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ARMBIAN: Github Highlights

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Github Highlights


Michael Robinson


Igor Pecovnik




Didier Joomun

Michael Robinson, Igor Pecovnik, Inella Joomun, Didier Joomun


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Github Highlights

This week’s cycle emphasizes broad U-Boot modernization, new board and SoC enablement, and kernel and wireless driver consolidation.

A large-scale U-Boot bump moves sunxi 32-bit and 64-bit targets from v2024.01 to v2026.07-rc4, with follow-on updates for self-pinned H616/H618 boards (Zero2W, Zero3, Longan Pi 3H), Mixtile Edge2, NanoPi R5S (now patch-less), and the Youyeetoo YY3588 switching to mainline v2026.04. The imx6 line (UDOO, Cubox-i) was modernized to U-Boot v2026.07 with legacy 6.12, current 6.18, and edge 7.1 kernels. Related toolchain work fixes ODROID-C1, ODROID-XU4, Recore, and X96Q builds under Trixie’s GCC 14, and resolves errexit failures on Rockchip SPI boards.

Platform expansion introduces community support for the Allwinner A733-based Radxa Cubie A7Z and Orange Pi Zero 3W, Rockchip Graperain G3568 v2, and Anbernic RG Vita Pro and Lubancat-5IO image entries. BeagleY-AI gained USB, PCIe, ISP + IMX219, and VPAC patches on the vendor kernel, alongside GPU acceleration fixes for TI K3 targets and TI Wave5 VPU firmware. Rockchip RV1106 support was split into distinct RV1103G and RV1103B families, and new SPI/NVMe boot and Maskrom recovery paths were added.

On the kernel and driver side, sunxi received an H3/H5 DVFS RCU-stall fix, MMC/I2C PM deadlock resolution, MGLRU enablement, and LTE modem USB serial support. Meson64 gained a GPIO pinctrl cansleep series and v7.2-rc1 via bleedingedge, while SpacemiT K1 was updated to linux-7.2.y. The RTL8189ES, RTL8189FS, and RTL8192EU wireless drivers were migrated to dedicated forks with 7.2 compatibility and patch cleanup, and an RTW88 SDIO interrupt storm was addressed. User-visible improvements include swapfile creation fixes, useradd-based first-login provisioning, and video-group access to Rockchip MPP codec devices.

#Armbian #EmbeddedLinux #UBoot #Rockchip #Allwinner

Changes

  • board: visionfive2: optimize config for modern U-Boot and single-partition booting. by @zevlaoxie2010 in armbian/build#10097
  • Add Anbernic RG Vita Pro board image. by @crackerjacques in armbian/armbian.github.io#351
  • Add Lubancat-5IO board image and vendor logo. by @lch08 in armbian/armbian.github.io#348
  • Add TI Wave5 VPU firmware. by @Grippy98 in armbian/firmware#132
  • beaglebadge: drop vendor-edge u-boot target (not in ti-u-boot-2026.01). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#10126
  • BeagleY-AI Add Patches for ISP + IMX219 & VPAC. by @Grippy98 in armbian/build#10129
  • board: anbernic-rg-ds: make OTG-C port dual-role so USB hubs work. by @crackerjacques in armbian/build#10124
  • Build-Switches: document KERNEL_DO_STUBBLE. by @iav in armbian/documentation#928
  • Bump/rk uboot swig fleet mkspi 2. by @redrathnure in armbian/build#10122
  • chore(deps): patch vulnerable transitive deps. by @SuperKali in armbian/website#33
  • ci(docs-preview): skip publish/comment steps on fork PRs. by @iav in armbian/documentation#934
  • ci: auto-regenerate build lists when image-info.json changes. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#349
  • ci: bump image build cap 30m → 45m. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#24
  • ci: widen auto-retry budget and the systemic-failure threshold. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/os-ci-test#23
  • clk: sunxi-ng: ccu_common: Replace ktime-dependent lock wait loop with udelay. by @deece in armbian/build#10119
  • config: rockpi-e: change rkbin repository and use spl-blobs. by @chenxmqqqq in armbian/build#10027
  • cubie-a7z: Add community support for Radxa Cubie A7Z (Allwinner A733). by @shkolnik in armbian/build#10036
  • docs: add Datacenter access section (Netbird VPN + board access). by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#936
  • docs: document PREFER_NATIVE_ARMHF and enrich arm64-compat-vdso entry. by @iav in armbian/documentation#921
  • docs: exclude docs/README.md from mkdocs build. by @iav in armbian/documentation#933
  • docs: use unpinned python3-dev in setup instructions. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/documentation#935
  • Drop testing-wireless-performance-test.yml. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/armbian.github.io#350
  • Enable USB and PCIe on BeagleY-AI vendor kernel. by <a href="https://github.com/Grippy98?ref=blog.armbian.com"…

         
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