After some time, I decided to test the latest ‘Linux-Next’ with the 96Boards HiSilicon Hikey, and – this time – it booted successfully (headless), with networking.. Fedora 24 (Twenty Four) Kernel 4.7.0-rc5-next-20160628 on an aarch64 (ttyAMA0) ………………….. # uname -a Linux rghikey 4.7.0-rc5-next-20160628 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 28 22:34:10 EDT 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux Still … 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 http://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 →
Kernel 4.7-rc2 is out and brief details of changes from -rc1 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1606.0/03592.html After all the later-rc breakage with 4.6, I tested the latest patched NVIDIA drivers, and VMware, with this version, and all the previous 4.6/4.7 patches for VMware 12.1.1, and the 4.7 patches for NVIDIA 367.18 and 361.45.11 still work. See http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1748 and http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1750 … Continue reading →
My ‘system disk’ (/dev/sda) started to show bad sectors, recently, and so I decided to replace it. The disk was around 8 years old, and had been in almost-continuous use.. I have not had to do this for some considerable time, and I think the last time was in the late-90s, and using LILO! (No convoluted grub2 … Continue reading →