Updated the DreamPlug to kernel 3.13-rc6, and – apart from the usual mvsdio … unhandled interrupt .. messages at boot time, everything seems to run OK.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.13.0-rc6 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …………….. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.13.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT Mon Dec 30 15:09:42 GMT 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Now … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to Kernel 3.13-rc6, which has a smaller changelog, due to the ‘holidays’.. Details are here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1621119/ As before, patched NVIDIA drivers 331.20 and 319.76 compile and load OK, as does VMware 10.0.1.. Robert Gadsdon. December 30, 2013 … Continue reading →
Updated the Raspberry Pi to kernel 3.12.6 from GitHub, and – finally – there is no longer a ‘tombstone’ following the first console prompt, after boot.. Pidora release 19 (Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix) Kernel 3.12.6+ on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) ………………….. $ uname -a Linux rgpi 3.12.6+ #1 PREEMPT Thu Dec 26 17:46:50 GMT 2013 armv6l armv6l armv6l … Continue reading →
Updated the DreamPlug to kernel 3.13-rc5, and still getting some mvsdio f1090000.mvsdio: unhandled interrupt status=0x0810 en=0x0000 pio=0 messages on boot, but otherwise the system seems to be running OK… Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.13.0-rc5 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) ………………….. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.13.0-rc5 #1 PREEMPT Sun Dec 22 21:44:57 GMT 2013 armv5tel armv5tel … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to kernel 3.13-rc4, and VMware 10.0.1 and (patched) NVIDIA 331.20 compile and load OK.. NVIDIA appear to have pulled driver version 319.76 from their ftp download site – ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/, for some reason.. Robert Gadsdon. December 16, 2013. … Continue reading →
A circular fail with a recent version of YUM – yum-3.4.3-119 – leads to a whole load of the following errors: http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates Trying other mirror. updates | 4.6 kB 00:00:00 http://mir01.syntis.net/fedora/linux/updates/20/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno -1] repomd.xml does not match metalink for updates Trying other mirror. updates | 3.4 kB 00:00:00 … Continue reading →
Just updated the DreamPlug to Kernel 3.13-rc4, and the compile-fix patch for -rc3 is no longer needed.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.13.0-rc4 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …………………… # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.13.0-rc4 #1 PREEMPT Sun Dec 15 23:26:14 GMT 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. December 15, 2013. … Continue reading →
Just updated to Kernel 3.12.5, and quickly reverted to 3.12.4.. Update: the problem turned out to be a badly-timed coincidental update to MariaDB (5.5.34).. Reverting to the previous version (5.5.33a) fixed the problem.. Now running 3.12.5.. With 3.12.5, Avahi mDNS failed, and – more importantly – MariaDB would not start: mariadb.service – MariaDB database server Loaded: … Continue reading →
Thanks to more detective work by Adam Baxter, I have found a work-in-progress patch for the compile failure on 3.13-rc.. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/282669 So.. I now have Kernel 3.13-rc3 running on the DreamPlug: Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.13.0-rc3 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) ………………….. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.13.0-rc3 #2 PREEMPT Sat Dec 7 15:02:56 GMT 2013 … Continue reading →
Updated the DreamPlug to kernel 3.12.2, and the orion / mdio patch mentioned in the article for 3.12.1 is still needed.. (http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=941) I have tried to compile 3.13-rc kernels for the device, but the compilation fails: /linux-3.13-rc2/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h: In function ‘__virt_to_phys’: ……………… /linux-3.13-rc2/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h:244:40: error: ‘PHYS_OFFSET’ undeclared (first use in this function)…………………… make[1]: *** [arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.s] Error 1 make: *** … Continue reading →