New kernels

[Roland]

Thank you for testing. I will not compress the kernel modules anymore.

I see... But I have the same issue as Skateman - no audiodriver (SoundBlaster Live!). 'lsmod' does not find anything.

[xeno74]

I tested it on Adélie Linux as well and it also works.

Please try to load the NTFS3 kernel module with the following command as root:

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modprobe ntfs3

After that please post the output of lsmod.

Sometimes the computer needs a reboot after copying the kernel modules directory to /lib/modules.

Please also post the output of

ls -l /lib/modules/6.12.17-powerpc64-smp/kernel/fs/ntfs3/ntfs3.ko.zst

On my Adélie:

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adelie-live /lib/modules # ls -l /lib/modules/6.12.17-powerpc64-smp/kernel/fs/ntfs3/ntfs3.ko.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140230 Mar  7 15:20 /lib/modules/6.12.17-powerpc64-smp/kernel/fs/ntfs3/ntfs3.ko.zst

Please also test the md5sum of the downloaded package.

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md5sum linux-image-6.12.17-X1000_e5500.tar.gz
3c8952f4a85457256533d056401355fd  linux-image-6.12.17-X1000_e5500.tar.gz

[xeno74]

Kernel 6.12.17 running, but kernel modules not working.

Strange, the kernel modules for the kernel 6.12.17 are working here:

Yesterday, I tested it with Void PPC in a virtual e5500 QEMU VM. Today, I successfully tested the kernel modules with Void PPC on my X5000/40. It is really strange, that the kernel modules don't work on your machine with Void PPC.

Maybe the download from github wasn't ok. I uploaded it to Xenosoft today.

Download link: linux-image-6.12.17-X1000_e5500.tar.gz

md5sum: 3c8952f4a85457256533d056401355fd

I also tested the zstd compressed kernel modules with ubuntu MATE 16.04.7 but they don't work there.

I will remove the support for zstd compressed kernel modules from the next kernel 6.12 (6.12.18).

[Roland]

Maybe the download from github wasn't ok. I uploaded it to Xenosoft today.

Download link: linux-image-6.12.17-X1000_e5500.tar.gz

I redownloaded the modules from xenosoft, but they still did not work. But when I checked them, they WERE all in .zst format! So you did NOT abandon that format yet...? I must have misunderstood something...

[xeno74]

I redownloaded the modules from xenosoft, but they still did not work. But when I checked them, they WERE all in .zst format! So you did NOT abandon that format yet...? I must have misunderstood something...

Which Linux distribution do you use?

I will remove the support for zstd compressed kernel modules from the next kernel 6.12 (6.12.18).

[Roland]

Which Linux distribution do you use?

MintPPC. And as I already explained when testing the previous version, installing the unpacker would need too much changes to the other components of the OS.

I will remove the support for zstd compressed kernel modules from the next kernel 6.12 (6.12.18).

Fine!

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Here is the RC6 of kernel 6.14 for the X1000 and X5000.

Download and further information: github.com

Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[Skateman]

Kernel 6.14 RC6 up and running on my e5500 x4 Computer!



big picture https://www.skateman.nl/wp-content/uplo ... -16-30.png

[xeno74]

Kernel 6.14 RC6 up and running on my e5500 x4 Computer!

Great! Thank you for testing!

@All
FYI:

• Kernel 6.12.17: e5500: KVM HV compilation error #6
• Old Linux distributions: Issue with compressed kernel modules #7

[xeno74]

Workaround if you have issues with compressed kernel modules:

For example for the stable long-term kernel 5.10.234 with the MATE PowerPC Remix 2017:

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   find /lib/modules/5.10.234-powerpc64-smp -name "*.xz" -exec unxz {} \;

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   depmod