NVIDIA – New Vulkan Driver – Still Needs Patching for Kernel 5.6.
NVIDIA have released the latest Vulkan beta driver 440.66.02, and details are here: https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver
The kernel-related code seems to be unchanged from 440.64, and the Kernel 5.6 patch for that version still applies, and can be found here: https://gitlab.com/snippets/1945940
The driver then compiles OK:
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ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-kthread-q.o
MODPOST 4 modules
CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o
LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko
CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o
LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko
CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o
LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia-uvm.ko
CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia.mod.o
LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-440.66.02-custom/kernel/nvidia.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-5.6-rc6'
Robert Gadsdon. March 18th 2020.
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