A fix has now been produced, for the dax compile fail with 5.9-rc6: Reported: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2009.2/07060.html Fix: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=88b67edd7247466bc47f01e1dc539b0d0d4b931e I have tested this, and the kernel now compiles OK, and loads/runs as expected.. Robert Gadsdon. September 21st 2020. … Continue reading →
VMware Workstation 15.0.3 has been released, and the details are here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/15/rn/workstation-1503-release-notes.html Not an impressive effort, as it still fails when compiled with Kernel 5.0, with multiple warnings, and errors (tested with 5.0.2): ………………….. /tmp/modconfig-32tPYF/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIF_EstimateLockedPageLimit’: /tmp/modconfig-32tPYF/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1641:25: error: ‘totalram_pages’ redeclared as different kind of symbol extern unsigned long totalram_pages; ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /tmp/modconfig-32tPYF/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:42: … Continue reading →
Just updated to Kernel 4.14.9, and normally this should not be anything to cause concern, but this time there has been a significant code change made, that has broken NVIDIA (384.98): ………………… /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_va_block.c: In function ‘block_cpu_fault_locked’: /usr/src/linux-4.14.9/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:826:39: error: implicit declaration of function ‘task_stack_page’; did you mean ‘task_stack_vm_area’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] unsigned long __ptr = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(task); \ ^ /usr/src/linux-4.14.9/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:900:26: … Continue reading →
New beta driver 378.09 has been released, and details are here: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/114232/en-us The driver compiles OK with Kernel 4.9.4, but fails to compile with 4.10-rc4, with different errors from 375.26, as some of the code base has changed.. …………………. CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09/kernel/nvidia/nv-p2p.o CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.o /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c: In function ‘nvidia_cpu_callback’: /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-378.09/kernel/nvidia/nv-pat.c:213:14: error: ‘CPU_DOWN_FAILED’ undeclared (first use in this … Continue reading →
There is now an ‘official’ fix for the 4.10-rc1 compile failure with ARM64/aarch64, from Al Viro, and the patch itself is available here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git/commit/?h=arm64-fix&id=b4b8664d291ac1998e0f0bcdc96b6397f0fe68b3 I have applied this to kernel 4.10-rc1 on the Odroid C2, and the kernel compiles successfully.. Robert Gadsdon. December 27, 2016. … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.2, and it still fails to compile with Kernel 4.9-rc5 I have – so far – been unable to find any other patches for this issue, but fortunately the nasty hack I documented in the article for 4.9-rc4 still works.. http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1838 The release notes for 12.5.2 are here: … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.7-rc7 is out, and 4.7 Final should be next, but the latest NVIDIA driver released – 367.35 – still fails to compile with 4.7-rc7.. The patch for 367.xx still works OK… Details here: http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1750 In case you need to create an executable (NVxx.xxx.run) incorporating the patch, details on how to do this are in an older … Continue reading →
Update: Same results with 4.2-rc3.. (RG July 19) Update: Kernel 4.2-rc2 fails with VMware (vmnet) and NVIDIA in the same ways.. (RG July 14) Updated to kernel 4.2-rc1 on the test system: # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.2.0-rc1 #1 SMP Sun Jul 5 18:36:06 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1507.0/02156.html VMware 11.1.2 … Continue reading →
As Kernel 4.1-rc1 is not released yet, I tested the April 24 version of linux-next, to see how VMware and NVIDIA compiles would behave.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.0.0-next-20150424 #2 SMP Sun Apr 26 12:04:54 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux With this version, VMware 11.1 (with the 3.19 vmnet patch) compiled and loaded OK, but … Continue reading →
Just tested Kernel 4.0-rc1 – announced here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.2/04059.html As you will see – not much actual detail on what has changed, and I have already run into a couple of ‘issues’… The Radeon drm driver on my laptop refuses to load, and the boot hangs immediately with drm r600_ring_test [radeon] *ERROR* radeon: ring 0 test failed (scratch(0x8504)=0xFFFFFFFF) … Continue reading →