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@SteeManI partially agree with you. So far, that you say, that people like @Igormight have more important things to do, than to answer (apparent) n00b questions in forums and I also agree that it is highly important, that there are more volunteering people who try to contribute.
But on the other hand I think, that the perspective of you and many other "higher" developers (not only at Armbian) shifts with the level of expertise. What I mean by that is, that when people like me want to start to contribute, we have very limited knowledge in many fields. So many things are mysterious and sometimes we don't even know what we should look after or what we should search for when problems occur.
You are right, that many questions arise regularly and sometimes this is annoying and a reference to the documentation is totally appropriate! But I have the feeling, that particularly here at Armbian, the demands for a question to be posted is very high (compared to the knowledge that beginners come with). And it happens VERY often, that it feels like a slap in the face when I have the courage to ask something and I get told "please stfu, here's a link to the source code."
And I can tell you, that it is exactly this behavior, that brought me to the point, where I thought "well, f**k it. I just wait for my problems to be solved by others, if my request for help to help myself is treated like a request to get my b**t whipped for free". I've felt this quite often here. But I am STILL here, because Armbian is important to me - not only as the OS of my choice, but also as a project that is worth to be supported! But you should also know, that the willingness to contribute (as far as a n00b like me can) will go down rapidly, when you get slapped often enough. And to complain, that people don't want to contribute after slapping them is not fair.
 
After that said, there the main topic:
I was able to build Armbian with vendor kernel and extensions. I did this by adding the corresponding options to the build command. In my case, my build command looked like this:
./compile.sh build BOARD=odroidm1s NO_HOST_RELEASE_CHECK=yes KERNEL_BTF=no BRANCH=vendor RELEASE=noble BUILD_DESKTOP=yes DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=gnome KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BUILD_MINIMAL=no DESKTOP_APPGROUPS_SELECTED='browsers internet multimedia desktop_tools editors' ENABLE_EXTENSIONS="v4l2loopback-dkms,mesa-vpu"  
First of all, I hope that this was the correct way to do it. Because my other option would have been to modify the board config file. But that didn't feel right...
 
The problem now is, that the board just does not boot. After waiting some time the board falls back to the system I have installed on eMMC. Using another non-vendor system on SD card works.
I have the feeling that there is something wrong between u-boot and the vendor-image. Maybe the vendor kernel image expects petitboot and does not work with u-boot? Is there a way to proof that (without overriding u-boot with petitboot)?
You see... n00b question AGAIN. But I try to come as far as possible on my own...
 
Cheers and have a very nice and joyful xmas season!
 

We only provide mainline based kernel, where video acceleration might not work. If you have a need for that, than use those hints:
 
add DT here:
https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/blob/rk-6.1-rkr5.1/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3568-odroid-m1.dts
enable vendor kernel 
https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/boards/odroidm1s.csc#L7
build with ENABLE_EXTENSIONS="v4l2loopback-dkms,mesa-vpu" and desktop will work faster, video acceleration will most likely just work OOB.

Hello, another Odroid M1S owner and user here. I tried the Ubuntu image because I was curious about video acceleration in particular. So I installed Kodi and played a few videos. There is no acceleration. This means that this image is not usable as a player. However, it will probably be usable as an SMB/NFS server (I'll try using it that way for a while).
A few comments:
- Gnome is relatively slower, but not unusably slow (I personally don't mind, because I don't intend to use the M1S as a desktop)
- Gnome sometimes has problems rendering windows, there are strange stripes, only in certain parts of the windows, and at times it is so annoying that it becomes unusable
- Personally, I would love it if someone experienced could take a working GPU driver and put it into this image. That would solve everything, and we could all use the M1S to our full satisfaction (however, it's probably not that easy, because otherwise the guys at Odroid would have already done it).
- I will add relevant links to a functional accelerated solution that makes the M1S a fully functional driver, but based on the very old and not very usable 5.10 kernel
- https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=217&t=47621 here is a functional Odroid based image solution for media player.
- By the way, I managed to upgrade the image mentioned here to Ubuntu 24.04, using the Kodi build for Odroid M2 ( https://forum.odroid.com/ viewtopic.php?f=235&t=49005 ), but I had to stay on kernel 5.10, and even this version works relatively well as a functional player with accelerated videos (the old kernel is a prerequisite)
 
I hope that I have contributed at least a little to making this Armbian image gradually become the standard for M1S, because this computer deserves it.