With clues from the NVIDIA patches in the previous article, I have managed to find/create patches for vmmon and vmnet.. vmmon failed with: ……………… common/crosspage.c:50:13: fatal error: driver-config.h: No such file or directory 50 | # include “driver-config.h” | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. common/moduleloop.c:30:13: fatal error: driver-config.h: No such file or directory 30 | # include “driver-config.h” | … Continue reading →
Thanks to efforts by Willy Frissen and Joan Bruguera Micó, I have managed to cobble together a patch for NVIDIA driver 575.51.02 and Kernel 6.15 – tested with 6.15-rc2.. The compilation failed with Kernel 6.15 due principally to changes removing obsolete EXTRA_CFLAGS and replacing it by ccflags-y, and del_timer_sync replacement by timer_delete_sync: …………………… nvidia/nv.c:31:10: fatal error: nv-firmware.h: … Continue reading →
Just tested Kernel 6.15-rc1 with the latest NVIDIA 570.133.07, and the compile fails completely: ………………….. CONFTEST: drm_atomic_available CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_refcount_inc CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_gpl_refcount_dec_and_test CONFTEST: drm_alpha_blending_available CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_present_drm_gem_prime_fd_to_handle CONFTEST: is_export_symbol_present_drm_gem_prime_handle_to_fd CONFTEST: ib_peer_memory_symbols CC [M] nvidia/nv.o nvidia/nv.c:30:10: fatal error: nv-firmware.h: No such file or directory 30 | #include “nv-firmware.h” | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make[4]: *** [/usr/src/linux-6.15-rc1/scripts/Makefile.build:203: nvidia/nv.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** … Continue reading →
Kernel 6.15-rc1 has been released, and brief details are here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2504.0/07395.html Unusually, the compile actually failed: ………………………. CC [M] drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_i2c.o CC [M] drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx_spi.o LD [M] drivers/iio/imu/inv_mpu6050/inv-mpu6050.o LD [M] drivers/iio/imu/inv_icm42600/inv-icm42600-spi.o LD [M] drivers/iio/imu/st_lsm6dsx/st_lsm6dsx.o LD [M] drivers/iio/imu/inv_mpu6050/inv-mpu6050-i2c.o AR built-in.a AR vmlinux.a LD vmlinux.o OBJCOPY modules.builtin.modinfo GEN modules.builtin MODPOST Module.symvers ERROR: modpost: “iwl_mld_no_wowlan_suspend” [drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/iwlmld.ko] undefined! make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:147: Module.symvers] Error … Continue reading →