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Kernel – 4.19-rc1 – OK with VMware, breaks NVIDIA – and Possible Fix..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 27, 2018 by RGAugust 27, 2018

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 →

Posted in DisplayLink, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, VMware | Tagged 4.19-rc1, displaylink 4.2 compile fail, drm_mode_connector_attach_encoder, kernel, nvidia 396.54 compile fail, possible fix, released, vmware 14.1.3 ok | 6 Replies

NVIDIA – Possible Fix for Kernel 4.16..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 6, 2018 by RGMarch 6, 2018

Thanks to the efforts of mlau on the NVIDIA Devtalk Forum, there is a possible fix for the swiotlb issue with Kernel 4.16..     See https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1030082/linux/kernel-4-16-rc1-breaks-latest-drivers-unknown-symbol-swiotlb_map_sg_attrs-/ for details.. For NVIDIA driver 384.111, I had to increment all the nv–linux.h patch line number references by 100 (so ‘…@@ –1209,6 +1209,7 @@… becomes …@@ –1309,6 +1309,7 @@..’ and ‘..@@ -1251,7 … Continue reading →

Posted in fix, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, patches | Tagged 384.111 patched, kernel 4.16, nv-linux.h, nvidia, possible fix, swiotlb | Leave a reply
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