Just tested Kernel 4.0-rc1 – announced here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.2/04059.html As you will see – not much actual detail on what has changed, and I have already run into a couple of ‘issues’… The Radeon drm driver on my laptop refuses to load, and the boot hangs immediately with drm r600_ring_test [radeon] *ERROR* radeon: ring 0 test failed (scratch(0x8504)=0xFFFFFFFF) … Continue reading →
After my tests compiling the new armv7 Pi 2 Kernel – with ‘device tree’ – I decided to try the same with the ‘classic’ armv6 Pi (B+).. You will need the latest version of the Pi /boot files, including the latest config.txt with the necessary parameters for device tree boot, sound config, etc.. For cross-compilation, I created … Continue reading →
Finally got the Raspberry Pi 2, and installed Fedora 21 (armv7hl) with no problems.. Temporarily used object code 3.18.7-v7+ from the repository, and then tested kernel compile options.. The system seems (so far..) to be relatively sluggish compared to my other quad-core armv7 systems.. Compiling on the Pi 2 itself seemed relatively slow, but at least it … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to VMware Workstation 11.1, and – unfortunately – this is still incompatible with Kernel 3.19.. The only good news is.. The vmnet patch for 11.0 still applies, and fixes the problem.. https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1281 The release notes (for what it’s worth!) are here: https://www.vmware.com/support/ws/doc/workstation-111-release-notes.html As you can see – quite a lot of ‘known … Continue reading →
Updated the Odroid U3 to (patched) Kernel 3.19, from https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid/tree/odroid-3.19.y Thanks to work by tobiasjakobi, this now includes the preliminary patches – updated for 3.19 – for fan control on the Odroid U3, originally posted by Lukasz Majewski at http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-samsung-soc/msg42259.html So, (on a Fedora 21 system) you can now control the fan, as follows: # echo “0” … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to Kernel 3.19 ‘final’, and – as expected – the latest NVIDIA (346.35) and VMware 11.0 (with the vmnet patch..) compile and boot/load OK.. Quite a lot of changes from -rc7, and some reverted.. More details here : http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.1/00199.html $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.19.0 #1 SMP Mon Feb 9 14:53:53 PST 2015 … Continue reading →
Just updated the CuBox i4-Pro to Kernel 3.19-rc7 – using the standard code from kernel.org.. with device-tree boot using zImage and imx6q-cubox-i.dtb Only tested ‘headless’ access, so far.. Fedora release 21 (Twenty One) Kernel 3.19.0-rc7 on an armv7l (ttymxc0) …………………….. [root@rgcubox ~]# uname -a Linux rgcubox 3.19.0-rc7 #1 SMP Sat Feb 7 13:36:57 EST 2015 armv7l armv7l … Continue reading →
Updated the Odroid U3 to Kernel 3.19-rc7, from https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid/tree/odroid-3.19.y Had to ‘refresh’ the config, by # make exynos4412_odroid_defconfig, and then (re)enable selinux etc… One feature is that the CPU fan no longer runs constantly, but I need to do more tests, to see if it is now capable of running at all.. The temperature is OK, at … Continue reading →
Installed Kernel 3.19-rc7 on the test system, and the same comments apply as for -rc6. The latest NVIDIA driver (346.35) and VMware 11.0 – with the vmnet patches – install and load/run OK.. Changelog summary here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.0/00273.html $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.19.0-rc7 #1 SMP Mon Feb 2 19:00:25 PST 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux It appears … Continue reading →
For those who have a new Raspberry Pi 2 on order – as I have – the kernel source is now available, at https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/tree/rpi-3.18.y-rebase. To get the correct config, start with # make bcm2709_defconfig For me, one of the additional benefits is that it is ARMv7, which should support the standard up-to-date Fedora 21 distro, instead of … Continue reading →