Installed Kernel 4.0-rc2 on the test system, and details of changes from -rc1 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1503.0/01963.html Radeon on the HP6830 laptop is still broken: [drm r600_ring_test [radeon]] *ERROR* radeon: ring 0 test failed (scratch(0x8504)=0xFFFFFFFF) radeon 0000:01:00.0: disabling GPU acceleration << HANG >> Same comments apply as for -rc1 – the patched NVIDIA 346.47 driver and VMware 11.1 … Continue reading →
Tested the new NVIIDIA driver 346.47, and it still needs the patch for Kernel 4.0-rc1.. https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1332 More details here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/82252/en-us Robert Gadsdon.. February 25, 2015.
Continue reading →I have hacked together a kernel-version-friendly fix for the latest NVIDIA driver (346.35) which works with Kernel 4.0-rc1 (and later) and also for previous kernel versions.. Thanks are due to juston_li for producing the actual code changes needed.. https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/813458/linux/linux-4-0-rc1-346-35-build-error-_cr4-functions-fix/ Unpack the NVIDIA driver: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.35.run -x Edit NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.35/kernel/nv-pat.c Around line 34, change { unsigned long cr0 = read_cr0(); … Continue reading →
Just tested Kernel 4.0-rc1 – announced here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.2/04059.html As you will see – not much actual detail on what has changed, and I have already run into a couple of ‘issues’… The Radeon drm driver on my laptop refuses to load, and the boot hangs immediately with drm r600_ring_test [radeon] *ERROR* radeon: ring 0 test failed (scratch(0x8504)=0xFFFFFFFF) … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to Kernel 3.19 ‘final’, and – as expected – the latest NVIDIA (346.35) and VMware 11.0 (with the vmnet patch..) compile and boot/load OK.. Quite a lot of changes from -rc7, and some reverted.. More details here : http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.1/00199.html $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.19.0 #1 SMP Mon Feb 9 14:53:53 PST 2015 … Continue reading →
Installed Kernel 3.19-rc7 on the test system, and the same comments apply as for -rc6. The latest NVIDIA driver (346.35) and VMware 11.0 – with the vmnet patches – install and load/run OK.. Changelog summary here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1502.0/00273.html $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 3.19.0-rc7 #1 SMP Mon Feb 2 19:00:25 PST 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux It appears … Continue reading →
Updated to Kernel 3.19-rc6 on the test system, and – at last – the problem with NVIDIA driver GPL inconsistency has been fixed, and now driver 346.35 compiles and loads OK.. Details of changes since -rc5 are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1501.3/00776.html And the important change is that /arch/x86/mm/init.c now has EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cachemode2pte_tbl) instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__cachemode2pte_tbl)..etc.. VMware 11 – with the … Continue reading →
Tested the lates NVIDIA driver (346.35) today, and although it fixes the f_dentry error, the compile still fails with Kernel 3.19-rc4, due to the incompatible GPL problem: FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol ‘__cachemode2pte_tbl’ /usr/src/linux-3.19-rc4/scripts/Makefile.modpost:90: recipe for target ‘__modpost’ failed It has been pointed out that this can be fixed by simply changing the license … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to Kernel 3.19-rc4, and the same comments apply as for -rc3.. Still no fixes for NVIDIA and VMware, yet.. I tried the CuBox-i4 Pro with a ‘standard’ kernel from kernel.org, rather than the ‘patched’ version used previously, and it booted OK.. Fedora release 21 (Twenty One) Kernel 3.19.0-rc4 on an armv7l (ttymxc0) …………. … Continue reading →
Updated the test system to Kernel 3.19-rc3, and there is still no fix for VMware (11.0) and the latest NVIDIA (340.65 and 346.22) drivers… The NVIDIA problem will involve getting around a GPL-incompatible module issue.. FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol ‘__cachemode2pte_tbl’ 3.19-rc3 installs and runs OK on the CuBox-i4 Pro: $ uname -a Linux … Continue reading →