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NVIDIA – Patch for Kernel 5.12 Support.

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Thanks to Willy Frissen for the info, and joanbm for the patch, which can be found at https://gist.githubusercontent.com/joanbm/7a034ac4b79396c3841040e410ef7e91/raw/b21e792dc0b6f891a4a83d182e0ba9b24b36bd80/nvidia-fix-linux-5.12.patch I have applied this to 460.56, with Kernel 5.12-rc1, and it compiles successfully, and appears to work OK.     Unable to do a longer test, as my 5.12-rc1 system still crashes with a USB error, after the KVM switches out.. … Continue reading →

Kernel – 5.10-rc1 Out – Fix for NVIDIA, Problem with VMware..

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Kernel 5.10-rc1 is finally released, and brief details are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2010.3/00552.html Thanks to Joan Bruguera, there is a work-in-progress fix for NVIDIA 455.28, here:  https://gist.github.com/joanbm/beaccedd729589df98332d70a1754e9a (and thanks to Willy Frissen for the notification..) ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-kthread-q.o MODPOST /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/Module.symvers CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD … Continue reading →

Kernel – Fix for 5.9-rc6 Compile Fail..

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A fix has now been produced, for the dax compile fail with 5.9-rc6: Reported: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2009.2/07060.html Fix: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=88b67edd7247466bc47f01e1dc539b0d0d4b931e I have tested this, and the kernel now compiles OK, and loads/runs as expected.. Robert Gadsdon.   September 21st 2020. … Continue reading →

VMware – 5.8 Fix now merged with 15.5.6 Patchset..

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The fixes for Kernel 5.8 (and 5.9-rc..) support have now been incorporated in the usual VMware vmmon/vmnet 15.5.6 patchset, at: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-15.5.6.     Thanks are due to baryonix and mkubecek .. Robert Gadsdon.   September 6th 2020. … Continue reading →

VMware – Fix for Kernel 5.8 Available..

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With thanks to huyz for the notification – there is now a patch from baryonix available for VMware 15.5.6 and Kernel 5.8..    The patch is available here:  https://github.com/baryonix/vmware-host-modules/tree/fixes-for-5.8 I have – briefly – tested this with Kernel 5.8.5, and it was successful..     As the usual # vmware and # vmware-modconfig still segfault, then vmmon/vmnet have to be … Continue reading →

Fedora – Fun with ZRAM..

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Fedora 33 will be using ZRAM as standard for swap, rather than a partition or swapfile on disk.    I had no problem with this on a new F33 install (Odroid H2Plus) but after upgrading an existing Fedora 32 system it refused to initialise, and ‘/dev/zram0‘ did not exist.    Research revealed that the documentation for much of this … Continue reading →

VMware – Kernel 5.8/5.9 Problems – To be Fixed in Workstation Pro 16?

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VMware have announced the release of Workstation Pro 16:  https://blogs.vmware.com/workstation/2020/08/announcing-workstation-16-and-fusion-12.html From various comments seen elsewhere, it would appear that WS 16 should include fixes for Kernel 5.8/5.9 runtime compatibility..   Actual release date is – so far – vague, but may be sometime towards the end of September.. Robert Gadsdon.   August 21st 2020. … Continue reading →

Kernel – 5.8 Pre-testing.. Fix for NVIDIA. Problems with VMware Runtime.

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There is now an interim patch available, for NVIDIA 440.82 and Kernel 5.8, at https://gitlab.com/snippets/1986228 This should be applied as well as the 5.7 patch, and I have tested this with pre-release Kernel 5.8-git version from June 12th, and it works OK.    Note that this is an interim patch, and may be updated once 5.8-rc1 is released.. … Continue reading →

Kernel – Pre-Release Tests for 5.6-rc1 ..

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Kernel 5.6-rc1 should be out on Sunday, February 9th, but I noticed that early-version-test patches are already available for VMware 15.5.1, here:  https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/tmp/workstation-15.5.1-k5.6 These patches gave clues to what might affect NVIDIA as well, and I managed to get a GIT version of 5.6-rc1-pre (dated February 5th) to compile OK, and was able to use this.   Of … Continue reading →

Ethernet – If you Can’t Wait for 5.4.14, an Unofficial e1000e Patch for 5.4.13..

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As there is (so far) no sign of an update to the 5.4.x kernel series, I have uploaded a _very unofficial_ patch I had already created for 5.4.13, and I have tested this, and so far it seems to work OK..    It is based on an ‘earlier’ e1000e patch version found on linux/netdev.. https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg623693.html,  and thanks are … Continue reading →