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I decided – after some time – to do some more with the Raspberry Pi 3, and set it up as a small network print server.. As there was now an ‘official’ version of Fedora 27 for the Pi3, I … Continue reading
Category Archives: aarch64
Kernel 4.14-rc1 has been stable on the x86_64 test system, but when I tried updating the Odroid C2 (ARM64) I saw a lot of mmc and other errors reported.. ………. [ OK ] Started File System Check on Root Device. … Continue reading
Thanks to Heiner Kallweit for info on two USB patches for the Odroid C2, and thanks to John Youn for the patches themselves.. They can be found at http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg151687.html and http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg151688.html . I have applied these to Kernel 4.10-rc4 (including … Continue reading
Just updated the Odroid C2 to Kernel 4.10-rc4, but the Ethernet hang problem still persists.. Applied the dts Ethernet TX patch (see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1872 ) , and it works OK now.. There seems to be a bit of a backlog of … Continue reading
As Odroid C2 support by the ‘mainline’ kernel is – hopefully – nearing completion, I have put a sample of my Kernel config at http://pastebin.com/XWfMEWHx . The C2 is used for ‘headless’ operation, at present, and USB still does not … Continue reading
Thanks to Heiner Kallweit, there is now a functional version of U-Boot for the Odroid C2, at https://github.com/hkallweit/u-boot .. I have installed it on my C2 (eMMC) and it works fine.. Nice to have a functioning > saveenv command, at … Continue reading
Thanks to Tomas Pruzina, there is a patch for NVIDIA driver 375.26 with 4.10-rc kernels. Details, and the link, are here: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/981993/linux/-patches-included-4-10-kernel-staging-/ Easiest way to get the patch is to select ‘Raw’ and just cut/paste the text.. I have tested … Continue reading
Kernel 4.10-rc2 has been released, and it has a very small number of changes from -rc1: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1701.0/00069.html I suspect that the major reason for this release is to fix the embarrassing compile fail with ARM64/aarch64, and it does compile OK … Continue reading
There is now an ‘official’ fix for the 4.10-rc1 compile failure with ARM64/aarch64, from Al Viro, and the patch itself is available here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git/commit/?h=arm64-fix&id=b4b8664d291ac1998e0f0bcdc96b6397f0fe68b3 I have applied this to kernel 4.10-rc1 on the Odroid C2, and the kernel compiles successfully.. … Continue reading
After applying the aarch64 compile fix (see previous article) I was able to compile Kernel 4.10-rc1 on the Odroid C2, and it boots OK (headless..), and the Ethernet link stays up, but still needs the TX patch.. (updated, as the … Continue reading