Kernel 4.14-rc8 is out, and brief details of changes since -rc7 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1711.0/03395.html This might have been 4.14 ‘final’ but there were still too many changes to warrant that.. Th 4.14 ‘final’ release may be slightly delayed, as it would now clash with the US ‘Thanksgiving’ holiday.. The latest NVIDIA drivers (384.98 and 387.22 beta) both … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.7 has been released – slightly later than usual – and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1607.3/00150.html $ uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 4.7.0 #1 SMP Sun Jul 24 14:34:37 PDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Neither VMware nor NVIDIA have drivers that work with this kernel version, but the 4.7-rc patched versions of VMware 12.1.1 and NVIDIA … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.6-rc6 has been released, and details of changes since -rc5 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1605.0/00190.html It seems that there will be (at least..) an rc7, before ‘Final’.. Tested with patched VMware 12.1.0 (vmnet and vmmon) and patched NVIDIA (364.19) and both still compile OK.. See my previous article http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1709 for more info.. Robert Gadsdon. May 2, 2016. … Continue reading →
Just installed Kernel 4.5-rc1 on the test system, and NVIDIA 358.16 (and ‘beta’ 361.18) and VMware 12.1.0 all compile and load/run OK.. Details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1601.3/00205.html $ uname -a Linux rglinux 4.5.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sun Jan 24 15:39:14 PST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Robert Gadsdon. January 24, 2016. … Continue reading →
Updated to Kernel 4.4 ‘Final’ on the test system, and the latest VMware (12.1.0) and NVIDIA (358.16) compile and run OK.. The ‘beta’ driver 361.16 should be OK, but has multiple userland issues on my systems. – see previous post.).. $ uname -a Linux rglinux 4.4.0 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 22:00:41 PST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 … Continue reading →
The latest (beta) NVIDIA driver – 358.09 – compiles and install/runs OK with Kernel 4.3 (tested with 4.3-rc5). Release notes, and download, at http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/92712 Robert Gadsdon. October 12, 2015. … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to Kernel 3.19-rc4, and the same comments apply as for -rc3.. Still no fixes for NVIDIA and VMware, yet.. I tried the CuBox-i4 Pro with a ‘standard’ kernel from kernel.org, rather than the ‘patched’ version used previously, and it booted OK.. Fedora release 21 (Twenty One) Kernel 3.19.0-rc4 on an armv7l (ttymxc0) …………. … Continue reading →
The recent kernel 3.10.6 includes a – potential – performance improvement, by reverting some old (circa 3.8) patches, after research and testing by kernel contributors at Intel, and RedHat.. More details in the changelog, at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.10.6 3.11-rc5 is also out, and works fine with the patched versions of VMware 9.0.2, and NVIDIA 325.15. Incidentally, the NVIDIA patch … Continue reading →
Just updated to kernel 3.6.3, and this works OK with the latest NVIDIA driver (310.14) and VMware W/S 9.0 (with the 3.5 patch).. $ uname -a Linux rglinux 3.6.3 #1 SMP Sun Oct 21 20:28:25 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux … Continue reading →