I was going to update the Odroid C2 to the latest patched kernel, but then found that the meson-mmc driver had mysteriously vanished from the source tree.. This – of course – makes the kernel pretty useless… I did some research, but could not find any specific mention of the removal of this code, but then found … 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 →
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 →
Updated the Rock2 to Kernel 4.6-rc2, and the Ethernet problem has been fixed.. Fedora 23 (Twenty Three) Kernel 4.6.0-rc2 on an armv7l (ttyS2) …………. ]# uname -a Linux rgrock2 4.6.0-rc2 #1 SMP Sun Apr 3 21:05:44 EDT 2016 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux Details of Kernel changes from -rc1 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1604.0/01298.html Robert Gadsdon. April 3, 2016. … Continue reading →
Just installed the latest NVIDIA driver – 352.79 – on the test system, and it compiles and runs OK with Kernel 4.5-rc1.. Release notes etc. are here: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/97645/en-us I had been running the ‘beta’ driver 361.18, but found that this was using up large amounts of memory (13GB, out of 16GB) when running VMware and Firefox, and … Continue reading →
Just installed Kernel 4.5-rc1 on the test system, and NVIDIA 358.16 (and ‘beta’ 361.18) and VMware 12.1.0 all compile and load/run OK.. Details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1601.3/00205.html $ uname -a Linux rglinux 4.5.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sun Jan 24 15:39:14 PST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. January 24, 2016. … Continue reading →
Updated to Kernel 4.4 ‘Final’ on the test system, and the latest VMware (12.1.0) and NVIDIA (358.16) compile and run OK.. The ‘beta’ driver 361.16 should be OK, but has multiple userland issues on my systems. – see previous post.).. $ uname -a Linux rglinux 4.4.0 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 22:00:41 PST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 … Continue reading →
As Kernel 4.1-rc1 is not released yet, I tested the April 24 version of linux-next, to see how VMware and NVIDIA compiles would behave.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.0.0-next-20150424 #2 SMP Sun Apr 26 12:04:54 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux With this version, VMware 11.1 (with the 3.19 vmnet patch) compiled and loaded OK, but … Continue reading →
Updated to Kernel 4.0 (from kernel.org), and the latest NVIDIA driver (346.59) and ‘patched’ VMware 11.1 both compile and install/run OK.. $ uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 4.0.0 #1 SMP Sun Apr 12 17:26:04 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Brief details of changes since -rc7 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1504.1/03200.html Robert Gadsdon. April 12, 2015. … Continue reading →