diff --git a/lib/functions/configuration/menu.sh b/lib/functions/configuration/menu.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..405eff5a5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/configuration/menu.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+function distro_menu ()
+{
+# create a select menu for choosing a distribution based EXPERT status
+
+	local distrib_dir="${1}"
+
+	if [[ -d "${distrib_dir}" && -f "${distrib_dir}/support" ]]; then
+		local support_level="$(cat "${distrib_dir}/support")"
+		if [[ "${support_level}" != "supported" && $EXPERT != "yes" ]]; then
+			:
+		else
+			local distro_codename="$(basename "${distrib_dir}")"
+			local distro_fullname="$(cat "${distrib_dir}/name")"
+			local expert_infos=""
+			[[ $EXPERT == "yes" ]] && expert_infos="(${support_level})"
+			options+=("${distro_codename}" "${distro_fullname} ${expert_infos}")
+		fi
+	fi
+
+}
+
+function distros_options() {
+	for distrib_dir in "${DISTRIBUTIONS_DESC_DIR}/"*; do
+		distro_menu "${distrib_dir}"
+	done
+}
+
+show_developer_warning()
+{
+	local temp_rc
+	temp_rc=$(mktemp)
+	cat <<-'EOF' > "${temp_rc}"
+	screen_color = (WHITE,RED,ON)
+	EOF
+	local warn_text="You are switching to the \Z1EXPERT MODE\Zn
+
+	This allows building experimental configurations that are provided
+	\Z1AS IS\Zn to developers and expert users,
+	\Z1WITHOUT ANY RESPONSIBILITIES\Zn from the Armbian team:
+
+	- You are using these configurations \Z1AT YOUR OWN RISK\Zn
+	- Bug reports related to the dev kernel, CSC, WIP and EOS boards
+	\Z1will be closed without a discussion\Zn
+	- Forum posts related to dev kernel, CSC, WIP and EOS boards
+	should be created in the \Z2\"Community forums\"\Zn section
+	"
+	DIALOGRC=$temp_rc dialog --title "Expert mode warning" --backtitle "${backtitle}" --colors --defaultno --no-label "I do not agree" \
+		--yes-label "I understand and agree" --yesno "$warn_text" "${TTY_Y}" "${TTY_X}"
+	[[ $? -ne 0 ]] && exit_with_error "Error switching to the expert mode"
+	SHOW_WARNING=no
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/extras/installpkg.sh b/lib/functions/extras/installpkg.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8341d70a07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/extras/installpkg.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+# Installing debian packages or package files in the armbian build system.
+# The function accepts four optional parameters:
+# autoupdate - If the installation list is not empty then update first.
+# upgrade, clean - the same name for apt
+# verbose - detailed log for the function
+#
+# list="pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 pkgbadname pkg-1.0 | pkg-2.0 pkg5 (>= 9)"
+# or list="pkg1 pkg2 /path-to/output/debs/file-name.deb"
+# install_pkg_deb upgrade verbose $list
+# or
+# install_pkg_deb autoupdate $list
+#
+# If the package has a bad name, we will see it in the log file.
+# If there is an LOG_OUTPUT_FILE variable and it has a value as
+# the full real path to the log file, then all the information will be there.
+#
+# The LOG_OUTPUT_FILE variable must be defined in the calling function
+# before calling the install_pkg_deb function and unset after.
+#
+install_pkg_deb ()
+{
+	local list=""
+	local listdeb=""
+	local log_file
+	local add_for_install
+	local for_install
+	local need_autoup=false
+	local need_upgrade=false
+	local need_clean=false
+	local need_verbose=false
+	local _line=${BASH_LINENO[0]}
+	local _function=${FUNCNAME[1]}
+	local _file=$(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[1]}")
+	local tmp_file=$(mktemp /tmp/install_log_XXXXX)
+	export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+
+	if [ -d $(dirname $LOG_OUTPUT_FILE) ]; then
+		log_file=${LOG_OUTPUT_FILE}
+	else
+		log_file="${SRC}/output/${LOG_SUBPATH}/install.log"
+	fi
+
+	for p in $*;do
+		case $p in
+			autoupdate) need_autoup=true; continue ;;
+			upgrade) need_upgrade=true; continue ;;
+			clean) need_clean=true; continue ;;
+			verbose) need_verbose=true; continue ;;
+			\||\(*|*\)) continue ;;
+			*[.]deb) listdeb+=" $p"; continue ;;
+			*) list+=" $p" ;;
+		esac
+	done
+
+	# This is necessary first when there is no apt cache.
+	if $need_upgrade; then
+		apt-get -q update || echo "apt cannot update" >>$tmp_file
+		apt-get -y upgrade || echo "apt cannot upgrade" >>$tmp_file
+	fi
+
+	# Install debian package files
+	if [ -n "$listdeb" ];then
+		for f in $listdeb;do
+			# Calculate dependencies for installing the package file
+			add_for_install=" $(
+				dpkg-deb -f $f Depends | awk '{gsub(/[,]/, "", $0); print $0}'
+			)"
+
+			echo -e "\nfile $f depends on:\n$add_for_install"  >>$log_file
+			install_pkg_deb $add_for_install
+			dpkg -i $f 2>>$log_file
+			dpkg-query -W \
+					   -f '${binary:Package;-27} ${Version;-23}\n' \
+					   $(dpkg-deb -f $f Package) >>$log_file
+		done
+	fi
+
+	# If the package is not installed, check the latest
+	# up-to-date version in the apt cache.
+	# Exclude bad package names and send a message to the log.
+	for_install=$(
+	for p in $list;do
+	  if $(dpkg-query -W -f '${db:Status-Abbrev}' $p |& awk '/ii/{exit 1}');then
+		apt-cache  show $p -o APT::Cache::AllVersions=no |& \
+		awk -v p=$p -v tmp_file=$tmp_file \
+		'/^Package:/{print $2} /^E:/{print "Bad package name: ",p >>tmp_file}'
+	  fi
+	done
+	)
+
+	# This information should be logged.
+	if [ -s $tmp_file ]; then
+		echo -e "\nInstalling packages in function: $_function" "[$_file:$_line]" \
+		>>$log_file
+		echo -e "\nIncoming list:" >>$log_file
+		printf "%-30s %-30s %-30s %-30s\n" $list >>$log_file
+		echo "" >>$log_file
+		cat $tmp_file >>$log_file
+	fi
+
+	if [ -n "$for_install" ]; then
+		if $need_autoup; then
+			apt-get -q update
+			apt-get -y upgrade
+		fi
+		apt-get install -qq -y --no-install-recommends $for_install
+		echo -e "\nPackages installed:" >>$log_file
+		dpkg-query -W \
+		  -f '${binary:Package;-27} ${Version;-23}\n' \
+		  $for_install >>$log_file
+
+	fi
+
+	# We will show the status after installation all listed
+	if $need_verbose; then
+		echo -e "\nstatus after installation:" >>$log_file
+		dpkg-query -W \
+		  -f '${binary:Package;-27} ${Version;-23} [ ${Status} ]\n' \
+		  $list >>$log_file
+	fi
+
+	if $need_clean;then apt-get clean; fi
+	rm $tmp_file
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/general/cleaning.sh b/lib/functions/general/cleaning.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8227828c81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/general/cleaning.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# cleaning <target>
+#
+# target: what to clean
+# "make" - "make clean" for selected kernel and u-boot
+# "debs" - delete output/debs for board&branch
+# "ubootdebs" - delete output/debs for uboot&board&branch
+# "alldebs" - delete output/debs
+# "cache" - delete output/cache
+# "oldcache" - remove old output/cache
+# "images" - delete output/images
+# "sources" - delete output/sources
+#
+
+cleaning()
+{
+	case $1 in
+		debs) # delete ${DEB_STORAGE} for current branch and family
+		if [[ -d "${DEB_STORAGE}" ]]; then
+			display_alert "Cleaning ${DEB_STORAGE} for" "$BOARD $BRANCH" "info"
+			# easier than dealing with variable expansion and escaping dashes in file names
+			find "${DEB_STORAGE}" -name "${CHOSEN_UBOOT}_*.deb" -delete
+			find "${DEB_STORAGE}" \( -name "${CHOSEN_KERNEL}_*.deb" -o \
+				-name "armbian-*.deb" -o \
+				-name "plymouth-theme-armbian_*.deb" -o \
+				-name "${CHOSEN_KERNEL/image/dtb}_*.deb" -o \
+				-name "${CHOSEN_KERNEL/image/headers}_*.deb" -o \
+				-name "${CHOSEN_KERNEL/image/source}_*.deb" -o \
+				-name "${CHOSEN_KERNEL/image/firmware-image}_*.deb" \) -delete
+			[[ -n $RELEASE ]] && rm -f "${DEB_STORAGE}/${RELEASE}/${CHOSEN_ROOTFS}"_*.deb
+			[[ -n $RELEASE ]] && rm -f "${DEB_STORAGE}/${RELEASE}/armbian-desktop-${RELEASE}"_*.deb
+		fi
+		;;
+
+		ubootdebs) # delete ${DEB_STORAGE} for uboot, current branch and family
+		if [[ -d "${DEB_STORAGE}" ]]; then
+			display_alert "Cleaning ${DEB_STORAGE} for u-boot" "$BOARD $BRANCH" "info"
+			# easier than dealing with variable expansion and escaping dashes in file names
+			find "${DEB_STORAGE}" -name "${CHOSEN_UBOOT}_*.deb" -delete
+		fi
+		;;
+
+		extras) # delete ${DEB_STORAGE}/extra/$RELEASE for all architectures
+		if [[ -n $RELEASE && -d ${DEB_STORAGE}/extra/$RELEASE ]]; then
+			display_alert "Cleaning ${DEB_STORAGE}/extra for" "$RELEASE" "info"
+			rm -rf "${DEB_STORAGE}/extra/${RELEASE}"
+		fi
+		;;
+
+		alldebs) # delete output/debs
+		[[ -d "${DEB_STORAGE}" ]] && display_alert "Cleaning" "${DEB_STORAGE}" "info" && rm -rf "${DEB_STORAGE}"/*
+		;;
+
+		cache) # delete output/cache
+		[[ -d "${SRC}"/cache/rootfs ]] && display_alert "Cleaning" "rootfs cache (all)" "info" && find "${SRC}"/cache/rootfs -type f -delete
+		;;
+
+		images) # delete output/images
+		[[ -d "${DEST}"/images ]] && display_alert "Cleaning" "output/images" "info" && rm -rf "${DEST}"/images/*
+		;;
+
+		sources) # delete output/sources and output/buildpkg
+		[[ -d "${SRC}"/cache/sources ]] && display_alert "Cleaning" "sources" "info" && rm -rf "${SRC}"/cache/sources/* "${DEST}"/buildpkg/*
+		;;
+
+		oldcache) # remove old `cache/rootfs` except for the newest 8 files
+		if [[ -d "${SRC}"/cache/rootfs && $(ls -1 "${SRC}"/cache/rootfs/*.zst* 2> /dev/null | wc -l) -gt "${ROOTFS_CACHE_MAX}" ]]; then
+			display_alert "Cleaning" "rootfs cache (old)" "info"
+			(cd "${SRC}"/cache/rootfs; ls -t *.lz4 | sed -e "1,${ROOTFS_CACHE_MAX}d" | xargs -d '\n' rm -f)
+			# Remove signatures if they are present. We use them for internal purpose
+			(cd "${SRC}"/cache/rootfs; ls -t *.asc | sed -e "1,${ROOTFS_CACHE_MAX}d" | xargs -d '\n' rm -f)
+		fi
+		;;
+	esac
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/general/downloads.sh b/lib/functions/general/downloads.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8db89849ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/general/downloads.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+function get_urls()
+{
+	local catalog=$1
+	local filename=$2
+
+	case $catalog in
+		toolchain)
+			local CCODE=$(curl --silent --fail https://dl.armbian.com/geoip | jq '.continent.code' -r)
+			local urls=(
+				# "https://dl.armbian.com/_toolchain/${filename}"
+
+				$( curl --silent --fail  "https://dl.armbian.com/mirrors" \
+					| jq -r "(${CCODE:+.${CCODE} // } .default) | .[]" \
+					| sed "s#\$#/_toolchain/${filename}#"
+				)
+			)
+			;;
+
+		rootfs)
+			local CCODE=$(curl --silent --fail  https://cache.armbian.com/geoip | jq '.continent.code' -r)
+			local urls=(
+				# "https://cache.armbian.com/rootfs/${ROOTFSCACHE_VERSION}/${filename}"
+				"https://github.com/armbian/cache/releases/download/${ROOTFSCACHE_VERSION}/${filename}"
+
+				$( curl --silent --fail  "https://cache.armbian.com/mirrors" \
+					| jq -r "(${CCODE:+.${CCODE} // } .default) | .[]" \
+					| sed "s#\$#/rootfs/${ROOTFSCACHE_VERSION}/${filename}#"
+				)
+			)
+			;;
+
+		*)
+			exit_with_error "Unknown catalog" "$catalog" >&2
+			return
+			;;
+	esac
+
+	echo "${urls[@]}"
+}
+
+download_and_verify()
+{
+
+	local catalog=$1
+	local filename=$2
+	local localdir=$SRC/cache/$catalog
+
+	local keys=(
+		"8F427EAF" # Linaro Toolchain Builder
+		"9F0E78D5" # Igor Pecovnik
+	)
+
+	mkdir -p "${SRC}/cache/.aria2"
+	local aria2_options=(
+		# Display
+		--console-log-level=error
+		--summary-interval=0
+		--download-result=hide
+
+		# Meta
+		--server-stat-if="${SRC}/cache/.aria2/server_stats"
+		--server-stat-of="${SRC}/cache/.aria2/server_stats"
+		--dht-file-path="${SRC}/cache/.aria2/dht.dat"
+		--rpc-save-upload-metadata=false
+		--auto-save-interval=0
+
+		# File
+		--auto-file-renaming=false
+		--allow-overwrite=true
+		--file-allocation=trunc
+
+		# Connection
+		--disable-ipv6=$DISABLE_IPV6
+		--connect-timeout=10
+		--timeout=10
+		--allow-piece-length-change=true
+		--max-connection-per-server=2
+		--lowest-speed-limit=500K
+
+		# BT
+		--seed-time=0
+		--bt-stop-timeout=30
+	)
+
+	# use local signature file
+	if [[ -f "${SRC}/config/torrents/${filename}.asc" ]]; then
+		local torrent="${SRC}/config/torrents/${filename}.torrent"
+		ln -sf "${SRC}/config/torrents/${filename}.asc" "${localdir}/${filename}.asc"
+	else
+		# download signature file
+		aria2c "${aria2_options[@]}" \
+			--continue=false \
+			--dir="${localdir}" --out="${filename}.asc" \
+			$(get_urls "${catalog}" "${filename}.asc")
+
+		local rc=$?
+		if [[ $rc -ne 0 ]]; then
+			# Except `not found`
+			[[ $rc -ne 3 ]] && display_alert "Failed to download signature file. aria2 exit code:" "$rc" "wrn"
+			return $rc
+		fi
+
+		[[ ${USE_TORRENT} == "yes" ]] \
+		&& local torrent="$(get_urls "${catalog}" "${filename}.torrent")"
+	fi
+
+	# download torrent first
+	local direct=yes
+	if [[ ${USE_TORRENT} == "yes" ]]; then
+
+		display_alert "downloading using torrent network" "$filename"
+		aria2c "${aria2_options[@]}" \
+			--follow-torrent=mem \
+			--dir="${localdir}" \
+			${torrent}
+
+		[[ $? -eq 0 ]] && direct=no
+
+	fi
+
+
+	# direct download if torrent fails
+	if [[ $direct != "no" ]]; then
+		display_alert "downloading using http(s) network" "$filename"
+		aria2c "${aria2_options[@]}" \
+			--dir="${localdir}" --out="${filename}" \
+			$(get_urls "${catalog}" "${filename}")
+
+		local rc=$?
+		if [[ $rc -ne 0 ]]; then
+			display_alert "Failed to download. aria2 exit code:" "$rc" "wrn"
+			return $rc
+		fi
+
+		echo ""
+	fi
+
+	local verified=false
+	if [[ -f ${localdir}/${filename}.asc ]]; then
+
+		if grep -q 'BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE' "${localdir}/${filename}.asc"; then
+
+			if [[ ! -d "${SRC}"/cache/.gpg ]]; then
+				mkdir -p "${SRC}"/cache/.gpg
+				chmod 700 "${SRC}"/cache/.gpg
+				touch "${SRC}"/cache/.gpg/gpg.conf
+				chmod 600 "${SRC}"/cache/.gpg/gpg.conf
+			fi
+
+			for key in "${keys[@]}"; do
+				gpg --homedir "${SRC}/cache/.gpg" --no-permission-warning \
+					--list-keys "${key}" >> "${DEST}/${LOG_SUBPATH}/output.log" 2>&1 \
+				|| gpg --homedir "${SRC}/cache/.gpg" --no-permission-warning \
+					${http_proxy:+--keyserver-options http-proxy="${http_proxy}"} \
+					--keyserver "hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80" \
+					--recv-keys "${key}" >> "${DEST}/${LOG_SUBPATH}/output.log" 2>&1 \
+				|| exit_with_error "Failed to recieve key" "${key}"
+			done
+
+			gpg --homedir "${SRC}"/cache/.gpg --no-permission-warning --trust-model always \
+				-q --verify "${localdir}/${filename}.asc" >> "${DEST}/${LOG_SUBPATH}/output.log" 2>&1
+			[[ ${PIPESTATUS[0]} -eq 0 ]] && verified=true && display_alert "Verified" "PGP" "info"
+
+		else
+
+			[[ "$(md5sum "${localdir}/${filename}" | awk '{printf $1}')" \
+				== "$(awk '{printf $1}' ${localdir}/${filename}.asc)" \
+			]] && verified=true && display_alert "Verified" "MD5" "info"
+
+		fi
+
+		if [[ $verified != true ]]; then
+			rm -rf "${localdir}/${filename}"* # We also delete asc file
+			exit_with_error "verification failed"
+		fi
+
+	fi
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/general/git.sh b/lib/functions/general/git.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..33d6f59e09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/general/git.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,352 @@
+#
+# This function retries Git operations to avoid failure in case remote is borked
+# If the git team needs to call a remote server, use this function.
+#
+improved_git()
+{
+
+	local realgit=$(command -v git)
+	local retries=3
+	local delay=10
+	local count=1
+	while [ $count -lt $retries ]; do
+		$realgit "$@"
+		if [[ $? -eq 0 || -f .git/index.lock ]]; then
+			retries=0
+			break
+		fi
+	let count=$count+1
+	sleep $delay
+	done
+
+}
+
+clean_up_git ()
+{
+	local target_dir=$1
+
+	# Files that are not tracked by git and were added
+	# when the patch was applied must be removed.
+	git -C $target_dir clean -qdf
+
+	# Return the files that are tracked by git to the initial state.
+	git -C $target_dir checkout -qf HEAD
+}
+
+# used : waiter_local_git arg1='value' arg2:'value'
+#		 waiter_local_git \
+#			url='https://github.com/megous/linux' \
+#			name='megous' \
+#			dir='linux-mainline/5.14' \
+#			branch='orange-pi-5.14' \
+#			obj=<tag|commit> or tag:$tag ...
+# An optional parameter for switching to a git object such as a tag, commit,
+# or a specific branch. The object must exist in the local repository.
+# This optional parameter takes precedence. If it is specified, then
+# the commit state corresponding to the specified git object will be extracted
+# to the working directory. Otherwise, the commit corresponding to the top of
+# the branch will be extracted.
+# The settings for the kernel variables of the original kernel
+# VAR_SHALLOW_ORIGINAL=var_origin_kernel must be in the main script
+# before calling the function
+waiter_local_git ()
+{
+	for arg in $@;do
+
+		case $arg in
+			url=*|https://*|git://*)	eval "local url=${arg/url=/}"
+				;;
+			dir=*|/*/*/*)	eval "local dir=${arg/dir=/}"
+				;;
+			*=*|*:*)	eval "local ${arg/:/=}"
+				;;
+		esac
+
+	done
+
+	# Required variables cannot be empty.
+	for var in url name dir branch; do
+		[ "${var#*=}" == "" ] && exit_with_error "Error in configuration"
+	done
+
+	local reachability
+
+	# The 'offline' variable must always be set to 'true' or 'false'
+	if [ "$OFFLINE_WORK" == "yes" ]; then
+		local offline=true
+	else
+		local offline=false
+	fi
+
+	local work_dir="$(realpath ${SRC}/cache/sources)/$dir"
+	mkdir -p $work_dir
+	cd $work_dir || exit_with_error
+
+	display_alert "Checking git sources" "$dir $url$name/$branch" "info"
+
+	if [ "$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)" != ".git" ]; then
+		git init -q .
+
+		# Run in the sub shell to avoid mixing environment variables.
+		if [ -n "$VAR_SHALLOW_ORIGINAL" ]; then
+			(
+			$VAR_SHALLOW_ORIGINAL
+
+			display_alert "Add original git sources" "$dir $name/$branch" "info"
+			if [ "$(improved_git ls-remote -h $url $branch | \
+				awk -F'/' '{if (NR == 1) print $NF}')" != "$branch" ];then
+				display_alert "Bad $branch for $url in $VAR_SHALLOW_ORIGINAL"
+				exit 177
+			fi
+
+			git remote add -t $branch $name $url
+
+			# Handle an exception if the initial tag is the top of the branch
+			# As v5.16 == HEAD
+			if [ "${start_tag}.1" == "$(improved_git ls-remote -t $url ${start_tag}.1 | \
+					awk -F'/' '{ print $NF }')" ]
+			then
+				improved_git fetch --shallow-exclude=$start_tag $name
+			else
+				improved_git fetch --depth 1 $name
+			fi
+			improved_git fetch --deepen=1 $name
+			# For a shallow clone, this works quickly and saves space.
+			git gc
+			)
+
+			[ "$?" == "177" ] && exit
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	files_for_clean="$(git status -s | wc -l)"
+	if [ "$files_for_clean" != "0" ];then
+		display_alert " Cleaning .... " "$files_for_clean files"
+		clean_up_git $work_dir
+	fi
+
+	if [ "$name" != "$(git remote show | grep $name)" ];then
+		git remote add -t $branch $name $url
+	fi
+
+	if ! $offline; then
+		for t_name in $(git remote show);do
+			improved_git fetch $t_name
+		done
+	fi
+
+	# When switching, we use the concept of only "detached branch". Therefore,
+	# we extract the hash from the tag, the branch name, or from the hash itself.
+	# This serves as a check of the reachability of the extraction.
+	# We do not use variables that characterize the current state of the git,
+	# such as `HEAD` and `FETCH_HEAD`.
+	reachability=false
+	for var in obj tag commit branch;do
+		eval pval=\$$var
+
+		if [ -n "$pval" ] && [ "$pval" != *HEAD ]; then
+			case $var in
+				obj|tag|commit) obj=$pval ;;
+				branch) obj=${name}/$branch ;;
+			esac
+
+			if  t_hash=$(git rev-parse $obj 2>/dev/null);then
+				reachability=true
+				break
+			else
+				display_alert "Variable $var=$obj unreachable for extraction"
+			fi
+		fi
+	done
+
+	if $reachability && [ "$t_hash" != "$(git rev-parse @ 2>/dev/null)" ];then
+		# Switch "detached branch" as hash
+		display_alert "Switch $obj = $t_hash"
+		git checkout -qf $t_hash
+	else
+		# the working directory corresponds to the target commit,
+		# nothing needs to be done
+		display_alert "Up to date"
+	fi
+}
+
+# fetch_from_repo <url> <directory> <ref> <ref_subdir>
+# <url>: remote repository URL
+# <directory>: local directory; subdir for branch/tag will be created
+# <ref>:
+#	branch:name
+#	tag:name
+#	head(*)
+#	commit:hash
+#
+# *: Implies ref_subdir=no
+#
+# <ref_subdir>: "yes" to create subdirectory for tag or branch name
+#
+fetch_from_repo()
+{
+	local url=$1
+	local dir=$2
+	local ref=$3
+	local ref_subdir=$4
+
+	# Set GitHub mirror before anything else touches $url
+	url=${url//'https://github.com/'/$GITHUB_SOURCE'/'}
+
+	# The 'offline' variable must always be set to 'true' or 'false'
+	if [ "$OFFLINE_WORK" == "yes" ]; then
+		local offline=true
+	else
+		local offline=false
+	fi
+
+	[[ -z $ref || ( $ref != tag:* && $ref != branch:* && $ref != head && $ref != commit:* ) ]] && exit_with_error "Error in configuration"
+	local ref_type=${ref%%:*}
+	if [[ $ref_type == head ]]; then
+		local ref_name=HEAD
+	else
+		local ref_name=${ref##*:}
+	fi
+
+	display_alert "Checking git sources" "$dir $ref_name" "info"
+
+	# get default remote branch name without cloning
+	# local ref_name=$(git ls-remote --symref $url HEAD | grep -o 'refs/heads/\S*' | sed 's%refs/heads/%%')
+	# for git:// protocol comparing hashes of "git ls-remote -h $url" and "git ls-remote --symref $url HEAD" is needed
+
+	if [[ $ref_subdir == yes ]]; then
+		local workdir=$dir/$ref_name
+	else
+		local workdir=$dir
+	fi
+
+	mkdir -p "${SRC}/cache/sources/${workdir}" 2>/dev/null || \
+		exit_with_error "No path or no write permission" "${SRC}/cache/sources/${workdir}"
+
+	cd "${SRC}/cache/sources/${workdir}" || exit
+
+	# check if existing remote URL for the repo or branch does not match current one
+	# may not be supported by older git versions
+	#  Check the folder as a git repository.
+	#  Then the target URL matches the local URL.
+
+	if [[ "$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)" == ".git" && \
+		  "$url" != *"$(git remote get-url origin | sed 's/^.*@//' | sed 's/^.*\/\///' 2>/dev/null)" ]]; then
+		display_alert "Remote URL does not match, removing existing local copy"
+		rm -rf .git ./*
+	fi
+
+	if [[ "$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)" != ".git" ]]; then
+		display_alert "Creating local copy"
+		git init -q .
+		git remote add origin "${url}"
+		# Here you need to upload from a new address
+		offline=false
+	fi
+
+	local changed=false
+
+	# when we work offline we simply return the sources to their original state
+	if ! $offline; then
+		local local_hash
+		local_hash=$(git rev-parse @ 2>/dev/null)
+
+		case $ref_type in
+			branch)
+			# TODO: grep refs/heads/$name
+			local remote_hash
+			remote_hash=$(improved_git ls-remote -h "${url}" "$ref_name" | head -1 | cut -f1)
+			[[ -z $local_hash || "${local_hash}" != "${remote_hash}" ]] && changed=true
+			;;
+
+			tag)
+			local remote_hash
+			remote_hash=$(improved_git ls-remote -t "${url}" "$ref_name" | cut -f1)
+			if [[ -z $local_hash || "${local_hash}" != "${remote_hash}" ]]; then
+				remote_hash=$(improved_git ls-remote -t "${url}" "$ref_name^{}" | cut -f1)
+				[[ -z $remote_hash || "${local_hash}" != "${remote_hash}" ]] && changed=true
+			fi
+			;;
+
+			head)
+			local remote_hash
+			remote_hash=$(improved_git ls-remote "${url}" HEAD | cut -f1)
+			[[ -z $local_hash || "${local_hash}" != "${remote_hash}" ]] && changed=true
+			;;
+
+			commit)
+			[[ -z $local_hash || $local_hash == "@" ]] && changed=true
+			;;
+		esac
+
+	fi # offline
+
+	if [[ $changed == true ]]; then
+
+		# remote was updated, fetch and check out updates
+		display_alert "Fetching updates"
+		case $ref_type in
+			branch) improved_git fetch --depth 200 origin "${ref_name}" ;;
+			tag) improved_git fetch --depth 200 origin tags/"${ref_name}" ;;
+			head) improved_git fetch --depth 200 origin HEAD ;;
+		esac
+
+		# commit type needs support for older git servers that doesn't support fetching id directly
+		if [[ $ref_type == commit ]]; then
+
+			improved_git fetch --depth 200 origin "${ref_name}"
+
+			# cover old type
+			if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
+
+				display_alert "Commit checkout not supported on this repository. Doing full clone." "" "wrn"
+				improved_git pull
+				git checkout -fq "${ref_name}"
+				display_alert "Checkout out to" "$(git --no-pager log -2 --pretty=format:"$ad%s [%an]" | head -1)" "info"
+
+			else
+
+				display_alert "Checking out"
+				git checkout -f -q FETCH_HEAD
+				git clean -qdf
+
+			fi
+		else
+
+			display_alert "Checking out"
+			git checkout -f -q FETCH_HEAD
+			git clean -qdf
+
+		fi
+	elif [[ -n $(git status -uno --porcelain --ignore-submodules=all) ]]; then
+		# working directory is not clean
+		display_alert " Cleaning .... " "$(git status -s | wc -l) files"
+
+		# Return the files that are tracked by git to the initial state.
+		git checkout -f -q HEAD
+
+		# Files that are not tracked by git and were added
+		# when the patch was applied must be removed.
+		git clean -qdf
+	else
+		# working directory is clean, nothing to do
+		display_alert "Up to date"
+	fi
+
+	if [[ -f .gitmodules ]]; then
+		display_alert "Updating submodules" "" "ext"
+		# FML: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17692710
+		for i in $(git config -f .gitmodules --get-regexp path | awk '{ print $2 }'); do
+			cd "${SRC}/cache/sources/${workdir}" || exit
+			local surl sref
+			surl=$(git config -f .gitmodules --get "submodule.$i.url")
+			sref=$(git config -f .gitmodules --get "submodule.$i.branch")
+			if [[ -n $sref ]]; then
+				sref="branch:$sref"
+			else
+				sref="head"
+			fi
+			fetch_from_repo "$surl" "$workdir/$i" "$sref"
+		done
+	fi
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/general/repo.sh b/lib/functions/general/repo.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2ae7c856e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/general/repo.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,305 @@
+adding_packages()
+{
+# add deb files to repository if they are not already there
+
+	display_alert "Checking and adding to repository $release" "$3" "ext"
+	for f in "${DEB_STORAGE}${2}"/*.deb
+	do
+		local name version arch
+		name=$(dpkg-deb -I "${f}" | grep Package | awk '{print $2}')
+		version=$(dpkg-deb -I "${f}" | grep Version | awk '{print $2}')
+		arch=$(dpkg-deb -I "${f}" | grep Architecture | awk '{print $2}')
+		# add if not already there
+		aptly repo search -architectures="${arch}" -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${1}" 'Name (% '${name}'), $Version (='${version}'), $Architecture (='${arch}')' &>/dev/null
+		if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
+			display_alert "Adding ${1}" "$name" "info"
+			aptly repo add -force-replace=true -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${1}" "${f}" &>/dev/null
+		fi
+	done
+
+}
+
+addtorepo()
+{
+# create repository
+# parameter "remove" dumps all and creates new
+# parameter "delete" remove incoming directory if publishing is succesful
+# function: cycle trough distributions
+
+	local distributions=("stretch" "bionic" "buster" "bullseye" "focal" "hirsute" "impish" "jammy" "sid")
+	#local distributions=($(grep -rw config/distributions/*/ -e 'supported' | cut -d"/" -f3))
+	local errors=0
+
+	for release in "${distributions[@]}"; do
+
+		ADDING_PACKAGES="false"
+		if [[ -d "config/distributions/${release}/" ]]; then
+			[[ -n "$(cat config/distributions/${release}/support | grep "csc\|supported" 2>/dev/null)" ]] && ADDING_PACKAGES="true"
+		else
+			display_alert "Skipping adding packages (not supported)" "$release" "wrn"
+			continue
+		fi
+
+		local forceoverwrite=""
+
+		# let's drop from publish if exits
+		if [[ -n $(aptly publish list -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -raw | awk '{print $(NF)}' | grep "${release}") ]]; then
+			aptly publish drop -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" > /dev/null 2>&1
+		fi
+
+		# create local repository if not exist
+		if [[ -z $(aptly repo list -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -raw | awk '{print $(NF)}' | grep "${release}") ]]; then
+			display_alert "Creating section" "main" "info"
+			aptly repo create -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -distribution="${release}" -component="main" \
+			-comment="Armbian main repository" "${release}" >/dev/null
+		fi
+
+		if [[ -z $(aptly repo list -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -raw | awk '{print $(NF)}' | grep "^utils") ]]; then
+			aptly repo create -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -distribution="${release}" -component="utils" \
+			-comment="Armbian utilities (backwards compatibility)" utils >/dev/null
+		fi
+		if [[ -z $(aptly repo list -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -raw | awk '{print $(NF)}' | grep "${release}-utils") ]]; then
+			aptly repo create -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -distribution="${release}" -component="${release}-utils" \
+			-comment="Armbian ${release} utilities" "${release}-utils" >/dev/null
+		fi
+		if [[ -z $(aptly repo list -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -raw | awk '{print $(NF)}' | grep "${release}-desktop") ]]; then
+			aptly repo create -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -distribution="${release}" -component="${release}-desktop" \
+			-comment="Armbian ${release} desktop" "${release}-desktop" >/dev/null
+		fi
+
+
+		# adding main
+		if find "${DEB_STORAGE}"/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.deb" 2>/dev/null | grep -q .; then
+			[[ "${ADDING_PACKAGES}" == true ]] && adding_packages "$release" "" "main"
+		else
+			aptly repo add -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" "${SCRIPTPATH}config/templates/example.deb" >/dev/null
+		fi
+
+		local COMPONENTS="main"
+
+		# adding main distribution packages
+		if find "${DEB_STORAGE}/${release}" -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.deb" 2>/dev/null | grep -q .; then
+			[[ "${ADDING_PACKAGES}" == true ]] && adding_packages "${release}-utils" "/${release}" "release packages"
+		else
+			# workaround - add dummy package to not trigger error
+			aptly repo add -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" "${SCRIPTPATH}config/templates/example.deb" >/dev/null
+		fi
+
+		# adding release-specific utils
+		if find "${DEB_STORAGE}/extra/${release}-utils" -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.deb" 2>/dev/null | grep -q .; then
+			[[ "${ADDING_PACKAGES}" == true ]] && adding_packages "${release}-utils" "/extra/${release}-utils" "release utils"
+		else
+			aptly repo add -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}-utils" "${SCRIPTPATH}config/templates/example.deb" >/dev/null
+		fi
+		COMPONENTS="${COMPONENTS} ${release}-utils"
+
+		# adding desktop
+		if find "${DEB_STORAGE}/extra/${release}-desktop" -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.deb" 2>/dev/null | grep -q .; then
+			[[ "${ADDING_PACKAGES}" == true ]] && adding_packages "${release}-desktop" "/extra/${release}-desktop" "desktop"
+		else
+			# workaround - add dummy package to not trigger error
+			aptly repo add -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}-desktop" "${SCRIPTPATH}config/templates/example.deb" >/dev/null
+		fi
+		COMPONENTS="${COMPONENTS} ${release}-desktop"
+
+		local mainnum utilnum desknum
+		mainnum=$(aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" | grep "Number of packages" | awk '{print $NF}')
+		utilnum=$(aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}-desktop" | grep "Number of packages" | awk '{print $NF}')
+		desknum=$(aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}-utils" | grep "Number of packages" | awk '{print $NF}')
+
+		if [ $mainnum -gt 0 ] && [ $utilnum -gt 0 ] && [ $desknum -gt 0 ]; then
+
+			# publish
+			aptly publish \
+			-acquire-by-hash \
+			-passphrase="${GPG_PASS}" \
+			-origin="Armbian" \
+			-label="Armbian" \
+			-config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" \
+			-component="${COMPONENTS// /,}" \
+			-distribution="${release}" repo "${release}" ${COMPONENTS//main/} >/dev/null
+
+			if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
+				display_alert "Publishing failed" "${release}" "err"
+				errors=$((errors+1))
+				exit 0
+			fi
+		else
+			errors=$((errors+1))
+			local err_txt=": All components must be present: main, utils and desktop for first build"
+		fi
+
+	done
+
+	# cleanup
+	display_alert "Cleaning repository" "${DEB_STORAGE}" "info"
+	aptly db cleanup -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}"
+
+	# display what we have
+	echo ""
+	display_alert "List of local repos" "local" "info"
+	(aptly repo list -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}") | grep -E packages
+
+	# remove debs if no errors found
+	if [[ $errors -eq 0 ]]; then
+		if [[ "$2" == "delete" ]]; then
+			display_alert "Purging incoming debs" "all" "ext"
+			find "${DEB_STORAGE}" -name "*.deb" -type f -delete
+		fi
+	else
+		display_alert "There were some problems $err_txt" "leaving incoming directory intact" "err"
+	fi
+
+}
+
+repo-manipulate()
+{
+# repository manipulation
+# "show" displays packages in each repository
+# "server" serve repository - useful for local diagnostics
+# "unique" manually select which package should be removed from all repositories
+# "update" search for new files in output/debs* to add them to repository
+# "purge" leave only last 5 versions
+
+	local DISTROS=("stretch" "bionic" "buster" "bullseye" "focal" "hirsute" "impish" "jammy" "sid")
+	#local DISTROS=($(grep -rw config/distributions/*/ -e 'supported' | cut -d"/" -f3))
+
+	case $@ in
+
+		serve)
+			# display repository content
+			display_alert "Serving content" "common utils" "ext"
+			aptly serve -listen=$(ip -f inet addr | grep -Po 'inet \K[\d.]+' | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | head -1):80 -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}"
+			exit 0
+			;;
+
+		show)
+			# display repository content
+			for release in "${DISTROS[@]}"; do
+				display_alert "Displaying repository contents for" "$release" "ext"
+				aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" | tail -n +7
+				aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}-desktop" | tail -n +7
+			done
+			display_alert "Displaying repository contents for" "common utils" "ext"
+			aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" utils | tail -n +7
+			echo "done."
+			exit 0
+			;;
+
+		unique)
+			# which package should be removed from all repositories
+			IFS=$'\n'
+			while true; do
+				LIST=()
+				for release in "${DISTROS[@]}"; do
+					LIST+=( $(aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" | tail -n +7) )
+					LIST+=( $(aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}-desktop" | tail -n +7) )
+				done
+				LIST+=( $(aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" utils | tail -n +7) )
+				LIST=( $(echo "${LIST[@]}" | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -u))
+				new_list=()
+				# create a human readable menu
+				for ((n=0;n<$((${#LIST[@]}));n++));
+				do
+					new_list+=( "${LIST[$n]}" )
+					new_list+=( "" )
+				done
+				LIST=("${new_list[@]}")
+				LIST_LENGTH=$((${#LIST[@]}/2));
+				exec 3>&1
+				TARGET_VERSION=$(dialog --cancel-label "Cancel" --backtitle "BACKTITLE" --no-collapse --title "Remove packages from repositories" --clear --menu "Delete" $((9+${LIST_LENGTH})) 82 65 "${LIST[@]}" 2>&1 1>&3)
+				exitstatus=$?;
+				exec 3>&-
+				if [[ $exitstatus -eq 0 ]]; then
+					for release in "${DISTROS[@]}"; do
+						aptly repo remove -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}"  "${release}" "$TARGET_VERSION"
+						aptly repo remove -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}"  "${release}-desktop" "$TARGET_VERSION"
+					done
+					aptly repo remove -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "utils" "$TARGET_VERSION"
+				else
+					exit 1
+				fi
+				aptly db cleanup -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" > /dev/null 2>&1
+			done
+			;;
+
+		update)
+			# display full help test
+			# run repository update
+			addtorepo "update" ""
+			# add a key to repo
+			cp "${SCRIPTPATH}"config/armbian.key "${REPO_STORAGE}"/public/
+			exit 0
+			;;
+
+		purge)
+			for release in "${DISTROS[@]}"; do
+				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "armhf" "5"
+				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "arm64" "5"
+				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "amd64" "5"
+				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "all" "5"
+				aptly -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -passphrase="${GPG_PASS}" publish update "${release}" > /dev/null 2>&1
+			done
+			exit 0
+			;;
+
+                purgeedge)
+                        for release in "${DISTROS[@]}"; do
+				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "armhf" "3" "edge"
+				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "arm64" "3" "edge"
+				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "amd64" "3" "edge"
+				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "all" "3" "edge"
+				aptly -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -passphrase="${GPG_PASS}" publish update "${release}" > /dev/null 2>&1
+                        done
+                        exit 0
+                        ;;
+
+
+		purgesource)
+			for release in "${DISTROS[@]}"; do
+				aptly repo remove -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" 'Name (% *-source*)'
+				aptly -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -passphrase="${GPG_PASS}" publish update "${release}"  > /dev/null 2>&1
+			done
+			aptly db cleanup -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" > /dev/null 2>&1
+			exit 0
+			;;
+		*)
+
+			echo -e "Usage: repository show | serve | unique | create | update | purge | purgesource\n"
+			echo -e "\n show           = display repository content"
+			echo -e "\n serve          = publish your repositories on current server over HTTP"
+			echo -e "\n unique         = manually select which package should be removed from all repositories"
+			echo -e "\n update         = updating repository"
+			echo -e "\n purge          = removes all but last 5 versions"
+			echo -e "\n purgeedge      = removes all but last 3 edge versions"
+			echo -e "\n purgesource    = removes all sources\n\n"
+			exit 0
+			;;
+
+	esac
+
+}
+
+# Removes old packages in the received repo
+#
+# $1: Repository
+# $2: Architecture
+# $3: Amount of packages to keep
+# $4: Additional search pattern
+repo-remove-old-packages() {
+	local repo=$1
+	local arch=$2
+	local keep=$3
+	for pkg in $(aptly repo search -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${repo}" "Architecture ($arch)" | grep -v "ERROR: no results" | sort -t '.' -nk4 | grep -e "$4"); do
+		local pkg_name
+		count=0
+		pkg_name=$(echo "${pkg}" | cut -d_ -f1)
+		for subpkg in $(aptly repo search -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${repo}" "Name ($pkg_name)"  | grep -v "ERROR: no results" | sort -rt '.' -nk4); do
+			((count+=1))
+			if [[ $count -gt $keep ]]; then
+			pkg_version=$(echo "${subpkg}" | cut -d_ -f2)
+			aptly repo remove -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${repo}" "Name ($pkg_name), Version (= $pkg_version)"
+			fi
+		done
+    done
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/host/basic-deps.sh b/lib/functions/host/basic-deps.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..902a106ea1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/host/basic-deps.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# prepare_host_basic
+#
+# * installs only basic packages
+#
+prepare_host_basic()
+{
+
+	# command:package1 package2 ...
+	# list of commands that are neeeded:packages where this command is
+	local check_pack install_pack
+	local checklist=(
+			"dialog:dialog"
+			"fuser:psmisc"
+			"getfacl:acl"
+			"uuid:uuid uuid-runtime"
+			"curl:curl"
+			"gpg:gnupg"
+			"gawk:gawk"
+			)
+
+	for check_pack in "${checklist[@]}"; do
+	        if ! which ${check_pack%:*} >/dev/null; then local install_pack+=${check_pack#*:}" "; fi
+	done
+
+	if [[ -n $install_pack ]]; then
+		display_alert "Installing basic packages" "$install_pack"
+		sudo bash -c "apt-get -qq update && apt-get install -qq -y --no-install-recommends $install_pack"
+	fi
+
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/host/host-utils.sh b/lib/functions/host/host-utils.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a86d583467
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/host/host-utils.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# wait_for_package_manager
+#
+# * installation will break if we try to install when package manager is running
+#
+wait_for_package_manager()
+{
+	# exit if package manager is running in the back
+	while true; do
+		if [[ "$(fuser /var/lib/dpkg/lock 2>/dev/null; echo $?)" != 1 && "$(fuser /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend 2>/dev/null; echo $?)" != 1 ]]; then
+				display_alert "Package manager is running in the background." "Please wait! Retrying in 30 sec" "wrn"
+				sleep 30
+			else
+				break
+		fi
+	done
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/host/prepare-host.sh b/lib/functions/host/prepare-host.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8ef27e3c60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/host/prepare-host.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,264 @@
+# prepare_host
+#
+# * checks and installs necessary packages
+# * creates directory structure
+# * changes system settings
+#
+prepare_host()
+{
+	display_alert "Preparing" "host" "info"
+
+	# The 'offline' variable must always be set to 'true' or 'false'
+	if [ "$OFFLINE_WORK" == "yes" ]; then
+		local offline=true
+	else
+		local offline=false
+	fi
+
+	# wait until package manager finishes possible system maintanace
+	wait_for_package_manager
+
+	# fix for Locales settings
+	if ! grep -q "^en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" /etc/locale.gen; then
+		sudo sed -i 's/# en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen
+		sudo locale-gen
+	fi
+
+	export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
+
+	# packages list for host
+	# NOTE: please sync any changes here with the Dockerfile and Vagrantfile
+
+	local hostdeps="acl aptly aria2 bc binfmt-support bison btrfs-progs       \
+	build-essential  ca-certificates ccache cpio cryptsetup curl              \
+	debian-archive-keyring debian-keyring debootstrap device-tree-compiler    \
+	dialog dirmngr dosfstools dwarves f2fs-tools fakeroot flex gawk           \
+	gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu gdisk gpg busybox             \
+	imagemagick jq kmod libbison-dev libc6-dev-armhf-cross libcrypto++-dev    \
+	libelf-dev libfdt-dev libfile-fcntllock-perl parallel libmpc-dev          \
+	libfl-dev liblz4-tool libncurses-dev libpython2.7-dev libssl-dev          \
+	libusb-1.0-0-dev linux-base locales lzop ncurses-base ncurses-term        \
+	nfs-kernel-server ntpdate p7zip-full parted patchutils pigz pixz          \
+	pkg-config pv python3-dev python3-distutils qemu-user-static rsync swig   \
+	systemd-container u-boot-tools udev unzip uuid-dev wget whiptail zip      \
+	zlib1g-dev zstd fdisk"
+
+  if [[ $(dpkg --print-architecture) == amd64 ]]; then
+
+	hostdeps+=" distcc lib32ncurses-dev lib32stdc++6 libc6-i386"
+	grep -q i386 <(dpkg --print-foreign-architectures) || dpkg --add-architecture i386
+
+  elif [[ $(dpkg --print-architecture) == arm64 ]]; then
+
+	hostdeps+="gcc-arm-none-eabi libc6 libc6-amd64-cross qemu"
+
+  else
+
+	display_alert "Please read documentation to set up proper compilation environment"
+	display_alert "https://www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/"
+	exit_with_error "Running this tool on non x86_64 build host is not supported"
+
+  fi
+
+	# Add support for Ubuntu 20.04, 21.04 and Mint 20.x
+	if [[ $HOSTRELEASE =~ ^(focal|impish|hirsute|jammy|ulyana|ulyssa|bullseye|uma|una)$ ]]; then
+		hostdeps+=" python2 python3"
+		ln -fs /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2
+		ln -fs /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python
+	else
+		hostdeps+=" python libpython-dev"
+	fi
+
+	display_alert "Build host OS release" "${HOSTRELEASE:-(unknown)}" "info"
+
+	# Ubuntu 21.04.x (Hirsute) x86_64 is the only fully supported host OS release
+	# Using Docker/VirtualBox/Vagrant is the only supported way to run the build script on other Linux distributions
+	#
+	# NO_HOST_RELEASE_CHECK overrides the check for a supported host system
+	# Disable host OS check at your own risk. Any issues reported with unsupported releases will be closed without discussion
+	if [[ -z $HOSTRELEASE || "buster bullseye focal impish hirsute jammy debbie tricia ulyana ulyssa uma una" != *"$HOSTRELEASE"* ]]; then
+		if [[ $NO_HOST_RELEASE_CHECK == yes ]]; then
+			display_alert "You are running on an unsupported system" "${HOSTRELEASE:-(unknown)}" "wrn"
+			display_alert "Do not report any errors, warnings or other issues encountered beyond this point" "" "wrn"
+		else
+			exit_with_error "It seems you ignore documentation and run an unsupported build system: ${HOSTRELEASE:-(unknown)}"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	if grep -qE "(Microsoft|WSL)" /proc/version; then
+		if [ -f /.dockerenv ]; then
+			display_alert "Building images using Docker on WSL2 may fail" "" "wrn"
+		else
+			exit_with_error "Windows subsystem for Linux is not a supported build environment"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	if systemd-detect-virt -q -c; then
+		display_alert "Running in container" "$(systemd-detect-virt)" "info"
+		# disable apt-cacher unless NO_APT_CACHER=no is not specified explicitly
+		if [[ $NO_APT_CACHER != no ]]; then
+			display_alert "apt-cacher is disabled in containers, set NO_APT_CACHER=no to override" "" "wrn"
+			NO_APT_CACHER=yes
+		fi
+		CONTAINER_COMPAT=yes
+		# trying to use nested containers is not a good idea, so don't permit EXTERNAL_NEW=compile
+		if [[ $EXTERNAL_NEW == compile ]]; then
+			display_alert "EXTERNAL_NEW=compile is not available when running in container, setting to prebuilt" "" "wrn"
+			EXTERNAL_NEW=prebuilt
+		fi
+		SYNC_CLOCK=no
+	fi
+
+
+	# Skip verification if you are working offline
+	if ! $offline; then
+
+	# warning: apt-cacher-ng will fail if installed and used both on host and in
+	# container/chroot environment with shared network
+	# set NO_APT_CACHER=yes to prevent installation errors in such case
+	if [[ $NO_APT_CACHER != yes ]]; then hostdeps+=" apt-cacher-ng"; fi
+
+	export EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS=""
+	call_extension_method "add_host_dependencies" <<- 'ADD_HOST_DEPENDENCIES'
+	*run before installing host dependencies*
+	you can add packages to install, space separated, to ${EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS} here.
+	ADD_HOST_DEPENDENCIES
+
+	if [ -n "${EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS}" ]; then hostdeps+=" ${EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS}"; fi
+
+	display_alert "Installing build dependencies"
+	# don't prompt for apt cacher selection
+	sudo echo "apt-cacher-ng    apt-cacher-ng/tunnelenable      boolean false" | sudo debconf-set-selections
+
+	LOG_OUTPUT_FILE="${DEST}"/${LOG_SUBPATH}/hostdeps.log
+	install_pkg_deb "autoupdate $hostdeps"
+	unset LOG_OUTPUT_FILE
+
+	update-ccache-symlinks
+
+	export FINAL_HOST_DEPS="$hostdeps ${EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS}"
+	call_extension_method "host_dependencies_ready" <<- 'HOST_DEPENDENCIES_READY'
+	*run after all host dependencies are installed*
+	At this point we can read `${FINAL_HOST_DEPS}`, but changing won't have any effect.
+	All the dependencies, including the default/core deps and the ones added via `${EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS}`
+	are installed at this point. The system clock has not yet been synced.
+	HOST_DEPENDENCIES_READY
+
+
+	# sync clock
+	if [[ $SYNC_CLOCK != no ]]; then
+		display_alert "Syncing clock" "host" "info"
+		ntpdate -s "${NTP_SERVER:-pool.ntp.org}"
+	fi
+
+	# create directory structure
+	mkdir -p "${SRC}"/{cache,output} "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"
+	if [[ -n $SUDO_USER ]]; then
+		chgrp --quiet sudo cache output "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"
+		# SGID bit on cache/sources breaks kernel dpkg packaging
+		chmod --quiet g+w,g+s output "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"
+		# fix existing permissions
+		find "${SRC}"/output "${USERPATCHES_PATH}" -type d ! -group sudo -exec chgrp --quiet sudo {} \;
+		find "${SRC}"/output "${USERPATCHES_PATH}" -type d ! -perm -g+w,g+s -exec chmod --quiet g+w,g+s {} \;
+	fi
+	mkdir -p "${DEST}"/debs-beta/extra "${DEST}"/debs/extra "${DEST}"/{config,debug,patch} "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/overlay "${SRC}"/cache/{sources,hash,hash-beta,toolchain,utility,rootfs} "${SRC}"/.tmp
+
+# build aarch64
+	if [[ $(dpkg --print-architecture) == amd64 ]]; then
+		if [[ "${SKIP_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAINS}" != "yes" ]]; then
+
+			# bind mount toolchain if defined
+			if [[ -d "${ARMBIAN_CACHE_TOOLCHAIN_PATH}" ]]; then
+				mountpoint -q "${SRC}"/cache/toolchain && umount -l "${SRC}"/cache/toolchain
+				mount --bind "${ARMBIAN_CACHE_TOOLCHAIN_PATH}" "${SRC}"/cache/toolchain
+			fi
+
+			display_alert "Checking for external GCC compilers" "" "info"
+			# download external Linaro compiler and missing special dependencies since they are needed for certain sources
+
+			local toolchains=(
+				"gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz"
+				"gcc-linaro-arm-none-eabi-4.8-2014.04_linux.tar.xz"
+				"gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.04_linux.tar.xz"
+				"gcc-linaro-7.4.1-2019.02-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabi.tar.xz"
+				"gcc-linaro-7.4.1-2019.02-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.xz"
+				"gcc-arm-8.3-2019.03-x86_64-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz"
+				"gcc-arm-8.3-2019.03-x86_64-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.xz"
+				"gcc-arm-9.2-2019.12-x86_64-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz"
+				"gcc-arm-9.2-2019.12-x86_64-aarch64-none-linux-gnu.tar.xz"
+				"gcc-arm-11.2-2022.02-x86_64-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz"
+				"gcc-arm-11.2-2022.02-x86_64-aarch64-none-linux-gnu.tar.xz"
+				)
+
+			USE_TORRENT_STATUS=${USE_TORRENT}
+			USE_TORRENT="no"
+			for toolchain in ${toolchains[@]}; do
+				local toolchain_zip="${SRC}/cache/toolchain/${toolchain}"
+				local toolchain_dir="${toolchain_zip%.tar.*}"
+				if [[ ! -f "${toolchain_dir}/.download-complete" ]]; then
+					download_and_verify "toolchain" "${toolchain}" \
+					|| exit_with_error "Failed to download toolchain" "${toolchain}"
+
+					display_alert "decompressing"
+					pv -p -b -r -c -N "[ .... ] ${toolchain}" "${toolchain_zip}" \
+					| xz -dc \
+					| tar xp --xattrs --no-same-owner --overwrite -C "${SRC}/cache/toolchain/"
+					if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
+						rm -rf "${toolchain_dir}"
+						exit_with_error "Failed to decompress toolchain" "${toolchain}"
+					fi
+
+					touch "${toolchain_dir}/.download-complete"
+					rm -rf "${toolchain_zip}"* # Also delete asc file
+				fi
+			done
+			USE_TORRENT=${USE_TORRENT_STATUS}
+
+			local existing_dirs=( $(ls -1 "${SRC}"/cache/toolchain) )
+			for dir in ${existing_dirs[@]}; do
+				local found=no
+				for toolchain in ${toolchains[@]}; do
+					[[ $dir == ${toolchain%.tar.*} ]] && found=yes
+				done
+				if [[ $found == no ]]; then
+					display_alert "Removing obsolete toolchain" "$dir"
+					rm -rf "${SRC}/cache/toolchain/${dir}"
+				fi
+			done
+		else
+			display_alert "Ignoring toolchains" "SKIP_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAINS: ${SKIP_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAINS}" "info"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+  fi # check offline
+
+	# enable arm binary format so that the cross-architecture chroot environment will work
+	if [[ $KERNEL_ONLY != yes ]]; then
+		modprobe -q binfmt_misc
+		mountpoint -q /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/ || mount binfmt_misc -t binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
+		if [[ "$(arch)" != "aarch64" ]]; then
+			test -e /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/qemu-arm || update-binfmts --enable qemu-arm
+			test -e /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/qemu-aarch64 || update-binfmts --enable qemu-aarch64
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	[[ ! -f "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/customize-image.sh ]] && cp "${SRC}"/config/templates/customize-image.sh.template "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/customize-image.sh
+
+	if [[ ! -f "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/README ]]; then
+		rm -f "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/readme.txt
+		echo 'Please read documentation about customizing build configuration' > "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/README
+		echo 'https://www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/' >> "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/README
+
+		# create patches directory structure under USERPATCHES_PATH
+		find "${SRC}"/patch -maxdepth 2 -type d ! -name . | sed "s%/.*patch%/$USERPATCHES_PATH%" | xargs mkdir -p
+	fi
+
+	# check free space (basic)
+	local freespace=$(findmnt --target "${SRC}" -n -o AVAIL -b 2>/dev/null) # in bytes
+	if [[ -n $freespace && $(( $freespace / 1073741824 )) -lt 10 ]]; then
+		display_alert "Low free space left" "$(( $freespace / 1073741824 )) GiB" "wrn"
+		# pause here since dialog-based menu will hide this message otherwise
+		echo -e "Press \e[0;33m<Ctrl-C>\x1B[0m to abort compilation, \e[0;33m<Enter>\x1B[0m to ignore and continue"
+		read
+	fi
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/image/fingerprint.sh b/lib/functions/image/fingerprint.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d12a0ad122
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/image/fingerprint.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# fingerprint_image <out_txt_file> [image_filename]
+# Saving build summary to the image
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+fingerprint_image()
+{
+	cat <<-EOF > "${1}"
+	--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+	Title:			${VENDOR} $REVISION ${BOARD^} $BRANCH
+	Kernel:			Linux $VER
+	Build date:		$(date +'%d.%m.%Y')
+	Builder rev:		$BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT
+	Maintainer:		$MAINTAINER <$MAINTAINERMAIL>
+	Authors:		https://www.armbian.com/authors
+	Sources: 		https://github.com/armbian/
+	Support: 		https://forum.armbian.com/
+	Changelog: 		https://www.armbian.com/logbook/
+	Documantation:		https://docs.armbian.com/
+	EOF
+
+	if [ -n "$2" ]; then
+		cat <<-EOF >> "${1}"
+		--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+		Partitioning configuration: $IMAGE_PARTITION_TABLE offset: $OFFSET
+		Boot partition type: ${BOOTFS_TYPE:-(none)} ${BOOTSIZE:+"(${BOOTSIZE} MB)"}
+		Root partition type: $ROOTFS_TYPE ${FIXED_IMAGE_SIZE:+"(${FIXED_IMAGE_SIZE} MB)"}
+
+		CPU configuration: $CPUMIN - $CPUMAX with $GOVERNOR
+		--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+		Verify GPG signature:
+		gpg --verify $2.img.xz.asc
+
+		Verify image file integrity:
+		sha256sum --check $2.img.xz.sha
+
+		Prepare SD card (four methods):
+		xzcat $2.img.xz | pv | dd of=/dev/mmcblkX bs=1M
+		dd if=$2.img of=/dev/mmcblkX bs=1M
+		balena-etcher $2.img.xz -d /dev/mmcblkX
+		balena-etcher $2.img -d /dev/mmcblkX
+		EOF
+	fi
+
+	cat <<-EOF >> "${1}"
+	--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+	$(cat "${SRC}"/LICENSE)
+	--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+	EOF
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/logging/logging.sh b/lib/functions/logging/logging.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e54b6d0629
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/logging/logging.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Let's have unique way of displaying alerts
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+display_alert()
+{
+	# log function parameters to install.log
+	[[ -n "${DEST}" ]] && echo "Displaying message: $@" >> "${DEST}"/${LOG_SUBPATH}/output.log
+
+	local tmp=""
+	[[ -n $2 ]] && tmp="[\e[0;33m $2 \x1B[0m]"
+
+	case $3 in
+		err)
+		echo -e "[\e[0;31m error \x1B[0m] $1 $tmp"
+		;;
+
+		wrn)
+		echo -e "[\e[0;35m warn \x1B[0m] $1 $tmp"
+		;;
+
+		ext)
+		echo -e "[\e[0;32m o.k. \x1B[0m] \e[1;32m$1\x1B[0m $tmp"
+		;;
+
+		info)
+		echo -e "[\e[0;32m o.k. \x1B[0m] $1 $tmp"
+		;;
+
+		*)
+		echo -e "[\e[0;32m .... \x1B[0m] $1 $tmp"
+		;;
+	esac
+}
+
+# is a formatted output of the values of variables
+# from the list at the place of the function call.
+#
+# The LOG_OUTPUT_FILE variable must be defined in the calling function
+# before calling the `show_checklist_variables` function and unset after.
+#
+show_checklist_variables ()
+{
+	local checklist=$*
+	local var pval
+	local log_file=${LOG_OUTPUT_FILE:-"${SRC}"/output/${LOG_SUBPATH}/trash.log}
+	local _line=${BASH_LINENO[0]}
+	local _function=${FUNCNAME[1]}
+	local _file=$(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[1]}")
+
+	echo -e "Show variables in function: $_function" "[$_file:$_line]\n" >>$log_file
+
+	for var in $checklist;do
+		eval pval=\$$var
+		echo -e "\n$var =:" >>$log_file
+		if [ $(echo "$pval" | awk -F"/" '{print NF}') -ge 4 ];then
+			printf "%s\n" $pval >>$log_file
+		else
+			printf "%-30s %-30s %-30s %-30s\n" $pval >>$log_file
+		fi
+	done
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/logging/traps.sh b/lib/functions/logging/traps.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d9af8ae80d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/logging/traps.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# exit_with_error <message> <highlight>
+#
+# a way to terminate build process
+# with verbose error message
+#
+
+exit_with_error()
+{
+	local _file
+	local _line=${BASH_LINENO[0]}
+	local _function=${FUNCNAME[1]}
+	local _description=$1
+	local _highlight=$2
+	_file=$(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[1]}")
+	local stacktrace="$(get_extension_hook_stracktrace "${BASH_SOURCE[*]}" "${BASH_LINENO[*]}")"
+
+	display_alert "ERROR in function $_function" "$stacktrace" "err"
+	display_alert "$_description" "$_highlight" "err"
+	display_alert "Process terminated" "" "info"
+
+	if [[ "${ERROR_DEBUG_SHELL}" == "yes" ]]; then
+		display_alert "MOUNT" "${MOUNT}" "err"
+		display_alert "SDCARD" "${SDCARD}" "err"
+		display_alert "Here's a shell." "debug it" "err"
+		bash < /dev/tty || true
+	fi
+
+	# TODO: execute run_after_build here?
+	overlayfs_wrapper "cleanup"
+	# unlock loop device access in case of starvation
+	exec {FD}>/var/lock/armbian-debootstrap-losetup
+	flock -u "${FD}"
+
+	exit 255
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/main/config-prepare.sh b/lib/functions/main/config-prepare.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e3cdf646ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/main/config-prepare.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+DISTRIBUTIONS_DESC_DIR="config/distributions"
+
+function set_distribution_status() {
+
+	local distro_support_desc_filepath="${SRC}/${DISTRIBUTIONS_DESC_DIR}/${RELEASE}/support"
+	if [[ ! -f "${distro_support_desc_filepath}" ]]; then
+		exit_with_error "Distribution ${distribution_name} does not exist"
+	else
+		DISTRIBUTION_STATUS="$(cat "${distro_support_desc_filepath}")"
+	fi
+
+	[[ "${DISTRIBUTION_STATUS}" != "supported" ]] && [[ "${EXPERT}" != "yes" ]] && exit_with_error "Armbian ${RELEASE} is unsupported and, therefore, only available to experts (EXPERT=yes)"
+
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/rootfs/boot_logo.sh b/lib/functions/rootfs/boot_logo.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c49b30a4cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/rootfs/boot_logo.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Create kernel boot logo from packages/blobs/splash/logo.png and packages/blobs/splash/spinner.gif (animated)
+# and place to the file /lib/firmware/bootsplash
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+function boot_logo ()
+{
+display_alert "Building kernel splash logo" "$RELEASE" "info"
+
+	LOGO=${SRC}/packages/blobs/splash/logo.png
+	LOGO_WIDTH=$(identify $LOGO | cut -d " " -f 3 | cut -d x -f 1)
+	LOGO_HEIGHT=$(identify $LOGO | cut -d " " -f 3 | cut -d x -f 2)
+	THROBBER=${SRC}/packages/blobs/splash/spinner.gif
+	THROBBER_WIDTH=$(identify $THROBBER | head -1 | cut -d " " -f 3 | cut -d x -f 1)
+	THROBBER_HEIGHT=$(identify $THROBBER | head -1 | cut -d " " -f 3 | cut -d x -f 2)
+	convert -alpha remove -background "#000000"	$LOGO "${SDCARD}"/tmp/logo.rgb
+	convert -alpha remove -background "#000000" $THROBBER "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber%02d.rgb
+	$PKG_PREFIX${SRC}/packages/blobs/splash/bootsplash-packer \
+	--bg_red 0x00 \
+	--bg_green 0x00 \
+	--bg_blue 0x00 \
+	--frame_ms 48 \
+	--picture \
+	--pic_width $LOGO_WIDTH \
+	--pic_height $LOGO_HEIGHT \
+	--pic_position 0 \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/logo.rgb \
+	--picture \
+	--pic_width $THROBBER_WIDTH \
+	--pic_height $THROBBER_HEIGHT \
+	--pic_position 0x05 \
+	--pic_position_offset 200 \
+	--pic_anim_type 1 \
+	--pic_anim_loop 0 \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber00.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber01.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber02.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber03.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber04.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber05.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber06.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber07.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber08.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber09.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber10.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber11.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber12.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber13.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber14.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber15.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber16.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber17.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber18.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber19.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber20.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber21.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber22.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber23.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber24.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber25.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber26.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber27.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber28.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber29.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber30.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber31.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber32.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber33.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber34.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber35.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber36.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber37.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber38.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber39.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber40.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber41.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber42.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber43.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber44.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber45.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber46.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber47.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber48.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber49.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber50.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber51.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber52.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber53.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber54.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber55.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber56.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber57.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber58.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber59.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber60.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber61.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber62.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber63.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber64.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber65.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber66.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber67.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber68.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber69.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber70.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber71.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber72.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber73.rgb \
+	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber74.rgb \
+	"${SDCARD}"/lib/firmware/bootsplash.armbian >/dev/null 2>&1
+	if [[ $BOOT_LOGO == yes || $BOOT_LOGO == desktop && $BUILD_DESKTOP == yes ]]; then
+		[[ -f "${SDCARD}"/boot/armbianEnv.txt ]] &&	grep -q '^bootlogo' "${SDCARD}"/boot/armbianEnv.txt && \
+		sed -i 's/^bootlogo.*/bootlogo=true/' "${SDCARD}"/boot/armbianEnv.txt || echo 'bootlogo=true' >> "${SDCARD}"/boot/armbianEnv.txt
+		[[ -f "${SDCARD}"/boot/boot.ini ]] &&	sed -i 's/^setenv bootlogo.*/setenv bootlogo "true"/' "${SDCARD}"/boot/boot.ini
+	fi
+	# enable additional services
+	chroot "${SDCARD}" /bin/bash -c "systemctl --no-reload enable bootsplash-ask-password-console.path >/dev/null 2>&1"
+	chroot "${SDCARD}" /bin/bash -c "systemctl --no-reload enable bootsplash-hide-when-booted.service >/dev/null 2>&1"
+	chroot "${SDCARD}" /bin/bash -c "systemctl --no-reload enable bootsplash-show-on-shutdown.service >/dev/null 2>&1"
+}
diff --git a/lib/functions/rootfs/create-cache.sh b/lib/functions/rootfs/create-cache.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2e591db553
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/rootfs/create-cache.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# get_package_list_hash
+#
+# returns md5 hash for current package list and rootfs cache version
+
+get_package_list_hash()
+{
+	local package_arr exclude_arr
+	local list_content
+	read -ra package_arr <<< "${DEBOOTSTRAP_LIST} ${PACKAGE_LIST}"
+	read -ra exclude_arr <<< "${PACKAGE_LIST_EXCLUDE}"
+	(
+		printf "%s\n" "${package_arr[@]}"
+		printf -- "-%s\n" "${exclude_arr[@]}"
+	) | sort -u | md5sum | cut -d' ' -f 1
+}
+
diff --git a/lib/functions/rootfs/distro-specific.sh b/lib/functions/rootfs/distro-specific.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c26aea9f12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/functions/rootfs/distro-specific.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+# create_sources_list <release> <basedir>
+#
+# <release>: bullseye|focal|jammy|sid
+# <basedir>: path to root directory
+#
+create_sources_list()
+{
+	local release=$1
+	local basedir=$2
+	[[ -z $basedir ]] && exit_with_error "No basedir passed to create_sources_list"
+
+	case $release in
+	buster)
+	cat <<-EOF > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list
+	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} $release main contrib non-free
+	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} $release main contrib non-free
+
+	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-updates main contrib non-free
+	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-updates main contrib non-free
+
+	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-backports main contrib non-free
+	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-backports main contrib non-free
+
+	deb http://${DEBIAN_SECURTY} ${release}/updates main contrib non-free
+	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_SECURTY} ${release}/updates main contrib non-free
+	EOF
+	;;
+
+	bullseye|bookworm|trixie)
+	cat <<-EOF > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list
+	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} $release main contrib non-free
+	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} $release main contrib non-free
+
+	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-updates main contrib non-free
+	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-updates main contrib non-free
+
+	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-backports main contrib non-free
+	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-backports main contrib non-free
+
+	deb http://${DEBIAN_SECURTY} ${release}-security main contrib non-free
+	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_SECURTY} ${release}-security main contrib non-free
+	EOF
+	;;
+
+	sid) # sid is permanent unstable development and has no such thing as updates or security
+	cat <<-EOF > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list
+	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} $release main contrib non-free
+	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} $release main contrib non-free
+	EOF
+	;;
+
+	focal|jammy)
+	cat <<-EOF > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list
+	deb http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} $release main restricted universe multiverse
+	#deb-src http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} $release main restricted universe multiverse
+
+	deb http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} ${release}-security main restricted universe multiverse
+	#deb-src http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} ${release}-security main restricted universe multiverse
+
+	deb http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} ${release}-updates main restricted universe multiverse
+	#deb-src http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} ${release}-updates main restricted universe multiverse
+
+	deb http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} ${release}-backports main restricted universe multiverse
+	#deb-src http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} ${release}-backports main restricted universe multiverse
+	EOF
+	;;
+	esac
+
+	display_alert "Adding Armbian repository and authentication key" "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list" "info"
+
+	# apt-key add is getting deprecated
+	APT_VERSION=$(chroot "${basedir}" /bin/bash -c "apt --version | cut -d\" \" -f2")
+	if linux-version compare "${APT_VERSION}" ge 2.4.1; then
+		# add armbian key
+		mkdir -p "${basedir}"/usr/share/keyrings
+		# change to binary form
+		gpg --dearmor < "${SRC}"/config/armbian.key > "${basedir}"/usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg
+		SIGNED_BY="[signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg] "
+	else
+		# use old method for compatibility reasons
+		cp "${SRC}"/config/armbian.key "${basedir}"
+		chroot "${basedir}" /bin/bash -c "cat armbian.key | apt-key add - > /dev/null 2>&1"
+	fi
+
+	# stage: add armbian repository and install key
+	if [[ $DOWNLOAD_MIRROR == "china" ]]; then
+		echo "deb ${SIGNED_BY}https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/armbian $RELEASE main ${RELEASE}-utils ${RELEASE}-desktop" > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list
+	elif [[ $DOWNLOAD_MIRROR == "bfsu" ]]; then
+	    echo "deb ${SIGNED_BY}http://mirrors.bfsu.edu.cn/armbian $RELEASE main ${RELEASE}-utils ${RELEASE}-desktop" > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list
+	else
+		echo "deb ${SIGNED_BY}http://"$([[ $BETA == yes ]] && echo "beta" || echo "apt" )".armbian.com $RELEASE main ${RELEASE}-utils ${RELEASE}-desktop" > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list
+	fi
+
+	# replace local package server if defined. Suitable for development
+	[[ -n $LOCAL_MIRROR ]] && echo "deb ${SIGNED_BY}http://$LOCAL_MIRROR $RELEASE main ${RELEASE}-utils ${RELEASE}-desktop" > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list
+
+	# disable repo if SKIP_ARMBIAN_REPO=yes
+	if [[ "${SKIP_ARMBIAN_REPO}" == "yes" ]]; then
+		display_alert "Disabling armbian repo" "${ARCH}-${RELEASE}" "wrn"
+		mv "${SDCARD}"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list "${SDCARD}"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list.disabled
+	fi
+
+}
diff --git a/lib/general.sh b/lib/general.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index af5a9fd262..0000000000
--- a/lib/general.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,1873 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2015 Igor Pecovnik, igor.pecovnik@gma**.com
-#
-# This file is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
-# License version 2. This program is licensed "as is" without any
-# warranty of any kind, whether express or implied.
-
-# This file is a part of the Armbian build script
-# https://github.com/armbian/build/
-
-# Functions:
-# cleaning
-# exit_with_error
-# get_package_list_hash
-# create_sources_list
-# clean_up_git
-# waiter_local_git
-# fetch_from_repo
-# improved_git
-# display_alert
-# fingerprint_image
-# distro_menu
-# addtorepo
-# repo-remove-old-packages
-# wait_for_package_manager
-# install_pkg_deb
-# prepare_host_basic
-# prepare_host
-# get_urls
-# download_and_verify
-# show_developer_warning
-# show_checklist_variables
-
-
-# cleaning <target>
-#
-# target: what to clean
-# "make" - "make clean" for selected kernel and u-boot
-# "debs" - delete output/debs for board&branch
-# "ubootdebs" - delete output/debs for uboot&board&branch
-# "alldebs" - delete output/debs
-# "cache" - delete output/cache
-# "oldcache" - remove old output/cache
-# "images" - delete output/images
-# "sources" - delete output/sources
-#
-
-cleaning()
-{
-	case $1 in
-		debs) # delete ${DEB_STORAGE} for current branch and family
-		if [[ -d "${DEB_STORAGE}" ]]; then
-			display_alert "Cleaning ${DEB_STORAGE} for" "$BOARD $BRANCH" "info"
-			# easier than dealing with variable expansion and escaping dashes in file names
-			find "${DEB_STORAGE}" -name "${CHOSEN_UBOOT}_*.deb" -delete
-			find "${DEB_STORAGE}" \( -name "${CHOSEN_KERNEL}_*.deb" -o \
-				-name "armbian-*.deb" -o \
-				-name "plymouth-theme-armbian_*.deb" -o \
-				-name "${CHOSEN_KERNEL/image/dtb}_*.deb" -o \
-				-name "${CHOSEN_KERNEL/image/headers}_*.deb" -o \
-				-name "${CHOSEN_KERNEL/image/source}_*.deb" -o \
-				-name "${CHOSEN_KERNEL/image/firmware-image}_*.deb" \) -delete
-			[[ -n $RELEASE ]] && rm -f "${DEB_STORAGE}/${RELEASE}/${CHOSEN_ROOTFS}"_*.deb
-			[[ -n $RELEASE ]] && rm -f "${DEB_STORAGE}/${RELEASE}/armbian-desktop-${RELEASE}"_*.deb
-		fi
-		;;
-
-		ubootdebs) # delete ${DEB_STORAGE} for uboot, current branch and family
-		if [[ -d "${DEB_STORAGE}" ]]; then
-			display_alert "Cleaning ${DEB_STORAGE} for u-boot" "$BOARD $BRANCH" "info"
-			# easier than dealing with variable expansion and escaping dashes in file names
-			find "${DEB_STORAGE}" -name "${CHOSEN_UBOOT}_*.deb" -delete
-		fi
-		;;
-
-		extras) # delete ${DEB_STORAGE}/extra/$RELEASE for all architectures
-		if [[ -n $RELEASE && -d ${DEB_STORAGE}/extra/$RELEASE ]]; then
-			display_alert "Cleaning ${DEB_STORAGE}/extra for" "$RELEASE" "info"
-			rm -rf "${DEB_STORAGE}/extra/${RELEASE}"
-		fi
-		;;
-
-		alldebs) # delete output/debs
-		[[ -d "${DEB_STORAGE}" ]] && display_alert "Cleaning" "${DEB_STORAGE}" "info" && rm -rf "${DEB_STORAGE}"/*
-		;;
-
-		cache) # delete output/cache
-		[[ -d "${SRC}"/cache/rootfs ]] && display_alert "Cleaning" "rootfs cache (all)" "info" && find "${SRC}"/cache/rootfs -type f -delete
-		;;
-
-		images) # delete output/images
-		[[ -d "${DEST}"/images ]] && display_alert "Cleaning" "output/images" "info" && rm -rf "${DEST}"/images/*
-		;;
-
-		sources) # delete output/sources and output/buildpkg
-		[[ -d "${SRC}"/cache/sources ]] && display_alert "Cleaning" "sources" "info" && rm -rf "${SRC}"/cache/sources/* "${DEST}"/buildpkg/*
-		;;
-
-		oldcache) # remove old `cache/rootfs` except for the newest 8 files
-		if [[ -d "${SRC}"/cache/rootfs && $(ls -1 "${SRC}"/cache/rootfs/*.zst* 2> /dev/null | wc -l) -gt "${ROOTFS_CACHE_MAX}" ]]; then
-			display_alert "Cleaning" "rootfs cache (old)" "info"
-			(cd "${SRC}"/cache/rootfs; ls -t *.lz4 | sed -e "1,${ROOTFS_CACHE_MAX}d" | xargs -d '\n' rm -f)
-			# Remove signatures if they are present. We use them for internal purpose
-			(cd "${SRC}"/cache/rootfs; ls -t *.asc | sed -e "1,${ROOTFS_CACHE_MAX}d" | xargs -d '\n' rm -f)
-		fi
-		;;
-	esac
-}
-
-# exit_with_error <message> <highlight>
-#
-# a way to terminate build process
-# with verbose error message
-#
-
-exit_with_error()
-{
-	local _file
-	local _line=${BASH_LINENO[0]}
-	local _function=${FUNCNAME[1]}
-	local _description=$1
-	local _highlight=$2
-	_file=$(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[1]}")
-	local stacktrace="$(get_extension_hook_stracktrace "${BASH_SOURCE[*]}" "${BASH_LINENO[*]}")"
-
-	display_alert "ERROR in function $_function" "$stacktrace" "err"
-	display_alert "$_description" "$_highlight" "err"
-	display_alert "Process terminated" "" "info"
-
-	if [[ "${ERROR_DEBUG_SHELL}" == "yes" ]]; then
-		display_alert "MOUNT" "${MOUNT}" "err"
-		display_alert "SDCARD" "${SDCARD}" "err"
-		display_alert "Here's a shell." "debug it" "err"
-		bash < /dev/tty || true
-	fi
-
-	# TODO: execute run_after_build here?
-	overlayfs_wrapper "cleanup"
-	# unlock loop device access in case of starvation
-	exec {FD}>/var/lock/armbian-debootstrap-losetup
-	flock -u "${FD}"
-
-	exit 255
-}
-
-# get_package_list_hash
-#
-# returns md5 hash for current package list and rootfs cache version
-
-get_package_list_hash()
-{
-	local package_arr exclude_arr
-	local list_content
-	read -ra package_arr <<< "${DEBOOTSTRAP_LIST} ${PACKAGE_LIST}"
-	read -ra exclude_arr <<< "${PACKAGE_LIST_EXCLUDE}"
-	(
-		printf "%s\n" "${package_arr[@]}"
-		printf -- "-%s\n" "${exclude_arr[@]}"
-	) | sort -u | md5sum | cut -d' ' -f 1
-}
-
-# create_sources_list <release> <basedir>
-#
-# <release>: bullseye|focal|jammy|sid
-# <basedir>: path to root directory
-#
-create_sources_list()
-{
-	local release=$1
-	local basedir=$2
-	[[ -z $basedir ]] && exit_with_error "No basedir passed to create_sources_list"
-
-	case $release in
-	buster)
-	cat <<-EOF > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list
-	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} $release main contrib non-free
-	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} $release main contrib non-free
-
-	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-updates main contrib non-free
-	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-updates main contrib non-free
-
-	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-backports main contrib non-free
-	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-backports main contrib non-free
-
-	deb http://${DEBIAN_SECURTY} ${release}/updates main contrib non-free
-	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_SECURTY} ${release}/updates main contrib non-free
-	EOF
-	;;
-
-	bullseye|bookworm|trixie)
-	cat <<-EOF > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list
-	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} $release main contrib non-free
-	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} $release main contrib non-free
-
-	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-updates main contrib non-free
-	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-updates main contrib non-free
-
-	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-backports main contrib non-free
-	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} ${release}-backports main contrib non-free
-
-	deb http://${DEBIAN_SECURTY} ${release}-security main contrib non-free
-	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_SECURTY} ${release}-security main contrib non-free
-	EOF
-	;;
-
-	sid) # sid is permanent unstable development and has no such thing as updates or security
-	cat <<-EOF > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list
-	deb http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} $release main contrib non-free
-	#deb-src http://${DEBIAN_MIRROR} $release main contrib non-free
-	EOF
-	;;
-
-	focal|jammy)
-	cat <<-EOF > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list
-	deb http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} $release main restricted universe multiverse
-	#deb-src http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} $release main restricted universe multiverse
-
-	deb http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} ${release}-security main restricted universe multiverse
-	#deb-src http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} ${release}-security main restricted universe multiverse
-
-	deb http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} ${release}-updates main restricted universe multiverse
-	#deb-src http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} ${release}-updates main restricted universe multiverse
-
-	deb http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} ${release}-backports main restricted universe multiverse
-	#deb-src http://${UBUNTU_MIRROR} ${release}-backports main restricted universe multiverse
-	EOF
-	;;
-	esac
-
-	display_alert "Adding Armbian repository and authentication key" "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list" "info"
-
-	# apt-key add is getting deprecated
-	APT_VERSION=$(chroot "${basedir}" /bin/bash -c "apt --version | cut -d\" \" -f2")
-	if linux-version compare "${APT_VERSION}" ge 2.4.1; then
-		# add armbian key
-		mkdir -p "${basedir}"/usr/share/keyrings
-		# change to binary form
-		gpg --dearmor < "${SRC}"/config/armbian.key > "${basedir}"/usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg
-		SIGNED_BY="[signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg] "
-	else
-		# use old method for compatibility reasons
-		cp "${SRC}"/config/armbian.key "${basedir}"
-		chroot "${basedir}" /bin/bash -c "cat armbian.key | apt-key add - > /dev/null 2>&1"
-	fi
-
-	# stage: add armbian repository and install key
-	if [[ $DOWNLOAD_MIRROR == "china" ]]; then
-		echo "deb ${SIGNED_BY}https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/armbian $RELEASE main ${RELEASE}-utils ${RELEASE}-desktop" > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list
-	elif [[ $DOWNLOAD_MIRROR == "bfsu" ]]; then
-	    echo "deb ${SIGNED_BY}http://mirrors.bfsu.edu.cn/armbian $RELEASE main ${RELEASE}-utils ${RELEASE}-desktop" > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list
-	else
-		echo "deb ${SIGNED_BY}http://"$([[ $BETA == yes ]] && echo "beta" || echo "apt" )".armbian.com $RELEASE main ${RELEASE}-utils ${RELEASE}-desktop" > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list
-	fi
-
-	# replace local package server if defined. Suitable for development
-	[[ -n $LOCAL_MIRROR ]] && echo "deb ${SIGNED_BY}http://$LOCAL_MIRROR $RELEASE main ${RELEASE}-utils ${RELEASE}-desktop" > "${basedir}"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list
-
-	# disable repo if SKIP_ARMBIAN_REPO=yes
-	if [[ "${SKIP_ARMBIAN_REPO}" == "yes" ]]; then
-		display_alert "Disabling armbian repo" "${ARCH}-${RELEASE}" "wrn"
-		mv "${SDCARD}"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list "${SDCARD}"/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list.disabled
-	fi
-
-}
-
-
-#
-# This function retries Git operations to avoid failure in case remote is borked
-# If the git team needs to call a remote server, use this function.
-#
-improved_git()
-{
-
-	local realgit=$(command -v git)
-	local retries=3
-	local delay=10
-	local count=1
-	while [ $count -lt $retries ]; do
-		$realgit "$@"
-		if [[ $? -eq 0 || -f .git/index.lock ]]; then
-			retries=0
-			break
-		fi
-	let count=$count+1
-	sleep $delay
-	done
-
-}
-
-clean_up_git ()
-{
-	local target_dir=$1
-
-	# Files that are not tracked by git and were added
-	# when the patch was applied must be removed.
-	git -C $target_dir clean -qdf
-
-	# Return the files that are tracked by git to the initial state.
-	git -C $target_dir checkout -qf HEAD
-}
-
-# used : waiter_local_git arg1='value' arg2:'value'
-#		 waiter_local_git \
-#			url='https://github.com/megous/linux' \
-#			name='megous' \
-#			dir='linux-mainline/5.14' \
-#			branch='orange-pi-5.14' \
-#			obj=<tag|commit> or tag:$tag ...
-# An optional parameter for switching to a git object such as a tag, commit,
-# or a specific branch. The object must exist in the local repository.
-# This optional parameter takes precedence. If it is specified, then
-# the commit state corresponding to the specified git object will be extracted
-# to the working directory. Otherwise, the commit corresponding to the top of
-# the branch will be extracted.
-# The settings for the kernel variables of the original kernel
-# VAR_SHALLOW_ORIGINAL=var_origin_kernel must be in the main script
-# before calling the function
-waiter_local_git ()
-{
-	for arg in $@;do
-
-		case $arg in
-			url=*|https://*|git://*)	eval "local url=${arg/url=/}"
-				;;
-			dir=*|/*/*/*)	eval "local dir=${arg/dir=/}"
-				;;
-			*=*|*:*)	eval "local ${arg/:/=}"
-				;;
-		esac
-
-	done
-
-	# Required variables cannot be empty.
-	for var in url name dir branch; do
-		[ "${var#*=}" == "" ] && exit_with_error "Error in configuration"
-	done
-
-	local reachability
-
-	# The 'offline' variable must always be set to 'true' or 'false'
-	if [ "$OFFLINE_WORK" == "yes" ]; then
-		local offline=true
-	else
-		local offline=false
-	fi
-
-	local work_dir="$(realpath ${SRC}/cache/sources)/$dir"
-	mkdir -p $work_dir
-	cd $work_dir || exit_with_error
-
-	display_alert "Checking git sources" "$dir $url$name/$branch" "info"
-
-	if [ "$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)" != ".git" ]; then
-		git init -q .
-
-		# Run in the sub shell to avoid mixing environment variables.
-		if [ -n "$VAR_SHALLOW_ORIGINAL" ]; then
-			(
-			$VAR_SHALLOW_ORIGINAL
-
-			display_alert "Add original git sources" "$dir $name/$branch" "info"
-			if [ "$(improved_git ls-remote -h $url $branch | \
-				awk -F'/' '{if (NR == 1) print $NF}')" != "$branch" ];then
-				display_alert "Bad $branch for $url in $VAR_SHALLOW_ORIGINAL"
-				exit 177
-			fi
-
-			git remote add -t $branch $name $url
-
-			# Handle an exception if the initial tag is the top of the branch
-			# As v5.16 == HEAD
-			if [ "${start_tag}.1" == "$(improved_git ls-remote -t $url ${start_tag}.1 | \
-					awk -F'/' '{ print $NF }')" ]
-			then
-				improved_git fetch --shallow-exclude=$start_tag $name
-			else
-				improved_git fetch --depth 1 $name
-			fi
-			improved_git fetch --deepen=1 $name
-			# For a shallow clone, this works quickly and saves space.
-			git gc
-			)
-
-			[ "$?" == "177" ] && exit
-		fi
-	fi
-
-	files_for_clean="$(git status -s | wc -l)"
-	if [ "$files_for_clean" != "0" ];then
-		display_alert " Cleaning .... " "$files_for_clean files"
-		clean_up_git $work_dir
-	fi
-
-	if [ "$name" != "$(git remote show | grep $name)" ];then
-		git remote add -t $branch $name $url
-	fi
-
-	if ! $offline; then
-		for t_name in $(git remote show);do
-			improved_git fetch $t_name
-		done
-	fi
-
-	# When switching, we use the concept of only "detached branch". Therefore,
-	# we extract the hash from the tag, the branch name, or from the hash itself.
-	# This serves as a check of the reachability of the extraction.
-	# We do not use variables that characterize the current state of the git,
-	# such as `HEAD` and `FETCH_HEAD`.
-	reachability=false
-	for var in obj tag commit branch;do
-		eval pval=\$$var
-
-		if [ -n "$pval" ] && [ "$pval" != *HEAD ]; then
-			case $var in
-				obj|tag|commit) obj=$pval ;;
-				branch) obj=${name}/$branch ;;
-			esac
-
-			if  t_hash=$(git rev-parse $obj 2>/dev/null);then
-				reachability=true
-				break
-			else
-				display_alert "Variable $var=$obj unreachable for extraction"
-			fi
-		fi
-	done
-
-	if $reachability && [ "$t_hash" != "$(git rev-parse @ 2>/dev/null)" ];then
-		# Switch "detached branch" as hash
-		display_alert "Switch $obj = $t_hash"
-		git checkout -qf $t_hash
-	else
-		# the working directory corresponds to the target commit,
-		# nothing needs to be done
-		display_alert "Up to date"
-	fi
-}
-
-# fetch_from_repo <url> <directory> <ref> <ref_subdir>
-# <url>: remote repository URL
-# <directory>: local directory; subdir for branch/tag will be created
-# <ref>:
-#	branch:name
-#	tag:name
-#	head(*)
-#	commit:hash
-#
-# *: Implies ref_subdir=no
-#
-# <ref_subdir>: "yes" to create subdirectory for tag or branch name
-#
-fetch_from_repo()
-{
-	local url=$1
-	local dir=$2
-	local ref=$3
-	local ref_subdir=$4
-
-	# Set GitHub mirror before anything else touches $url
-	url=${url//'https://github.com/'/$GITHUB_SOURCE'/'}
-
-	# The 'offline' variable must always be set to 'true' or 'false'
-	if [ "$OFFLINE_WORK" == "yes" ]; then
-		local offline=true
-	else
-		local offline=false
-	fi
-
-	[[ -z $ref || ( $ref != tag:* && $ref != branch:* && $ref != head && $ref != commit:* ) ]] && exit_with_error "Error in configuration"
-	local ref_type=${ref%%:*}
-	if [[ $ref_type == head ]]; then
-		local ref_name=HEAD
-	else
-		local ref_name=${ref##*:}
-	fi
-
-	display_alert "Checking git sources" "$dir $ref_name" "info"
-
-	# get default remote branch name without cloning
-	# local ref_name=$(git ls-remote --symref $url HEAD | grep -o 'refs/heads/\S*' | sed 's%refs/heads/%%')
-	# for git:// protocol comparing hashes of "git ls-remote -h $url" and "git ls-remote --symref $url HEAD" is needed
-
-	if [[ $ref_subdir == yes ]]; then
-		local workdir=$dir/$ref_name
-	else
-		local workdir=$dir
-	fi
-
-	mkdir -p "${SRC}/cache/sources/${workdir}" 2>/dev/null || \
-		exit_with_error "No path or no write permission" "${SRC}/cache/sources/${workdir}"
-
-	cd "${SRC}/cache/sources/${workdir}" || exit
-
-	# check if existing remote URL for the repo or branch does not match current one
-	# may not be supported by older git versions
-	#  Check the folder as a git repository.
-	#  Then the target URL matches the local URL.
-
-	if [[ "$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)" == ".git" && \
-		  "$url" != *"$(git remote get-url origin | sed 's/^.*@//' | sed 's/^.*\/\///' 2>/dev/null)" ]]; then
-		display_alert "Remote URL does not match, removing existing local copy"
-		rm -rf .git ./*
-	fi
-
-	if [[ "$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)" != ".git" ]]; then
-		display_alert "Creating local copy"
-		git init -q .
-		git remote add origin "${url}"
-		# Here you need to upload from a new address
-		offline=false
-	fi
-
-	local changed=false
-
-	# when we work offline we simply return the sources to their original state
-	if ! $offline; then
-		local local_hash
-		local_hash=$(git rev-parse @ 2>/dev/null)
-
-		case $ref_type in
-			branch)
-			# TODO: grep refs/heads/$name
-			local remote_hash
-			remote_hash=$(improved_git ls-remote -h "${url}" "$ref_name" | head -1 | cut -f1)
-			[[ -z $local_hash || "${local_hash}" != "${remote_hash}" ]] && changed=true
-			;;
-
-			tag)
-			local remote_hash
-			remote_hash=$(improved_git ls-remote -t "${url}" "$ref_name" | cut -f1)
-			if [[ -z $local_hash || "${local_hash}" != "${remote_hash}" ]]; then
-				remote_hash=$(improved_git ls-remote -t "${url}" "$ref_name^{}" | cut -f1)
-				[[ -z $remote_hash || "${local_hash}" != "${remote_hash}" ]] && changed=true
-			fi
-			;;
-
-			head)
-			local remote_hash
-			remote_hash=$(improved_git ls-remote "${url}" HEAD | cut -f1)
-			[[ -z $local_hash || "${local_hash}" != "${remote_hash}" ]] && changed=true
-			;;
-
-			commit)
-			[[ -z $local_hash || $local_hash == "@" ]] && changed=true
-			;;
-		esac
-
-	fi # offline
-
-	if [[ $changed == true ]]; then
-
-		# remote was updated, fetch and check out updates
-		display_alert "Fetching updates"
-		case $ref_type in
-			branch) improved_git fetch --depth 200 origin "${ref_name}" ;;
-			tag) improved_git fetch --depth 200 origin tags/"${ref_name}" ;;
-			head) improved_git fetch --depth 200 origin HEAD ;;
-		esac
-
-		# commit type needs support for older git servers that doesn't support fetching id directly
-		if [[ $ref_type == commit ]]; then
-
-			improved_git fetch --depth 200 origin "${ref_name}"
-
-			# cover old type
-			if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
-
-				display_alert "Commit checkout not supported on this repository. Doing full clone." "" "wrn"
-				improved_git pull
-				git checkout -fq "${ref_name}"
-				display_alert "Checkout out to" "$(git --no-pager log -2 --pretty=format:"$ad%s [%an]" | head -1)" "info"
-
-			else
-
-				display_alert "Checking out"
-				git checkout -f -q FETCH_HEAD
-				git clean -qdf
-
-			fi
-		else
-
-			display_alert "Checking out"
-			git checkout -f -q FETCH_HEAD
-			git clean -qdf
-
-		fi
-	elif [[ -n $(git status -uno --porcelain --ignore-submodules=all) ]]; then
-		# working directory is not clean
-		display_alert " Cleaning .... " "$(git status -s | wc -l) files"
-
-		# Return the files that are tracked by git to the initial state.
-		git checkout -f -q HEAD
-
-		# Files that are not tracked by git and were added
-		# when the patch was applied must be removed.
-		git clean -qdf
-	else
-		# working directory is clean, nothing to do
-		display_alert "Up to date"
-	fi
-
-	if [[ -f .gitmodules ]]; then
-		display_alert "Updating submodules" "" "ext"
-		# FML: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17692710
-		for i in $(git config -f .gitmodules --get-regexp path | awk '{ print $2 }'); do
-			cd "${SRC}/cache/sources/${workdir}" || exit
-			local surl sref
-			surl=$(git config -f .gitmodules --get "submodule.$i.url")
-			sref=$(git config -f .gitmodules --get "submodule.$i.branch")
-			if [[ -n $sref ]]; then
-				sref="branch:$sref"
-			else
-				sref="head"
-			fi
-			fetch_from_repo "$surl" "$workdir/$i" "$sref"
-		done
-	fi
-} #############################################################################
-
-#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Let's have unique way of displaying alerts
-#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-display_alert()
-{
-	# log function parameters to install.log
-	[[ -n "${DEST}" ]] && echo "Displaying message: $@" >> "${DEST}"/${LOG_SUBPATH}/output.log
-
-	local tmp=""
-	[[ -n $2 ]] && tmp="[\e[0;33m $2 \x1B[0m]"
-
-	case $3 in
-		err)
-		echo -e "[\e[0;31m error \x1B[0m] $1 $tmp"
-		;;
-
-		wrn)
-		echo -e "[\e[0;35m warn \x1B[0m] $1 $tmp"
-		;;
-
-		ext)
-		echo -e "[\e[0;32m o.k. \x1B[0m] \e[1;32m$1\x1B[0m $tmp"
-		;;
-
-		info)
-		echo -e "[\e[0;32m o.k. \x1B[0m] $1 $tmp"
-		;;
-
-		*)
-		echo -e "[\e[0;32m .... \x1B[0m] $1 $tmp"
-		;;
-	esac
-}
-
-#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# fingerprint_image <out_txt_file> [image_filename]
-# Saving build summary to the image
-#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-fingerprint_image()
-{
-	cat <<-EOF > "${1}"
-	--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-	Title:			${VENDOR} $REVISION ${BOARD^} $BRANCH
-	Kernel:			Linux $VER
-	Build date:		$(date +'%d.%m.%Y')
-	Builder rev:		$BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT
-	Maintainer:		$MAINTAINER <$MAINTAINERMAIL>
-	Authors:		https://www.armbian.com/authors
-	Sources: 		https://github.com/armbian/
-	Support: 		https://forum.armbian.com/
-	Changelog: 		https://www.armbian.com/logbook/
-	Documantation:		https://docs.armbian.com/
-	EOF
-
-	if [ -n "$2" ]; then
-		cat <<-EOF >> "${1}"
-		--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-		Partitioning configuration: $IMAGE_PARTITION_TABLE offset: $OFFSET
-		Boot partition type: ${BOOTFS_TYPE:-(none)} ${BOOTSIZE:+"(${BOOTSIZE} MB)"}
-		Root partition type: $ROOTFS_TYPE ${FIXED_IMAGE_SIZE:+"(${FIXED_IMAGE_SIZE} MB)"}
-
-		CPU configuration: $CPUMIN - $CPUMAX with $GOVERNOR
-		--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-		Verify GPG signature:
-		gpg --verify $2.img.xz.asc
-
-		Verify image file integrity:
-		sha256sum --check $2.img.xz.sha
-
-		Prepare SD card (four methods):
-		xzcat $2.img.xz | pv | dd of=/dev/mmcblkX bs=1M
-		dd if=$2.img of=/dev/mmcblkX bs=1M
-		balena-etcher $2.img.xz -d /dev/mmcblkX
-		balena-etcher $2.img -d /dev/mmcblkX
-		EOF
-	fi
-
-	cat <<-EOF >> "${1}"
-	--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-	$(cat "${SRC}"/LICENSE)
-	--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-	EOF
-}
-
-
-#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Create kernel boot logo from packages/blobs/splash/logo.png and packages/blobs/splash/spinner.gif (animated)
-# and place to the file /lib/firmware/bootsplash
-#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-function boot_logo ()
-{
-display_alert "Building kernel splash logo" "$RELEASE" "info"
-
-	LOGO=${SRC}/packages/blobs/splash/logo.png
-	LOGO_WIDTH=$(identify $LOGO | cut -d " " -f 3 | cut -d x -f 1)
-	LOGO_HEIGHT=$(identify $LOGO | cut -d " " -f 3 | cut -d x -f 2)
-	THROBBER=${SRC}/packages/blobs/splash/spinner.gif
-	THROBBER_WIDTH=$(identify $THROBBER | head -1 | cut -d " " -f 3 | cut -d x -f 1)
-	THROBBER_HEIGHT=$(identify $THROBBER | head -1 | cut -d " " -f 3 | cut -d x -f 2)
-	convert -alpha remove -background "#000000"	$LOGO "${SDCARD}"/tmp/logo.rgb
-	convert -alpha remove -background "#000000" $THROBBER "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber%02d.rgb
-	$PKG_PREFIX${SRC}/packages/blobs/splash/bootsplash-packer \
-	--bg_red 0x00 \
-	--bg_green 0x00 \
-	--bg_blue 0x00 \
-	--frame_ms 48 \
-	--picture \
-	--pic_width $LOGO_WIDTH \
-	--pic_height $LOGO_HEIGHT \
-	--pic_position 0 \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/logo.rgb \
-	--picture \
-	--pic_width $THROBBER_WIDTH \
-	--pic_height $THROBBER_HEIGHT \
-	--pic_position 0x05 \
-	--pic_position_offset 200 \
-	--pic_anim_type 1 \
-	--pic_anim_loop 0 \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber00.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber01.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber02.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber03.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber04.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber05.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber06.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber07.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber08.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber09.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber10.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber11.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber12.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber13.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber14.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber15.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber16.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber17.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber18.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber19.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber20.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber21.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber22.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber23.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber24.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber25.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber26.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber27.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber28.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber29.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber30.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber31.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber32.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber33.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber34.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber35.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber36.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber37.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber38.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber39.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber40.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber41.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber42.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber43.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber44.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber45.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber46.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber47.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber48.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber49.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber50.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber51.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber52.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber53.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber54.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber55.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber56.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber57.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber58.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber59.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber60.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber61.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber62.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber63.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber64.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber65.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber66.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber67.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber68.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber69.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber70.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber71.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber72.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber73.rgb \
-	--blob "${SDCARD}"/tmp/throbber74.rgb \
-	"${SDCARD}"/lib/firmware/bootsplash.armbian >/dev/null 2>&1
-	if [[ $BOOT_LOGO == yes || $BOOT_LOGO == desktop && $BUILD_DESKTOP == yes ]]; then
-		[[ -f "${SDCARD}"/boot/armbianEnv.txt ]] &&	grep -q '^bootlogo' "${SDCARD}"/boot/armbianEnv.txt && \
-		sed -i 's/^bootlogo.*/bootlogo=true/' "${SDCARD}"/boot/armbianEnv.txt || echo 'bootlogo=true' >> "${SDCARD}"/boot/armbianEnv.txt
-		[[ -f "${SDCARD}"/boot/boot.ini ]] &&	sed -i 's/^setenv bootlogo.*/setenv bootlogo "true"/' "${SDCARD}"/boot/boot.ini
-	fi
-	# enable additional services
-	chroot "${SDCARD}" /bin/bash -c "systemctl --no-reload enable bootsplash-ask-password-console.path >/dev/null 2>&1"
-	chroot "${SDCARD}" /bin/bash -c "systemctl --no-reload enable bootsplash-hide-when-booted.service >/dev/null 2>&1"
-	chroot "${SDCARD}" /bin/bash -c "systemctl --no-reload enable bootsplash-show-on-shutdown.service >/dev/null 2>&1"
-}
-
-
-
-DISTRIBUTIONS_DESC_DIR="config/distributions"
-
-function distro_menu ()
-{
-# create a select menu for choosing a distribution based EXPERT status
-
-	local distrib_dir="${1}"
-
-	if [[ -d "${distrib_dir}" && -f "${distrib_dir}/support" ]]; then
-		local support_level="$(cat "${distrib_dir}/support")"
-		if [[ "${support_level}" != "supported" && $EXPERT != "yes" ]]; then
-			:
-		else
-			local distro_codename="$(basename "${distrib_dir}")"
-			local distro_fullname="$(cat "${distrib_dir}/name")"
-			local expert_infos=""
-			[[ $EXPERT == "yes" ]] && expert_infos="(${support_level})"
-			options+=("${distro_codename}" "${distro_fullname} ${expert_infos}")
-		fi
-	fi
-
-}
-
-
-function distros_options() {
-	for distrib_dir in "${DISTRIBUTIONS_DESC_DIR}/"*; do
-		distro_menu "${distrib_dir}"
-	done
-}
-
-function set_distribution_status() {
-
-	local distro_support_desc_filepath="${SRC}/${DISTRIBUTIONS_DESC_DIR}/${RELEASE}/support"
-	if [[ ! -f "${distro_support_desc_filepath}" ]]; then
-		exit_with_error "Distribution ${distribution_name} does not exist"
-	else
-		DISTRIBUTION_STATUS="$(cat "${distro_support_desc_filepath}")"
-	fi
-
-	[[ "${DISTRIBUTION_STATUS}" != "supported" ]] && [[ "${EXPERT}" != "yes" ]] && exit_with_error "Armbian ${RELEASE} is unsupported and, therefore, only available to experts (EXPERT=yes)"
-
-}
-
-adding_packages()
-{
-# add deb files to repository if they are not already there
-
-	display_alert "Checking and adding to repository $release" "$3" "ext"
-	for f in "${DEB_STORAGE}${2}"/*.deb
-	do
-		local name version arch
-		name=$(dpkg-deb -I "${f}" | grep Package | awk '{print $2}')
-		version=$(dpkg-deb -I "${f}" | grep Version | awk '{print $2}')
-		arch=$(dpkg-deb -I "${f}" | grep Architecture | awk '{print $2}')
-		# add if not already there
-		aptly repo search -architectures="${arch}" -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${1}" 'Name (% '${name}'), $Version (='${version}'), $Architecture (='${arch}')' &>/dev/null
-		if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
-			display_alert "Adding ${1}" "$name" "info"
-			aptly repo add -force-replace=true -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${1}" "${f}" &>/dev/null
-		fi
-	done
-
-}
-
-
-
-
-addtorepo()
-{
-# create repository
-# parameter "remove" dumps all and creates new
-# parameter "delete" remove incoming directory if publishing is succesful
-# function: cycle trough distributions
-
-	local distributions=("stretch" "bionic" "buster" "bullseye" "focal" "hirsute" "impish" "jammy" "sid")
-	#local distributions=($(grep -rw config/distributions/*/ -e 'supported' | cut -d"/" -f3))
-	local errors=0
-
-	for release in "${distributions[@]}"; do
-
-		ADDING_PACKAGES="false"
-		if [[ -d "config/distributions/${release}/" ]]; then
-			[[ -n "$(cat config/distributions/${release}/support | grep "csc\|supported" 2>/dev/null)" ]] && ADDING_PACKAGES="true"
-		else
-			display_alert "Skipping adding packages (not supported)" "$release" "wrn"
-			continue
-		fi
-
-		local forceoverwrite=""
-
-		# let's drop from publish if exits
-		if [[ -n $(aptly publish list -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -raw | awk '{print $(NF)}' | grep "${release}") ]]; then
-			aptly publish drop -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" > /dev/null 2>&1
-		fi
-
-		# create local repository if not exist
-		if [[ -z $(aptly repo list -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -raw | awk '{print $(NF)}' | grep "${release}") ]]; then
-			display_alert "Creating section" "main" "info"
-			aptly repo create -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -distribution="${release}" -component="main" \
-			-comment="Armbian main repository" "${release}" >/dev/null
-		fi
-
-		if [[ -z $(aptly repo list -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -raw | awk '{print $(NF)}' | grep "^utils") ]]; then
-			aptly repo create -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -distribution="${release}" -component="utils" \
-			-comment="Armbian utilities (backwards compatibility)" utils >/dev/null
-		fi
-		if [[ -z $(aptly repo list -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -raw | awk '{print $(NF)}' | grep "${release}-utils") ]]; then
-			aptly repo create -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -distribution="${release}" -component="${release}-utils" \
-			-comment="Armbian ${release} utilities" "${release}-utils" >/dev/null
-		fi
-		if [[ -z $(aptly repo list -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -raw | awk '{print $(NF)}' | grep "${release}-desktop") ]]; then
-			aptly repo create -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -distribution="${release}" -component="${release}-desktop" \
-			-comment="Armbian ${release} desktop" "${release}-desktop" >/dev/null
-		fi
-
-
-		# adding main
-		if find "${DEB_STORAGE}"/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.deb" 2>/dev/null | grep -q .; then
-			[[ "${ADDING_PACKAGES}" == true ]] && adding_packages "$release" "" "main"
-		else
-			aptly repo add -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" "${SCRIPTPATH}config/templates/example.deb" >/dev/null
-		fi
-
-		local COMPONENTS="main"
-
-		# adding main distribution packages
-		if find "${DEB_STORAGE}/${release}" -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.deb" 2>/dev/null | grep -q .; then
-			[[ "${ADDING_PACKAGES}" == true ]] && adding_packages "${release}-utils" "/${release}" "release packages"
-		else
-			# workaround - add dummy package to not trigger error
-			aptly repo add -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" "${SCRIPTPATH}config/templates/example.deb" >/dev/null
-		fi
-
-		# adding release-specific utils
-		if find "${DEB_STORAGE}/extra/${release}-utils" -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.deb" 2>/dev/null | grep -q .; then
-			[[ "${ADDING_PACKAGES}" == true ]] && adding_packages "${release}-utils" "/extra/${release}-utils" "release utils"
-		else
-			aptly repo add -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}-utils" "${SCRIPTPATH}config/templates/example.deb" >/dev/null
-		fi
-		COMPONENTS="${COMPONENTS} ${release}-utils"
-
-		# adding desktop
-		if find "${DEB_STORAGE}/extra/${release}-desktop" -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.deb" 2>/dev/null | grep -q .; then
-			[[ "${ADDING_PACKAGES}" == true ]] && adding_packages "${release}-desktop" "/extra/${release}-desktop" "desktop"
-		else
-			# workaround - add dummy package to not trigger error
-			aptly repo add -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}-desktop" "${SCRIPTPATH}config/templates/example.deb" >/dev/null
-		fi
-		COMPONENTS="${COMPONENTS} ${release}-desktop"
-
-		local mainnum utilnum desknum
-		mainnum=$(aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" | grep "Number of packages" | awk '{print $NF}')
-		utilnum=$(aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}-desktop" | grep "Number of packages" | awk '{print $NF}')
-		desknum=$(aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}-utils" | grep "Number of packages" | awk '{print $NF}')
-
-		if [ $mainnum -gt 0 ] && [ $utilnum -gt 0 ] && [ $desknum -gt 0 ]; then
-
-			# publish
-			aptly publish \
-			-acquire-by-hash \
-			-passphrase="${GPG_PASS}" \
-			-origin="Armbian" \
-			-label="Armbian" \
-			-config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" \
-			-component="${COMPONENTS// /,}" \
-			-distribution="${release}" repo "${release}" ${COMPONENTS//main/} >/dev/null
-
-			if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
-				display_alert "Publishing failed" "${release}" "err"
-				errors=$((errors+1))
-				exit 0
-			fi
-		else
-			errors=$((errors+1))
-			local err_txt=": All components must be present: main, utils and desktop for first build"
-		fi
-
-	done
-
-	# cleanup
-	display_alert "Cleaning repository" "${DEB_STORAGE}" "info"
-	aptly db cleanup -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}"
-
-	# display what we have
-	echo ""
-	display_alert "List of local repos" "local" "info"
-	(aptly repo list -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}") | grep -E packages
-
-	# remove debs if no errors found
-	if [[ $errors -eq 0 ]]; then
-		if [[ "$2" == "delete" ]]; then
-			display_alert "Purging incoming debs" "all" "ext"
-			find "${DEB_STORAGE}" -name "*.deb" -type f -delete
-		fi
-	else
-		display_alert "There were some problems $err_txt" "leaving incoming directory intact" "err"
-	fi
-
-}
-
-
-
-
-repo-manipulate()
-{
-# repository manipulation
-# "show" displays packages in each repository
-# "server" serve repository - useful for local diagnostics
-# "unique" manually select which package should be removed from all repositories
-# "update" search for new files in output/debs* to add them to repository
-# "purge" leave only last 5 versions
-
-	local DISTROS=("stretch" "bionic" "buster" "bullseye" "focal" "hirsute" "impish" "jammy" "sid")
-	#local DISTROS=($(grep -rw config/distributions/*/ -e 'supported' | cut -d"/" -f3))
-
-	case $@ in
-
-		serve)
-			# display repository content
-			display_alert "Serving content" "common utils" "ext"
-			aptly serve -listen=$(ip -f inet addr | grep -Po 'inet \K[\d.]+' | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | head -1):80 -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}"
-			exit 0
-			;;
-
-		show)
-			# display repository content
-			for release in "${DISTROS[@]}"; do
-				display_alert "Displaying repository contents for" "$release" "ext"
-				aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" | tail -n +7
-				aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}-desktop" | tail -n +7
-			done
-			display_alert "Displaying repository contents for" "common utils" "ext"
-			aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" utils | tail -n +7
-			echo "done."
-			exit 0
-			;;
-
-		unique)
-			# which package should be removed from all repositories
-			IFS=$'\n'
-			while true; do
-				LIST=()
-				for release in "${DISTROS[@]}"; do
-					LIST+=( $(aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" | tail -n +7) )
-					LIST+=( $(aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}-desktop" | tail -n +7) )
-				done
-				LIST+=( $(aptly repo show -with-packages -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" utils | tail -n +7) )
-				LIST=( $(echo "${LIST[@]}" | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -u))
-				new_list=()
-				# create a human readable menu
-				for ((n=0;n<$((${#LIST[@]}));n++));
-				do
-					new_list+=( "${LIST[$n]}" )
-					new_list+=( "" )
-				done
-				LIST=("${new_list[@]}")
-				LIST_LENGTH=$((${#LIST[@]}/2));
-				exec 3>&1
-				TARGET_VERSION=$(dialog --cancel-label "Cancel" --backtitle "BACKTITLE" --no-collapse --title "Remove packages from repositories" --clear --menu "Delete" $((9+${LIST_LENGTH})) 82 65 "${LIST[@]}" 2>&1 1>&3)
-				exitstatus=$?;
-				exec 3>&-
-				if [[ $exitstatus -eq 0 ]]; then
-					for release in "${DISTROS[@]}"; do
-						aptly repo remove -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}"  "${release}" "$TARGET_VERSION"
-						aptly repo remove -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}"  "${release}-desktop" "$TARGET_VERSION"
-					done
-					aptly repo remove -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "utils" "$TARGET_VERSION"
-				else
-					exit 1
-				fi
-				aptly db cleanup -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" > /dev/null 2>&1
-			done
-			;;
-
-		update)
-			# display full help test
-			# run repository update
-			addtorepo "update" ""
-			# add a key to repo
-			cp "${SCRIPTPATH}"config/armbian.key "${REPO_STORAGE}"/public/
-			exit 0
-			;;
-
-		purge)
-			for release in "${DISTROS[@]}"; do
-				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "armhf" "5"
-				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "arm64" "5"
-				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "amd64" "5"
-				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "all" "5"
-				aptly -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -passphrase="${GPG_PASS}" publish update "${release}" > /dev/null 2>&1
-			done
-			exit 0
-			;;
-
-                purgeedge)
-                        for release in "${DISTROS[@]}"; do
-				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "armhf" "3" "edge"
-				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "arm64" "3" "edge"
-				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "amd64" "3" "edge"
-				repo-remove-old-packages "$release" "all" "3" "edge"
-				aptly -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -passphrase="${GPG_PASS}" publish update "${release}" > /dev/null 2>&1
-                        done
-                        exit 0
-                        ;;
-
-
-		purgesource)
-			for release in "${DISTROS[@]}"; do
-				aptly repo remove -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${release}" 'Name (% *-source*)'
-				aptly -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" -passphrase="${GPG_PASS}" publish update "${release}"  > /dev/null 2>&1
-			done
-			aptly db cleanup -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" > /dev/null 2>&1
-			exit 0
-			;;
-		*)
-
-			echo -e "Usage: repository show | serve | unique | create | update | purge | purgesource\n"
-			echo -e "\n show           = display repository content"
-			echo -e "\n serve          = publish your repositories on current server over HTTP"
-			echo -e "\n unique         = manually select which package should be removed from all repositories"
-			echo -e "\n update         = updating repository"
-			echo -e "\n purge          = removes all but last 5 versions"
-			echo -e "\n purgeedge      = removes all but last 3 edge versions"
-			echo -e "\n purgesource    = removes all sources\n\n"
-			exit 0
-			;;
-
-	esac
-
-}
-
-
-
-
-# Removes old packages in the received repo
-#
-# $1: Repository
-# $2: Architecture
-# $3: Amount of packages to keep
-# $4: Additional search pattern
-repo-remove-old-packages() {
-	local repo=$1
-	local arch=$2
-	local keep=$3
-	for pkg in $(aptly repo search -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${repo}" "Architecture ($arch)" | grep -v "ERROR: no results" | sort -t '.' -nk4 | grep -e "$4"); do
-		local pkg_name
-		count=0
-		pkg_name=$(echo "${pkg}" | cut -d_ -f1)
-		for subpkg in $(aptly repo search -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${repo}" "Name ($pkg_name)"  | grep -v "ERROR: no results" | sort -rt '.' -nk4); do
-			((count+=1))
-			if [[ $count -gt $keep ]]; then
-			pkg_version=$(echo "${subpkg}" | cut -d_ -f2)
-			aptly repo remove -config="${SCRIPTPATH}config/${REPO_CONFIG}" "${repo}" "Name ($pkg_name), Version (= $pkg_version)"
-			fi
-		done
-    done
-}
-
-
-
-
-# wait_for_package_manager
-#
-# * installation will break if we try to install when package manager is running
-#
-wait_for_package_manager()
-{
-	# exit if package manager is running in the back
-	while true; do
-		if [[ "$(fuser /var/lib/dpkg/lock 2>/dev/null; echo $?)" != 1 && "$(fuser /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend 2>/dev/null; echo $?)" != 1 ]]; then
-				display_alert "Package manager is running in the background." "Please wait! Retrying in 30 sec" "wrn"
-				sleep 30
-			else
-				break
-		fi
-	done
-}
-
-
-
-# Installing debian packages or package files in the armbian build system.
-# The function accepts four optional parameters:
-# autoupdate - If the installation list is not empty then update first.
-# upgrade, clean - the same name for apt
-# verbose - detailed log for the function
-#
-# list="pkg1 pkg2 pkg3 pkgbadname pkg-1.0 | pkg-2.0 pkg5 (>= 9)"
-# or list="pkg1 pkg2 /path-to/output/debs/file-name.deb"
-# install_pkg_deb upgrade verbose $list
-# or
-# install_pkg_deb autoupdate $list
-#
-# If the package has a bad name, we will see it in the log file.
-# If there is an LOG_OUTPUT_FILE variable and it has a value as
-# the full real path to the log file, then all the information will be there.
-#
-# The LOG_OUTPUT_FILE variable must be defined in the calling function
-# before calling the install_pkg_deb function and unset after.
-#
-install_pkg_deb ()
-{
-	local list=""
-	local listdeb=""
-	local log_file
-	local add_for_install
-	local for_install
-	local need_autoup=false
-	local need_upgrade=false
-	local need_clean=false
-	local need_verbose=false
-	local _line=${BASH_LINENO[0]}
-	local _function=${FUNCNAME[1]}
-	local _file=$(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[1]}")
-	local tmp_file=$(mktemp /tmp/install_log_XXXXX)
-	export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-
-	if [ -d $(dirname $LOG_OUTPUT_FILE) ]; then
-		log_file=${LOG_OUTPUT_FILE}
-	else
-		log_file="${SRC}/output/${LOG_SUBPATH}/install.log"
-	fi
-
-	for p in $*;do
-		case $p in
-			autoupdate) need_autoup=true; continue ;;
-			upgrade) need_upgrade=true; continue ;;
-			clean) need_clean=true; continue ;;
-			verbose) need_verbose=true; continue ;;
-			\||\(*|*\)) continue ;;
-			*[.]deb) listdeb+=" $p"; continue ;;
-			*) list+=" $p" ;;
-		esac
-	done
-
-	# This is necessary first when there is no apt cache.
-	if $need_upgrade; then
-		apt-get -q update || echo "apt cannot update" >>$tmp_file
-		apt-get -y upgrade || echo "apt cannot upgrade" >>$tmp_file
-	fi
-
-	# Install debian package files
-	if [ -n "$listdeb" ];then
-		for f in $listdeb;do
-			# Calculate dependencies for installing the package file
-			add_for_install=" $(
-				dpkg-deb -f $f Depends | awk '{gsub(/[,]/, "", $0); print $0}'
-			)"
-
-			echo -e "\nfile $f depends on:\n$add_for_install"  >>$log_file
-			install_pkg_deb $add_for_install
-			dpkg -i $f 2>>$log_file
-			dpkg-query -W \
-					   -f '${binary:Package;-27} ${Version;-23}\n' \
-					   $(dpkg-deb -f $f Package) >>$log_file
-		done
-	fi
-
-	# If the package is not installed, check the latest
-	# up-to-date version in the apt cache.
-	# Exclude bad package names and send a message to the log.
-	for_install=$(
-	for p in $list;do
-	  if $(dpkg-query -W -f '${db:Status-Abbrev}' $p |& awk '/ii/{exit 1}');then
-		apt-cache  show $p -o APT::Cache::AllVersions=no |& \
-		awk -v p=$p -v tmp_file=$tmp_file \
-		'/^Package:/{print $2} /^E:/{print "Bad package name: ",p >>tmp_file}'
-	  fi
-	done
-	)
-
-	# This information should be logged.
-	if [ -s $tmp_file ]; then
-		echo -e "\nInstalling packages in function: $_function" "[$_file:$_line]" \
-		>>$log_file
-		echo -e "\nIncoming list:" >>$log_file
-		printf "%-30s %-30s %-30s %-30s\n" $list >>$log_file
-		echo "" >>$log_file
-		cat $tmp_file >>$log_file
-	fi
-
-	if [ -n "$for_install" ]; then
-		if $need_autoup; then
-			apt-get -q update
-			apt-get -y upgrade
-		fi
-		apt-get install -qq -y --no-install-recommends $for_install
-		echo -e "\nPackages installed:" >>$log_file
-		dpkg-query -W \
-		  -f '${binary:Package;-27} ${Version;-23}\n' \
-		  $for_install >>$log_file
-
-	fi
-
-	# We will show the status after installation all listed
-	if $need_verbose; then
-		echo -e "\nstatus after installation:" >>$log_file
-		dpkg-query -W \
-		  -f '${binary:Package;-27} ${Version;-23} [ ${Status} ]\n' \
-		  $list >>$log_file
-	fi
-
-	if $need_clean;then apt-get clean; fi
-	rm $tmp_file
-}
-
-
-
-# prepare_host_basic
-#
-# * installs only basic packages
-#
-prepare_host_basic()
-{
-
-	# command:package1 package2 ...
-	# list of commands that are neeeded:packages where this command is
-	local check_pack install_pack
-	local checklist=(
-			"dialog:dialog"
-			"fuser:psmisc"
-			"getfacl:acl"
-			"uuid:uuid uuid-runtime"
-			"curl:curl"
-			"gpg:gnupg"
-			"gawk:gawk"
-			)
-
-	for check_pack in "${checklist[@]}"; do
-	        if ! which ${check_pack%:*} >/dev/null; then local install_pack+=${check_pack#*:}" "; fi
-	done
-
-	if [[ -n $install_pack ]]; then
-		display_alert "Installing basic packages" "$install_pack"
-		sudo bash -c "apt-get -qq update && apt-get install -qq -y --no-install-recommends $install_pack"
-	fi
-
-}
-
-
-
-
-# prepare_host
-#
-# * checks and installs necessary packages
-# * creates directory structure
-# * changes system settings
-#
-prepare_host()
-{
-	display_alert "Preparing" "host" "info"
-
-	# The 'offline' variable must always be set to 'true' or 'false'
-	if [ "$OFFLINE_WORK" == "yes" ]; then
-		local offline=true
-	else
-		local offline=false
-	fi
-
-	# wait until package manager finishes possible system maintanace
-	wait_for_package_manager
-
-	# fix for Locales settings
-	if ! grep -q "^en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8" /etc/locale.gen; then
-		sudo sed -i 's/# en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/' /etc/locale.gen
-		sudo locale-gen
-	fi
-
-	export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
-
-	# packages list for host
-	# NOTE: please sync any changes here with the Dockerfile and Vagrantfile
-
-	local hostdeps="acl aptly aria2 bc binfmt-support bison btrfs-progs       \
-	build-essential  ca-certificates ccache cpio cryptsetup curl              \
-	debian-archive-keyring debian-keyring debootstrap device-tree-compiler    \
-	dialog dirmngr dosfstools dwarves f2fs-tools fakeroot flex gawk           \
-	gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu gdisk gpg busybox             \
-	imagemagick jq kmod libbison-dev libc6-dev-armhf-cross libcrypto++-dev    \
-	libelf-dev libfdt-dev libfile-fcntllock-perl parallel libmpc-dev          \
-	libfl-dev liblz4-tool libncurses-dev libpython2.7-dev libssl-dev          \
-	libusb-1.0-0-dev linux-base locales lzop ncurses-base ncurses-term        \
-	nfs-kernel-server ntpdate p7zip-full parted patchutils pigz pixz          \
-	pkg-config pv python3-dev python3-distutils qemu-user-static rsync swig   \
-	systemd-container u-boot-tools udev unzip uuid-dev wget whiptail zip      \
-	zlib1g-dev zstd fdisk"
-
-  if [[ $(dpkg --print-architecture) == amd64 ]]; then
-
-	hostdeps+=" distcc lib32ncurses-dev lib32stdc++6 libc6-i386"
-	grep -q i386 <(dpkg --print-foreign-architectures) || dpkg --add-architecture i386
-
-  elif [[ $(dpkg --print-architecture) == arm64 ]]; then
-
-	hostdeps+="gcc-arm-none-eabi libc6 libc6-amd64-cross qemu"
-
-  else
-
-	display_alert "Please read documentation to set up proper compilation environment"
-	display_alert "https://www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/"
-	exit_with_error "Running this tool on non x86_64 build host is not supported"
-
-  fi
-
-	# Add support for Ubuntu 20.04, 21.04 and Mint 20.x
-	if [[ $HOSTRELEASE =~ ^(focal|impish|hirsute|jammy|ulyana|ulyssa|bullseye|uma|una)$ ]]; then
-		hostdeps+=" python2 python3"
-		ln -fs /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python2
-		ln -fs /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python
-	else
-		hostdeps+=" python libpython-dev"
-	fi
-
-	display_alert "Build host OS release" "${HOSTRELEASE:-(unknown)}" "info"
-
-	# Ubuntu 21.04.x (Hirsute) x86_64 is the only fully supported host OS release
-	# Using Docker/VirtualBox/Vagrant is the only supported way to run the build script on other Linux distributions
-	#
-	# NO_HOST_RELEASE_CHECK overrides the check for a supported host system
-	# Disable host OS check at your own risk. Any issues reported with unsupported releases will be closed without discussion
-	if [[ -z $HOSTRELEASE || "buster bullseye focal impish hirsute jammy debbie tricia ulyana ulyssa uma una" != *"$HOSTRELEASE"* ]]; then
-		if [[ $NO_HOST_RELEASE_CHECK == yes ]]; then
-			display_alert "You are running on an unsupported system" "${HOSTRELEASE:-(unknown)}" "wrn"
-			display_alert "Do not report any errors, warnings or other issues encountered beyond this point" "" "wrn"
-		else
-			exit_with_error "It seems you ignore documentation and run an unsupported build system: ${HOSTRELEASE:-(unknown)}"
-		fi
-	fi
-
-	if grep -qE "(Microsoft|WSL)" /proc/version; then
-		if [ -f /.dockerenv ]; then
-			display_alert "Building images using Docker on WSL2 may fail" "" "wrn"
-		else
-			exit_with_error "Windows subsystem for Linux is not a supported build environment"
-		fi
-	fi
-
-	if systemd-detect-virt -q -c; then
-		display_alert "Running in container" "$(systemd-detect-virt)" "info"
-		# disable apt-cacher unless NO_APT_CACHER=no is not specified explicitly
-		if [[ $NO_APT_CACHER != no ]]; then
-			display_alert "apt-cacher is disabled in containers, set NO_APT_CACHER=no to override" "" "wrn"
-			NO_APT_CACHER=yes
-		fi
-		CONTAINER_COMPAT=yes
-		# trying to use nested containers is not a good idea, so don't permit EXTERNAL_NEW=compile
-		if [[ $EXTERNAL_NEW == compile ]]; then
-			display_alert "EXTERNAL_NEW=compile is not available when running in container, setting to prebuilt" "" "wrn"
-			EXTERNAL_NEW=prebuilt
-		fi
-		SYNC_CLOCK=no
-	fi
-
-
-	# Skip verification if you are working offline
-	if ! $offline; then
-
-	# warning: apt-cacher-ng will fail if installed and used both on host and in
-	# container/chroot environment with shared network
-	# set NO_APT_CACHER=yes to prevent installation errors in such case
-	if [[ $NO_APT_CACHER != yes ]]; then hostdeps+=" apt-cacher-ng"; fi
-
-	export EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS=""
-	call_extension_method "add_host_dependencies" <<- 'ADD_HOST_DEPENDENCIES'
-	*run before installing host dependencies*
-	you can add packages to install, space separated, to ${EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS} here.
-	ADD_HOST_DEPENDENCIES
-
-	if [ -n "${EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS}" ]; then hostdeps+=" ${EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS}"; fi
-
-	display_alert "Installing build dependencies"
-	# don't prompt for apt cacher selection
-	sudo echo "apt-cacher-ng    apt-cacher-ng/tunnelenable      boolean false" | sudo debconf-set-selections
-
-	LOG_OUTPUT_FILE="${DEST}"/${LOG_SUBPATH}/hostdeps.log
-	install_pkg_deb "autoupdate $hostdeps"
-	unset LOG_OUTPUT_FILE
-
-	update-ccache-symlinks
-
-	export FINAL_HOST_DEPS="$hostdeps ${EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS}"
-	call_extension_method "host_dependencies_ready" <<- 'HOST_DEPENDENCIES_READY'
-	*run after all host dependencies are installed*
-	At this point we can read `${FINAL_HOST_DEPS}`, but changing won't have any effect.
-	All the dependencies, including the default/core deps and the ones added via `${EXTRA_BUILD_DEPS}`
-	are installed at this point. The system clock has not yet been synced.
-	HOST_DEPENDENCIES_READY
-
-
-	# sync clock
-	if [[ $SYNC_CLOCK != no ]]; then
-		display_alert "Syncing clock" "host" "info"
-		ntpdate -s "${NTP_SERVER:-pool.ntp.org}"
-	fi
-
-	# create directory structure
-	mkdir -p "${SRC}"/{cache,output} "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"
-	if [[ -n $SUDO_USER ]]; then
-		chgrp --quiet sudo cache output "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"
-		# SGID bit on cache/sources breaks kernel dpkg packaging
-		chmod --quiet g+w,g+s output "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"
-		# fix existing permissions
-		find "${SRC}"/output "${USERPATCHES_PATH}" -type d ! -group sudo -exec chgrp --quiet sudo {} \;
-		find "${SRC}"/output "${USERPATCHES_PATH}" -type d ! -perm -g+w,g+s -exec chmod --quiet g+w,g+s {} \;
-	fi
-	mkdir -p "${DEST}"/debs-beta/extra "${DEST}"/debs/extra "${DEST}"/{config,debug,patch} "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/overlay "${SRC}"/cache/{sources,hash,hash-beta,toolchain,utility,rootfs} "${SRC}"/.tmp
-
-# build aarch64
-	if [[ $(dpkg --print-architecture) == amd64 ]]; then
-		if [[ "${SKIP_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAINS}" != "yes" ]]; then
-
-			# bind mount toolchain if defined
-			if [[ -d "${ARMBIAN_CACHE_TOOLCHAIN_PATH}" ]]; then
-				mountpoint -q "${SRC}"/cache/toolchain && umount -l "${SRC}"/cache/toolchain
-				mount --bind "${ARMBIAN_CACHE_TOOLCHAIN_PATH}" "${SRC}"/cache/toolchain
-			fi
-
-			display_alert "Checking for external GCC compilers" "" "info"
-			# download external Linaro compiler and missing special dependencies since they are needed for certain sources
-
-			local toolchains=(
-				"gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.xz"
-				"gcc-linaro-arm-none-eabi-4.8-2014.04_linux.tar.xz"
-				"gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.04_linux.tar.xz"
-				"gcc-linaro-7.4.1-2019.02-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabi.tar.xz"
-				"gcc-linaro-7.4.1-2019.02-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.xz"
-				"gcc-arm-8.3-2019.03-x86_64-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz"
-				"gcc-arm-8.3-2019.03-x86_64-aarch64-linux-gnu.tar.xz"
-				"gcc-arm-9.2-2019.12-x86_64-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz"
-				"gcc-arm-9.2-2019.12-x86_64-aarch64-none-linux-gnu.tar.xz"
-				"gcc-arm-11.2-2022.02-x86_64-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz"
-				"gcc-arm-11.2-2022.02-x86_64-aarch64-none-linux-gnu.tar.xz"
-				)
-
-			USE_TORRENT_STATUS=${USE_TORRENT}
-			USE_TORRENT="no"
-			for toolchain in ${toolchains[@]}; do
-				local toolchain_zip="${SRC}/cache/toolchain/${toolchain}"
-				local toolchain_dir="${toolchain_zip%.tar.*}"
-				if [[ ! -f "${toolchain_dir}/.download-complete" ]]; then
-					download_and_verify "toolchain" "${toolchain}" \
-					|| exit_with_error "Failed to download toolchain" "${toolchain}"
-
-					display_alert "decompressing"
-					pv -p -b -r -c -N "[ .... ] ${toolchain}" "${toolchain_zip}" \
-					| xz -dc \
-					| tar xp --xattrs --no-same-owner --overwrite -C "${SRC}/cache/toolchain/"
-					if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
-						rm -rf "${toolchain_dir}"
-						exit_with_error "Failed to decompress toolchain" "${toolchain}"
-					fi
-
-					touch "${toolchain_dir}/.download-complete"
-					rm -rf "${toolchain_zip}"* # Also delete asc file
-				fi
-			done
-			USE_TORRENT=${USE_TORRENT_STATUS}
-
-			local existing_dirs=( $(ls -1 "${SRC}"/cache/toolchain) )
-			for dir in ${existing_dirs[@]}; do
-				local found=no
-				for toolchain in ${toolchains[@]}; do
-					[[ $dir == ${toolchain%.tar.*} ]] && found=yes
-				done
-				if [[ $found == no ]]; then
-					display_alert "Removing obsolete toolchain" "$dir"
-					rm -rf "${SRC}/cache/toolchain/${dir}"
-				fi
-			done
-		else
-			display_alert "Ignoring toolchains" "SKIP_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAINS: ${SKIP_EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAINS}" "info"
-		fi
-	fi
-
-  fi # check offline
-
-	# enable arm binary format so that the cross-architecture chroot environment will work
-	if [[ $KERNEL_ONLY != yes ]]; then
-		modprobe -q binfmt_misc
-		mountpoint -q /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/ || mount binfmt_misc -t binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
-		if [[ "$(arch)" != "aarch64" ]]; then
-			test -e /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/qemu-arm || update-binfmts --enable qemu-arm
-			test -e /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/qemu-aarch64 || update-binfmts --enable qemu-aarch64
-		fi
-	fi
-
-	[[ ! -f "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/customize-image.sh ]] && cp "${SRC}"/config/templates/customize-image.sh.template "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/customize-image.sh
-
-	if [[ ! -f "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/README ]]; then
-		rm -f "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/readme.txt
-		echo 'Please read documentation about customizing build configuration' > "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/README
-		echo 'https://www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/' >> "${USERPATCHES_PATH}"/README
-
-		# create patches directory structure under USERPATCHES_PATH
-		find "${SRC}"/patch -maxdepth 2 -type d ! -name . | sed "s%/.*patch%/$USERPATCHES_PATH%" | xargs mkdir -p
-	fi
-
-	# check free space (basic)
-	local freespace=$(findmnt --target "${SRC}" -n -o AVAIL -b 2>/dev/null) # in bytes
-	if [[ -n $freespace && $(( $freespace / 1073741824 )) -lt 10 ]]; then
-		display_alert "Low free space left" "$(( $freespace / 1073741824 )) GiB" "wrn"
-		# pause here since dialog-based menu will hide this message otherwise
-		echo -e "Press \e[0;33m<Ctrl-C>\x1B[0m to abort compilation, \e[0;33m<Enter>\x1B[0m to ignore and continue"
-		read
-	fi
-}
-
-
-
-
-function get_urls()
-{
-	local catalog=$1
-	local filename=$2
-
-	case $catalog in
-		toolchain)
-			local CCODE=$(curl --silent --fail https://dl.armbian.com/geoip | jq '.continent.code' -r)
-			local urls=(
-				# "https://dl.armbian.com/_toolchain/${filename}"
-
-				$( curl --silent --fail  "https://dl.armbian.com/mirrors" \
-					| jq -r "(${CCODE:+.${CCODE} // } .default) | .[]" \
-					| sed "s#\$#/_toolchain/${filename}#"
-				)
-			)
-			;;
-
-		rootfs)
-			local CCODE=$(curl --silent --fail  https://cache.armbian.com/geoip | jq '.continent.code' -r)
-			local urls=(
-				# "https://cache.armbian.com/rootfs/${ROOTFSCACHE_VERSION}/${filename}"
-				"https://github.com/armbian/cache/releases/download/${ROOTFSCACHE_VERSION}/${filename}"
-
-				$( curl --silent --fail  "https://cache.armbian.com/mirrors" \
-					| jq -r "(${CCODE:+.${CCODE} // } .default) | .[]" \
-					| sed "s#\$#/rootfs/${ROOTFSCACHE_VERSION}/${filename}#"
-				)
-			)
-			;;
-
-		*)
-			exit_with_error "Unknown catalog" "$catalog" >&2
-			return
-			;;
-	esac
-
-	echo "${urls[@]}"
-}
-
-
-
-
-download_and_verify()
-{
-
-	local catalog=$1
-	local filename=$2
-	local localdir=$SRC/cache/$catalog
-
-	local keys=(
-		"8F427EAF" # Linaro Toolchain Builder
-		"9F0E78D5" # Igor Pecovnik
-	)
-
-	mkdir -p "${SRC}/cache/.aria2"
-	local aria2_options=(
-		# Display
-		--console-log-level=error
-		--summary-interval=0
-		--download-result=hide
-
-		# Meta
-		--server-stat-if="${SRC}/cache/.aria2/server_stats"
-		--server-stat-of="${SRC}/cache/.aria2/server_stats"
-		--dht-file-path="${SRC}/cache/.aria2/dht.dat"
-		--rpc-save-upload-metadata=false
-		--auto-save-interval=0
-
-		# File
-		--auto-file-renaming=false
-		--allow-overwrite=true
-		--file-allocation=trunc
-
-		# Connection
-		--disable-ipv6=$DISABLE_IPV6
-		--connect-timeout=10
-		--timeout=10
-		--allow-piece-length-change=true
-		--max-connection-per-server=2
-		--lowest-speed-limit=500K
-
-		# BT
-		--seed-time=0
-		--bt-stop-timeout=30
-	)
-
-	# use local signature file
-	if [[ -f "${SRC}/config/torrents/${filename}.asc" ]]; then
-		local torrent="${SRC}/config/torrents/${filename}.torrent"
-		ln -sf "${SRC}/config/torrents/${filename}.asc" "${localdir}/${filename}.asc"
-	else
-		# download signature file
-		aria2c "${aria2_options[@]}" \
-			--continue=false \
-			--dir="${localdir}" --out="${filename}.asc" \
-			$(get_urls "${catalog}" "${filename}.asc")
-
-		local rc=$?
-		if [[ $rc -ne 0 ]]; then
-			# Except `not found`
-			[[ $rc -ne 3 ]] && display_alert "Failed to download signature file. aria2 exit code:" "$rc" "wrn"
-			return $rc
-		fi
-
-		[[ ${USE_TORRENT} == "yes" ]] \
-		&& local torrent="$(get_urls "${catalog}" "${filename}.torrent")"
-	fi
-
-	# download torrent first
-	local direct=yes
-	if [[ ${USE_TORRENT} == "yes" ]]; then
-
-		display_alert "downloading using torrent network" "$filename"
-		aria2c "${aria2_options[@]}" \
-			--follow-torrent=mem \
-			--dir="${localdir}" \
-			${torrent}
-
-		[[ $? -eq 0 ]] && direct=no
-
-	fi
-
-
-	# direct download if torrent fails
-	if [[ $direct != "no" ]]; then
-		display_alert "downloading using http(s) network" "$filename"
-		aria2c "${aria2_options[@]}" \
-			--dir="${localdir}" --out="${filename}" \
-			$(get_urls "${catalog}" "${filename}")
-
-		local rc=$?
-		if [[ $rc -ne 0 ]]; then
-			display_alert "Failed to download. aria2 exit code:" "$rc" "wrn"
-			return $rc
-		fi
-
-		echo ""
-	fi
-
-	local verified=false
-	if [[ -f ${localdir}/${filename}.asc ]]; then
-
-		if grep -q 'BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE' "${localdir}/${filename}.asc"; then
-
-			if [[ ! -d "${SRC}"/cache/.gpg ]]; then
-				mkdir -p "${SRC}"/cache/.gpg
-				chmod 700 "${SRC}"/cache/.gpg
-				touch "${SRC}"/cache/.gpg/gpg.conf
-				chmod 600 "${SRC}"/cache/.gpg/gpg.conf
-			fi
-
-			for key in "${keys[@]}"; do
-				gpg --homedir "${SRC}/cache/.gpg" --no-permission-warning \
-					--list-keys "${key}" >> "${DEST}/${LOG_SUBPATH}/output.log" 2>&1 \
-				|| gpg --homedir "${SRC}/cache/.gpg" --no-permission-warning \
-					${http_proxy:+--keyserver-options http-proxy="${http_proxy}"} \
-					--keyserver "hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80" \
-					--recv-keys "${key}" >> "${DEST}/${LOG_SUBPATH}/output.log" 2>&1 \
-				|| exit_with_error "Failed to recieve key" "${key}"
-			done
-
-			gpg --homedir "${SRC}"/cache/.gpg --no-permission-warning --trust-model always \
-				-q --verify "${localdir}/${filename}.asc" >> "${DEST}/${LOG_SUBPATH}/output.log" 2>&1
-			[[ ${PIPESTATUS[0]} -eq 0 ]] && verified=true && display_alert "Verified" "PGP" "info"
-
-		else
-
-			[[ "$(md5sum "${localdir}/${filename}" | awk '{printf $1}')" \
-				== "$(awk '{printf $1}' ${localdir}/${filename}.asc)" \
-			]] && verified=true && display_alert "Verified" "MD5" "info"
-
-		fi
-
-		if [[ $verified != true ]]; then
-			rm -rf "${localdir}/${filename}"* # We also delete asc file
-			exit_with_error "verification failed"
-		fi
-
-	fi
-}
-
-
-
-
-show_developer_warning()
-{
-	local temp_rc
-	temp_rc=$(mktemp)
-	cat <<-'EOF' > "${temp_rc}"
-	screen_color = (WHITE,RED,ON)
-	EOF
-	local warn_text="You are switching to the \Z1EXPERT MODE\Zn
-
-	This allows building experimental configurations that are provided
-	\Z1AS IS\Zn to developers and expert users,
-	\Z1WITHOUT ANY RESPONSIBILITIES\Zn from the Armbian team:
-
-	- You are using these configurations \Z1AT YOUR OWN RISK\Zn
-	- Bug reports related to the dev kernel, CSC, WIP and EOS boards
-	\Z1will be closed without a discussion\Zn
-	- Forum posts related to dev kernel, CSC, WIP and EOS boards
-	should be created in the \Z2\"Community forums\"\Zn section
-	"
-	DIALOGRC=$temp_rc dialog --title "Expert mode warning" --backtitle "${backtitle}" --colors --defaultno --no-label "I do not agree" \
-		--yes-label "I understand and agree" --yesno "$warn_text" "${TTY_Y}" "${TTY_X}"
-	[[ $? -ne 0 ]] && exit_with_error "Error switching to the expert mode"
-	SHOW_WARNING=no
-}
-
-# is a formatted output of the values of variables
-# from the list at the place of the function call.
-#
-# The LOG_OUTPUT_FILE variable must be defined in the calling function
-# before calling the `show_checklist_variables` function and unset after.
-#
-show_checklist_variables ()
-{
-	local checklist=$*
-	local var pval
-	local log_file=${LOG_OUTPUT_FILE:-"${SRC}"/output/${LOG_SUBPATH}/trash.log}
-	local _line=${BASH_LINENO[0]}
-	local _function=${FUNCNAME[1]}
-	local _file=$(basename "${BASH_SOURCE[1]}")
-
-	echo -e "Show variables in function: $_function" "[$_file:$_line]\n" >>$log_file
-
-	for var in $checklist;do
-		eval pval=\$$var
-		echo -e "\n$var =:" >>$log_file
-		if [ $(echo "$pval" | awk -F"/" '{print NF}') -ge 4 ];then
-			printf "%s\n" $pval >>$log_file
-		else
-			printf "%-30s %-30s %-30s %-30s\n" $pval >>$log_file
-		fi
-	done
-}
diff --git a/lib/main.sh b/lib/main.sh
index 7b7630383f..6054864d2c 100644
--- a/lib/main.sh
+++ b/lib/main.sh
@@ -78,8 +78,6 @@ source "${SRC}"/lib/compilation.sh                          # patching and compi
 source "${SRC}"/lib/compilation-prepare.sh                  # drivers that are not upstreamed
 # shellcheck source=makeboarddeb.sh
 source "${SRC}"/lib/makeboarddeb.sh                         # board support package
-# shellcheck source=general.sh
-source "${SRC}"/lib/general.sh                              # general functions
 # shellcheck source=chroot-buildpackages.sh
 source "${SRC}"/lib/chroot-buildpackages.sh                 # chroot packages building