Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.1-rc4, and this is OK with the latest NVIDIA drivers (346.72 and 352.09) and with vmnet-patched VMware 11.1.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc4 #1 SMP Mon May 18 16:00:31 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Details of changes from -rc3 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1505.2/01224.html Robert Gadsdon. May 18, 2015. … Continue reading →
Updated the DreamPlug and CuBox-i4 Pro to Kernel 4.1-rc3, from kernel.org.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 4.1.0-rc3 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …………… # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 4.1.0-rc3 #2 Mon May 11 15:04:52 PDT 2015 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.1.0-rc3 on an armv7l (ttymxc0) ……………. # uname -a Linux rgcubox … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.1-rc3, and confirmed that this is now OK with the latest NVIDIA drivers, and includes the change to linux/arch/x86/kernel/process.c as detailed in a previous article. Patched VMware 11.x is OK, as before.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc3 #1 SMP Mon May 11 07:10:01 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux … Continue reading →
The GPL error with NVIDIA drivers and kernel 4.1-rc has been fixed with a patch to linux/arch/x86/kernel/process.c Details are at http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1505.0/03818.html. EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_tss); has been replaced by EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(cpu_tss); I have applied the patch to Kernel 4.1-rc2, and rebooted, and NVIDIA driver 346.59 now compiles and loads OK.. Robert Gadsdon. May 6, 2015. … Continue reading →
Updated the Odroid U3 to Kernel 4.1-rc2, from https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid/tree/odroid-4.1.y Apart from the SELinux shenanigans (see previous post..) there were no problems.. Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.1.0-rc2 on an armv7l (ttySAC1) ….. ]# uname -a Linux rgodroid 4.1.0-rc2 #1 SMP Wed May 6 11:44:37 PDT 2015 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux I had updated to Fedora 22 … Continue reading →
After updating the Odroid U3 to kernel 4.1-rc2 (see separate post) I encountered more SELinux / Fedora 22 issues.. This time, SELinux tried to enable itself in ‘targeted’ mode on reboot, despite being ‘disabled’ in the config file.. …. [ OK ] Started Tell Plymouth To Write Out Runtime Data. [ OK ] Started Preprocess NFS configuration. … Continue reading →
I updated the CuBox-i4-Pro (Fedora 22) to Kernel 4.1-rc2, but the (re)boot process was very sluggish, with several key commands failing: ….. systemd[1]: Unit dbus.service entered failed state ….. [FAILED] Failed to start Login Service. ….. [FAILED] Failed to start Modem Manager. ….. [FAILED] Failed to start Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack. ….. [FAILED] Failed to start Network Manager. … Continue reading →
Updated the CuBox-i4Pro to kernel 4.1-rc1 from kernel.org.. Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.1.0-rc1 on an armv7l (ttymxc0) ………. # uname -a Linux rgcubox 4.1.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sun Apr 26 23:15:50 EDT 2015 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux I did try to do the same with the DreamPlug, but for some reason it would not boot… More … Continue reading →
I should have known that 4.1-rc1 would show up just after I published my linux-next article, and here it is.. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/testing/linux-4.1-rc1.tar.xz $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sun Apr 26 18:56:05 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1504.3/01263.html As with linux-next from April 24, the (patched) VMware 11.1.0 compiled and loaded … 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 →