Updated the Rock2 to Kernel 4.6-rc1: ……… Fedora 23 (Twenty Three) Kernel 4.6.0-rc1 on an armv7l (ttyS2) ……………….. # uname -a Linux rgrock2 4.6.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sun Mar 27 03:47:06 EDT 2016 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux The stmmac Ethernet driver bug from 4.5 Final has still not been fixed, and the driver code has changed in 4.6-rc1, … Continue reading →
Just installed Kernel 4.6-rc1 on the test system. Depending on your configuration, you may encounter a compilation error: CC drivers/thermal/mtk_thermal.o drivers/thermal/mtk_thermal.c: In function ‘mtk_thermal_probe’: drivers/thermal/mtk_thermal.c:560:8: error: implicit declaration of function ‘device_reset’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] ret = device_reset(&pdev->dev); ^ cc1: some warnings being treated as errors ……………………………. This is due to a Mediatek thermal driver being ‘selected’ by default (and … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.5-rc7 had booted successfully on the Radxa Rock2, but 4.5 Final failed, as the SDcard was ‘loaded’ just too late: mmc_host mmc1: Bus speed (slot 0) = 400000Hz (slot req 400000Hz, actual 400000HZ div = 0) dwmmc_rockchip ff0f0000.dwmmc: 1 slots initialized ……………………… VFS: Cannot open root device “mmcblk1p1” or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 ………………………… Kernel panic – … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.5 Final is out, and – as expected – is OK with the latest NVIDIA (361.28) and VMware (12.1.0).. There was nearly one more -RC, but it seems Final was released, instead.. Brief details here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1603.1/04467.html Robert Gadsdon. March 14, 2016. … Continue reading →
After a lot of testing, and some more confusion, I have managed to get the Rock2 to boot using the latest (2016.03-rc3) version of U-Boot, and the latest kernel (4.5-rc7) As previously, there was a lot of conflicting information……. I started by booting into the semi-proprietary 3.10-based kernel on the SDcard, and then erasing the eMMC (dd … Continue reading →
Just acquired a 64-bit Odroid C2: As usual, I installed Fedora 23 aarch64 on it: Fedora 23 (Twenty Three) Kernel 3.14.29 on an aarch64 (ttyS0) ………………… # uname -a Linux rgc2 3.14.29 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 9 11:14:41 PST 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux The only kernel source available – so far – is a heavily-patched … Continue reading →
I have just posted copies of recent kernel configs for the Odroid U3 and CuBox-i4Pro.. Odroid U3 – Kernel config for 4.4 : http://pastebin.com/NveRajaZ CuBox-i4Pro – Kernel config for 4.4.1: http://pastebin.com/Kbexi0A5 These do not include working WiFi, as 2.4GHz is pretty useless at my location… Robert Gadsdon. February 2, 2016. … Continue reading →
Just installed the latest NVIDIA driver – 352.79 – on the test system, and it compiles and runs OK with Kernel 4.5-rc1.. Release notes etc. are here: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/97645/en-us I had been running the ‘beta’ driver 361.18, but found that this was using up large amounts of memory (13GB, out of 16GB) when running VMware and Firefox, and … Continue reading →
Just installed Kernel 4.5-rc1 on the test system, and NVIDIA 358.16 (and ‘beta’ 361.18) and VMware 12.1.0 all compile and load/run OK.. Details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1601.3/00205.html $ uname -a Linux rglinux 4.5.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sun Jan 24 15:39:14 PST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. January 24, 2016. … Continue reading →
Just installed the latest NVIDIA beta driver – 361.18 – and it is now OK with Plasma and KDE5.. Release notes and download link here: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/97474/en-us Notes include: ”Fixed a bug in the EGL driver where a mutex was unlocked more than once. This triggers undefined behavior, and in particular, if lock elision is enabled in glibc, … Continue reading →