← Back to team overview

ac100 team mailing list archive

Re: Kernel update request

 

I made a new deb from latest git branch but now it no longer boots on
my machine.
I also have hynix RAM, so it is even more strange that the Dec 6
snapshot booted.

Jani

http://startx.ro/~jani/linux-image-3.0.8-2-ac100_3.0.8-2.1_armel.deb

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Jani Monoses <jani@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback, good to know.
> Others have reported it not booting at all on armhf builds, but if it
> is memory related they'll likely hit
> the same issue on armel.
>
> I'll roll a new package for the more recent tree these days then, once
> your change is in.
>
> Jani
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Marc Dietrich <marvin24@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Jani,
>>
>> thanks for the new kernel!
>>
>> On Wednesday 14 December 2011 01:38:51 Jani Monoses wrote:
>>> >> However we should aim for stability and no churn towards the end of
>>> >> the cycle(March/April)
>>> >> Are there any known regressions vs 2.6.38? Is sound not working yet?
>>> >
>>> > sound works as on 2.6.38 (maybe better, no mic support yet). No
>>> > regressions I know of by now (but I'm a bad tester). It is possible
>>> > that people with hynix memory may not be able to boot. Some IRC user
>>> > wanted to test it this evening. If it doesn't work, I'll disable the
>>> > memory scaling feature again.
>>> Here's a 3.0 deb of the snapshot of a week ago
>>>
>>>
>>> http://startx.ro/~jani/linux-image-3.0.8-1-ac100_3.0.8-1.1_armel.deb
>>>
>>>
>>> For me resume does not work on a stock Ubuntu Precise install, which
>>> worked with the default 2.6.38 kernel.
>>> I get noise on the screen, the machine does not answer key presses or pings.
>>
>> I tested it on Oneiric (armel). It boots and suspends/resumes without
>> problems. One possible issue is that the kernel likely fails on hynix ram
>> based system as I only fixed this issue on Dec. 9th  and the kernel is form
>> Dec. 6th.
>>
>> The resume problems you see may also be RAM clocking related (the noice on the
>> screen). So I better disable the stuff alltogether as it seems to create a lot
>> of problems. I will push a fix in a minute ...
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>> commit 735f939f421c6c9c5db79250955e7b25ee272e0f
>>> Author: Marc Dietrich <marvin24@xxxxxx>
>>> Date:   Tue Dec 6 20:35:30 2011 +0100
>>>
>>>     ARM: tegra: paz00: make sound modular
>>>
>>>     Switch the static sound driver from chromeos to modular version used
>>>     by 2.6.38 kernels.
>>>
>>>     Signed-off-by: Marc Dietrich <marvin24@xxxxxx>


Follow ups

References