New kernels

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I am happy to release the final kernel 7.1.0 for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs).

Download and further information: github.com

Thanks a lot to Skateman, Hypex and sailorMH for testing the alphas and release candidates.



Cheers,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi All,

The merge window for the kernel 7.2 has been started and here is the first alpha with the first AMD/ATi DRM updates for testing.

Download and further information: github.com



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I compiled the alpha2 of kernel 7.2 for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs) today.

Download and further information: github.com

Testing of the alpha2 with old CD-ROMs:



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I released the alpha3 of kernel 7.2 for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs) today.

Download and further information: github.com

Several tests of HFS+ with the alpha3:



Please test it.

Thanks,
Christian

[Skateman]

Kernel 7.2 Alpha3 up and running on my Mirari !



Big picture: https://www.skateman.nl/wp-content/uplo ... -52-58.png

[xeno74]

Kernel 7.2 Alpha3 up and running on my Mirari !

Great! Thank you for testing the alpha3 on your Mirari board.
Have a nice weekend

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Here is the alpha4 of kernel 7.2 for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs).

Download and further information: github.com



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Here is the alpha5 of kernel 7.2 with the first PowerPC updates for X1000 and e5500 machines (X5000/20, X5000/40, Mirari, and QEMU VMs).

Download and further information: github.com

Cross compiling of the alpha5 with PROXMOX:



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[xeno74]

Hi All,

I have released the alpha6 of kernel 7.2 with NTFS Resurrection and exFAT updates.

Downloads and further information: github.com



Cheers,
Christian

[xeno74]

Modify the version string of the Linux kernel:

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perl -pi -e 's/ubuntu20-04/ppc-cross01/g' vmlinux-7.2

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gunzip zImage-7.2.gz

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perl -pi -e 's/ubuntu20-04/ppc-cross01/g' zImage-7.2

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binwalk -e uImage-7.2

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cd _uImage-7.2.extracted

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perl -pi -e 's/ubuntu20-04/ppc-cross01/g' 40

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gzip -9 40

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mkimage -A powerpc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0x00000000 -e 0x00000000 -n "Linux-7.2.0-a7-powerpc64-smp" -d 40.gz uImage