One of the most annoying missing features of the HiKey ARM54 board is the lack of a proper UART connection, to enable the same degree of boot information as other SoC systems.. There is a 4-pin/hole connection point, but no actual connector… So, I had to get out the (mini) soldering iron, and magnifying goggles, and use … Continue reading →
I had another ARM64 system on order for some time, and – unexpectedly – it shipped a few days ago.. It is an 8-core ‘Hikey’ board, based on the same 96Boards outline as the DragonBoard 410c.. So far, I have it booting – with the Linaro/Hikey 3.18 kernel – and have put Fedora 22 on it.. Fedora … Continue reading →
After quite a lot of messing about, I got Fedora 22 running on the ARM64 DragonBoard 410c: Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.0.0-linaro-lt-qcom on an aarch64 (ttyMSM0) ………… $ uname -a Linux rg410c rg410c.almaden 4.0.0-linaro-lt-qcom #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jun 5 15:17:06 UTC 2015 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux Still running the ‘stock’ Linaro/Qualcom version of Kernel … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.1 has been released, with not many changes from -rc8… Brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.2/04143.html $ uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 4.1.0 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 23:00:39 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux As expected, the latest VMware (11.1.2) and NVIDIA (352.21) compile and load/run OK, without the need for any patches.. Robert Gadsdon. June 21, … Continue reading →
Just updated VMware to the latest version 11.1.2 on the test system, and it compiles/loads OK with Kernel 4.1-rc8.. Release notes are here: https://www.vmware.com/support/ws/doc/workstation-1112-release-notes.html. At last, there is no need for the venerable vmnet patch (required since Kernel 3.19 was released..).. Robert Gadsdon. June 18, 2015. … Continue reading →
Updated the Odroid U3 to Kernel 4.1-rc8, from https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid/tree/odroid-4.1.y Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.1.0-rc8 on an armv7l (ttySAC1) …………… ]# uname -a Linux rgodroid 4.1.0-rc8 #1 SMP Wed Jun 17 16:20:50 PDT 2015 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux As it has been some time since I (unsuccessfully) tried a ‘mainline’ kernel on the U3, I may … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.1-rc7, and the ‘vmnet-patched‘ version of VMware 11.1, and the latest NVIDIA drivers (346.72, and 352.09), compile and install/run OK, as expected.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc7 #1 SMP Mon Jun 8 10:50:51 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Brief details of changes from -rc6 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.0/04895.html As … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to Kernel 4.1-rc6, and – as previously – the ‘vmnet-patched‘ version of VMware 11.1, and the latest NVIDIA drivers (346.72, and 352.09) compile and install/run OK.. $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc6 #1 SMP Mon Jun 1 09:01:13 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Details of changes from -rc5 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1505.3/05020.html Robert … Continue reading →
Updated the DreamPlug, CuBox-i4Pro, and Odroid U3 to Kernel 4.1-rc4.. DreamPlug and CuBox using the standard code from kernel.org: Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 4.1.0-rc4 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …………… ]# uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 4.1.0-rc4 #1 Wed May 20 09:12:43 PDT 2015 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.1.0-rc4 on an … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.1-rc4, and this is OK with the latest NVIDIA drivers (346.72 and 352.09) and with vmnet-patched VMware 11.1.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc4 #1 SMP Mon May 18 16:00:31 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Details of changes from -rc3 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1505.2/01224.html Robert Gadsdon. May 18, 2015. … Continue reading →