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Monthly Archives: December 2018

Kernel – 4.20 released – In Time for the Festivities..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 23, 2018 by RGDecember 23, 2018

Kernel 4.20 has just been released, in time for the Festive Season, and brief details are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1812.2/06158.html . As expected, the latest NVIDIA (415.25) and VMware (15.0.2) both compile and load/run OK. Robert Gadsdon.   December 23, 2018. … Continue reading →

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NVIDIA – Driver 415.23 – Finally, Works with Kernel 4.20..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 13, 2018 by RGDecember 13, 2018

After the embarrassment of driver 415.22 not actually compiling with Kernel 4.20, NVIDIA have now released 415.23.    Very brief details are here:  https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/141300/en-us This version does compile with Kernel 4.20 (tested with 4.20-rc6) but shows repeated warnings: ………………………………. In file included from /home/rgadsdon/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.23/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_gpu.h:31, from /home/rgadsdon/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.23/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_mmu_test.c:24: /home/rgadsdon/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.23/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm_linux.h:263:2: warning: #warning “atomic64_t unavailable, demoting to atomic_t!” [-Wcpp] #warning “atomic64_t unavailable, … Continue reading →

Posted in fix, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion | Tagged atomic64_t unavailable, compile warnings, nvidia 415.23, ok with kernel 4.20, tested with 4.20-rc6 | Leave a reply

NVIDIA – New Driver, Supposed to Fix Kernel 4.20 Issues – but Doesn’t?

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 7, 2018 by RGDecember 7, 2018

NVIDIA have released driver 415.22, which is supposed to fix compile problems with Kernel 4.20.   Details are here:  https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/141072/en-us Unfortunately, this still fails to compile (tested with 4.20-rc5): ………………………….. CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.22/kernel/nvidia/linux_nvswitch.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.22/kernel/nvidia/linux_nvswitch.c: In function ‘nvswitch_os_snprintf_time’: /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-415.22/kernel/nvidia/linux_nvswitch.c:1585:5: error: implicit declaration of function ‘time_to_tm’; did you mean ‘time64_to_tm’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] time_to_tm(time_nsec / NVSWITCH_NSEC_PER_SEC, 0, &t); ^~~~~~~~~~ time64_to_tm cc1: some … Continue reading →

Posted in kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion | Tagged 415.22, compile still fails, kernel 4.20-rc5, nvidia | 4 Replies
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