Kernel 4.15 is – finally – released, and an overview of changes since -rc9 is here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.3/02794.html The latest NVIDIA drivers – 384.111 and 390.12 – compile and load OK, and VMware 14.1.1 is also OK. It is worth mentioning that , although the final release was delayed due to more work on PTI mitigation etc, this … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.15-rc7 is out, and (brief) details of changes since -rc6 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.0/04858.html. The preamble is worth a read, as it pays tribute to the work done on the x86 PTI fixes.. Vmmon-patched VMware 14.1.0 is OK (see: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-14.1.0 ) and the latest NVIDIA drivers – 384.111 and 390.12 are both still OK. As mentioned, in … Continue reading →
Thanks to zezaocapoeia, for spotting the newly released NVIDIA Beta driver 390.12 ( see http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/128743/en-us ) There is also a new version of the ‘long lived branch’ series – 384.111. I have tested these with Kernel 4.14.12-rc1 and 4.15-rc6, and they both compile and load/run OK. In this case, NVIDIA has fixed their GPL error with recent … Continue reading →
I had previously tested Kernel 4.14.11-rc1 with the 4.14.9+-patched NVIDIA driver 384.98, and that was OK: ………………….. ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98-41410/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98-41410/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98-41410/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98-41410/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98-41410/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98-41410/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98-41410/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98-41410/kernel/nvidia-uvm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98-41410/kernel/nvidia.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98-41410/kernel/nvidia.ko make[2]: Leaving directory ‘/usr/src/linux-4.14.11-rc1’ make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/usr/src/linux-4.14.11-rc1’ … Continue reading →
Just tried the ‘stable-review’ patch for the ‘stable’ Kernel – 4.14.11-rc1, and the same NVIDIA problem is there, and it seems the kernel devs won’t do anything: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1712.3/02608.html So – it seems the patch is now a permanent requirement for all subsequent 4.14 releases.. (see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2168 ).. And… It seems the unwritten rule of ‘don’t break stuff … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.14.10, and was ‘somewhat dismayed‘ – to put it politely – that the NVIDIA breakage introduced in 4.14.9 is still there! ………… /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_va_block.c: In function ‘block_cpu_fault_locked’: /usr/src/linux-4.14.10/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:826:39: error: implicit declaration of function ‘task_stack_page’; did you mean ‘task_stack_vm_area’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] unsigned long __ptr = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(task); \ ^ /usr/src/linux-4.14.10/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:900:26: note: in expansion … Continue reading →
More on the Kernel 4.14.9 NVIDIA breakage.. Basically, code that should have only gone into 4.15-rc found its way into 4.14.9 – which is why the existing 4.15 NVIDIA patch fixed it.. Thanks to dinosaur_ on the NVIDIA forum, there is a simpler patch available: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1028016/linux/patch-for-compiling-v384-98-modules-with-linux-v4-14-9-/ There is also a 4.14.10-rc1 patch which is supposed to revert … Continue reading →
Just updated to Kernel 4.14.9, and normally this should not be anything to cause concern, but this time there has been a significant code change made, that has broken NVIDIA (384.98): ………………… /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_va_block.c: In function ‘block_cpu_fault_locked’: /usr/src/linux-4.14.9/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:826:39: error: implicit declaration of function ‘task_stack_page’; did you mean ‘task_stack_vm_area’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] unsigned long __ptr = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(task); \ ^ /usr/src/linux-4.14.9/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:900:26: … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.15-rc3, and the GPL issue for NVIDIA drivers has been fixed, as mentioned – vaguely – in the brief details here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1712.1/01379.html. NVIDIA driver 384.98, with the first 4.15 patch (see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2134 ), now compiles and loads OK: …….. Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98-415/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.15-rc3, and the GPL issue for NVIDIA drivers has been fixed, as mentioned – vaguely – in the brief details here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1712.1/01379.html. NVIDIA driver 384.98, with the first 4.15 patch (see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2134 ), now compiles and loads OK: …….. Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98-415/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] … Continue reading →