Today I decided to upgrade the kernel (gentoo-sources) from 4.19.64 to 5.2.6 on my old ThinkPad X220. Apart from a few hiccups, everything went quite smoothly. I already have a blog post about upgrading the kernel on Gentoo, so I’ll skip many things here. First, ensure the sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.2.6 is installed: # emerge -av =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.26 After the above package installed, we should be able to list it: ~ ❯❯❯ eselect kernel list Available kernel symlink targets: [1] linux-4.14.63-gentoo-r1 [2] linux-4.14.65-gentoo [3] linux-4.14.78-gentoo [4] linux-4.14.83-gentoo [5] linux-4.19.27-gentoo-r1 [6] linux-4.19.44-gentoo [7] linux-4.19.52-gentoo [8] linux-4.19.57-gentoo [9] linux-4.19.64-gentoo * [10] linux-5.2.6-gentoo Let’s select linux-5.2.6-gentoo as the version we’d like to switch to: ...

It looks like there are more device firmware available for Lenovo ThinkPad P1 (and X1 Extreme). Based on the list from Gnome Software Center, the available firmware are: Thunderbolt Firmware N2ETF12W System Firmware (Embedded Controller) 0.1.11 System Firmware (?) 0.1.23 It’s time to update all of them on my P1.

I run Fedora 30 on my ThinkPad P1 with i3 as a windows manager. Today, I switched to Plasma to test something out. While running plasma, I launched (Gnome) Software centre to check if there was any firmware update for this P1. To my surprise, there was one available: 1.21 released on April 29, 2019. Feel free to find out what’s new in this firmware at the following link: P1 (Type 20MD, 20ME) Laptop (ThinkPad). ...

In early March this year Sony released version 1.05 firmware for Sony A6500. Today, I found out that Sony has a newer version of the firmware available, 1.06. This time around, Sony didn’t clearly specify what’s changed in this version beside just one point: Improves the overall stability of the camera To update the firmware, you’ll need either a Windows or a Mac machine. Here is a link to download the firmware from Australian Sony website: ...

Here’s a quick tip to remove an OpenShift pod with “Unknown” status. Suppose this is the output when I run oc get pods: ~ ❯❯❯ oc get pods NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE dothe-4-bjq8v 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 5h dothe-4-ghttj 1/1 Unknown 0 15h ~ ❯❯❯ oc delete pod dothe-4-ghttj pod "dothe-4-ghttj" deleted ~ ❯❯❯ oc get pods NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE dothe-4-bjq8v 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 5h dothe-4-ghttj 1/1 Unknown 0 15h Let’s try deleting the bad pod again with --force option: ...