The old meson Ethernet fix/patch/hack no longer applies cleanly to the latest (December 1) linux-next, but – fortunately – there is a ‘better’ patch available for the meson8b-dwmac driver itself.. Details can be found in this thread: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-amlogic/2016-November/001675.html I have applied these patches to the December 1 linux-next tree, on the Odroid C2, and the Ethernet link … Continue reading →
After the – partial – success with the 96Boards Hikey, I tried the Qualcomm Dragonboard 410c, but the June 29 Linux-Next failed to boot successfully, with only one CPU initialising, and MMC errors, and eventual hang…. ……………………….. psci: failed to boot CPU1 (-95) CPU1: failed to boot: -95 CPU1: failed in unknown state : 0x0 psci: failed … Continue reading →
I decided to check the latest linux-next tree for signs of Odroid C2 code, and there is some there – apparently for basic functionality.. Compiled OK, but when I tried to boot it, the Hardkernel-supplied version of U-Boot crashed: odroidc2#ext4load mmc 0:1 ${loadaddr} /boot/uboot/Image 7748608 bytes read in 187 ms (39.5 MiB/s) odroidc2#ext4load mmc 0:1 ${dtb_loadaddr} /boot/uboot/meson-gxbb-odroidc2.dtb … Continue reading →
As Kernel 4.1-rc1 is not released yet, I tested the April 24 version of linux-next, to see how VMware and NVIDIA compiles would behave.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.0.0-next-20150424 #2 SMP Sun Apr 26 12:04:54 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux With this version, VMware 11.1 (with the 3.19 vmnet patch) compiled and loaded OK, but … Continue reading →