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NVIDIA – Driver 367.18 – OK with Kernel 4.6..

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Tested the latest NVIDIA ‘Beta’ driver – 367.18 – and it compiles OK with Kernel 4.6.. …………… Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.18/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.18/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.18/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.18/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.18/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.18/kernel/nvidia-uvm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.18/kernel/nvidia.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.18/kernel/nvidia.ko …………………… Release notes etc. are here: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/102879 Robert Gadsdon.   May 19, 2016. … Continue reading →

Kernel – 4.6 Final – OK with Patched VMware and NVIDIA..

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Installed Kernel 4.6 Final on the test system, and the patched versions of VMware 12.1.0 (vmnet and vmmon patched) and NVIDIA driver 364.19 all compile OK..     Details of changes since -rc7 are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1605.1/05030.html , and VMware / NVIDIA patch details are in a previous article – https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1709 $ uname -a Linux rgtest 4.6.0 #1 SMP Mon … Continue reading →

ARM64 – Odroid C2 – U-Boot MMC Support..

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After the initial patches to provide basic U-Boot support for the C2, as mentioned in a previous article – there is now a further patch, to enable MMC support.    Details at https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg212503.html I have applied this additional patch, and for SDcard-based systems, it works: U-Boot 2016.05-rc3 (May 14 2016 – 21:06:28 -0700) odroid-c2 aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 5.3.1 20160212 … Continue reading →

ARM64 – Odroid C2 – U-Boot Boots..

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After some valuable info received from Brad (see comment on my earlier article, at https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1723 ), I found the complete set of four patches for initial C2 U-Boot support, and applied these to the latest (May 9) GIT version of U-Boot..   Thanks are also due to Beniamino Galvani for producing these patches.. Detailed instruction on how to … Continue reading →

Kernel – 4.6-rc7 Out – ‘Final’ Should be Next..

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Updated to kernel 4.6-rc7 on the test system, and this is still OK with the ‘patched’ versions of VMware 12.1.0 and NVIDIA 364.19.. Brief details of changes since -rc6 are here:   http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1605.1/00123.html Barring unforeseen problems, the next release should be 4.6 Final.. Robert Gadsdon.    May 8, 2016.   … Continue reading →

Kernel – 4.6-rc6 – Still OK with (Patched) VMware and NVIDIA..

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Kernel 4.6-rc6 has been released, and details of changes since -rc5 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1605.0/00190.html It seems that there will be (at least..) an rc7, before ‘Final’.. Tested with patched VMware 12.1.0 (vmnet and vmmon) and patched NVIDIA (364.19) and both still compile OK..   See my previous article https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1709 for more info.. Robert Gadsdon.    May 2, 2016.   … Continue reading →

ARM64 – Pi3 Success – Almost..

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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 →

Kernel – 4.6-rc5 – OK with (Patched) VMware, and (Patched) NVIDIA..

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Kernel 4.6-rc5 is out, and brief details of changes from -rc4 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1604.3/00178.html Kernel 4.6 seems to have a habit of continuing later-rc breakages with VMware and NVIDIA, compared to previous kernel releases.. The VMware 12 fix for 4.6-rc4 (see https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1706 ) still works OK with 4.6-rc5, but even the latest NVIDIA driver – 364.19 breaks … Continue reading →

VMware – Later 4.6-rc breaks vmmon and vmnet..

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Thanks to Justin Palermo, there is a patch for VMware 12 vmmon and vmnet problems he identified with the later Kernel 4.6-rcs.       See comments on my earlier 4.6-rc1 article for details:  https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1679 I have applied the patch to VMware 12.1.0, on Kernel 4.6-rc4, and VMware now compiles and runs OK.. Robert Gadsdon.   April 22, 2016. … Continue reading →

ARM – Rock2 – Kernel 4.6-rc4 – MMC Swaparound – Bug or Feature?

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I had been running Kernel 4.6-rc2 on the Radxa Rock2 without any issues, and decided to update to recently-released Kernel 4.6-rc4.. Brief details of changes from -rc3 are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1604.2/00610.html The boot failed, and I then compiled/installed 4.6-rc3 to see if that would have been OK, and it was.. I then noticed something odd in the failed … Continue reading →