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Kernel – 6.15 Released – No Surprises..

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Kernel 6.15 is out, and brief details of the latest changes are here:  https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2505.3/00645.html The latest NVIDIA driver 570.153.02 is OK with this kernel, and with GCC 15 (Fedora 42 etc..)  and can be found here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/245669/ A VMware vmmon/vmnet fix for 17.6.3 was already documented in a previous article:  http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=3321 Robert Gadsdon.   May 25th 2025.   … Continue reading →

VMware – Simple Fixes for Kernel 6.15-rc..

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With clues from the NVIDIA patches in the previous article, I have managed to find/create patches for vmmon and vmnet.. vmmon failed with: ……………… common/crosspage.c:50:13: fatal error: driver-config.h: No such file or directory 50 | # include “driver-config.h” | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. common/moduleloop.c:30:13: fatal error: driver-config.h: No such file or directory 30 | # include “driver-config.h” | … Continue reading →

NVIDIA – Finally, a Fix for Kernel 6.15-rc..

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Thanks to efforts by Willy Frissen and Joan Bruguera Micó, I have managed to cobble together a patch for NVIDIA driver 575.51.02 and Kernel 6.15 – tested with 6.15-rc2.. The compilation failed with Kernel 6.15 due principally to changes removing obsolete EXTRA_CFLAGS and replacing it by ccflags-y, and del_timer_sync replacement by timer_delete_sync: …………………… nvidia/nv.c:31:10: fatal error: nv-firmware.h: … Continue reading →