Tag: mainline

  • Linux 6.17 is out and already running at Root Commit

    Linux 6.17 is out and already running at Root Commit

    Linux 6.17 has just been released, and it’s already running here at Root Commit. The first system it’s been running on is this Toradex Verdin iMX8M Mini SOM (below the heat sink!) on the Dahlia Carrier board. I’m using this board for a medical device project at the moment. Here are my notes for building…

  • Build and run the mainline Linux kernel on your PC

    Build and run the mainline Linux kernel on your PC

    Last week, I gave a “How to test a specific version of Linux on PC hardware” talk at the Alposs conference in Echirolles near Grenoble, France. This was a very nice technical conference, with 330 participants (+110 compared to last year), organized in the city hall of Echirolles near Grenoble and by Belledonne Communications (the…

  • Booting the Raspberry Pi 5 with the Mainline Linux Kernel

    Booting the Raspberry Pi 5 with the Mainline Linux Kernel

    If you have other boards, read on, these instructions support multiple other Raspberry Pi boards. Hardware In this tutorial, we assume you have the Raspberry Pi Debug Probe to access the board’s serial port. You could use the GPIO UARTs too, but they are neither enabled by default at the bootloader level nor as a…