{"id":1807,"date":"2016-09-14T07:03:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T06:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2016-09-14T07:03:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T06:03:53","slug":"arm64-odroid-c2-boots-with-latest-linux-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1807","title":{"rendered":"ARM64 &#8211; Odroid C2 &#8211; Boots with Latest &#8216;Linux-Next&#8217;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried the latest &#8216;Linux-Next&#8217; version, from <a href=\"https:\/\/git.kernel.org\/cgit\/linux\/kernel\/git\/next\/linux-next.git\/log\/?id=refs\/tags\/next-20160913\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/git.kernel.org\/cgit\/linux\/kernel\/git\/next\/linux-next.git\/log\/?id=refs\/tags\/next-20160913<\/a> and the C2 booted OK, but the Ethernet problem still persists..<\/p>\n<pre>.<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">........<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">eth0: device MAC address 00:1e:06:33:13:6e<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">meson6-dwmac c9410000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 1Gbps\/Full - flow control rx\/tx<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">Fedora 24 (Workstation Edition)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">Kernel 4.8.0-rc6-next-20160913 on an aarch64 (ttyAML0)<\/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 rgc2 4.8.0-rc6-next-20160913 #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 13 22:35:01 PDT 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU\/Linux<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>I had tried all the latest patched versions of 4.8-rc4\/5\/6 for the C2, and all of them still suffer from this problem..\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\"><strong>ETH0<\/strong> <\/span>is present, and there are no errors shown, but network traffic stops after a short time..\u00a0\u00a0 Dropping the link to 100Mbps gives slightly better results, with a longer delay before traffic stops..<\/p>\n<p>Now that this code is in the <em>mainline<\/em> tree, there is a better chance that this can be fixed..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have read some reports that the C2 Ethernet link was OK with a certain patched kernel, but I have tried over eight different patch versions, and none of them worked correctly, on my system..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 September 13, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried the latest &#8216;Linux-Next&#8217; version, from https:\/\/git.kernel.org\/cgit\/linux\/kernel\/git\/next\/linux-next.git\/log\/?id=refs\/tags\/next-20160913 and the C2 booted OK, but the Ethernet problem still persists.. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230; eth0: device MAC address 00:1e:06:33:13:6e meson6-dwmac c9410000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up &#8211; 1Gbps\/Full &#8211; flow control rx\/tx Fedora 24 (Workstation Edition) Kernel 4.8.0-rc6-next-20160913 on an aarch64 (ttyAML0) &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; # uname -a Linux rgc2 4.8.0-rc6-next-20160913 #2 SMP PREEMPT <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1807\"><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":[1132,1131,1280,5,14,16,1437,19,20],"tags":[1440,1441,1439,1438,1286],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aarch64","category-arm64","category-boot","category-compilation","category-kernel","category-linux-arm","category-network","category-opinion","category-performance-2","tag-boots-with-linux-next","tag-ethernet-problems-persist","tag-gxbb","tag-meson","tag-odroid-c2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","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=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}