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Kernel – 5.17 Pre-release Tests..

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Kernel 5.17-rc1 is due out soon, and so I tested the latest (Jan 16th) Github version, to see if there were any surprises.. The latest NVIDIA driver – 510.39.01 – compiled and loaded/ran OK: …………. ld -r -o /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.39.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.39.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.39.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-kthread-q.o MODPOST /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.39.01/kernel/Module.symvers CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.39.01/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.39.01/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.39.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.39.01/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko CC [M] … Continue reading →

Kernel – 5.14 is Out. OK with Latest NVIDIA, and Patched VMware. (and… Happy Birthday)

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Kernel 5.14 has been released, and the release notes include a subtle hint about the 30th anniversary of Linux – which I must confess I had forgotten…   I have only been using it since 1997..   Read it here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2108.3/05438.html As expected, this is OK with the latest NVIDIA driver 470.63.01, and with the latest (July 2021) patched … Continue reading →

Kernel – 5.4 Released – No Surprises..

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Kernel 5.4 has been released, and brief details of changes since -rc8 are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1911.3/00186.html As expected, the latest NVIDIA (440.36) and patched VMware 15.5.1 both compile and load/run OK. Robert Gadsdon.  November 24th, 2019 … Continue reading →

Kernel – 5.1 Released, OK with latest NVIDIA, and Patched VMware

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Kernel 5.1 is out, and brief details are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1905.0/03532.html The latest NVIDIA driver (430.09) and patched VMware 15.0.4 both compile and run OK. One odd quirk, is that the behaviour of # make xconfig has changed, and if you have your custom configs saved out-of-tree, then the save option tries to save them back to the … Continue reading →

Kernel – 4.15-rc7 Released – And there will be an -rc8..

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Kernel 4.15-rc7 is out, and (brief) details of changes since -rc6 are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.0/04858.html.    The preamble is worth a read, as it pays tribute to the work done on the x86 PTI fixes.. Vmmon-patched VMware 14.1.0 is OK (see: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/workstation-14.1.0 ) and the latest NVIDIA drivers – 384.111 and 390.12 are both still OK. As mentioned, in … Continue reading →

Kernel – 4.12-rc1 Released – NVIDIA OK, VMware Not..

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Kernel 4.12-rc1 is out – one day early – and brief details are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1705.1/03964.html The release includes the reverted GPL/MIT licence changes in refcount.c, and the latest NVIDIA drivers compile/load OK, now: ……………………… Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22/kernel/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22/kernel/nvidia-drm.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22/kernel/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22/kernel/nvidia-modeset.ko CC /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22/kernel/nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22/kernel/nvidia-uvm.ko CC … Continue reading →

Kernel – 4.1-rc8 Released, ‘Final’ Next..

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As expected, Kernel 4.1-rc8 is out, and the same comments regarding VMware and NVIDIA apply as for -rc7..  http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1471 $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.1.0-rc8 #1 SMP Sun Jun 14 23:48:07 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Brief details of changes from -rc7 are here:  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1506.1/04926.html 4.1 ‘Final’ should be out soon, probably within the next week … Continue reading →