On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 11:56 PM, Erkki Lintunen <[email protected]> wrote: > * Dave Taht <[email protected]> [2016-04-13 17:11:44 -0700]: > >> Hoo, boy, did I have issues. I finally got around to trying to get it >> up and running linux. >> >> For reference, this was the: >> >> - Jetway NU93-2930 NUC Form Factor Intel Celeron N2930 SoC Bay Trail 2 > ... >> Well, it turns out there is a BIOS fix here, which I have not installed yet. > > Matthew Garrett's blog-post might give peace of mind. > <https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html> and especially in it's > comments are info about Intel chip microcode versions.
Sigh. Pain shared, reduced, Joy shared, increased. Corollary: With enough pain shared, fixes can be found. This will not be the first time I stepped too far off the bleeding edge, nor the last. I am still in search of *something* that will let me install an ath10k and follow along on the wonderful results michal is getting on fq_codel for wifi on that chipset. https://lists.bufferbloat.net/pipermail/codel/2016-April/002165.html I was tempted to swap out for the ivy bridge box and tear apart the nuc that I use as my main desktop to do it, but with the heat thing being a potential problem also, reluctant. /me goes searching for another board > One might only get microcode through Jetway and Jetway (at least I have > doubts) might be a vendor not giving much concern toward other OSs. E.g. > the comments in Garrett's blog say Windows AHCI driver handles > power-states ok, so the issues with Linux may not be a priority to > Jetway unless in volume made known to it. > > Nice info for me also as I was about to upgrade an old Pentium box > running 24x7 to a Bay Trail platform, but have to put it on hold and > watch on this as the comments also reference to Intel's caution about > theirs chips long term reliability if the power-states aren't right. > > - Erkki > _______________________________________________ > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! http://blog.cerowrt.org _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
