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 →
After more ‘investigation’, I managed to find a working U-Boot for a 64-bit boot of the Raspberry Pi 3, by copying it from the boot directory of this: http://www.tom-yam.or.jp/rpi3/rpi3-arm64-debian-20160414.img.xz found towards the end of the latest 64-bit thread on the Pi Forum: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=137963&sid=cd15abd8d4dd2a2d5c517f47a3e4f5e4&start=125 . Thanks to xyinao for putting it all together.. I copied the kernel Image … Continue reading →
Updated the DragonBoard 410c to patched Kernel 4.2-rc1 from https://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/qualcomm/kernel.git/tree/refs/heads/integration-linux-qcomlt , and the system booted OK: Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.2.0-rc1+ on an aarch64 (ttyMSM0) ……….. # uname -a Linux rg410c 4.2.0-rc1+ #2 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jul 16 15:14:27 PDT 2015 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux – But, on further testing, the SD Card (mmc1) had … Continue reading →
After a lot of ‘hacking’, I managed to get the Odroid U3 to boot with Kernel 3.14-rc3, from http://git.prahal.homelinux.net/odroid.git/ , but there were persistent issues with USB, which refused to recognise any devices connected (apart from the USB memory stick (usb-storage) connection built-in to the kernel at compile time). Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) Kernel 3.14.0-rc3 on an … Continue reading →