The v3.5 kernel included in binary form on the boot disks of the Xinghuo seems to work (file "vmlinuz3.x"). It also includes a kernel config "config-3.x". Trying to rebuild any of included kernels using Lemote's "official" source repositories with kernel config taken from the boot partition does not result in a working kernel though:
* linux-official-3.5.0-1.lemote [1], using original kernel config
("config-3.x") as included on the Xinghuo's boot partition: Fan is
silent, but screen blanks after a minute or so, not usable. Radeon
firmware had to be retrived from [3], isn't included in the tarball.
* linux-official-3.5.0-8.lemote, using original kernel config
("config-3.x") as included on the Xinghuo's boot partition (plus
tweaks required by 'make oldconfig'): Fan is silent, but screen
blanks after a minute or so, not usable. Radeon firmware had to be
retrived from [3], isn't included in the tarball.
* kernel 2.6.36-21.lemote [2] using original kernel config "config-2.6.36+"
from boot disk:
This shows 4 penguins and that's it, no kernel messages, no kernel
console, nothing.
* kernel 2.6.36-23.lemote using original kernel config "config-2.6.36+"
from boot disk (plus 'make oldconfig' tweaks):
This shows 4 penguins and that's it, no kernel messages, no kernel
console, nothing.
This is getting frustrating. Whatever magic Lemote applied to their
kernels doesn't seem to have made it into their repositories.
cheers,
David
[1]
http://dev.lemote.com/cgit/linux-official.git/snapshot/linux-official-3.5.0-1.lemote.tar.bz2
[2]
http://dev.lemote.com/cgit/linux-3A.git/snapshot/linux-3A-2.6.36-21.lemote.tar.bz2
[3] http://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/radeon_ucode/R600_rlc.bin
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