[fedora-arm] Running the mainline linux-3.11-rcN kernel on Samsung Chromebook

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:20 PM, William Cohen <wcohen at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 08/22/2013 10:58 PM, William Cohen wrote:
> > I have moved to running the vanilla mainline linux-3.11-rcN kernel on my
> Samsung Chromebook. There are some notes on the steps that I used to get it
> running at:
> >
> >  http://people.redhat.com/wcohen/chromebook/booting-3.11kernel.txt
> >
> > The config file is a bit different than the fc20 kernel configuration.
>  I started from the "make exynos_defconfig" and working towards something
> that is closer to the fc20 configuration.  There are a couple drawbacks
> with this configuration.  The usb3 and wireless are not working in the
> configuration.  Also cool things like KVM virtualization are not working.
> >
> > I was hoping to get the kernel to configure to support multiple ARM
> processors, but it looks like some patches will be needed to allow the
> ARCH_EXYNOS to be selected with ARCH_MULTI.  Right now it looks like they
> are exclusive.  The ARCH_EXYNOS also selects NEED_MACH_MEMORY_H which looks
> like there might be some arch specific includes as a result.
> >
> > -Will
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>
> I did some more digging around this weekend to figure out why enabling
> LPAE on the 3.11-rcNN chromebook crashed.  I found that the
> virtualopensystms kernel had the following patch:
>
>
> https://github.com/virtualopensystems/linux-kvm-arm/commit/32682304c9935dd0aa55ee9196429d0955f26fa1
>
> Applying this patch to the 3.11-rcNN kernel allow building a kernel with
> LPAE and KVM enabled.
>

It seems there's a different patchset going upstream

http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg265896.html

And I think this is the entire patchset here

http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg263631.html

Peter
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