After a lot of ‘frantic testing’, and help from the linux-arm-kernel mailing list, I now have 3.12-rc6 running on the DreamPlug, using the new\/improved ‘device tree’..<\/p>\n
Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)<\/strong> My original error was in basing my efforts on an ‘old’ config from 3.11, which – as far as I could tell – worked and booted correctly, but was – as was pointed out – actually incorrect<\/span>..<\/p>\n So..\u00a0 I decided to scrub the existing config, and start again from scratch ( # make kirkwood_defconfig<\/em><\/strong> ) and then deselect \/ select options specifically for the DreamPlug.<\/p>\n If you want to try this, I have posted my 3.12-rc kernel .config at http:\/\/pastebin.com\/Vr3Y7Gg3<\/a><\/p>\n Thanks are due to Jason Cooper<\/strong> at the linux-arm-kernel lists, for his invaluable help, in pointing out exactly where I was going wrong!<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 October 21, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a lot of ‘frantic testing’, and help from the linux-arm-kernel mailing list, I now have 3.12-rc6 running on the DreamPlug, using the new\/improved ‘device tree’.. Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) Kernel 3.12.0-rc6 on an armv5tel (ttyS0) …………………. # uname -a Linux rgdreamplug 3.12.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 21 13:29:27 BST 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU\/Linux My …<\/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":[5,7,11,14,16],"tags":[1174,136,675,1176,242,1175],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-dreamplug","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-arm","tag-arm","tag-dreamplug-2","tag-example-config","tag-kernel-3-12","tag-linux","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","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=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKernel 3.12.0-rc6 on an armv5tel (ttyS0)<\/strong>
\n………………….<\/strong>
\n# uname -a<\/em><\/strong>
\nLinux rgdreamplug 3.12.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 21 13:29:27 BST 2013 armv5tel armv5tel armv5tel GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/p>\n