This week in Armbian development saw significant progress with the addition of initial support for the NanoPi M5 board across multiple repositories, alongside new firmware for the Radxa Dragon Q6A. Key kernel updates include bumping mainline kernels to rc5 and updating the Rockchip 32-bit edge kernel to 6.17. Other notable changes feature expanded hardware compatibility, bug fixes, and improvements to configuration and documentation.
- add firmwares for radxa dragon q6a. by @amazingfate in armbian/firmware#115
- add initial support of NanoPi M5. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#8651
- Add support for Qualcomm serial (qcserial) and CDC MBIM (cdc_mbim) XpressReal-T3. by @aalaei in armbian/build#8663
- Adds support for the NanoPi-M5 board. by @SuperKali in armbian/os#374
- board: NanoPi M5 add initial support. by @SuperKali in armbian/linux-rockchip#400
- Bump mainline kernels to rc5 and disable 8189es. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#8650
- Fix amdgpu failure to compile. by @lukaszsobala in armbian/linux-rockchip#387
- fix(build): eliminate the error message when no extensions found in a folder in building. by @diverger in armbian/build#8656
- Improve information on HA deprecation. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/configng#667
- IMX8 kernel 6.12.y: remove obsolete patch. by @schmiedelm in armbian/build#8648
- NanoPi M5: expose only 2 versions on Armbian site. by @SuperKali in armbian/os#375
- Radxa-e52c. Device NIC port rename to match device labels and network LED config via radxa-e52c.conf. by @schwar3kat in armbian/build#8633
- rockchip rk3566: h96-TVbox: Include i2c Led Pins into dts. by @hqnicolas in armbian/build#8666
- sakurapi-rk3308b: add high speed conf for emmc and ufs for tf slot. by @LXY1226 in armbian/build#8653
- SpacemiT: Update opensbi and u-boot to TAG v2.2.7. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#8657
- sunxi-6.16:. by @The-going in armbian/build#8655
- uefi-loong64-6.16: add patch to enable xe driver build. by @amazingfate in armbian/build#8646
- Update rockchip 32 bit edge kernel to 6.17. by @paolosabatino in armbian/build#8649