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Kernel 3.8.1 – and 3.7.10 is EOL..

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Recently updated my main system to 3.8.1, without any fuss..   As before, the (patched) VMware 9.01 works fine, and the latest NVIDIA ‘stable’ driver 310.32 compiles OK, too..    Don’t forget to include the obligatory softlink, before compiling VMware! ln -s /usr/src/linux-3.8.1/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-3.8.1/include/linux/version.h There is a later version of the 3.7 branch available – 3.7.10, but this is … Continue reading →

Pi to 3.8.1 – Incrementally, as usual..

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Just updated the Raspberry Pi from (hacked!)3.8.0 to 3.8.1, by applying the 3.8.0-1 patch at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/patch-3.8.1.bz2 Note that this first incremental patch is in the ‘main’ kernel directory.   Only the subsequent ones (3.8.1-2, etc..) will be in the /incr subdirectory.. The patch applied cleanly, and all seems to be working OK: Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel … Continue reading →