[fedora-arm] Pandaboard kernel issues

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Michal Toman <mtoman at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've been using Fedora armv7 on my pandaboard since the F15 bootstrap, now
> I'm running full F17 except for kernel. By the time I tried to follow kernel
> releases in primary (even F16 ones), which have been working perfectly until
> 3.2.
>
> The last working (usable for desktop) kernel is 3.1.9-1.fc16. With this one,
> I've been able to run LXDE, XFCE, KDE & also Gnome 3 fallback at reasonable
> speed (I'm really using XFCE desktop right now). You can find builds &
> source at http://mtoman.fedorapeople.org/arm/ - ignore dist tag, I've
> rebuilt recently because I lost the original RPMs. If I remember correctly,
> the only change to the original is disabled FTMAC100.
>
> After updating to kernel 3.2, the video driver got broken. In 3.2.3, all
> video output is sent to hdmi at 640x480 resolution regardless to kernel
> cmdline (I'm using dvi at 1280x720). No oops messages appear.
> In 3.2.6, the video does not work at all, but there is a periodically
> repeating omapfb oops in syslog. The system itself still runs, can be
> accessed via SSH or used as webserver, just the video is out.
>
> After updating to 3.3, the system does not boot at all (tried all 3.3.0,
> 3.3.1, 3.3.2). Disabling audit doesn't help. Here are logs from two latest:
> http://mtoman.fedorapeople.org/arm/panda-kernel-3.3.2-2.fc17.log
> http://mtoman.fedorapeople.org/arm/panda-kernel-3.3.2-8.fc17.log
>
> In addition, I've never seen audio working on panda, even though some people
> say it used to.
>
> Are these panda-specific issues, or are they at least known? Or am I doing
> something wrong?

No, it's a known issue, continue using the F-15 kernels for now, we're
working to fix them. Watch the list and we'll send out details once
they're fixed.

Peter