Just updated the Dreamplug to kernel version 3.6-rc7, and nothing broke.. Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) Kernel 3.6.0-rc7 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.6.0-rc7 #1 Mon Sep 24 20:34:13 BST 2012 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux Sadly, this is the only ‘up-to-date’ ARM device I have, as the Raspberry Pi is on 3.2.27 – … Continue reading →
The availability of additional kernel code – and functionality – is good news, but the APC kernel version is still a relative antique.. 2.6.32.9 is over 2 years old, now, and the latest ‘mainstream’ Linux kernel is 3.5.4, and 3.6 will soon be released… Assuming the focus is still on Android, then an update to Android 4.1 … Continue reading →
Well, the ‘Turbo’ Pi overclocking might be great for playing games (Quake 3, anyone?) but regular apps don’t like it. After applying the Turbo 1GHz overclock, I immediately had problems with yum / rpm segfaulting when run, so reverted to the standard 700MHz again, and all is well.. Maybe a little less overclock, might be more stable? … Continue reading →
The recent announcement regarding ‘overclocking’ the Raspberry Pi was too good to ignore: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2008 So, as most Pi stuff seems to be Debian-centric these days, this is how I did it for Fedora… This method should also work for any other distro.. You will need to compile and install the latest version of the Pi 3.2.27 kernel … Continue reading →
I have just updated the Raspberry Pi to kernel 3.2.29, from the latest Pi kernel 3.2.27 at https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux, plus the two incremental patches from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/incr/ The system is OK, and USB seems to be more stable than before, even after plugging in USB1.1 devices.. Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) Kernel 3.2.29-pi on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) ………. usb … Continue reading →
First we had ‘EFI Secure Boot‘ limited to Microsoft control, and now Intel and AMD have both – somewhat coincidentally – announced that their new tablet-focussed CPUs – ‘Clover Trail‘ and ‘Hondo‘ respectively – will be ‘Windows 8 Only’, with Intel even going so far to state categorically that ‘Linux will not be supported’.. I can only … Continue reading →
I am one of those people who compiles a lot of new kernels, and have become increasingly frustrated by the user-unfriendliness of grub2.. Now the latest version of grub2 has introduced – for reasons that I cannot fathom – two levels of menu, and relegated most of the multiple-choice kernel version boot options to the secondary menu … Continue reading →
Running Fedora 17, you expect certain features to be a bit ‘bleeding edge’, but sometimes it seems things are getting more difficult, rather than – as it should be – easier? An example in point.. Why on earth did someone decide good old eth0 was not good enough? Now I have ‘p20p1‘ instead! I used to think … Continue reading →
After noting the success of the XBMC team in getting high-quality video playback on the Raspberry Pi, I tried to see what was currently possible with the latest version of the APC kernel.. Sadly, the XBMC player is only available for the proprietary Pi Broadcom chipset.. I did try installing the binary-only Android APC player, but it … Continue reading →
Now that Fedora 13 and the APC kernel provide basic functionality, a brief summary of where you can get the ‘bits’… Assumptions: You will need to be reasonably adept at the following: 1. Cross-compiling and patching a Linux / ARM kernel, from source obtained from GitHub. 2. Formatting and partitioning an SD-card (FAT and EXT3..) 3. Installing … Continue reading →