Decided to try the Odroid C2 with the latest Kernel, and recently-released patches for MMC support..<\/p>\n
Used the (patched) version of 4.8-rc4 from here:\u00a0 https:\/\/github.com\/ioft\/linux\/tree\/c2<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to umiddelb<\/strong><\/em> for producing this, which incorporates the (e)MMC support patches, and also includes patches providing the latest version of the dwmac_meson8b<\/strong> Ethernet driver, and associated mods to the device tree files, etc..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More details in the Odroid Forum discussions: http:\/\/forum.odroid.com\/viewtopic.php?f=135&t=22717#p157817<\/a><\/p>\n The C2 booted OK, once I had modified the boot parameters and \/etc\/fstab<\/strong><\/span> to take account of the fact that the eMMC module (which I use) is \/dev\/mmcblk1<\/strong>, and not (as previously) \/dev\/mmcblk0..\u00a0\u00a0 An SDCard would now be \/dev\/mmcblk0..<\/p>\n I soon encountered a problem with the Ethernet connection, and although eth0<\/em> was present, and there were no errors logged, network traffic stopped after a short time, and could only be re-started by removing and reinstalling the dwmac_meson8b<\/strong> driver module – and then traffic stopped again after a short time…..<\/p>\n The Ethernet driver patches for the C2 are still very much a work-in-progress, and I would hope that this is fixed in a later release..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More details here:\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.mail-archive.com\/netdev@vger.kernel.org\/msg123923.html<\/a><\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 August 31, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Decided to try the Odroid C2 with the latest Kernel, and recently-released patches for MMC support.. Used the (patched) version of 4.8-rc4 from here:\u00a0 https:\/\/github.com\/ioft\/linux\/tree\/c2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to umiddelb for producing this, which incorporates the (e)MMC support patches, and also includes patches providing the latest version of the dwmac_meson8b Ethernet driver, and associated mods to the device tree …<\/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":[1132,1131,5,11,14,16,1285,19,20],"tags":[1133,944,1433,1432,1286],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aarch64","category-arm64","category-compilation","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-arm","category-odroid-c2","category-opinion","category-performance-2","tag-arm64","tag-boot-success","tag-ethernet-problems","tag-kernel-4-8-rc4-patched","tag-odroid-c2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","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=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}............<\/span><\/strong>\r\nFedora 24 (Workstation Edition)<\/span><\/strong>\r\nKernel 4.8.0-rc4-c2 on an aarch64 (ttyAML0)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n............\r\n[root@rgc2 ~]# uname -a<\/span><\/strong>\r\nLinux rgc2 4.8.0-rc4-c2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Aug 31 02:20:44 EDT 2016 aarch64 aarch64<\/strong><\/span>\r\n.........<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n