Upgrade Armbian Kernel from `5.10.x` to latest

[Daniel Turcich]

Hello, sorry if this has been answered somewhere else. I was just wondering how i upgrade my Orange Pi 5 running Arbmian 23.11.1 Bookworm w/ Linux 5.10.160-legacy-rk35xx to the latest Kernel.

 

I tried using `sudo armbian-config` and updating via that with kernel upgrades unfrozen but it doesn't seem to work. Is there something I'm missing?

 

Startup splash below:
 

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Welcome to Armbian 23.11.1 Bookworm with Linux 5.10.160-legacy-rk35xx

System load:   4%               Up time:       0 min
Memory usage:  8% of 3.83G      IP:            192.168.1.69 10.121.215.1
CPU temp:      40°C             Usage of /:    6% of 57G
RX today:      38.2 MiB

 

[Werner]

5.10.160 is rockchip bsp kernel with some patches from Armbian on top. The version does not increase for this one and probably never will.

The only thing what you could do is to switch to bleeding edge mainline kernel which at this very moment is shipped in version 6.7-rc1.

 

If you prefer a system that is mostly stable and also supports most hardware features I recommend to stay with 5.10.160.

 

 

[Daniel Turcich]

Gotcha! Will take your advice on that  Thank you!

[Eternalight7]

6.7-rc1 does not boot when flashed over.  Any thoughts as to why.

Edit: Spooky, on Ambian discord, said that 6.1 BSP is a Work in Progress.  So I guess we have to wait.  

I'm waiting for my usb-ttl serial dongle to come in. I'll post here if I find the answer to the no boot question.

Edited January 8 by Eternalight7

[Marc R]

I'm running 6.7.0-rc8-edge-rockchip-rk3588 as a server. Everything is working except the vertical usb.

[Gullik]

And I am running 6.7.0-rc8-edge-rockchip-rk3588 as a desktop.

 

It seems OK, except for the vertical usb. Is this missing code in the kernel,

or just an incomplete dtb?

 

Gullik

[Werner]

mainline support has still long way to go until completion. Current state is more or less to be considered experimental. For its current state it works suprisingly well.