I would like to start by thanking Michal Kubeček for his many years of expert support of the VMware vmmon/vmnet modules for later kernel versions.. Since the Broadcom takeover of VMware, his patches have been forked multiple times, for 17.5.2 and now 17.6 support, with varying degrees of success.. I have tested most of these and – … Continue reading →
Thanks – again – to Michal Kubeček, there are now patches available for VMware with Kernel 5.0-rc1, here: https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules . There are patched vmmon and vmnet versions available for the latest 12.x, 14.x and 15.x releases, so for 15.0.2, do: # git clone -b workstation-15.0.2 https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules.git I have applied these, and can confirm that VMware 15.0.2 now … Continue reading →
Just updated to VMware Workstation 14.1.0, and release notes are here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/14.0.0/rn/workstation-141-release-notes.html This now works OK with Kernel 4.14 (tested with 4.14.8) but vmmon is still broken with Kernel 4.15 (tested with 4.15-rc4): ……………. /tmp/modconfig-04hK9s/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIF_InitUptime’: /tmp/modconfig-04hK9s/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1770:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_timer’; did you mean ‘init_timers’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] init_timer(&uptimeState.timer); ^~~~~~~~~~ init_timers /tmp/modconfig-04hK9s/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1771:31: error: assignment from … Continue reading →
Thanks to milhouse, there is a set of two patches available for NVIDIA 384.98 and (legacy) 340.104 with Kernel 4.15-rc1, and details are here: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1026911/linux/4-15-rc1-patches-for-384-98-and-340-104/ The first patch fixes the compile problems, but the load fails with yet another case of GPL incompatibility: ………………. Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia-drm.ko uses … Continue reading →
Thanks to Heiner Kallweit for info on two USB patches for the Odroid C2, and thanks to John Youn for the patches themselves.. They can be found at http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg151687.html and http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg151688.html . I have applied these to Kernel 4.10-rc4 (including the Ethernet TX patch) and now USB is working, and detects/connects devices – sort of.. Plug in … Continue reading →
After the initial patches to provide basic U-Boot support for the C2, as mentioned in a previous article – there is now a further patch, to enable MMC support. Details at https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg212503.html I have applied this additional patch, and for SDcard-based systems, it works: U-Boot 2016.05-rc3 (May 14 2016 – 21:06:28 -0700) odroid-c2 aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 5.3.1 20160212 … Continue reading →
After a lot of searching – and more testing (mostly unsuccessful..) I finally have a set of two patches that fix the Ethernet driver problem with the Rock2 in 4.6-rc1.. The problem is that the stmmac driver is common to several SOC setups, and each maintainer seems to have produced their own version of a fix.. The … Continue reading →
Thanks to dominator008, this is a link to information and patches for VMware 9.0.2 with Kernel 3.12.: http://dominator008.com/constructionyard/2013/10/03/vmware-9-0-2-vmblock-patch-for-linux-kernel-3-12/ As I have already updated to VMware 10.0, I have not been able to test these myself, but as you will see, they have been tested by the author.. Robert Gadsdon. October 17, 2013 … Continue reading →
Just updated my test system to 3.7-rc2, and the same patches and ‘workarounds’ are needed for NVIDIA (driver 310.14) and VMware (9.0 with 3.5 patch) as mentioned in my earlier post, for -rc1.. # uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.7.0-rc2 #1 SMP Mon Oct 22 01:58:54 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux … Continue reading →
After excellent work done by Mike Thompson from the Raspbian project, there is now a set of patches and a config file available for the APC-supplied 2.6.32.9+ kernel source, which enables a working kernel to be compiled and run – although with limited functionality due to ‘missing’ device drivers.. More details at : http://www.raspbian.org/ApricotImages To use this, … Continue reading →