Kernel – 5.19-rc1 Released. OK With Patched VMware, and a Hack for NVIDIA..
Kernel 5.19-rc1 is out, and details are here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2206.0/04428.html
There is a patchset for VMware 16.2.3, at https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/tmp/workstation-16.2.3-k5.19 . I have tested this with 5.19-rc1, and VMware compiles and loads/runs OK.
The latest NVIDIA driver (515.48.07) compile fails, but a hack is to edit NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.48.07/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-dma-resv-helper.h and NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.48.07/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-prime-fence.c
and change
nv_dma_resv_add_excl_fence
to
dma_resv_add_excl_fence
After this, the driver compiles and loads/runs OK (tested with Plasma/KDE on Fedora 36). This is not an ‘expert’ fix, and the actual code change required may be different.., but it appears to work… Usual disclaimer applies…
Robert Gadsdon. June 5th 2022.
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