{"id":1816,"date":"2016-10-15T20:32:38","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T19:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2016-10-15T20:32:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T19:32:38","slug":"arm64-multiple-meson-mmc-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1816","title":{"rendered":"ARM64 – Multiple Meson MMC Mystery.."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to update the Odroid C2 to the latest patched kernel, but then found that the meson-mmc<\/strong> driver had mysteriously vanished from the source tree..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This – of course – makes the kernel pretty useless…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I did some research, but could not find any specific mention of the removal of this code, but then found that a ‘new’ version of the driver had been written, and is currently making it way through the normal review process..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No mention of why this ‘new’ version was necessary, but I did notice the the ‘old’ driver (which worked fine on my system – with eMMC) was just GPLv2 licensed, but the ‘new’ one is joint GPLv2\/BSD licensed, which might explain the complete re-write?<\/p>\n

Hopefully the new driver will make its way into the patched kernel soon…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And – hopefully – Ethernet will finally work properly, and maybe even USB!<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 October 15, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going to update the Odroid C2 to the latest patched kernel, but then found that the meson-mmc driver had mysteriously vanished from the source tree..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This – of course – makes the kernel pretty useless…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I did some research, but could not find any specific mention of the removal of this code, but then found …<\/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":[1132,1131,5,14,16,1285,19],"tags":[1133,1451,1173,242,1450,1452,1286],"class_list":["post-1816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aarch64","category-arm64","category-compilation","category-kernel","category-linux-arm","category-odroid-c2","category-opinion","tag-arm64","tag-joint-licensing","tag-kernel","tag-linux","tag-meson-mmc-driver-code-missing","tag-new-version-written","tag-odroid-c2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816","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=1816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}