Bug 1628209
by Steven A. Falco
Roughly a month ago I upgraded the kernel on my wandboard quad. The quad had been running kernel 4.17.19-200.fc28.armv7hl and was working properly.
However, when I upgraded to kernel 4.18.5-200.fc28.armv7hl I found that ethernet no longer worked. I reverted to kernel 4.17.19-200.fc28.armv7hl and ethernet was fine again.
I've tried several kernels since then, including the latest (4.18.13-200.fc28.armv7hl), with the same negative result.
When running kernel 4.18.13-200.fc28.armv7hl the console messages say that the link is up, however I am not able to ping anything on the local subnet.
I filed a bug here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1628209
Does anyone know of any driver changes that might account for this bug?
Steve
5 years, 6 months
Miserable performance F29-beta-Xfce vs F28-Xfce
by Robert Moskowitz
I am using a Cubieboard2 with the current image:
Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-29-20181002.n.0-sda
I connect ethernet, serial TTY/USB console, HDMI monitor, kybd/mouse.
The OS is on a HD and only uboot is on the uSD card.
The firstboot proceeds normally and then I have to really wait for the
Initial Setup GUI to fully appear. The mouse is VERY jumpy. I manage
to click on root password and the Initial screen slowly goes up as a
window shade, revealing the root password dialog. Very jumpy and slow,
I manage to set the root password and click done.
The screen comes down back to Initial and I manage to click on setting
up the user. Very slow raising of the window shade and very slow
response in the dialog boxes for setting up the user. Click done then
finish on the Initial setup screen. Slowly get to the login screen and
then very slow giving me the default workstation question then getting
into the session. dnfdragora-updater seems to run forever. I go into
session startup settings and turn this off. I wish this was the default
for arm...
Everything in the DE is very slow. I finally get vncserver working, and
switch to a vnc client console and that is peppy.
So I wondered... I grabbed another drive and build the F28-Xfce
released image and put its uboot on another uSD card. This time Initial
Setup had decent performance. The window screen went up much smoother.
Mouse was not jumpy. Dialog entry was decent. Got into the DE
smoothly. dnfdragora did not take forever to do its initial run.
So something really wrong, performance-wise with the F29-beta-Xfce. That
SELinux patch we got a couple weeks ago helped a little.
One difference I note is F28 has a swap partition, F29 does not. Now
during the initial stuff, no swap was used. Now I see 29KB of swap used
with 86KB memory free.
This is a real problem.
5 years, 6 months
Re: Putting f28 into galaxy s7
by Peter Robinson
Hi,
Please leave the mailing list on the cc:
> Thanks for a quick response.
> First, there is no sim card installed so I am using it like a small tablet.
> The chipset is EXYNOS8890.
> I ALSO HAVE A BLUETOOTH KEYBOARD, if that helps.
> I can have constant wifi by using my s9+ phone.
None of the above matters until you can get it booting it to Linux,
all wireless options (bluetooth, wifi, sim/data) are irrelevant until
you get it booting to a userspace wher you can bring any of that up.
I'm not sure any of the exynos8 kernel stuff is even upstream yet,
unfortunately unless you know quite a bit about low level kernel and
boot debug I don't think you're going to have a lot of luck.
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018, 2:53 PM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I have read a lot of posts about this but still get nowhere. I reset phone to its base android 8.0 and have it rooted etc.
>> > It has a 4 GB sd card that was just formatted on the phone.
>> > What happens next (and how)?
>>
>> We don't actively support Fedora on phones, there's a lot of
>> complexity involved. That being said there are some people that have
>> put Fedora on various phones.
>>
>> In Fedora we only support booting aarch64, which the S7 is, with UEFI
>> so some of the process will be getting a kernel booting like that,
>> you'll likely need a custom kernel because the requirements between
>> Fedora and Android for kernels are a little different.
>>
>> Also which version of the S7 because there's at least one with some
>> Samsung EXYNOS processor and one that has a Qualcomm processor, I
>> suspect you'll have better luck with the later
>>
>> Basically the Fedora ARM people aren't focused on Phones as they're
>> problematic and a constant moving target and we really just don't have
>> than many resources so we're focused on more Fedora things like
>> servers/laptops/desktops/dev boards/IoT etc.
>>
>> Peter
5 years, 6 months
Putting f28 into galaxy s7
by Martyn Griffin
I have read a lot of posts about this but still get nowhere. I reset phone
to its base android 8.0 and have it rooted etc.
It has a 4 GB sd card that was just formatted on the phone.
What happens next (and how)?
5 years, 6 months
802.1q vlan support
by solarflow99
Hi, I used to be able to do with back around the F25 days and previous.
Now I can't do vlans at all anymore. As you can see from the commands
below the vlan id gets set to id 3068862004, and seems to keep auto
incrementing itself, and the kernel module gets loaded but not used. Does
anyone have any ideas?
$ ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 type vlan id 1
$ ip -d addr show eth0.1
3: eth0.1@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group
default qlen 1000
link/ether b8:27:eb:20:25:16 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity
3068862004
vlan protocol 802.1Q id 3068862004 <REORDER_HDR> numtxqueues 3068862004
numrxqueues 3068862004 gso_max_size 3068862004 gso_max_segs 3068862004
$ lsmod | grep q
Module Size Used by
8021q 28672 0
garp 16384 1 8021q
mrp 16384 1 8021q
$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. SMSC9512/9514
Fast Ethernet Adapter
5 years, 6 months
Testing required for WiFi on the Raspberry Pi 3/3B+
by Peter Robinson
So a bit of a mike drop moment...
WiFi on the Raspberry Pi 3 and 3B+ should now work out of the box on
Fedora 29 and rawhide!
As of kernel-4.18.11-301.fc29 and
linux-firmware-20180913-87.git44d4fca9.fc29 which are now stable in
Fedora 29 the wifi interface should just work right away with no extra
steps required.
Please test and report any problems here.
Fedora 28 will come in time, I want to
We're still working to get this upstream, ultimately this will improve
the entire linux ecosystem around not just the Raspberry Pi but the
majority of ARM devices that ship with broadcom wifi and previously
needed the same hack to get wifi to work. The focus has been on the
Raspberry Pi here because of popularity.
Happy weekend!
Peter
5 years, 6 months