Kernel 7.2-rc1 is due out next Sunday, but – as usual – I have tested the latest (June 23rd) GIT version, to see what breaks..

The latest VMware (26H1) is OK, but NVIDIA 610.43.02 compilation throws many errors, due to changes to drm_atomic_state and strncpy..

Thanks to Willy Frissen, there is already a set of patches for this, at https://github.com/babiulep/my-kernel-patches/tree/main/NVIDIA/7.1/610.43.02   I applied these, and 610.43.02 compiled successfully, and loads/runs OK..    The patches are marked for ‘7.1’ or ‘7.1/next’ but are applicable to the version of 7.2-rc that I was testing.

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ld -r -o nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o nvidia-modeset/nv-kthread-q.o
MODPOST Module.symvers
CC [M] nvidia.mod.o
CC [M] .module-common.o
LD [M] nvidia.ko
CC [M] nvidia-uvm.mod.o
LD [M] nvidia-uvm.ko
CC [M] nvidia-modeset.mod.o
LD [M] nvidia-modeset.ko
CC [M] nvidia-drm.mod.o
LD [M] nvidia-drm.ko
CC [M] nvidia-peermem.mod.o
LD [M] nvidia-peermem.ko
make[2]: Leaving directory ‘/home/rgadsdon/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-610.43.02/kernel’
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/usr/src/linux-7.2-rc000’

As usual, there are many more changes to come before 7.2-rc1 is released, and more patches may be required by then..

Robert Gadsdon.  June 24th 2026..