After a lot of testing, and some more confusion, I have managed to get the Rock2 to boot using the latest (2016.03-rc3) version of U-Boot, and the latest kernel (4.5-rc7) As previously, there was a lot of conflicting information……. I started by booting into the semi-proprietary 3.10-based kernel on the SDcard, and then erasing the eMMC (dd … Continue reading →
I have just posted copies of recent kernel configs for the Odroid U3 and CuBox-i4Pro.. Odroid U3 – Kernel config for 4.4 : http://pastebin.com/NveRajaZ CuBox-i4Pro – Kernel config for 4.4.1: http://pastebin.com/Kbexi0A5 These do not include working WiFi, as 2.4GHz is pretty useless at my location… Robert Gadsdon. February 2, 2016. … Continue reading →
Updated to Kernel 4.4 ‘Final’ on the test system, and the latest VMware (12.1.0) and NVIDIA (358.16) compile and run OK.. The ‘beta’ driver 361.16 should be OK, but has multiple userland issues on my systems. – see previous post.).. $ uname -a Linux rglinux 4.4.0 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 22:00:41 PST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 … Continue reading →
Recently attempted to update the Pi2 to Kernel 4.4-rc5, and encountered a problem.. The more recent proprietary Raspberry Pi 2 kernels have switched to using ‘DTB Overlays’ to control various components, but these are – currently – unsupported by U-Boot.. Booting the kernel with U-Boot results in mmc errors, and register dump: ……………….. timeout waiting for hardware … Continue reading →
Just got a ‘BananaPro‘ ARMv7 board, and updated it to Kernel 4.4-rc4 (from kernel.org) and Fedora 23. More details are here: http://linux-sunxi.org/LeMaker_Banana_Pro I compiled U-Boot from the latest (2015.10) released version, from ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ : # cd u-boot # make Bananapro_defconfig # make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnu- (or whatever cross-compiler you are using) Then as root, copy to the SDCard … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to VMware 12.1.0 – Release notes are here: https://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/workstation/12pro/workstation-121-release-notes.html Frustratingly, this release still has a runtime (# vmware) incompatible with Fedora 23.. The original workaround was documented in an earlier article – http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1601 – but the Fedora 23 library versions have now changed, so the copy commands are now (as of December … Continue reading →
Tested Kernel 4.4-rc3 with the Odroid U3, and – finally – the fan works correctly.. Kernels from 4.2 onward booted successfully, but the fan ran continuously… And now I can add the U3 to the (small!) list of my ARM devices that work with the standard unpatched kernel.org kernel (the others are the DreamPlug (ARMv5) and the … Continue reading →
Tested the latest NVIDIA driver – 352.63 – and it is OK with Kernel 4.3, and with the Fedora 23 version of the xorg server.. The only other ‘broken’ Fedora 23 items I have encountered are ffmpegthumbs and Samba.. I downgraded to the FC22 version of Samba # dnf –showduplicates –allowerasing –releasever=22 downgrade samba* ….and – after … Continue reading →
Updated to Kernel 4.4-rc1 on the test system, and VMware 12.0.1 and NVIDIA 358.09 both compile and load/run OK.. I did get an error from vmnet, but – so far – it appears to be working OK despite this: $ vmnet1: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x0000000000004000, left 0x0000000000004800 vmnet8: set_features() failed (-1); wanted 0x0000000000004000, left 0x0000000000004800 $ … Continue reading →
Updated the DragonBoard 410c to Kernel 4.2.4: # git clone https://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/qualcomm/kernel.git -b release/qcomlt-4.2 and this version boot/runs OK.. I am running these systems ‘headless’, so have not been able to test monitor/display capabilities.. Fedora 23 (Twenty Three) Kernel 4.2.4 on an aarch64 (ttyMSM0) ……………… # uname -a Linux rg410c 4.2.4 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 11 04:12:36 … Continue reading →