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 … Continue reading →