{"id":1785,"date":"2016-07-25T23:20:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T22:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2016-07-25T23:20:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T22:20:29","slug":"arm64-hikey-to-kernel-4-7-and-polkitd-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1785","title":{"rendered":"ARM64 &#8211; Hikey to Kernel 4.7 &#8211; and Polkitd Fix.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managed to update the <strong>Hikey<\/strong> ARM64 SoC to the latest kernel &#8211; 4.7 Final.<\/p>\n<pre><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">Fedora 24 (Twenty Four)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">Kernel 4.7.0 on an aarch64 (ttyAMA0)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">............................<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"># uname -a<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">Linux rghikey 4.7.0 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 24 19:53:54 EDT 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU\/Linux<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>On boot, and when the network initialised, <strong>polkitd<\/strong> segfaulted again, the same as when I booted a version of 4.7-next..<a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1767\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1767<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 After a bit of research, I found that this was a <em>userland<\/em> problem with <strong>mozjs17<\/strong> on ARM64:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.fedoraproject.org\/pipermail\/arm\/2015-July\/009639.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lists.fedoraproject.org\/pipermail\/arm\/2015-July\/009639.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As this had not been fixed for over a year, I went ahead and applied the patch to the latest mozjs17 source rpm, and rebuilt\/updated, and the problem has gone away..<\/p>\n<p>So.. this is (so far..) the only ARM64 device I have that works (headless..) with the mainstream Linux kernel..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 July 25, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managed to update the Hikey ARM64 SoC to the latest kernel &#8211; 4.7 Final. Fedora 24 (Twenty Four) Kernel 4.7.0 on an aarch64 (ttyAMA0) &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. # uname -a Linux rghikey 4.7.0 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 24 19:53:54 EDT 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU\/Linux On boot, and when the network initialised, polkitd segfaulted again, the same as <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1785\"><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":[1132,1131,1280,5,1238,11,1146,14,16,19,20],"tags":[1135,1133,161,1147,1410,1412,1411,1383,1175],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aarch64","category-arm64","category-boot","category-compilation","category-fix","category-hacks","category-hikey","category-kernel","category-linux-arm","category-opinion","category-performance-2","tag-aarch64","tag-arm64","tag-fix","tag-hikey","tag-kernel-4-7-final","tag-mozjs17-patch","tag-polkitd-segfault","tag-soc","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","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=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}