Decided to try the Odroid C2 with the latest Kernel, and recently-released patches for MMC support.. Used the (patched) version of 4.8-rc4 from here: https://github.com/ioft/linux/tree/c2 Thanks to umiddelb for producing this, which incorporates the (e)MMC support patches, and also includes patches providing the latest version of the dwmac_meson8b Ethernet driver, and associated mods to the device tree … Continue reading →
The only missing OS component on the new UP Board (x5-Z8350) was that sound (HDMI) was not present.. After a bit of digging, I found some patches for Kernel 4.5, and a later patched kernel version that was supposed to work.. I tried the patched version of 4.7.0 from here: https://github.com/plbossart/sound/tree/byt-cht-hdmi-v4.7 but found that the compile failed: … Continue reading →
Managed to update the Hikey ARM64 SoC to the latest kernel – 4.7 Final. Fedora 24 (Twenty Four) Kernel 4.7.0 on an aarch64 (ttyAMA0) ………………………. # uname -a Linux rghikey 4.7.0 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 24 19:53:54 EDT 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux On boot, and when the network initialised, polkitd segfaulted again, the same as … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.7 has been released – slightly later than usual – and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1607.3/00150.html $ uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 4.7.0 #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 14:34:37 PDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Neither VMware nor NVIDIA have drivers that work with this kernel version, but the 4.7-rc patched versions of VMware 12.1.1 and NVIDIA … Continue reading →
Tested some of the kernel versions possible (or not..) for the Next CHIP ARMv7, with mixed results.. I added an Ethernet/USB device (ax88179-based) on the USB hub, and the network connection works fine.. Linux-Next does not yet have the drivers for the Hynix NAND in the CHIP, although – with the rootfs separate on a USB stick … Continue reading →
After pre-ordering one many months ago, I finally got my Next CHIP ARMv7 system in the post.. It certainly is fairly small, but seems well-constructed.. Details are at http://docs.getchip.com/chip.html#chip-hardware After connecting the UART/USB cable, as normal, the system booted into a cut-down version of Debian.. There is no hdmi, or sdcard connector, or Ethernet, but the wi-fi … 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 have tried the latest 4.7-next patched kernel, from https://github.com/anholt/linux/tree/bcm2837-64-next After some trials, I did manage to – just – get it to boot – after falling to an ’emergency console’, but the system is very unstable, with multiple recurring MMC errors.. ….. Give root password for maintenance (or press Control-D to continue): Error getting authority: Error … Continue reading →
Just tested the latest NVIDIA driver – 367.27 – and it fails to compile with Kernel 4.7-rc3. To fix this, the patch for 367.18 still works ( details at https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1750 ). ……………….. Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.27.patched/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.27.patched/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.27.patched/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.27.patched/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.27.patched/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.27.patched/kernel/nvidia-uvm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/Desktop/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-367.27.patched/kernel/nvidia.mod.o LD … Continue reading →
I recently obtained one of the newly-released (- to the ‘public’..) Pine64 ARM64 systems… My first reaction, was that it is a bit on the large side.. The board is over twice the size of the Odroid C2.. As usual, the ‘standard’ U-Boot was a heavily-customised old version, that only mounted Android-format Kernel ‘blob’s, but a hacked … Continue reading →