Now that Cyanogenmod has summarily shut down, there is a planned new forked version, at http://lineageos.org/ Remains to be seen whether this will flourish, and whether it will survive any potential legal shenanigans, but at least it shows one of the core benefits of Open-Source code..! Robert Gadsdon. December 27, 2016. … Continue reading →
After some of the code for the C2 has been removed from various git repositories, there is a new 4.9-rc1-based tree at https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/khilman/linux-amlogic.git/?h=v4.10/integ , which now includes the ‘new’ rewritten MMC driver. To select this, choose ‘Amlogic S905/GX* SD/MMC Host Controller support (MMC_MESON_GX)‘ in the kernel config.. …… Fedora 24 (Workstation Edition) Kernel 4.9.0-rc1-c2 on an aarch64 … Continue reading →
If you need a particular rootfs for an ARM7 or ARM64 device, there is a source of these at http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/ As an example, for Fedora 23 aarch64, then download the http://libguestfs.org/download/builder/fedora-23-aarch64.xz file, and then expand it (I use ark..) This will give you a file fedora-23-aarch64, and simply rename this to fedora-23-aarch64.img. As the Fedora aarch64 images … Continue reading →
I had been running Kernel 4.6-rc2 on the Radxa Rock2 without any issues, and decided to update to recently-released Kernel 4.6-rc4.. Brief details of changes from -rc3 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1604.2/00610.html The boot failed, and I then compiled/installed 4.6-rc3 to see if that would have been OK, and it was.. I then noticed something odd in the failed … 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 →
Updated the Rock2 to Kernel 4.6-rc1: ……… Fedora 23 (Twenty Three) Kernel 4.6.0-rc1 on an armv7l (ttyS2) ……………….. # uname -a Linux rgrock2 4.6.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sun Mar 27 03:47:06 EDT 2016 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux The stmmac Ethernet driver bug from 4.5 Final has still not been fixed, and the driver code has changed in 4.6-rc1, … Continue reading →
Tested Kernel 4.4-rc3 with the Odroid U3, and – finally – the fan works correctly.. Kernels from 4.2 onward booted successfully, but the fan ran continuously… And now I can add the U3 to the (small!) list of my ARM devices that work with the standard unpatched kernel.org kernel (the others are the DreamPlug (ARMv5) and the … Continue reading →
Recently tried the latest standard release of u-boot from ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/ , and it now works OK with the SDCard in the Odroid U3. You still have to incorporate the ‘special’ secure-boot binaries and shell script from the hardkernel version ( in directory sd_fuse) from https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot/tree/odroid-v2010.12 and change the reference to u-boot.bin to u-boot-dtb.bin in sd_fusing.sh. U-Boot 2015.10-rc3 … Continue reading →
Just updated the Odroid U3 to (patched) Kernel 4.3-rc2, from here: https://github.com/tobiasjakobi/linux-odroid/tree/odroid-4.3.y Fedora 23 (Twenty Three) Kernel 4.3.0-rc2 on an armv7l (ttySAC1) …………….. ]# uname -a Linux rgodroid 4.3.0-rc2 #1 SMP Mon Sep 21 13:38:23 PDT 2015 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux I had tried the ‘standard’ release of 4.3-rc2 from kernel.org, and this booted OK, but the … Continue reading →
I encountered more ‘network missing’ issues with Kernel 4.2 on the CuBox-i4 Pro, so reverted to Kernel 4.1.6, and all was well, again.. I have since updated to Kernel 4.3-rc1 (from kernel.org), and everything – so far – seems to be working OK.. Fedora release 22 (Twenty Two) Kernel 4.3.0-rc1 on an armv7l (ttymxc0) …………………… ]# uname … Continue reading →