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Kernel – 5.17 Pre-release Tests..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on January 17, 2022 by RGJanuary 17, 2022

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 →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, VMware | Tagged 16.2.1, 510.39.01, github, kernel 5.17-pre, latest nvidia ok, patch available for vmware, testing | Leave a reply

GCC – Fun with GCC 10, and the Kernel, NVIDIA, VMware..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on February 21, 2020 by RGFebruary 21, 2020

I have updated some test systems (x86_64 and aarch64) to pre-beta Fedora 32, which now includes GCC 10: $ gcc –version gcc (GCC) 10.0.1 20200216 (Red Hat 10.0.1-0.8) There have been a couple of problems with kernel compilation, but in each case there was already a patch/workaround available.. https://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-arm/msg13193.html and https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/1/29/494 The most serious problem was a … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha release, compilation, Fedora, gcc, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, VMware | Tagged fedora 32, gcc10, kernel 5.6-rc, kernel fixes, nvidia, pre-beta, testing, vmware | Leave a reply

Kernel – Pre-Release Tests for 5.6-rc1 ..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on February 6, 2020 by RGFebruary 6, 2020

Kernel 5.6-rc1 should be out on Sunday, February 9th, but I noticed that early-version-test patches are already available for VMware 15.5.1, here:  https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules/tree/tmp/workstation-15.5.1-k5.6 These patches gave clues to what might affect NVIDIA as well, and I managed to get a GIT version of 5.6-rc1-pre (dated February 5th) to compile OK, and was able to use this.   Of … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., fix, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, patches, success, VMware | Tagged kernel 5.6-rc1 pre-release, nvidia 440.59 patches, success, testing, vmware 15.5.1 patch | Leave a reply

NVIDIA – Another Kernel 5.5 Patch

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 24, 2019 by RGDecember 24, 2019

There is another (modified?) patch available for the latest NVIDIA driver and Kernel 5.5-rc ( see the NVIDIA Forum article at https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1068332/linux/nvidia-driver-does-not-build-on-linux-v5-5-release-candidate-kernel/ ). I have applied this to driver 440.44 on Kernel 5.5-rc3, and it compiles OK, and loads/runs without the ‘tombstone’ that I experienced with previous versions. Robert Gadsdon.  December 24th 2019. … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, patches | Tagged compiles ok, nvidia 440-44, patch for kernel 5.5, runs, testing | Leave a reply

Kernel – GCC 8 Tests – Not Quite Ready…

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 22, 2018 by RGMarch 22, 2018

I decided to try updating a crash-and-burn test system to Fedora 28 (early-beta..) as this included GCC 8 (currently 8.0.1), to see how well the Kernel (4.16-rc6) compiled.. There were a lot of warnings generated: …………………… CC [M] drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf8523.o CC drivers/usb/core/file.o CC drivers/video/hdmi.o CC [M] drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf8563.o drivers/video/hdmi.c: In function ‘hdmi_spd_infoframe_init’: drivers/video/hdmi.c:171:2: warning: ‘strncpy’ specified bound 8 equals … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, gcc, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion | Tagged early-beta, fedora 28, gcc 8.0.1, kernel 4.16-rc6, kernel compile, nvidia, testing, warnings | Leave a reply

Kernel – GCC 8 Tests – Not Quite Ready…

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 22, 2018 by RGMarch 22, 2018

I decided to try updating a crash-and-burn test system to Fedora 28 (early-beta..) as this included GCC 8 (currently 8.0.1), to see how well the Kernel (4.16-rc6) compiled.. There were a lot of warnings generated: …………………… CC [M] drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf8523.o CC drivers/usb/core/file.o CC drivers/video/hdmi.o CC [M] drivers/rtc/rtc-pcf8563.o drivers/video/hdmi.c: In function ‘hdmi_spd_infoframe_init’: drivers/video/hdmi.c:171:2: warning: ‘strncpy’ specified bound 8 equals … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, gcc, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion | Tagged early-beta, fedora 28, gcc 8.0.1, kernel 4.16-rc6, kernel compile, nvidia, testing, warnings | Leave a reply

VMware – Still waiting for 12.5.8…

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 11, 2017 by RGSeptember 11, 2017

Apparently there is ‘no information’ on the possible availability of an update to the 12.5.x version of VMware, to fix the well-known problems with GCC 7 etc… If you were thinking of trying the ‘technology preview’ version – which came out some months ago – then this version also has a problem with GCC 7 (tested with … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, kernel, Linux, Opinion, VMware | Tagged fails with gcc 7, kernel, linux, technology preview, testing, vmware, waiting for 12.5.8 | 4 Replies

VMware – Still waiting for 12.5.8…

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 11, 2017 by RGSeptember 11, 2017

Apparently there is ‘no information’ on the possible availability of an update to the 12.5.x version of VMware, to fix the well-known problems with GCC 7 etc… If you were thinking of trying the ‘technology preview’ version – which came out some months ago – then this version also has a problem with GCC 7 (tested with … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, kernel, Linux, Opinion, VMware | Tagged fails with gcc 7, kernel, linux, technology preview, testing, vmware, waiting for 12.5.8 | Leave a reply

NVIDIA – New Drivers, Still Broken with 4.10 – And a Patch for 378.13..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on February 15, 2017 by RGFebruary 15, 2017

NVIDIA have released new drivers 375.39 (‘long term’) and 378.13 (‘short term’) and details are here:  http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/114708/en-us and http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/115031/en-us. Both still fail to compile with Kernel 4.10 (tested with 4.10-rc8) and I tried the previous 378.09 patch against 379.13, but it failed to apply cleanly, as more code has changed.. $ cat nv-37809-410-patch.patch |patch -p0 patching file … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, patches, Performance | Tagged 375.39, 378.13, compile fails, kernel 4.10, new drivers, nvidia, patch needs mods, testing | 3 Replies

ARM64 – DragonBoard 410c to Kernel 4.1..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on July 2, 2015 by RGJuly 2, 2015

Managed to update the DragonBoard 410c to Linaro Kernel 4.1.0+, from here: git clone https://git.linaro.org/landing-teams/working/qualcomm/kernel.git -b integration-linux-qcomlt So far, I have made the kernel ‘monolithic’ with all necessary modules built-in (‘y” instead of ‘m’), as this was how the original Linaro/Qualcomm kernel was built..     As the 410c uses the android fastboot, it would seem that the kernel/boot … Continue reading →

Posted in aarch64, ARM64, compilation, Crash and Burn.., Dragonboard, Hacks, kernel, Linux / ARM, Opinion, Performance | Tagged dragonboard 410c, kernel 4.1.0, testing, unstable, update | Leave a reply

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