I had been frustrated by the apparent inability of the suppliers to provide anything other than an obsolete Ubuntu-centric 3.8+ kernel for the Odroid U2, and other kernels I had tested were somewhat ‘incomplete’…<\/p>\n
I finally managed to get a 3.17-r3 version from https:\/\/github.com\/tobiasjakobi\/linux-odroid\/tree\/odroid-3.17.y<\/a><\/p>\n This now includes the necessary ‘bits’ for the U3, which is functionally identical to the U2…\u00a0\u00a0 After some minor config changes – including de-selecting some of the mali<\/strong> options, as some header files were missing\/obsolete – I managed to get it to boot on my Odroid U2:<\/p>\n Unfortunately, further testing was impossible, after a sudden – and catastrophic – USB stick failure, which trashed the root filesystem..<\/p>\n More testing will follow, when that is replaced!<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 September 12, 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had been frustrated by the apparent inability of the suppliers to provide anything other than an obsolete Ubuntu-centric 3.8+ kernel for the Odroid U2, and other kernels I had tested were somewhat ‘incomplete’… I finally managed to get a 3.17-r3 version from https:\/\/github.com\/tobiasjakobi\/linux-odroid\/tree\/odroid-3.17.y This now includes the necessary ‘bits’ for the U3, which is functionally identical …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,16,794,20],"tags":[1174,101,901,242,908,1175,909],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-arm","category-odroid","category-performance-2","tag-arm","tag-boot","tag-kernel-3-17-rc3","tag-linux","tag-odroid-u2","tag-success","tag-usb-stick-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)<\/strong>\r\nKernel 3.17.0-rc3 on an armv7l (ttySAC1)<\/strong>\r\n..........<\/strong>\r\n# uname -a<\/strong>\r\nLinux rgodroid 3.17.0-rc3 #4 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 11 02:42:18 BST 2014 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/pre>\n