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ARM – Kernel 3.19 for Odroid U3 – With Fan Control..

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Updated the Odroid U3 to (patched) Kernel 3.19, from https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid/tree/odroid-3.19.y Thanks to work by tobiasjakobi, this now includes the preliminary patches – updated for 3.19 – for fan control on the Odroid U3, originally posted by Lukasz Majewski at http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-samsung-soc/msg42259.html So, (on a Fedora 21 system) you can now control the fan, as follows: # echo “0” … Continue reading →

3.19 Final – NVIDIA and (Patched) VMware OK..

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Updated the test system to Kernel 3.19 ‘final’, and – as expected – the latest NVIDIA (346.35) and VMware 11.0 (with the vmnet patch..) compile and boot/load OK.. Quite a lot of changes from -rc7, and some reverted..  More details here : http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.1/00199.html $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.19.0 #1 SMP Mon Feb 9 14:53:53 PST 2015 … Continue reading →

ARM – Odroid U3 Kernel Compilation..

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This is a workflow for compilation of a kernel + device tree for the Odroid U3.   There are other ways of doing this, but this one works, for me.. Compilation works fine on the device itself, so no need for cross-compilations.. This is for a device with root filesystem and boot partition on one SDcard.. Source from: … Continue reading →

VMware 11 – Fix for vmnet and Kernel 3.19..

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Thanks to Al Viro, and to coderus on the VMware forum, we now have a solution for vmnet and Kernel 3.19, as follows: In vmnet-only/driver.c (lines 269, 1194, and 1195): Replace instances of f_dentry with f_path.dentry In vmnet-only/userif.c (line 526): Replace    return skb_copy_datagram_iovec(skb, 0, &iov, len); with    struct iov_iter to;    iov_iter_init(&to, READ, &iov, 1, … Continue reading →