Just in time for 4.14 ‘Final’, a patch has been submitted to fix the NVIDIA / AMD ‘Secure Memory Encryption’ GPL issue.. (See previous article http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2070 for more info) Details are here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/87df26175e67c26ccdd3a002fbbb8cde78e28a19 Robert Gadsdon. November 9, 2017. … Continue reading →
Just in time for 4.14 ‘Final’, a patch has been submitted to fix the NVIDIA / AMD ‘Secure Memory Encryption’ GPL issue.. (See previous article http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2070 for more info) Details are here: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/87df26175e67c26ccdd3a002fbbb8cde78e28a19 Robert Gadsdon. November 9, 2017. … Continue reading →
NVIDIA driver 387.12 is out, and details are here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/125399/en-us The driver compiles/loads OK with Kernel 4.14-rc3 on Intel, without any patches, and is OK with AMD as long as its Secure Memory Encryption feature is de-selected ( see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2070 ). ………………… ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.12/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.12/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.12/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.13-rc3 is out, and brief details of changes from -rc2 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1710.0/00180.html VMware 14.0.0 – with the vmmon patch – still loads/runs OK(*), and NVIDIA is OK on Intel systems, but if the new AMD ‘Secure Memory Encryption‘ feature is enabled in the kernel config, then NVIDIA (384.90) will still fail with a GPL error: … Continue reading →
Thanks to Pete for finding this one… There is another GPL-only issue with NVIDIA and Kernel 4.14-rc2, but this one only occurs if you have an AMD system, with the new ‘secure memory encryption’ feature enabled… It may also crop up if you are using a Distro-created version of this kernel release, as these tend to have … Continue reading →