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KERNEL – 4.8-rc1 Out – Breaks VMware and NVIDIA – and Fixes..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 8, 2016 by RGAugust 8, 2016

Kernel 4.8-rc1 is out, and brief details are here:   http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1608.0/04804.html VMware 12.1.1 – with the previous 4.6/4.7 patches, fails to compile vmmon: /tmp/modconfig-gfkQLR/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIF_EstimateLockedPageLimit’: /tmp/modconfig-gfkQLR/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1597:47: error: ‘NR_ANON_PAGES’ undeclared (first use in this function) Further research revealed that NR_ANON_PAGES has been changed to NR_ANON_MAPPED in 4.8, and so the fix is quite simple.. In ~/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c, around … Continue reading →

Posted in fix, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Performance, VMware | Tagged additional patches, breaks vmware and nvidia, compiles ok, hostif.c, kernel 4.8-rc1, nvidia 367.35, nvidia-drm, patches available, vmmon, vmware 12.1.1 | 8 Replies

NVIDIA – Latest Driver – Still Fails with Kernel 4.7..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on July 16, 2016 by RGJuly 16, 2016

Kernel 4.7-rc7 is out, and 4.7 Final should be next, but the latest NVIDIA driver released – 367.35 – still fails to compile with 4.7-rc7..     The patch for 367.xx still works OK…  Details here:  http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1750 In case you need to create an executable (NVxx.xxx.run) incorporating the patch, details on how to do this are in an older … Continue reading →

Posted in compilation, Crash and Burn.., fix, Hacks, kernel, Linux, NVIDIA, Performance | Tagged compile fail, executable plus patch, fix, kernel 4.7-rc7, nvidia 367.35, patch | 1 Reply
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