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Re: Kernel 4.12
Posted: Sun May 28, 2017 4:15 pm
by xeno74
Re: Kernel 4.12
Posted: Mon May 29, 2017 1:36 pm
by xeno74
Hi All,
The
third release candidate of kernel
4.12 is available for testing.
New:
Download:
vmlinux-4.12-rc3-AmigaONE_X1000.tar.gz
Screenshot of the
MATE PowerPC Remix 2017 with the
third release candidate of kernel
4.12:
Please test it.
Thanks,
Christian
Re: Kernel 4.12
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 11:35 am
by xeno74
Hi All,
I have recently released the
RC4 of kernel
4.12 for testing.
New:
Download:
vmlinux-4.12-rc4-AmigaONE_X1000.tar.gz
Screenshot of the
MATE PowerPC Remix 2017 with the
RC4 of kernel
4.12:
Please test it.
Thanks,
Christian
Re: Kernel 4.12
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 11:35 am
by xeno74
Hi All,
I
cross compiled the
RC4 on my
ubuntu MATE 16.04.2 LTS x86-64 today.
Could you please test this cross compiled kernel on your AmigaOne X1000? I'd like to know if it works.
Download:
vmlinux-4.12-rc4-cc-AmigaONE_X1000.tar.gz
Cross compiling instructions:
System requirements: Ubuntu 14.04 x86 or higher
- Install the toolchain with the following commands:
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sudo apt-get install gcc-powerpc-linux-gnu
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sudo apt-get install build-essential
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sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
- Download the RC4:
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wget https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/t/linux-4.12-rc4.tar.gz
- Unpack the kernel archive:
- Rename the directory for the Nemo patch:
- Patch the kernel source code with the Nemo patch:
- Copy the old RC3 config file to the a directory:
- Change to the directory a:
- Create a RC4 config based on the old RC3 config:
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make CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc oldconfig
- Compile the Linux kernel:
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make CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc vmlinux
- With file you can check if make had built a PPC64 kernel.
vmlinux: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, 64-bit PowerPC or cisco 7500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=459f0910448bb4db1508ad1bcae2b2580510f8c8, not stripped
- Compile the Linux kernel modules:
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make CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc modules
- Install the Linux kernel modules:
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sudo make CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- ARCH=powerpc modules_install
You can get the kernel modules from the directory /lib/modules.
Please test the cross compiled kernel.
Thanks,
Christian
Re: Kernel 4.12
Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2017 12:31 pm
by xeno74
FYI:
cat /proc/version
Cross compiled RC4:
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Linux version 4.12.0-rc4_cc-A-EON_AmigaOne_X1000_Nemo (christian@PPC64-Cross-Compilation-Server) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) ) #1 SMP Wed Jun 7 11:45:05 CEST 2017
Native compiled RC4:
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Linux version 4.12.0-rc4_A-EON_AmigaOne_X1000_Nemo (christian@AmigaoneX1000) (gcc version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-21) ) #1 SMP Tue Jun 6 08:43:36 CEST 2017
Re: Kernel 4.12
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2017 12:58 pm
by xeno74
Hi All,
I
cross compiled the latest Git kernel today.
Download of the latest Git source code:
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git clone --depth=1 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git a
Download:
vmlinux-4.12-rc4-2-cc-AmigaONE_X1000.tar.gz
Please test it.
Thanks,
Christian
Re: Kernel 4.12
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2017 12:09 pm
by xeno74
Hi All,
The
RC5 of kernel
4.12 is available.
New:
Download:
vmlinux-4.12-rc5-AmigaONE_X1000.tar.gz
Screenshot of Fedora 25 Server PPC64 MATE with Firefox 53.03 and with kernel
4.12-rc5:
Please test it.
Thanks,
Christian
Re: Kernel 4.12
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2017 8:17 pm
by xeno74
Re: Kernel 4.12
Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:04 pm
by xeno74
Hi All,
I have recently released the
RC6 of kernel
4.12 for testing.
New:
Download:
vmlinux-4.12-rc6-AmigaONE_X1000.tar.gz
Screenshot of the
MATE PowerPC Remix 2017 with the
RC6 of kernel
4.12:
Please test it.
Thanks,
Christian
Re: Kernel 4.12
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 8:47 pm
by xeno74
Hi All,
I released the
RC7 of kernel
4.12 for the X1000 and X5000 today.
New:
Compiled with the GCC version
6.3.0 20170618.
Download:
vmlinux-4.12-rc7-AmigaONE_X1000.tar.gz (In this package is also the RC7 for the X5000)
Screenshot of the
MATE PowerPC Remix 2017 with the
RC7 of kernel
4.12:
Please test it.
Thanks,
Christian