GianniDPC Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Hello, I'm new to armbian, and I have a few questions. The image on the downloads page uses the legacy kernel (default branch), I used the desktop version of armbian 5.30. But is it possible to upgrade the kernel to the mainline version (4.11)? If so how? and are there any disadvantages? For example will hardware acceleration still be possible using mpv and so on? If it is better to stay on the legacy kernel, then I let everything as is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjrojo Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 armbian-config is your friend here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GianniDPC Posted July 3, 2017 Author Share Posted July 3, 2017 Just now, jjrojo said: armbian-config is your friend here. Will check it out, do you know if hardware acceleration is possible using mpv on this kernel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjrojo Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 oh, i think not. I'm using server ubuntu image with kernel dev (mainline), for better and more updated btrfs suport, If you use with desktop, maybe stay for legacy better. Someone can apport more light to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 19 minutes ago, GianniDPC said: on the downloads page ...there's something called 'Known Issues': https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-plus-2e/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GianniDPC Posted July 3, 2017 Author Share Posted July 3, 2017 1 hour ago, tkaiser said: ...there's something called 'Known Issues': https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-plus-2e/ I'm using it for Desktop mostly, so it's better to leave as is then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkaiser Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 1 hour ago, GianniDPC said: so it's better to leave as is then? Of course. Mainline kernel is still considered experimental with H3 boards and everything 'HW acceleration' related won't work anytime soon or maybe ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjrojo Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 @tkaiser, please what's the right way for come back to legacy kernel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rufik Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 I used armbian-config (Orange Pi PC) to go into nightly (that's mainline, right?) but after finish & reboot I still have 3.4.113 kernel running. And armbian-config cmd disappeared. What I can see is the beta.armbian.com repo only... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted July 15, 2017 Share Posted July 15, 2017 Nope, nightly is daily automated build of kernel which you are using. Switching to nightly / beta is on your own risk ... things might break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rufik Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Ups, thanks for info. How can I revert it? Just change repo and apt-get upgrade? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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