Github Highlights

Michael Robinson

Michael Robinson

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Github Highlights

This week's work centers on Rockchip platform maturation, kernel and toolchain modernization, and board-level enablement across vendors.

Rockchip received the largest share of attention, with RK3528 gaining a thermal driver, cooling-map refinements, and cleanup of legacy PCIe and pmdomain workarounds. The Radxa E24C now stores its U-Boot environment in SPI flash and reads switch port MAC addresses from EEPROM, while device trees for the Mixtile Blade 3, Core3588E, and Edge 2 were corrected. New board support was added for the Boardcon SBC3568, and the Rock 5T now ships an edge kernel. On the configuration side, hyphenated LINUXFAMILY handling was fixed in both the kernel selector and firmware remap logic for the rk35xx family.

Kernel and build infrastructure saw significant modernization. Mainline advanced to 7.3-rc5, several C23 build errors were resolved for D1 ATF, OpenSBI, and libbpf, and the default FRAME_WARN was restored on 64-bit configs. Deprecated patch directories for imx6 and the RK BSP 5.10 legacy kernel were retired, parallel patch queueing was optimized, and kernel-debs postinst ordering was hardened for DKMS safety. CI switched to remote ccache only, and ATF builds now honor USE_CCACHE correctly.

Board-level enablement spanned multiple vendors. ODROID-HC4 gained PCIe suspend, Wake-on-LAN, and RTC alarm support, along with a usable SPI NOR and SD card power-down. ODROID-XU4 was bumped from 6.15 to 7.2 on edge, the Amlogic C400 Plus received SD-boot and Wi-Fi profile fixes, and the Raspberry Pi 4B added support for Waveshare and Raspberry touchscreen v2 panels. The MorseMicro DKMS project also matured substantially with split MM6108/MM8108 packages, Linux 7.1 API compatibility, and initial NetworkManager udev integration.

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