Just updated the CuBox i4-Pro to Kernel 3.19-rc7 – using the standard code from kernel.org.. with device-tree boot using zImage and imx6q-cubox-i.dtb Only tested ‘headless’ access, so far.. Fedora release 21 (Twenty One) Kernel 3.19.0-rc7 on an armv7l (ttymxc0) …………………….. [root@rgcubox ~]# uname -a Linux rgcubox 3.19.0-rc7 #1 SMP Sat Feb 7 13:36:57 EST 2015 armv7l armv7l … Continue reading →
Updated the Odroid U3 to Kernel 3.19-rc7, from https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid/tree/odroid-3.19.y Had to ‘refresh’ the config, by # make exynos4412_odroid_defconfig, and then (re)enable selinux etc… One feature is that the CPU fan no longer runs constantly, but I need to do more tests, to see if it is now capable of running at all.. The temperature is OK, at … Continue reading →
Installed Kernel 3.19-rc7 on the test system, and the same comments apply as for -rc6. The latest NVIDIA driver (346.35) and VMware 11.0 – with the vmnet patches – install and load/run OK.. Changelog summary here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.0/00273.html $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.19.0-rc7 #1 SMP Mon Feb 2 19:00:25 PST 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux It appears … Continue reading →
For those who have a new Raspberry Pi 2 on order – as I have – the kernel source is now available, at https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-3.18.y-rebase. To get the correct config, start with # make bcm2709_defconfig For me, one of the additional benefits is that it is ARMv7, which should support the standard up-to-date Fedora 21 distro, instead of … Continue reading →
Updated to Kernel 3.19-rc6 on the test system, and – at last – the problem with NVIDIA driver GPL inconsistency has been fixed, and now driver 346.35 compiles and loads OK.. Details of changes since -rc5 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1501.3/00776.html And the important change is that /arch/x86/mm/init.c now has EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cachemode2pte_tbl) instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__cachemode2pte_tbl)..etc.. VMware 11 – with the … Continue reading →
After the solution to the Kernel 3.19/vmnet problem mentioned in previous posts, I have produced a fix that includes tests for kernel versions, and works with Kernel 3.19 and with earlier kernel versions.. This is probably not the most elegant code, but it works – I have tested it with VMware 11.0 and Kernels 3.19-rc5 and 3.18.3 … Continue reading →
Thanks to Al Viro, and to coderus on the VMware forum, we now have a solution for vmnet and Kernel 3.19, as follows: In vmnet-only/driver.c (lines 269, 1194, and 1195): Replace instances of f_dentry with f_path.dentry In vmnet-only/userif.c (line 526): Replace return skb_copy_datagram_iovec(skb, 0, &iov, len); with struct iov_iter to; iov_iter_init(&to, READ, &iov, 1, … Continue reading →
Tested the lates NVIDIA driver (346.35) today, and although it fixes the f_dentry error, the compile still fails with Kernel 3.19-rc4, due to the incompatible GPL problem: FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol ‘__cachemode2pte_tbl’ /usr/src/linux-3.19-rc4/scripts/Makefile.modpost:90: recipe for target ‘__modpost’ failed It has been pointed out that this can be fixed by simply changing the license … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to Kernel 3.19-rc4, and the same comments apply as for -rc3.. Still no fixes for NVIDIA and VMware, yet.. I tried the CuBox-i4 Pro with a ‘standard’ kernel from kernel.org, rather than the ‘patched’ version used previously, and it booted OK.. Fedora release 21 (Twenty One) Kernel 3.19.0-rc4 on an armv7l (ttymxc0) …………. … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to Kernel 3.19-rc3, and there is still no fix for VMware (11.0) and the latest NVIDIA (340.65 and 346.22) drivers… The NVIDIA problem will involve getting around a GPL-incompatible module issue.. FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol ‘__cachemode2pte_tbl’ 3.19-rc3 installs and runs OK on the CuBox-i4 Pro: $ uname -a Linux … Continue reading →