it seems to be apropos to where I'd ultimately like to get, I believe. I am, however, a relative n00b, so please bear with me if this is a pedestrian question. I've got an Orange Pi 5 Plus currently running Debian Bookworm using kernel version 5.10.160-legacy-rk35xx. I recently heard that there have been some major security holes found recently in the linux kernel and I was hoping to do an in-place upgrade of ONLY the kernel to whatever may be the latest kernel version that supports this architecture. First off, am I correct in thinking that this is something that needs to be done? The system is otherwise running fine as-is. But I'd also like to make sure it is secure. And secondly, what would be the process for determining the latest kernel version that will support my architecture and manually installing. Are there .deb package files that can be downloaded from where? That seems like the most straightforward installation process. Thank you, in advance, for your time and attention. Kind Regards, AB