This week’s Armbian development saw significant kernel updates and hardware support improvements across multiple platforms. Key highlights include stabilizing the BananaPi BPI-F3 on Linux 6.16, bumping the rockchip64-edge kernel to 6.17, and compressing kernel modules for BPI-R4. The team also introduced mainline NPU support for Khadas VIM3 and made several bug fixes, such as reverting problematic patches for OdroidC1+ and correcting CPU voltage settings for RK3576. Additional enhancements were made for NanoPi M5, including improved power regulation and device tree organization. Upstreamed patches were dropped for UEFI loong64, and the odroidxu4-current kernel was updated to 6.6.108, reflecting ongoing efforts to maintain stability and expand hardware compatibility.
- BananaPi BPI-F3: Stablize
edgeLinux-6.16.y`. by @pyavitz in armbian/build#8709 - Bump rockchip64-edge kernel to 6.17. by @paolosabatino in armbian/build#8703
- kernel config BPI-R4 - compress kernel modules on disc. by @tabrisnet in armbian/build#8538
- khadas-vim3: add mainline npu support. by @chainsx in armbian/build#8689
- Linux kernel: bump mainline to latest version. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#8687
- nanopi-m5: Fixes the assignment of KERNEL_TARGET in the board configuration file. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#8695
- OdroidC1+ Bugfix: Revert patch that causes MMC disconnects. by @torzdf in armbian/build#8698
- rk3576 cpu opp fix. by @amazingfate in armbian/build#8701
- rockchip rk3566: h96-TVbox: prepare i2c Leds to mainline 6.18. by @hqnicolas in armbian/build#8708
- rockchip64-edge: Enable UFS and add power regulators for NanoPi M5. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#8691
- rockchip64-edge: fix RK3576 CPU OPP voltages for cpufreq. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#8697
- rockchip64-edge: nanopi-r76s: Improve DTS organization. by @SuperKali in armbian/build#8699
- UEFI loong64: drop upstreamed patches. by @igorpecovnik in armbian/build#8704
- Update odroidxu4-current to 6.6.108. by @belegdol in armbian/build#8696
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