[ARM Testing Update] 2021-02-13 - LibreOffice, AppImageLauncher, Vivaldi and kernels

I switched to the testing branch and did a -Syy and installed linux-firmware. Looked again just now and it appears my mirrors are not syncing. I have this showing with a date in last December.

[ray@pi4 ~]$ pacman -Ss linux-firmware
core/linux-firmware 20201218.646f159-1 [installed]
Firmware files for Linux

Switched mirrors and now the new package is showing up.

[ray@pi4 ~]$ pacman -Ss linux-firmware
core/linux-firmware 20210208.b79d239-1 [installed: 20201218.646f159-1]
Firmware files for Linux

Ah, that is the version that needs the edit. I was looking for a newer version.

Thanks for pointing this all out to me. I had talked to @Strit this mourning and was confused why it appeared that the package had been updated because I was going to put an overlay package in testing and unstable until they got this straightened out upstream. Anyway I am fixing to push this package to unstable and testing branches.

[ray@pi4 ~]$ pacman -Ss linux-firmware
core/linux-firmware 20210208.b79d239-1 [installed: 20210208.b79d239-2]
    Firmware files for Linux
[ray@pi4 ~]$  
[ray@pi4 ~]$ ip addr show | grep wlan0
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
    inet 192.168.1.10/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlan0
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I updated the firmware and wifi is working, thank you.

Thank you for the leg work.

Although it wasn’t updated this time around, I’ve noticed an issue with mntray. Since the update it keeps flagging all articles as being unread on each login.

Wow, did you take a look at the brcmfmac43455-sdio.raspberrypi,4-model-b.txt? Quite different than the previous file, looks like a developer’s versions. It contains a mac address, but it does not appear to be used. Had me worried. :slight_smile:

Not really too much other than checking the board address.

This file is from the RPi git. The rest is from the linux-firmware git. I need to add another from the RPi git if I see any complaints of wifi disconnection. With in the last week they had a fix with brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin because some routers would disconnect. They sent the dbug messages to Broadcom and had a fix with in a day.

Was hoping linux-firmware would provide a quick fix for all of this and include updated brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin so I would not have to deal with re-building this package. It is huge and I have a slow internet.

Actually, after sorting, removing the comments and running diff again, this is the only line that is different, other than the boardflags3:

NVRAMRev=$Rev: 498373 $

got firefox-85.0.1 randomly freeze, and there 85.0.2 came for a week.
ps. unstable repos.

Is building today.

Hi,

Today I up date my Odroid c4 kde testing branch
What’s new with this last linux kernel up date ? I don’t remember a so big one, I’m maybe wrong


linux-firmware-20210208.b79d239-2

[nlc4@c4 ~]$ date -u
mar. 16 févr. 2021 08:26:17 UTC
[nlc4@c4 ~]$ screenfetch
                             nlc4@c4.test.2020.05.14
                             OS: Manjaro-ARM 21.02
                             Kernel: aarch64 Linux 5.10.15-1-MANJARO-ARM
         #####               Uptime: 2d 8h 3m
        #######              Packages: Unknown
        ##O#O##              Shell: bash 5.1.4
        #######              Resolution: 1920x1080
      ###########            DE: KDE 5.78.0 / Plasma 5.20.5
     #############           WM: KWin
    ###############          GTK Theme: Breeze [GTK2/3]
    ################         Icon Theme: oxygen
   #################         Disk: 
 #####################       CPU: Unknown @ 4x 1.908GHz
 #####################       GPU: 
   #################         RAM: 727MiB / 3628MiB
                            
                            
                            
[nlc4@c4 ~]$ uname -a
Linux c4.test.2020.05.14 5.10.15-1-MANJARO-ARM #1 SMP Wed Feb 10 10:41:30 UTC 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux
[nlc4@c4 ~]$ sudo pacman -Syyuu
[sudo] password for nlc4: 
:: Synchronising package databases...
 core                                   229,0 KiB  1347 KiB/s 00:00 [######################################] 100%
 extra                                    2,4 MiB  1602 KiB/s 00:02 [######################################] 100%
 community                                5,6 MiB  2015 KiB/s 00:03 [######################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) linux-firmware-20210208.b79d239-2

Total Download Size:   204,76 MiB
Total Installed Size:  636,04 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:        0,00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
 linux-firmware-20210208.b79d239-2-any  204,8 MiB  2003 KiB/s 01:45 [######################################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                      [######################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                    [######################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                         [######################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                   [######################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                                 [######################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) upgrading linux-firmware                                      [######################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/2) Creating temporary files...
(2/2) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
[nlc4@c4 ~]$ reboot

This is not a kernel, but rather firmware files.
It was to fix an issue with Raspberry Pi 4 Wifi.