I encountered a catastrophic problem with btrfs formatted system disk partition corruption, shortly after updating a test system to Kernel 4.11-rc1. To put this in context, this may be an isolated incident, and I have not seen problems – so far – mentioned elsewhere.. But.. there a quite a lot of BTRFS changes on 4.11, and – … Continue reading →
UPDATE: The vmware runtime fix shown here has not worked since version 12.5.6, and the solution is in a later article: http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1992 I have recently updated one crash-and-burn system to Fedora 26 (alpha/testing) and have encountered two problems with VMware and the ‘bleeding edge’ version of GCC included.. The first problem sounded very familiar, and it is a … Continue reading →
Thanks to Virgo, there are now patches for vmnet and vmmon with Kernel 4.11 (see his comments under the earlier article). These are incremental patches, for application to VMware 12.5.2 code already patched for Kernel 4.9/4.10 support.. Links are here: http://pastebin.com/McqmUf0u and http://pastebin.com/yjbDHiSX I have modified these (adding appropriate #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE…… #endif statements) to be backward-compatible with … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.11-rc1 has been released, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1703.0/03031.html Updated the test system, and 4.10-patched versions of VMware 12.5.2 and NVIDIA 378.13 fail to compile.. VMware (12.5.2 – patched for 4.9/4.10): …………. /tmp/modconfig-rRcJiJ/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIFFastClockThread’: /tmp/modconfig-rRcJiJ/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:3267:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘allow_signal’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] allow_signal(SIGKILL); ^~~~~~~~~~~~ /tmp/modconfig-rRcJiJ/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIF_SetFastClockRate’: /tmp/modconfig-rRcJiJ/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:3421:10: error: implicit declaration of … Continue reading →
Thanks to Alberto Milone, there is now a patch for the latest NVIDIA driver, which is reported to include ‘hotplug’ support :https://pkgs.rpmfusion.org/cgit/nonfree/nvidia-kmod.git/plain/kernel_4.10.patch I can confirm that this compiles OK when applied to driver 378.13, with kernel 4.10. I am not able to test hotplug functionality, as I do not have a suitable system.. So.. YMMV… Thanks to … Continue reading →
NVIDIA have released new drivers 375.39 (‘long term’) and 378.13 (‘short term’) and details are here: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/114708/en-us and http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/115031/en-us. Both still fail to compile with Kernel 4.10 (tested with 4.10-rc8) and I tried the previous 378.09 patch against 379.13, but it failed to apply cleanly, as more code has changed.. $ cat nv-37809-410-patch.patch |patch -p0 patching file … Continue reading →
New beta driver 378.09 has been released, and details are here: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/114232/en-us The driver compiles OK with Kernel 4.9.4, but fails to compile with 4.10-rc4, with different errors from 375.26, as some of the code base has changed.. …………………. CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09/kernel/nvidia/nv-p2p.o CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c: In function ‘nvidia_cpu_callback’: /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c:213:14: error: ‘CPU_DOWN_FAILED’ undeclared (first use in this … Continue reading →
Tried compiling Kernel 4.10-rc1 for aarch64, and got – literally – hundreds of errors: …… ./include/linux/sched.h:3299: Error: unknown mnemonic `return’ — `return test_ti_thread_flag(task_thread_info(tsk),flag)’ ./include/linux/sched.h:3300: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `}’ ./include/linux/sched.h:3302: Error: unknown mnemonic `static’ — `static inline void set_tsk_need_resched(struct task_struct*tsk)’ ./include/linux/sched.h:3303: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is … Continue reading →
After some of the recent ‘Ethernet fix’ patches have not worked with more recent linux-next kernels, I have found one that – at least at the moment – does fix the ‘hang’ problem – again.. The patch is applied to meson-gxbb-odroidc2.dts, and can be found here: http://archive.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20161221.113134.3ac4d1e6.en.html I did have to revert this kasir_offset patch (…-R) to … Continue reading →
I had been trying to apply the latest round of Meson TX delay patches to the latest linux-next tree, but found that there seems to be a conflict with some of these.. The December 1 patched kernel now has some problems on my C2 with Ethernet traffic, so – for the time being – I have reverted … Continue reading →