Kernel – 5.7-rc1 Pre-release Testing – OK so far..
Just installed kernel 5.7-rc1 pre-release (April 8th) from git:
$ uname -a
Linux rgz220 5.7.0-rc1pre2 #1 SMP Wed Apr 8 12:45:43 PDT 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Tested with latest NVIDIA driver – 440.82 and latest 5.6-patched VMware – 15.5.2 – at both compile and load/run OK:
$ lsmod |grep nv
nvidia_drm 53248 4
nvidia_modeset 1105920 10 nvidia_drm
nvidia 20406272 505 nvidia_modeset
drm_kms_helper 196608 1 nvidia_drm
drm 466944 7 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm
$ lsmod |grep vm
vmnet 57344 13
vmw_vsock_vmci_transport 32768 0
vsock 40960 1 vmw_vsock_vmci_transport
vmw_vmci 73728 1 vmw_vsock_vmci_transport
vmmon 118784 0
kvm_intel 217088 0
kvm 475136 1 kvm_intel
irqbypass 16384 1 kvm
Obvioulsy more changes are coming, but at least – so far – things are looking OK..
Robert Gadsdon. April 8th 2020
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