3.6.2, Already..
Hot on the heels of the release of kernel 3.6.1, comes 3.6.2! Upgraded this morning, and all is OK.. $ uname -a Linux rglinux 3.6.2 #1 SMP Sat Oct 13 10:50:22 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux … Continue reading →

Hot on the heels of the release of kernel 3.6.1, comes 3.6.2! Upgraded this morning, and all is OK.. $ uname -a Linux rglinux 3.6.2 #1 SMP Sat Oct 13 10:50:22 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux … Continue reading →
Just updated my main (Fedora 17, X86_64, Quad-Core Intel) system to 3.6.1 – released today – with no problems.. $ uname -a Linux rglinux 3.6.1 #1 SMP Sun Oct 7 17:18:41 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Planning to update the Dreamplug (Fedora 17 ARM) next.. … 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 →
The Raspberry Pi repository on GitHub now has kernel 3.2.27 available, so I updated that with the 3.2.27-28 incremental patch, from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/incr/ Now, the Pi is running Fedora 17 with kernel 3.2.28.. Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle) Kernel 3.2.28 on an armv6l (ttyAMA0) rgpi login: xxxx Password: Last login: Thu Jan 1 01:01:03 on ttyAMA0 [xxxx@rgpi ~]# … Continue reading →
After excellent work done by Mike Thompson from the Raspbian project, there is now a set of patches and a config file available for the APC-supplied 2.6.32.9+ kernel source, which enables a working kernel to be compiled and run – although with limited functionality due to ‘missing’ device drivers.. More details at : http://www.raspbian.org/ApricotImages To use this, … Continue reading →
Just to finally confirm that the U-Boot parameters were not in any way affection the APC boot – and therefore that the problem was in the APC’s kernel configuration, probably with the CONFIG_CMDLINE parameter in the original kernel’s .config file – I removed all the U-Boot parameters, as follows: WMT # setenv wmt.display.logoaddr; setenv logocmd; setenv wmt.gpo.lcd; … Continue reading →
Leigh Scott (leigh123linux) has already produced an NVIDIA driver patch for 304.30 to compile – and run – on kernel 3.6-rc1.. Get it at: http://cvs.rpmfusion.org/viewvc/rpms/nvidia-kmod/devel/3.6_kernel.patch?revision=1.2&root=nonfree&view=markup I’ve applied the patch, and all is OK, now… So – 3.6-rc1 now works, with VMware 8.0.4 (patched) and NVIDIA 304.30 (patched)… … Continue reading →
Kernel version 3.5 has not been out for very long, but now there is 3.6-rc1 already – available from http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=summary Compiling now, and will be interesting to see if anything breaks! Update: Compiled and installed OK, and VMware 8.0.4 (patched) compiles OK, but – unusually – the NVIDIA driver (304.30) compilation fails: ……………………….from /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.30/kernel/nv-acpi.c:15: /usr/src/linux-3.6-rc1/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h: In function ‘copy_from_user’: … Continue reading →
As the APCs are still ‘awaiting customs clearance’, I decided to try to cross-compile the kernel source available at github: https://github.com/apc-io/apc-8750 Unfortunately, many of the APC-specific drivers (‘wmt’) are currently missing.. The system is an Android 2.3 one, and the kernel is based – as you would expect – on Linux kernel version 2.6.32. (In this case … Continue reading →
As 3.5 isn’t working – yet – I updated the Dreamplug to the latest 3.4.x – 3.4.7: $ uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.4.7 #1 Mon Jul 30 20:28:47 BST 2012 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU/Linux