Ever since I spent some considerable time promoting HP’s IA64 Linux systems, way back in the early-2000’s, I have always wanted one for myself, and I recently managed to acquire an RX2600 1U server for a very reasonable price, and beef it up with some inexpensive parts from eBay.. The spec – at the moment – is … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.14-rc2 is out, and brief details of changes since -rc1 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1709.3/00498.html This includes: John Hubbard (1): ACPI / bus: Make ACPI_HANDLE() work for non-GPL code again – which fixes the GPL problem for NVIDIA drivers, so that the latest version – 384.90 – with just the first patch found here: http://mom.hlmjr.com/2017/09/09/driver-wars-nvidia-drivers-384-69-vs-kernel-4-13/ – now compiles … Continue reading →
Thanks to Niol for reporting this – and thanks to mkubecek for the patch itself – there is a fix for vmmon with Kernel 4.1.-rc1. Details are here: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/commit/770c7ffe611520ac96490d235399554c64e87d9f I have created this patch, and applied it to vmmon (hostif.c), and VMware 12.5.7 (with this patch, and the 4.13 vmnet patch) now runs OK on Kernel 4.14-rc1.. … Continue reading →
The original ‘SeaBios’ BIOS on my Acer c720p was a little clunky, so I decided to make the plunge and update it to a ‘proper’ Linux-friendly BIOS.. There is a known/good one available, but it is UEFI-only, so will involve changing the filesystem/partition layout on an existing system.. Disk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors … Continue reading →
Thanks to fast work by dariusd at the VMware forum, there is already a fix for the vmnet compile failure with Kernel 4.13-rc1.. The patch can be found on this thread: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2688967 I have tested it, and vmnet now compiles OK, and VMware 12.5.7 loads/runs on Kernel 4.13-rc1.. Robert Gadsdon. July 15, 2017. … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.12 is out, and brief details of changes from -rc7 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1707.0/00325.html You can find more detailed info from the kernel git site: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?h=v4.12&showmsg=1 The latest versions of VMware (12.5.7) and NVIDIA (384.47-beta and 381.22) compile and load/run OK with 4.12.. Robert Gadsdon. July 2, 2017. … Continue reading →
More distro-specific than usual posts, but hopefully ‘useful’.. I found that Kodi on Fedora 25 would no longer play M2T/MTS files. Frustratingly, there was no error shown, or apparent debug clue, but the program just exited without any messages, when playback of one of these file types was selected. After checking associated libraries and not getting any … Continue reading →
Thanks to Mikkel Kroman, there is a more complete patch for VMware 12.5.2 vmnet on Kernel 4.9.x and 4.10-rc’s: The change is to the get_user_pages parameter list, to now include the FOLL_WRITE parameter, and is as follows: In vmnet-only/userif.c, around line 113, change #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 6, 0) retval = get_user_pages(addr, 1, 1, 0, &page, NULL); … Continue reading →
The old meson Ethernet fix/patch/hack no longer applies cleanly to the latest (December 1) linux-next, but – fortunately – there is a ‘better’ patch available for the meson8b-dwmac driver itself.. Details can be found in this thread: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2016-November/001675.html I have applied these patches to the December 1 linux-next tree, on the Odroid C2, and the Ethernet link … Continue reading →
The ‘linux-next’ kernel branch has included the meson/gxbb mmc driver for some time, but the boot process hung on root disk access. I tested with the latest (November 17) version, and this time, the boot process completed successfully: Fedora 25 (Workstation Edition) Kernel 4.9.0-rc5-next-20161117-c2 on an aarch64 (ttyAML0) The only patch I applied was the meson_ethernet_tx one … Continue reading →