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 →
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 →
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 →