Kernel 5.4-rc8 is out, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1911.2/01078.html The latest NVIDIA (440.31), and patched VMware 15.5.1 compile and load/run OK. The Intel e1000e Ethernet driver had been broken since -rc1, but this has finally been fixed, and appears to operate correctly, now. Robert Gadsdon. November 17th 2019. … Continue reading →
Tested the newly released Kernel 5.3-rc1 (brief details here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1907.2/04769.html ) The latest NVIDIA (430.34) compiles and runs OK, and (patched) VMware 15.1.0 vmnet compiles OK, but vmmon fails: ……… CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-Kk5UU0/vmmon-only/common/cpuid.o /tmp/modconfig-Kk5UU0/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIF_SetFastClockRate’: /tmp/modconfig-Kk5UU0/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:3406:10: error: too many arguments to function ‘force_sig’ 3406 | force_sig(SIGKILL, linuxState.fastClockThread); | ^~~~~~~~~ In file included from ./include/linux/taskstats_kern.h:12, from … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.2 is out – slightly later than usual – and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1907.0/05444.html As expected, the latest NVIDIA (430.26) and patched VMware 15.1.0 compile and run OK. Robert Gadsdon. July 7 2019. … Continue reading →
Updated Sept 24, to give specific location (from 4.19-rc5 release) In case you had previously been accessing the work-in-progress -rc version of the Kernel at https://github.com/torvalds/linux, then – after 4.19-rc4 – it can be found here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/ To get the latest source: # git clone -b master –single-branch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git Tarballs can be found here (under ‘Download‘): https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.19-rc1 has been released, and very brief details of changes are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1808.3/01014.html VMware 14.1.3 compiles/loads OK, but NVIDIA (396.54) compile failed: …………………. /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-396.54/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-encoder.c:219:11: error: implicit declaration of function ‘drm_mode_connector_attach_encoder’; did you mean ‘drm_connector_attach_encoder’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] ret = drm_mode_connector_attach_encoder(connector, encoder); ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drm_connector_attach_encoder cc1: some warnings being treated as errors ……………….. – and a similar error with nvidia-drm-connector.c … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.18-rc2 has been released, and brief details of changes from -rc1 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1806.3/00112.html This includes the cmdline fix, which enables the VMware runtimes to execute correctly. The VMware 14.1.2 vmmon patch is still required (see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2322 ) NVIDIA 390.67 compiles OK, with the nvidia-drm-drv.c patch (see http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2315 ) Robert Gadsdon. June 24, 2018. … Continue reading →
There are now patches available to deal with the host of ‘objtool‘ warnings when compiling the kernel with GCC8: …………………………….. drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.o: warning: objtool: fb_set_var()+0x209: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.o: warning: objtool: do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers()+0xa6: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.o: warning: objtool: register_framebuffer()+0x14b: sibling call from callable instruction with modified … Continue reading →
Thanks – again – to Michal Kubeček, who has pointed out that there is still a vulnerability in some VMware (vmmon) code, that is not mitigated by Kernel/Compiler retpoline fixes, as it is written in assembler.. ( See comment on previous article – http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2277 ) He has provided an appropriate fix for this, at https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/player-14.1.1 Robert Gadsdon. … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.17-rc3 is out, and brief details of changes from -rc2 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.3/05507.html Tested with NVIDIA 396.18 and VMware 14.1.1 (vmmon and vmnet), and all still compile OK.. Robert Gadsdon. April 29, 2018. … Continue reading →
Kernel 4.17-rc1 has been released, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1804.1/06654.html With the latest code-on-git milestone reached, there is speculation that a version bump to 5.x might be a possibility – but not just yet! The latest NVIDIA driver (396.18) and VMware (14.1.1 – vmmon and vmnet) all compile OK.. Robert Gadsdon. April 15, 2018 … Continue reading →