After a gap of over three months, there seems to be some activity with the APC kernel and uboot source on GitHub.. https://github.com/apc-io/apc-8750 Changes were made on December 2nd, but would appear to have been in error, for some reason, … Continue reading
The availability of additional kernel code – and functionality – is good news, but the APC kernel version is still a relative antique.. 2.6.32.9 is over 2 years old, now, and the latest ‘mainstream’ Linux kernel is 3.5.4, and 3.6 … Continue reading
After noting the success of the XBMC team in getting high-quality video playback on the Raspberry Pi, I tried to see what was currently possible with the latest version of the APC kernel.. Sadly, the XBMC player is only available … Continue reading
Now that Fedora 13 and the APC kernel provide basic functionality, a brief summary of where you can get the ‘bits’… Assumptions: You will need to be reasonably adept at the following: 1. Cross-compiling and patching a Linux / ARM … Continue reading
After compiling the latest release of the APC-8750 kernel source code, I am pleased to find that video/HDMI output to an hdmi-attached monitor now works! So… I now have XFCE Desktop running on the APC under Fedora 13, and Kernel … Continue reading
The ‘default’ Fedora 13 system for ARM mounts the root as nfs.. To change it to the (correct) ext3, modify /etc/fstab as follows: # cat /etc/fstab /dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 1 0 devpts /dev/pts … Continue reading
For Fedora 13 on the APC, the console on the usb/uart connection will ‘vanish’ on boot, after ………. Starting sshd: [ OK ] To get it back, and allow login as root, add the following to /etc/securetty: ttyS0 and modify … Continue reading
In a vain attempt to get the APC’s antique kernel to – at least – work with Fedora 14, I had been applying the series of ‘incremental’ 2.6.32.x patches available – amongst other places – at http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/incr/ The kernel.org ftp … Continue reading
In the hope of getting a newer version of Fedora Linux running, I have ‘updated’ the 2.6.32.9 APC kernel to 2.6.32.27.. This was achieved by the labour-intensive method of applying all the incremental kernel patches in sequence, and manually fixing … Continue reading
As the currently-available source for the APC kernel does not include the necessary drivers for video output to a monitor (amongst other things..) but does include network drivers (Via Velocity..) it seemed logical that I could adopt the same approach … Continue reading