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Kernel – 6.9-rc Pre-testing – NVIDIA OK, VMware Broken..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 17, 2024 by RGMarch 17, 2024

Testing an early pre-release version of Kernel 6.9-rc (March 16th) and – so far – the latest NVIDIA 550.54.14 compiles OK, but (patched) VMware vmnet 17.5.1 does not: …….. CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-1kunqP/vmnet-only/smac.o CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-1kunqP/vmnet-only/vnetEvent.o CC [M] /tmp/modconfig-1kunqP/vmnet-only/vnetUserListener.o In file included from ./include/linux/spinlock.h:305, from ./include/linux/sched.h:2138, from /tmp/modconfig-1kunqP/vmnet-only/bridge.c:25: /tmp/modconfig-1kunqP/vmnet-only/bridge.c: In function ‘VNetBridgeReceiveFromVNet’: /tmp/modconfig-1kunqP/vmnet-only/vmnetInt.h:44:39: error: ‘dev_base_lock’ undeclared (first use … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha release, compilation, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, VMware | Tagged dev_base_lock, kernel 6.9, nvidia ok, pre release, testing, undefined, vmware vmnet fails | Leave a reply

Kernel – 6.8 Pre-testing – Breaks NVIDIA and VMware – VMware fix available..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on January 15, 2024 by RGJanuary 15, 2024

As kernel 6.8-rc1 is due in about a weeks time, I tested the Jan 14th version from Git, and both the latest NVIDIA 545.29.06 and VMware 17.5.0 failed.. NVIDIA: Multiple occurrences of ‘warning: no previous prototype‘ and then: ……………. In file included from /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-545.29.06/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:64: /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-545.29.06/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:1489:40: error: ‘DRM_UNLOCKED’ undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean ‘VM_LOCKED’? … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha release, compilation, fix, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, VMware | Tagged breaks latest nvidia and vmware, kernel 6.8, pre-testing, vmware fix available | 3 Replies

Kernel – 6.4-rc Pre-release Testing.. Breaks NVIDIA, VMware OK..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on April 30, 2023 by RGApril 30, 2023

Usual caveat..  Not all changes are yet in place, and any code changes are suggestions/hacks only – not a expert recommendation! Testing an interim release (April 29th) of Kernel 6.4-rc, and NVIDIA 530.41.03 fails to compile: LD [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-530.41.03/kernel/nvidia-modeset.o CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-530.41.03/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm.o CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-530.41.03/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.o /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-530.41.03/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c: In function ‘nv_drm_update_drm_driver_features’: /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-530.41.03/kernel/nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c:1439:18: error: ‘struct drm_driver’ has no member named … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha release, compilation, Crash and Burn.., Fedora, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, VMware | Tagged 530.41.03 fails, dumb_destroy, fix hack, kernel 6.4, nvidia, pre-rc tests, vmware 17.0.2 ok | Leave a reply

Kernel – 5.15. Early Test for New NTFS Support..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 7, 2021 by RGSeptember 7, 2021

As usual, the next release of Linux includes new features, but this time – with 5.15 – it now includes new NTFS read/write support in the kernel.      The code for this is from Paragon, and is already in the 5.15 codebase on git, so I decided to test it.. As this was pre-RC code, it also flagged … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha release, compilation, kernel, Linux, NTFS, Opinion | Tagged early tests, kernel 5.15, new ntfs, ntfs3, success | Leave a reply

Fedora – Fun with ZRAM..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 4, 2020 by RGSeptember 4, 2020

Fedora 33 will be using ZRAM as standard for swap, rather than a partition or swapfile on disk.    I had no problem with this on a new F33 install (Odroid H2Plus) but after upgrading an existing Fedora 32 system it refused to initialise, and ‘/dev/zram0‘ did not exist.    Research revealed that the documentation for much of this … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha release, boot, Fedora, fix, Hacks, kernel, Linux, Opinion | Tagged /dev/zram0 missing, fedora 33, fix, old config, swap, upgrade, zram | Leave a reply

NVIDIA – Early Patch for 5.9 Available..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 13, 2020 by RGAugust 13, 2020

There is already an early NVIDIA 450.57 patch for Kernel 5.9, and thanks to Pete for the info, and Isaak I. Aleksandrov for the patch ..   This was not shown in the general list I had at https://gitlab.com/users/EULA/snippets, but the direct link is here:  https://gitlab.com/EULA/snippets/-/blob/55de41ae16851dc0fc7973901c1f71007b2a4efb/NVIDIA/450.57/kernel-5.9.patch I have tested this with the August 9th pre-release I used in … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha release, compilation, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, patches | 3 Replies

Kernel – 5.9-rc – Preliminary Testing – Breaks VMware and NVIDIA, and VirtualBox..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 10, 2020 by RGAugust 10, 2020

After all the excitement around the release of Kernel 5.8, I ran some tests on the work-in-progress git version (August 9th) of Kernel 5.9-rc1.   Obviously, there are more changes to come before RC1 is actually released.. NVIDIA 450.57 compile fails: ……………………. CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/nv-kthread-q.o CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/nv-kthread-q-selftest.o CC [M] /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8.o In file included from /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8.c:31: /home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-450.57/kernel/nvidia-uvm/uvm8_va_range.h: In … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha release, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Opinion, VirtualBox, VMware | Tagged compile tests only, git version august 9th, interim tests, kernel 5-9rc, nvidia fails, vitrtualbox fails, vmmon fails | 4 Replies

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

VMware – Not Working with Fedora 26 – GCC 7, and Workarounds..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 12, 2017 by RGJuly 16, 2017

UPDATE:  The vmware runtime fix shown here has not worked since version 12.5.6, and the solution is in a later article:  http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1992 I have recently updated one crash-and-burn system to Fedora 26 (alpha/testing) and have encountered two problems with VMware and the ‘bleeding edge’ version of GCC included.. The first problem sounded very familiar, and it is a … Continue reading →

Posted in alpha release, compilation, Crash and Burn.., Fedora, fix, Hacks, kernel, Linux, VMware | Tagged fedora 26, fix, gcc 7, gcc 7.0.1, manual compile, vmmon, vmnet, vmware 12.5.3 runtime fails, workarounds | 21 Replies

ARM64 – Dragonboard 410c – Fail with Linux-Next..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on July 2, 2016 by RGJuly 2, 2016

After the – partial – success with the 96Boards Hikey, I tried the Qualcomm Dragonboard 410c, but the June 29 Linux-Next failed to boot successfully, with only one CPU initialising, and MMC errors, and eventual hang…. ……………………….. psci: failed to boot CPU1 (-95) CPU1: failed to boot: -95 CPU1: failed in unknown state : 0x0 psci: failed … Continue reading →

Posted in aarch64, alpha release, ARM64, boot, compilation, Crash and Burn.., Dragonboard, kernel, Linux / ARM, Opinion, Performance | Tagged 96boards, boot fail, cpu and mmc errors, dragonboard 410c, hang, june 29 release, linux-next, qualcomm | Leave a reply

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