thinRoot 20251020

[jens-maus]

This is release 20251020 of thinRoot with the following bugfixes and feature changes:

🚧 Changes:

_{For all changes, see the full commit log.}

• 01ee2bd - bump upstream kernel to 6.12.53
• 2f4ffc2 - bump buildroot to 2025.08.1
• 1228b4e - add linux-ucode.fragment generation code to external.mk to ensure CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE and CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR are put into a dedicated kconfig fragment file so that microcodes will be directly embeded into the kernel image for being able to update them as early as possible. In addition, we also ensure that the microcode files will not be part of the target directories since they are embedded into the kernel instead.
• 32912b8 - add AMD and intel microcode files
• 18c8625 - add missing CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP to get X2APIC compiled in.
• 69a7e20 - add CONFIG_X86_X2APIC to kernel config since this might be required by some newer x86 boards.
• b5ca0ed - add new xkb-switch buildroot package to query the currently active X11 keyboard layout and display it if SCROLLLOCK is pressed which should now trigger hotkeyd to execute a display-kblayout.sh script showing an OSD.
• b668760 - set LANG and DISPLAY to fix osd_cat execution
• 1fc3d27 - add new pa-volume.control.sh and adapted hotkeyd.conf to use that pulseaudio volume wrapper now to perform the pulseaudio volume up/down and mute actions and then show a OSD display via xosd. In addition, umounter.sh as well as usbmount mount/umount scripts have been modified to also display a OSD notification when actions are performed. This should make the actions visible to end users.
• 8491026 - remove /usr/share/clc upon post-build to free unnecessary occupied space.
• 4e6d8f0 - add new buildroot package 'xosd' which will allow us to display an OSD (add new buildroot package 'xosd' which will allow us to display an OSD #41)
• fe2f2ae - remove BR2_PACKAGE_MESA3D_LLVM to see if it is really required because it introduces quite some dependencies (libclc, etc.) which might stuff our image unnecessarily.
• bab9407 - revert thinlinc to 4.18.0-3768 to check if this solves a potential multi-monitor issue appearing with latest thinRoot.

👪 Contributors (alphabetically):

• @jens-maus

📦 Download:

The following installation archives can be downloaded for different hardware platforms. To verify their integrity a sha256 checksum is provided as well.

• Generic-x86_64:
  _{📦 thinroot-20251020-generic-x86_64.img
  SHA256: bb3175820cc84fd26aacfa5a4ef0d2fae209a1fb62616b0dfef3ebc1c13aedf1}

• RaspberryPi5 Model B, RaspberryPi Compute Module 5, RaspberryPi 500:
  _{📦 thinroot-20251020-rpi5.img
  SHA256: 144b4a99e788c3767b15374a1f28425ae55f0350685aa94fe83176eab957369f
  📦 thinroot-20251020-rpi5-kernel.img
  SHA256: e2a92ca96b56405d594dd0bb1c1dddbb045afd97a97ea92b273eed79c30061d7
  📦 thinroot-20251020-rpi5-sdcard.img
  SHA256: 5f915567f08dab1d3890ba68faa828ae945be3b4bb1ba35e7d37d00fa10253f5}

• RaspberryPi4 Model B, RaspberryPi Compute Module 4, RaspberryPi 400:
  _{📦 thinroot-20251020-rpi4.img
  SHA256: 72aabbfea9775847f731be0019ad8ef7dea9446b13f9daf747643debf5ec41b3
  📦 thinroot-20251020-rpi4-kernel.img
  SHA256: ffffd74c38cde8c744061ebee04a459d4477933e3efed16b3952b36ecb78614b
  📦 thinroot-20251020-rpi4-sdcard.img
  SHA256: efd89dd9b7ee3844838770fcdfbf4b2dbe626c212d3b69384a3de7f5eadba8b6}

• RaspberryPi3 Model B+, RaspberryPi3 Model B, RaspberryPi3 Model A+, RaspberryPi Compute Module 3, RaspberryPi Compute Module 3 lite, RaspberryPi Zero 2 W:
  _{📦 thinroot-20251020-rpi3.img
  SHA256: cc07352191de082a0220a9a46abae345a21d7ce1ae68d94b5f48608179dd7ed4
  📦 thinroot-20251020-rpi3-kernel.img
  SHA256: b680f0d96ed9fe89d5ebdbda5a2f25a5374e881711be6d6a624f1601401c983d
  📦 thinroot-20251020-rpi3-sdcard.img
  SHA256: 5bfa38e9089cfafd1daa8369248d0ab2464f1330bf11f6f27dd41dce33481ead}

• TinkerBoard S, TinkerBoard:
  _{📦 thinroot-20251020-tinkerboard.img
  SHA256: bd3c5a480b63e310bdf6dfd2ffbdbc646b4d4c444c355e8835410a2f467fc547
  📦 thinroot-20251020-tinkerboard-kernel.img
  SHA256: 7436e0e1662b0648565147bd480f1e24465b36a1eb53fcc9118beee5b6cd0f6c
  📦 thinroot-20251020-tinkerboard-sdcard.img
  SHA256: 610f68a8ff13cc0bb2511d8211c63a4e47dc33e1defde94a7113b9aac54f6be9}

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