After some of the recent ‘Ethernet fix’ patches have not worked with more recent linux-next kernels, I have found one that – at least at the moment – does fix the ‘hang’ problem – again..<\/p>\n
The patch is applied to meson-gxbb-odroidc2.dts<\/span><\/strong>, and can be found here:\u00a0 http:\/\/archive.arm.linux.org.uk\/lurker\/message\/20161221.113134.3ac4d1e6.en.html<\/a><\/p>\n I did have to revert this kasir_offset<\/em> patch (…-R) to stop the linux-next (December 22) kernel compile from failing:\u00a0 http:\/\/archive.arm.linux.org.uk\/lurker\/message\/20161211.005055.ad5e5693.en.html<\/a> but hopefully this will be fixed in a later version..<\/p>\n With this dts patch, I now have a stable Ethernet connection on the C2 – again..<\/p>\n I should mention that this only gives a headless<\/span> boot, as USB\/Graphics still do not work, on my C2..<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 December 22, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After some of the recent ‘Ethernet fix’ patches have not worked with more recent linux-next kernels, I have found one that – at least at the moment – does fix the ‘hang’ problem – again.. The patch is applied to meson-gxbb-odroidc2.dts, and can be found here:\u00a0 http:\/\/archive.arm.linux.org.uk\/lurker\/message\/20161221.113134.3ac4d1e6.en.html I did have to revert this kasir_offset patch (…-R) to …<\/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":[1132,1131,6,1494,1238,11,14,16,1285,19,20],"tags":[1135,1133,1502,687,1478,1286],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aarch64","category-arm64","category-crash-and-burn","category-ethernet","category-fix","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-arm","category-odroid-c2","category-opinion","category-performance-2","tag-aarch64","tag-arm64","tag-dts","tag-ethernet-patch","tag-linux-next-kernel","tag-odroid-c2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","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=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}..........\r\nmeson8b-dwmac c9410000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 1Gbps\/Full - flow control rx\/tx<\/strong><\/span>\r\nIPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready<\/strong><\/span>\r\nLink is Up - 1000\/Full<\/strong><\/span>\r\n.........<\/strong><\/span>\r\nFedora 25 (Workstation Edition)<\/strong><\/span>\r\nKernel 4.9.0-next-20161222-tx on an aarch64 (ttyAML0)<\/strong><\/span>\r\n......................<\/strong><\/span>\r\n]# uname -a<\/strong><\/span>\r\nLinux rgc2 4.9.0-next-20161222-tx #1 SMP Thu Dec 22 00:33:30 EST 2016 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n