GitHub highlights

Greetings, Armbian community! Here's a concise overview of the key developments and improvements merged into our build system this past week (July 13th - July 20th, 2025).

Highlights

• Expanded board support: We've added initial support for the DshanPi A1 (RK3576), broadening Armbian's reach to more hardware.
• Kernel updates: The edge kernel for Raspberry Pi 4B has been updated to 6.16, bringing the latest features and fixes to the platform.
• Build system robustness: Important adjustments were made to ensure more reliable U-boot source fetching and improved patch application processes.

New features

• New board and variant support:
  • Add support for DshanPi A1 (RK3576) (#8380)
  • Add BPI-M4-Zero to Sunxi64 device tree directory and enable related graphics drivers (#8394)
  • Add current-rt branch support for PocketBeagle 2 (#8371)
• K3-Beagle series enhancements:
  • Enable M4 remoteproc for linux-k3-beagle-current-rt (#8395)
  • Enable M4 remoteproc for linux-k3-beagle (#8378)
• Sunxi64 general input support:
  • Enable keyboard support (CONFIG_KEYBOARD_*) (#8387)
  • Add touchscreen and miscellaneous input support (INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN and INPUT_MISC) (#8385)

Bug fixes

• Meson64 Patch Adjustment: Adjusted a broken patch for Meson64 Current kernel configurations. (#8393)
• U-boot Source Fix: Resolved issues with fetching U-boot sources from the Denx Git repository. (#8402)
• Sunxi64 RTC Configuration: Updated defconfigs and addressed H616 RTC-related patches. (#8368)

Improvements

• Kernel version bump:
  • Bump Raspberry Pi family edge kernel to 6.16 (#8390)
• Configuration refinements:
  • Remove unused kernel configurations for a leaner build (#8392)
  • Update CAN and CPU frequency configurations for Sunxi64 (#8383)
  • Improve UEFI x86 current and edge defconfigs (#8367)
  • Add cloud branch to UEFI arm64 board configuration (#8376)
• Documentation & aesthetics:
  • Cleaned and updated the build repository README file, including a new logo. (#8391)
  • Added the most recent Armbian logo as the Plymouth boot logo (#8381)
  • Enabled Armbian auto-patching for Sunxi64 configurations (#8394)

Community contributions

@Ayush1325 @chainsx @EvilOlaf @igorpecovnik @pyavitz @ZjemCiKolege