Kernel 5.6-rc1 is out, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2002.1/00576.html

After the pre-release testing mentioned in my previous article, patched VMware 15.5.1 and patched/hacked NVIDIA 440.59 both compiled and ran, but with the same NVIDIA # startx tombstone, as previously mentioned.   I had already created a patched NVIDIA runtime, to make things easier:

# ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.59-k56.run -s --install-libglvnd
Verifying archive integrity... OK
Uncompressing NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 440.59 .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
# lsmod |grep nvidia
nvidia_drm 53248 0
nvidia_modeset 1105920 1 nvidia_drm
nvidia 20361216 1 nvidia_modeset
drm_kms_helper 188416 1 nvidia_drm
drm 454656 3 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm

Robert Gadsdon.   February 9th 2020.