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 →
As there is (so far) no sign of an update to the 5.4.x kernel series, I have uploaded a _very unofficial_ patch I had already created for 5.4.13, and I have tested this, and so far it seems to work OK.. It is based on an ‘earlier’ e1000e patch version found on linux/netdev.. https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg623693.html, and thanks are … Continue reading →
Kernel 5.4-rc1 is out – a day later than usual, and brief details are here: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1909.3/04895.html My tests with VMware and NVIDIA revealed some odd errors/warning relating to kernel symbols.. With the latest NVIDIA (435.21) I got the following: # make make[1]: Entering directory ‘/usr/src/linux-5.4-rc1’ The Module.symvers file is missing, or does not contain any symbols exported … Continue reading →
Testing Fedora 31 – which is still work-in-progress, of course.. Tried to use # rpmbuild –rebuild to create a missing RPM from a F30 source RPM, and found the following error: ………….. Illegal char ‘)’ (0x29) in: Obsoletes:………. I found a reference to this error in the buglist, but it had been flagged as ‘rawhide’, and closed, … Continue reading →
I have done some more investigation into the NVIDIA compile failures with Kernel 5.1-rc1, and now have a – rather inelegant – solution. I found clues to some of the errors in a post relating to nouveau: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/20/50 and the rest were due to content removed from /include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h in Kernel 5.1-rc1: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.1-rc1/source/include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h compared to: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.0.3/source/include/drm/drm_crtc_helper.h. I also … Continue reading →
Setting up an old HP8000 desktop small-form-factor system as a crash-and-burn test system, with dual-boot Fedora 29 and Windows 7, on separate drives. First slight gotcha with the Fedora install: The installation utility shows the two disks, the first of which has Windows 7 (sda) and the second – additional – was for the Fedora Linux install … Continue reading →
Just updated the test system to Kernel 4.14.10, and was ‘somewhat dismayed‘ – to put it politely – that the NVIDIA breakage introduced in 4.14.9 is still there! ………… /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_va_block.c: In function ‘block_cpu_fault_locked’: /usr/src/linux-4.14.10/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:826:39: error: implicit declaration of function ‘task_stack_page’; did you mean ‘task_stack_vm_area’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] unsigned long __ptr = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(task); \ ^ /usr/src/linux-4.14.10/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:900:26: note: in expansion … Continue reading →
Just updated to Kernel 4.14.9, and normally this should not be anything to cause concern, but this time there has been a significant code change made, that has broken NVIDIA (384.98): ………………… /home/rgadsdon/kernel/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-384.98/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_va_block.c: In function ‘block_cpu_fault_locked’: /usr/src/linux-4.14.9/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:826:39: error: implicit declaration of function ‘task_stack_page’; did you mean ‘task_stack_vm_area’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] unsigned long __ptr = (unsigned long)task_stack_page(task); \ ^ /usr/src/linux-4.14.9/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:900:26: … 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 →
There has been a new release of Workstation 12.5 – 12.5.8 – and the – rather vague – release notes are here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/12.0/rn/workstation-1258-release-notes.html I tested this with a ‘clean’ install on my cash-and-burn system, and basically, it suffers from the same compatibility problems as 12.5.7. GCC7, Fedora 26/27, and Kernel 14.x all cause it to fail. # … Continue reading →