Thanks to a comment from Mace Moneta, I learned that there is an ‘alpha release’ of Pidora 19 now available: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/2013-November/007021.html It was a little odd that no mention of this could be found on the Pidora website or Wiki, but hopefully these will be updated in due course.. Pidora release 19 (Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix) Kernel … Continue reading →
The Raspberry Pi 3.12 kernel on GitHub has now been updated, and includes a fix for the problem with sdcard (mmc) recognition/mounting.. So.. I now have the Pi running kernel 3.12.0: Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.12.0-pi+ on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) ……………. $ uname -a Linux rgpi 3.12.0-pi+ #1 PREEMPT Sun Nov 10 00:20:34 GMT 2013 … Continue reading →
Just updated the raspberry Pi to kernel 3.11.7.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.11.7-pi+ on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) ……….. # uname -a Linux rgpi 3.11.7-pi+ #1 PREEMPT Fri Nov 8 12:19:17 GMT 2013 armv6l armv6l armv6l GNU/Linux The Pidora project seemed to show promise, now that armV5 updates are no longer provided after Fedora 18, but … Continue reading →
After considerable delays, NVIDIA have finally released up-to-date drivers that support 3.11 and 3.12 kernels, without the need for patches.. I have tested 319.72 and 331.20, and both compile OK, on kernels 3.11 and 3.12.. Hopefully NVIDIA will be able to maintain their Linux driver/kernel compatibility, after this uncharacteristic lapse.. Robert Gadsdon November 6, 2013.
Continue reading →As NVIDIA still seem to be unable to produce an up-to-date driver, there are a bewildering number of ‘patches’ out for various kernel versions and driver combinations.. I have found a good link to a ‘3.11’ patch for NVIDIA driver 331.17 and kernel 3.12 (patching just nv-linux.h) here: http://pastebin.com/gxKDqu9N I would normally credit the author, but it … Continue reading →
The 3.12 kernel for the Raspberry Pi has just been released on GitHub, and I tried to update, but hit a problem with the mmc (SD Card) driver: [ OK ] Reached target Paths. [*** ] A start job is running for dev-mmcblk0p1.device ………………. [ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device dev-mmcblk0p1.device. [DEPEND] Dependency failed for … Continue reading →
Just updated the DreamPlug to kernel 3.12, and – as predicted by Adam Baxter in a recent comment – the ‘mdio/ethernet’ patch was not included.. Details of the patch are in an earlier article: https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=897 With the patch, everything seems to be OK.. I still get occasional ‘hangs’ when running yum/rpm, but that has been a problem … Continue reading →
Kernel 3.12 is out, and the same comments apply as for the later -rc versions.. VMware 10.0.1 compiles and runs OK, and NVIDIA 331.17 – with the patch mentioned in previous articles – works. Details of changes are here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1589267 As you will see, this post includes some interesting comments on future kernel releases, and a possible … Continue reading →
I updated the DreamPlug to kernel 3.12-rc7, but found that the network problem from 3.12-rc6 was still there, so applied the ‘Ethernet patch’ mentioned in my earlier article – https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=897, and it works OK, now. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.12.0-rc7 #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 28 10:07:38 GMT 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. October 28, … Continue reading →
VMware has just released version 10.0.1, and – as with 10.0 – it compiles and installs OK on the ‘latest’ kernels – 3.11.6 and 3.12-rc6. How times have changed… Previous ‘new’ versions of VMware always seemed to need patching for the latest Linux kernel version, and NVIDIA were always right up-to-date… Now, it seems, the reverse is true.. … Continue reading →