NVIDIA have a new ‘long lived branch’ driver – 346.59, and – as expected – it installs/loads OK with kernel 4.0-rc7 Brief details here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/83686/en-us Robert Gadsdon. April 7, 2015. … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to Kernel 4.0-rc7, and – as with -r6 – the patched* VMware 11.1 and NVIDIA 349.12 compiled and loaded OK.. $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.0.0-rc7 #1 SMP Mon Apr 6 18:25:10 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Brief details of changes since -rc6 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1504.0/03029.html If all goes well, 4.0 ‘final’ … Continue reading →
Updated the DreamPlug and CuBox-i4Pro to Kernel 4.0-rc6 from kernel.org https://www.kernel.org/ Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 4.0.0-rc6 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) ……… # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 4.0.0-rc6 #1 Sun Mar 29 22:11:02 PDT 2015 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.0.0-rc6 on an armv7l (ttymxc0) ……. # uname -a Linux rgcubox … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to Kernel 4.0-rc6, and VMware 11.1.0 (patched) and the latest NVIDIA driver – 349.12 – compile and load OK.. $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.0.0-rc6 #1 SMP Sun Mar 29 22:23:37 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Brief details of changes since -rc5 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1503.3/04437.html The VMware patch info is in a … Continue reading →
Thanks are due to Marcus Roeder, who pointed out an error in my DreamPlug kernel compile workflow (http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1354).. The make LOADADDR.. command was incorrect, and would result in less system memory being available.. The correct command is: make LOADADDR=000008000 uImage – and this will result in all the memory being available: # free total used free shared … Continue reading →
After trials with earlier versions, the Pi and Pi2 updated to Kernel 3.19.3 without too much effort.. Source from here: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-3.19.y Pi: Pidora release 2014 (Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix) Kernel 3.19.3 on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) …….. ]# uname -a Linux rgpi 3.19.3 #1 PREEMPT Fri Mar 27 23:55:44 PDT 2015 armv6l armv6l armv6l GNU/Linux Pi2: Fedora release … Continue reading →
Just (quickly) tested the latest NVIDIA driver – 349.12 – and it compiles cleanly with Kernel 4.0-rc5.. No patches needed.. Robert Gadsdon. March 25, 2015 … Continue reading →
Updated the DreamPlug to Kernel 4.0-rc5, using the standard source from kernel.org, without any problems.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 4.0.0-rc5 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …… ]$ uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 4.0.0-rc5 #1 Mon Mar 23 10:47:21 PDT 2015 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux In case it might be useful, I have put a copy of the … Continue reading →
I had tried to update the Odroid U3 to Kernel 4.0-rc5 – using the patched source from https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid/tree/odroid-4.0.y – a few days ago, but the boot failed: hub 1-3:1.0: 3 ports detected INFO: rcu_sched detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 0} (detected by 1, t=4202 jiffies, g=-255, c=-256, q=2) Task dump for CPU 0: swapper/0 R running 0 … Continue reading →
I had Kernel 3.19.0 (originally from https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-3.19.y – now updated) running on my Pi (armv6) and Pi2 (armv7) with no problems (apart from the Pi2 seeming very sluggish..) but after that had a few ‘issues’.. Pi: Kernel 3.19.1 OK, but 3.19.2 refused to boot (nothing on console) Pi2: Kernel 3.19.1 booted and then crashed: BCM2708FB: allocated DMA … Continue reading →