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Kernel – 4.9-rc2 Breaks VMware and NVIDIA – Patch for NVIDIA..

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Updated the test system to Kernel 4.9-rc2, and both VMware (12.5.0) and NVIDIA (370.28 and 375.10) failed to compile.. Fedora 25 (Workstation Edition) Kernel 4.9.0-rc2 on an x86_64 (ttyS0) ………….. # uname -a Linux rgtest 4.9.0-rc2 #1 SMP Sun Oct 23 20:33:10 PDT 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux NVIDIA compile fail: ………….. /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-370.28/kernel/nvidia/os-mlock.c:120:55: error: passing argument 5 … Continue reading →

3.8-rc4 – VMware problem, but ‘old’ NVIDIA still OK..

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Just installed kernel 3.8-rc4 on my test system This time, VMware (9.01) compile fails, even with the ‘softlink’ workaround for version.h.. make: Entering directory `/tmp/modconfig-rBMV5O/vmci-only’ /usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/3.8.0-rc4/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/.   MODULEBUILDDIR= modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.8-rc4′   CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-rBMV5O/vmci-only/linux/driver.o   CC [M]  /tmp/modconfig-rBMV5O/vmci-only/linux/vmciKernelIf.o /tmp/modconfig-rBMV5O/vmci-only/linux/driver.c:127:4: error: implicit declaration of function ‘__devexit_p’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] /tmp/modconfig-rBMV5O/vmci-only/linux/driver.c:127:4: error: initializer element … Continue reading →