[Arm-dev] Bananapi / C7

[Mandar Joshi]

> I've tried booting on 4.2.0-0:
>
> Boot get a long time on "Mounted Configuration File System", before get like
> Robert:
>
I tested the new kernel on my Cubietruck and was able to boot after
manually generating the initramfs using the command

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dracut --verbose
/boot/initramfs-4.2.0-0.rc2.git0.1.centos.el7.armv7hl.img
4.2.0-0.rc2.git0.1.centos.el7.armv7hl
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I have the package dracut-config-generic-033-240.el7.armv7hl
installed. Make sure you have it too. I am not sure if that's the
source of the problem.

The entry in /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf created by the rbfkernelup
yum plugin is
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label Derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 (Source)
4.2.0-0.rc2.git0.1.centos.el7.armv7hl
    kernel /vmlinuz-4.2.0-0.rc2.git0.1.centos.el7.armv7hl
    append enforcing=0 root=UUID=34fa4504-d4ae-4d17-9c07-4c56a5f8f614
    fdtdir /dtb-4.2.0-0.rc2.git0.1.centos.el7.armv7hl
    initrd /initramfs-4.2.0-0.rc2.git0.1.centos.el7.armv7hl.img
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You will have the change the UUID as per your board.

However, I am not able to use ethernet with the new kernel. I haven't
looked into it in detail but preliminary debugging shows the module
stmmac_platform.ko not loading. I get this error
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[root at cubietruck ~]# modprobe stmmac_platform
[ 114.508483] stmmac_platform: Unknown symbol devm_kmalloc (err 0)
[ 114.521212] stmmac_platform: Unknown symbol stmmac_suspend (err 0)
[ 114.533718] stmmac_platform: Unknown symbol platform_get_irq_byname (err 0)
[ 114.546855] stmmac_platform: Unknown symbol stmmac_dvr_remove (err 0)
[ 114.559331] stmmac_platform: Unknown symbol platform_get_resource (err 0)
[ 114.572149] stmmac_platform: Unknown symbol of_get_phy_mode (err 0)
[ 114.584331] stmmac_platform: Unknown symbol of_property_read_u32_array (err 0)
[ 114.597508] stmmac_platform: Unknown symbol of_alias_get_id (err 0)
[ 114.609629] stmmac_platform: Unknown symbol stmmac_resume (err 0)
[ 114.621533] stmmac_platform: Unknown symbol stmmac_dvr_probe (err 0)
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'stmmac_platform': Unknown symbol in
module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
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Regards
Mandar Joshi