07:57 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [leggewie](<https://github.com/leggewie>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/8a1352206ae82a1cbb86df9f20435af3b16c2ab5>): *boards / Helios4: reorder some lines in the config file*

11:02 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/c84deb32208ec78b0b6980a53c4e2a799aa206d7>): *Update radxa-e52c.conf*

11:04 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/b1a85e03b5b43a1ad7b4a3db05ed72bdc2449d7a>): *Drop Thunderbolt in desktop packages, but enable in minimal, arch amd64 only*

11:04 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/dd898c791a0021a3759f919a0d0abf11e035343f>): *config: drop questing and resolute symlinks for package definitions*

12:12 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <telegraphroad_13842> surely there are significant security benefits from being able to run mainline, in which case it's a significant benefit to businesses that run such hardware

13:19 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <tenkawa42> In general there are no more benefits for that for businesses due to most companies/entitites requirements need for code reviews and standards policies anyways that they would still need to review and have some kind of formal agreement from the end party that provides the technology (in this case the Linux kernel)... Its always been a tricky area in business around the world.

13:20 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <tenkawa42> This is one reason why commercial Unix is still very popular..

14:59 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <mecoblock> How difficult would it be to make an armbian imager 🤔

14:59 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <mecoblock> https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/24/raspberry-pi-imager-2-0-released-with-a-revamped-user-interface-raspberry-pi-connect-support/

15:06 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <menu> not difficult at all, it's whether there's any actual utility in it - potentially a downstream fork of the RPi imager might work?

15:06 <tabris> How much grief would we get for forking RPi's? It's Apache licensed... I assume the goal would be to run on Windows/Ubuntu, but not intend for any autodetection.

15:08 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <menu> afaik RPi's doesn't actually do any autodetect, the customisation interface could be useful for replacing the legacy `/root/.not_logged_in_yet` method

15:08 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <mecoblock> that’s what I was thinking too

15:08 <tabris> there is some src/embedded/device_info.cpp that uses /proc/cpuinfo, but I don't think I understand *why*

15:58 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <c0rnelius77> Why bother? Just use the RPi imager.

16:07 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <c0rnelius77> Would be nice if there was something easier to use besides `.not_logged_in_yet` which I must say is an odd place for that file to be.

16:25 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/523fa2e75b6514b6a102a34a62da37a1825f9ab4>): *Radxa Rock 2A and F: promote boards to standard support*

18:06 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> if it's one afternoon job 🙂

18:11 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> but we have fresh images for rpi inside

18:11 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/857944478269702214/1442578389658505357/image.png?ex=6925f151&is=69249fd1&hm=8e159fe19663cbd7d41bd65a08698562f786ebd983ce43968d022960c82456e2&

19:18 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <rpardini> the "difficulty" of ~~forking~~making one are the windows/macos implementations, and getting the binaries signed so they can run without users having to jump through hoops

19:18 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <rpardini> does _any_ imager support `.zst` compression these days?

19:23 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> we can implement CLI variant pretty quickly. all direct links are in JSON https://github.armbian.com/all-images.json

19:31 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/54808ecff253fb71615161e3a216ad14b420022b>): *build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 5 to 6*

19:45 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/2af4a87d2c25002fe925f3454bc78e90dcf32751>): *bananapi-r4 bpi-r4 board config - no video output*

19:59 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <mecoblock> I'm explicitly thinking no cli bc it should be super user friendly. I might try something

20:08 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/1ae07b384fc66cb126b4244271f06aed00e48894>): *build(deps): bump tj-actions/changed-files*

20:22 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> rpi imager has complexity as exposed by Riccardo. I already tried to go that route but eventually dropped the idea. It is cool agree, but is it worth ... dunno.

20:46 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <rpardini> to me, armbian/build _is_ the imager. `CARD_DEVICE=` ftw

20:47 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <rpardini> `EXT=rkdevflash` is handy too

20:59 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <mecoblock> 100% but a gui would be nice

23:07 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Github> ✅ **Merged** into [armbian/build](<https://github.com/armbian/build>) by [igorpecovnik](<https://github.com/igorpecovnik>) - [Link](<https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/1ad18ed04635db7a9ebfce25e810f959f6f9e090>): *`Automatic` board configs status synchronise*