{"id":1271,"date":"2015-01-12T02:14:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T02:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2015-01-12T02:14:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T02:14:59","slug":"kernel-3-19-rc4-ok-on-cubox-i4-pro-no-fixes-yet-for-nvidia-and-vmware-on-x86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"Kernel 3.19-rc4 &#8211; OK on CuBox-i4 Pro..   No fixes yet for NVIDIA and VMware on x86.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated the test system to <strong>Kernel 3.19-rc4<\/strong>, and the same comments apply as for -rc3..\u00a0 Still no fixes for NVIDIA and VMware, yet..<\/p>\n<p>I tried the CuBox-i4 Pro with a &#8216;standard&#8217; kernel from kernel.org, rather than the &#8216;patched&#8217; version used previously, and it booted OK..<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Kernel 3.19.0-rc4 on an armv7l (ttymxc0)<\/strong>\r\n<strong>.............<\/strong>\r\n<strong>$ uname -a<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Linux rgcubox 3.19.0-rc4 #2 SMP Sun Jan 11 20:27:21 EST 2015 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>Details of -rc3 are here:\u00a0 <a title=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1501.1\/02001.html\" href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1501.1\/02001.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1501.1\/02001.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And -despite what you may have read elsewhere &#8211; there is still no real fix for the &#8216;lockup&#8217; problem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">may<\/span> possibly be that not running systems as just &#8216;preempt&#8217; may help to mitigate the problem, and I have been running 3.18.2 like this on my main system for a couple of days now, with no lockups &#8211; so far!<\/p>\n<pre>CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y\r\n# CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set<\/pre>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 January 11, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated the test system to Kernel 3.19-rc4, and the same comments apply as for -rc3..\u00a0 Still no fixes for NVIDIA and VMware, yet.. I tried the CuBox-i4 Pro with a &#8216;standard&#8217; kernel from kernel.org, rather than the &#8216;patched&#8217; version used previously, and it booted OK.. Fedora release 21 (Twenty One) Kernel 3.19.0-rc4 on an armv7l (ttymxc0) &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1271\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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":[5,6,14,15,16,18,19,20,25],"tags":[980,981,979,964,982,283],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-crash-and-burn","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-linux-arm","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-performance-2","category-vmware","tag-cubox","tag-dont-run-preempt","tag-kernel-3-19-rc4","tag-lockup-problem","tag-no-fix-for-nvidia-vmware","tag-ok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","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=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}