Recently acquired one of the Khadas VIM3-Pro arm64 SoCs, and was impressed with the level of documentation available.. Unfortunately – as is so often the case – this was all relentlessly Ubuntu-focussed, with a semi-proprietary kernel based on the 4.X kernel tree.. At least the U-Boot version was fairly recent, and appeared to support EFI etc.. The … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.9-rc6 has been released, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2009.2/05870.html In a very rare occurrence, the kernel compile actually fails: …………………………….. CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CALL scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh DESCEND objtool CHK include/generated/compile.h CC drivers/dax/super.o drivers/dax/super.c:325:6: error: redefinition of ‘dax_supported’ 325 | bool dax_supported(struct dax_device *dax_dev, struct block_device *bdev, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from drivers/dax/super.c:16: ./include/linux/dax.h:162:20: note: previous definition … Continue reading →
Fedora 33 will be using ZRAM as standard for swap, rather than a partition or swapfile on disk. I had no problem with this on a new F33 install (Odroid H2Plus) but after upgrading an existing Fedora 32 system it refused to initialise, and ‘/dev/zram0‘ did not exist. Research revealed that the documentation for much of this … Continue reading →
I have been testing Fedora 33 pre-release, and on x86_64 it seems relatively stable (usual caveats…) but on arm64 systems (Odroid N2 and Pi4) I found that after compiling a new kernel (5.8.3), the system booted, but login was impossible, and screen output was missing (uart/console was OK). Kernels compiled with Fedora 32 all booted OK, and … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.9-rc2 is out, and brief details of changes since -rc1 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2008.2/10710.html The patched VMware 16 prerelease versions of vmmon and vmnet compile OK, but any further tests will have to wait until the release of Workstation 16 in about a months time.. NVIDIA 450.66 can be made to (almost..) work, by applying the 5.9 … Continue reading →
After all the excitement around the release of Kernel 5.8, I ran some tests on the work-in-progress git version (August 9th) of Kernel 5.9-rc1. Obviously, there are more changes to come before RC1 is actually released.. NVIDIA 450.57 compile fails: ……………………. CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/nv-kthread-q.o CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/nv-kthread-q-selftest.o CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8.o In file included from /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8.c:31: /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_va_range.h: In … Continue reading →
I have been investigating alternatives, as VMware is currently a non-starter (literally..) with Kernel 5.8.. I installed the latest VirtualBox (6.1.97 r139689) from SVN (another blast from the past…) and managed – after some messing around – to get it to compile OK on my Fedora 32 test system with Kernel 5.8 (from kernel.org..) I had … Continue reading →
My 8GB Raspbery Pi 4 finally arrived, and I was looking forward to trying Fedora 32 and KDE/Plasma on it, and comparing it to the Odroid N2 from a few months back.. ( http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2689 ) The Fedora 32 aarch64 install is supposed to support the Pi 4 now, but the resulting sdcard image failed to boot, with … Continue reading →
There is now an interim patch available, for NVIDIA 440.82 and Kernel 5.8, at https://gitlab.com/snippets/1986228 This should be applied as well as the 5.7 patch, and I have tested this with pre-release Kernel 5.8-git version from June 12th, and it works OK. Note that this is an interim patch, and may be updated once 5.8-rc1 is released.. … Continue reading →
I have updated some test systems (x86_64 and aarch64) to pre-beta Fedora 32, which now includes GCC 10: $ gcc –version gcc (GCC) 10.0.1 20200216 (Red Hat 10.0.1-0.8) There have been a couple of problems with kernel compilation, but in each case there was already a patch/workaround available.. https://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-arm/msg13193.html and https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/29/494 The most serious problem was a … Continue reading →