Anyone here who switched to Canonical/Ubuntu maintained kernel? I use my odroid basically as a headless server so HDMI, video decoding etc. isn't important to me.

 

Is it as simple as installing linux-image-generic or did you have to do a lot more?

Small ARM boards generally don't have UEFI support, so can't just run a generic kernel.

They're pretty dependent on board specific DTBs, which are often tied to certain kernels that are bleeding edge or heavily patched.

I think the Armbian team would love to reduce the number of images maintained.

But if you do get that working, definitely share.

Edited November 2Nov 2 by tparys

Indeed, even its not a problem having so many kernels. We designed whole Armbian project that this is not really a problem. Canonical lack such infrastructure.

Closests generic approach is https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/boards/uefi-arm64-dt.conf which supports device tree and can run multiple boards with single image. I recently moved Nvidia Jetson Nano there with practically 100% hw support. And we could / will move other similar, namely Qcom and Cix based. With addition of recently developed service https://github.com/armbian/cve we will also provide kernels with uptodate security fixes for LTS kernels. There are no reasons to run Canonical kernels.