NVIDIA – New Drivers, Still Broken with 4.10 – And a Patch for 378.13..

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NVIDIA have released new drivers 375.39 (‘long term’) and 378.13 (‘short term’) and details are here:  http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/114708/en-us and http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/115031/en-us. Both still fail to compile with Kernel 4.10 (tested with 4.10-rc8) and I tried the previous 378.09 patch against 379.13, but it failed to apply cleanly, as more code has changed.. $ cat nv-37809-410-patch.patch |patch -p0 patching file … Continue reading →

VMware – Updated vmnet Patch for Kernel 4.9/4.10..

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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 →

NVIDIA – Kernel 4.10 Patch for 378.09..

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Thanks – again – to Tomas Pruzina, there is a Kernel 4.10 patch for new beta driver 378.09, and details are here: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/988958/linux/-patch-378-09-4-10-0-rc4-patches/ I have applied this to 378.09 on Kernel 4.10-rc4, and can confirm that it now compiles OK.. ……………………….. /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09-patched/kernel/nvidia/svnp01_linux.o ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09-patched/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09-patched/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09-patched/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Beta Driver 378.09 – Still Broken with Kernel 4.10

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New beta driver 378.09 has been released, and details are here:  http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/114232/en-us The driver compiles OK with Kernel 4.9.4, but fails to compile with 4.10-rc4, with different errors from 375.26, as some of the code base has changed.. …………………. CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09/kernel/nvidia/nv-p2p.o CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c: In function ‘nvidia_cpu_callback’: /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c:213:14: error: ‘CPU_DOWN_FAILED’ undeclared (first use in this … Continue reading →

ARM64 – Odroid C2 – Patches for USB..

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Thanks to Heiner Kallweit for info on two USB patches for the Odroid C2, and thanks to John Youn for the patches themselves..  They can be found at http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg151687.html and http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg151688.html . I have applied these to Kernel 4.10-rc4 (including the Ethernet TX patch) and now USB is working, and detects/connects devices – sort of.. Plug in … Continue reading →

ARM64 – Kernel 4.10-rc4 on Odroid C2 – Ethernet Still Needs DTS Patch..

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Just updated the Odroid C2 to Kernel 4.10-rc4, but the Ethernet hang problem still persists..   Applied the dts Ethernet TX patch (see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1872 ) , and it works OK now.. There seems to be a bit of a backlog of Meson/GXBB patches, and I read that the Ethernet TX fix was supposed to be merged with -rc4, … Continue reading →

ARM64 – Odroid C2 – Kernel 4.10-rc Config Example..

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As Odroid C2 support by the ‘mainline’ kernel is – hopefully – nearing completion, I have put a sample of my Kernel config at http://pastebin.com/XWfMEWHx . The C2 is used for ‘headless’ operation, at present, and USB still does not work..    The kernel is 4.10-rc3, with the ‘Ethernet-TX’ dts patch applied.. (see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1872 ). Robert Gadsdon.   January … Continue reading →

ARM64 – Odroid C2 – Working U-Boot..

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Thanks to Heiner Kallweit, there is now a functional version of U-Boot for the Odroid C2, at https://github.com/hkallweit/u-boot .. I have installed it on my C2 (eMMC) and it works fine..    Nice to have a functioning > saveenv command, at last.. U-Boot 2017.01-rc3 (Jan 14 2017 – 02:22:15 -0800) odroid-c2 DRAM: 2 GiB MMC: meson_mmc: 0, meson_mmc: … Continue reading →

Kernel – 4.10-rc3 Released..

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Kernel 4.10-rc3 is out, and brief details of changes since -rc2 are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1701.1/00183.html Tested patched VMware (12.5.2) and patched NVIDIA (375.26) and both compile OK..   Same results as with -rc2.. Robert Gadsdon.    January 8, 2017. … Continue reading →

Kernel – 4.9.1 Released, Still Getting ‘Too Many CPUs’ Warnings, on i7..

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Updated the main (Intel i7) system to kernel 4.9.1, but still getting ACPI/CPU warnings on boot, which started appearing with 4.9.0: ……………. [ 0.000000] Linux version 4.9.1 (root@rglinux-i7) (gcc version 6.2.1 20160916 (Red Hat 6.2.1-2) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Jan 6 11:07:16 PST 2017 …………… [ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408 [ 0.000000] ACPI: Local … Continue reading →