{"id":1767,"date":"2016-06-29T07:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T06:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2016-06-29T07:05:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T06:05:21","slug":"arm64-hikey-success-with-linux-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1767","title":{"rendered":"ARM64 – Hikey Success, with Linux-Next.."},"content":{"rendered":"

After some time, I decided to test the latest ‘Linux-Next’ with the 96Boards HiSilicon Hikey<\/strong>, and – this time – it booted successfully (headless), with networking..<\/p>\n

Fedora 24 (Twenty Four)<\/span><\/strong>\r\nKernel 4.7.0-rc5-next-20160628 on an aarch64 (ttyAMA0)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n.......................<\/span><\/strong>\r\n# uname -a<\/span><\/strong>\r\nLinux rghikey 4.7.0-rc5-next-20160628 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 28 22:34:10 EDT 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU\/Linux<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
Still not completely stable, as polkitd<\/strong> kept throwing a translation fault<\/em> every time I used dnf<\/strong>..<\/p>\n
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached (g-io-error-quark, 24)<\/span><\/strong>\r\nConsole:..<\/span>\r\n[ 77.362100] polkitd[1238]: unhandled level 0 translation fault (11) at 0x7fffb010c040, esr 0x92000004<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.371406] pgd = ffff80003a0ef000<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.374885] [7fffb010c040] *pgd=0000000000000000<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.379536]<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.381073] CPU: 7 PID: 1238 Comm: polkitd Not tainted 4.7.0-rc5-next-20160628 #1<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.388616] Hardware name: HiKey Development Board (DT)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.393886] task: ffff80003af2d400 ti: ffff800039e08000 task.ti: ffff800039e08000<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.401427] PC is at 0xffffb20e7410<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.404926] LR is at 0xffffb207ba74<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.408420] pc : [<0000ffffb20e7410>] lr : [<0000ffffb207ba74>] pstate: 80000000<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.415822] sp : 0000ffffdb6fa3f0<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.419143] x29: 0000ffffdb6fa7f0 x28: 0000aaaadb404a60<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.424504] x27: 0000aaaadb403120 x26: 0000ffffdb6fa4f0<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.429832] x25: 00007fffb010c040 x24: 0000aaaadb4036a8<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.435160] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000000<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.440496] x21: 0000000000000008 x20: 0000ffffb228c000<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.445825] x19: 0000ffffb228c000 x18: 0000000000000014<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.451155] x17: 0000ffffb20aa738 x16: 0000ffffb228c248<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.456529] x15: 0000000000000020 x14: 0000000000000000<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.461858] x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.467190] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000065<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.472528] x9 : 0000ffffb22991c8 x8 : 0000ffffb2298ca0<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.477861] x7 : 000000000000001b x6 : 0000000000000008<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.483194] x5 : 0000aaaadb4049b0 x4 : 0000000000000000<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.488543] x3 : 0000000000000001 x2 : 0000ffffb275ec60<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.493879] x1 : 0000aaaadb3fee70 x0 : 00007fffb010c040<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 77.499214]<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 79.945177] ax88179_178a 1-1.2:1.0 eth0: ax88179 - Link status is: 1<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
Still, dnf completed successfully, despite this..<\/p>\n
This is – so far – the only SoC system I have that boots using grub<\/strong>, but I should be getting a couple of Intel Atom-based systems soon, and I am assuming that these will do the same..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Delivery dates are ‘uncertain’, at present..<\/p>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 June 28, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 …<\/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":[1132,1131,1280,10,1146,14,16],"tags":[1391,1133,101,1173,242,1175],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aarch64","category-arm64","category-boot","category-fedora","category-hikey","category-kernel","category-linux-arm","tag-4-7-rc5-next","tag-arm64","tag-boot","tag-kernel","tag-linux","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","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=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}