Jerry Jyrer Posted October 9, 2020 Posted October 9, 2020 Hi, I'm using NanoPi M4 $ uname -a Linux nanopim4 4.4.213-rk3399 #3 SMP Mon Oct 5 15:53:54 CEST 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux and wondering if I can upgrade the linux kernel to 5.8.x without reinstalling other things. I tried armbian-config -> System -> Other All available options are those 4.4.213-rk3399 with different Armbian versions 20.08.x. I'm currently on 20.08.9 Appreciated any step, pointer Thank you
Werner Posted October 10, 2020 Posted October 10, 2020 Switching between legacy and current branch should be possible. Never tested that myself though. Needs verification. Just for your information: it depends on your needs if you to for legacy or current because some features may work with legacy and others with current. It is a complicated situation with rockchip unfortunately. @NicoD mentioned a few examples about this here: So keep this in mind and think about what features you need and if it might be better to stick with 4.4.
Jerry Jyrer Posted October 10, 2020 Author Posted October 10, 2020 3 hours ago, Werner said: Switching between legacy and current branch should be possible. Never tested that myself though. Needs verification. @Werner could you explain a bit more how to switch between legacy and current branch? Thank you
Werner Posted October 10, 2020 Posted October 10, 2020 Usually it is done via armbian-confg. No idea though why current branch is not shown there. As stated this needs to be verified and depending on investigated.
Jerry Jyrer Posted October 11, 2020 Author Posted October 11, 2020 18 hours ago, Werner said: Usually it is done via armbian-confg. No idea though why current branch is not shown there. As stated this needs to be verified and depending on investigated. Oh let me know if this happens to only for me or in general. If it is the former, I wondered what caused and how to solve it. Thanks
Jerry Jyrer Posted October 11, 2020 Author Posted October 11, 2020 I ran apt-cache below and it showed that it has only the legacy 4.4.213-rk339. Is it the same for everyone else or somehow I am missing something? $ apt-cache show linux-image*rk3399 | grep -E "Package:|Version:|version:" Package: linux-image-legacy-rk3399 Version: 20.08.8 files, version: 4.4.213-rk3399. Package: linux-image-legacy-rk3399 Version: 20.08.6 files, version: 4.4.213-rk3399. Package: linux-image-legacy-rk3399 Version: 20.08.4 files, version: 4.4.213-rk3399. Package: linux-image-legacy-rk3399 Version: 20.08.3 files, version: 4.4.213-rk3399. Package: linux-image-legacy-rk3399 Version: 20.08.2 files, version: 4.4.213-rk3399. Package: linux-image-legacy-rk3399 Version: 20.08.1 files, version: 4.4.213-rk3399. Package: linux-image-legacy-rk3399 Version: 20.08 files, version: 4.4.213-rk3399.
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