Kernel 4.19

[Skateman]

SUCCESS!



The X5000 booted Alpha 11 with working USB peripherals (mouse keyboard) using the mem=3500M Bootargs switch.

Would be great if it worked with my 16GB of ram as well!

Dave

[xeno74]

Fantastic! Could you please try mem=8000M?

Thanks

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I compiled the alpha12 of kernel 4.19 for the X5000, X1000, and for virtual e5500 QEMU machines today.

New:

• PowerPC fixes 4.19-2
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 4.19
• Linux Git log

Download: vmlinux-4.19-alpha12-AmigaOne_X1000_X5000.tar.gz


Please test it.

Thanks,
Christian

[Skateman]

Alpha 12 up and running on my X5000, but only when using the bootargs mem=3500M switch.

With the mem=8000M switch or without the use of the mem switch (so adressing my 16GB) the USB errors remain.

So after Alpha 9 things broke..

[xeno74]

Alpha 12 up and running on my X5000, but only when using the bootargs mem=3500M switch.

With the mem=8000M switch or without the use of the mem switch (so adressing my 16GB) the USB errors remain.

So after Alpha 9 things broke..

Hi Skateman,

Thank you for testing the alpha12. I posted the results to the Linuxppc-dev mailing list yesterday.

Link: FSL/NXP P5020: USB problems with the latest Git kernels — Linuxppc-dev mailing list

Cheers,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Julian has released the RC1 of kernel 4.19 for testing.

Download: Cyrus-4.19.0-rc1-jm.tar.gz

Please test it.

Thanks,
Christian

[Skateman]

And here it is, RC1 running on my X5000 with the mem=3500M switch enabled.



And here RC1 running with the mem=4096M switch enabled.



All values above mem=4096M fail !

[xeno74]

Hi Skateman,

Thanks a lot for testing the RC1! I reported your results to the Linuxppc-dev mailing list today.

Link: FSL/NXP P5020: USB problems with the latest Git kernels

Cheers,
Christian

[kilaueabart]

Hi All,

Julian has released the RC1 of kernel 4.19 for testing.

I thought it was about time I rejoined "All," and got the RC1 to test. Had a number of problems trying it. Not surprising that "setenv bootarts ..." didn't work, but although bootargs in my regular ubuntu 16.04 script sets root=/dev/sdc5 (that is the 5th partition of my X5000 disk, in this case), I have to go back to /dev/sda5 if I fatload uImage-4.19 (I renamed the file).

I didn't add "mem=3500M" as an experiment, expecting that my mouse and keyboard would not work, but they worked fine.

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I booted Firefox to report, but once it was up, it failed to make any connections. I eventually got notice that I was out of space.

Back to ubuntu with 4.18. Firefox works, but I again got an out of space message. Brought up a Disk Analyzer which seems to say I have 81GiB left to work with. GParted disagrees: /dev/sdc5 has only 2.86 GiB left of a starting 52.41. I'm totally puzzled. Maybe the 81.3GiB includes USB drives?

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I tried to follow the suggestion to empty my Trash, but it refuses to empty!

[xeno74]

GParted disagrees: /dev/sdc5 has only 2.86 GiB left of a starting 52.41.
I tried to follow the suggestion to empty my Trash, but it refuses to empty!

Hi Kilaueabart,

Please increase the size of the partition with GParted from an other Linux system.

@All
Great news!

We got an answer because of our USB problems on the Linuxppc-dev mailing list today.

I just tested 4.19-rc1 on a T4240 and got a similar problem with MMC. MMC and USB on these chips both have a 32-bit DMA limitation. I'll look into it.

-Scott

Link: FSL/NXP P5020: USB problems with the latest Git kern

Cheers,
Christian