VMware W/S 9.0 – patched – with kernel 3.5.3..
Tested the vmmon patch for the new 9.0 version of VMware Workstation with 3.5.x linux kernels, and everything works fine. Now running kernel 3.5.3 with VMware 9.0 (patched..).. … Continue reading →
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Dreamplug – Right Up-to-Date with 3.6-rc3..
After all the fuss with ancient versions of Linux on the APC, I now have the very latest Linux – 3.6-rc3 – running on the Dreamplug..: Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) Kernel 3.6.0-rc3 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) rgdreamplug login: …………. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.6.0-rc3 #1 Fri Aug 24 00:20:25 BST 2012 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux … Continue reading →
APC – And now – Fedora Linux..
After all the pioneering work done to get a compiled working version of the APC kernel by Mike Thompson from the Raspbian project, as described in a previous post, I now have Fedora Linux running on the APC. I had planned to be able to get Fedora 17 working, but the APC kernel (vintage 2010!) is just … Continue reading →
APC – Surprisingly Pain-free Progress..
My goal is to have a ‘standard’ flavour of Linux (in my case – Fedora) running on the APC, and one of the major pre-requisites was to have the system boot from the micro-SD card, instead of the internal ‘flash memory’.. Looking at all the U-Boot parameters, I had expected this to be a real pain, but … Continue reading →
XBMC on the PI!
I decided to revert to the cross-compile option, which was a) much, much faster to compile! and b) completed successfully.. Then I followed the instructions to install the results on an 8GB SD Card… It is worth mentioning, that this is a case where RTFM is absolutely required, as the whole process is different from what you … Continue reading →