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 … Continue reading →
NVIDIA have just released a new version of the 580.xx driver – 580.126.09 – and details etc. are here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/261243/ This now compiles/loads/runs OK with Kernel 6.19 (tested with 6.19-rc5): ……………………. 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] … Continue reading →
After (still..) waiting for an updated version of the NVIDIA 580.xx drivers, I decided to do some more investigation of the GPL-only fail after my hack of the ‘proprietary’ branch of driver 580.119.02.. I soon found that the “… GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol ‘__vma_start_write’ ..” issue had first occurred with Kernel 6.15, so (once again) … Continue reading →
NVIDIA have just release driver version 590.48.01, and details are here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/259042/ This compiles/loads/runs successfully with Kernel 6.19 (tested with 6.19-RC1): ……………………. 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 … Continue reading →
The latest NVIDIA drivers failed with Kernel 6.19-rc1, as detailed in an earlier post, and after some more research I was able to work out a hack to fix this, and in the process discovered a bit of a surprise.. I managed to get the NVIDIA-proprietary code for 580.119.02 to compile successfully, but then: ………………………… ERROR: modpost: … Continue reading →
I had managed to get Fedora running on my Rock Pi N10 some considerable time ago, but still was frustrated by the – apparent – lack of support for NVME, despite the slot for one in the chassis, and u-boot commands included.. I had posted this question to the RADXA Forum, but did not get a useful … Continue reading →
This one fell between the cracks, and should have been fixed before -rc5 was released… ……………….. AR net/netfilter/built-in.a LD [M] net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.o CC [M] net/netfilter/xt_socket.o net/netfilter/xt_socket.c: In function ‘socket_mt_destroy’: net/netfilter/xt_socket.c:224:17: error: implicit declaration of function ‘nf_defrag_ipv6_disable’; did you mean ‘nf_defrag_ipv4_disable’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] 224 | nf_defrag_ipv6_disable(par->net); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | nf_defrag_ipv4_disable cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:288: … Continue reading →
Thanks to Gerd, there is now a patch for NVIDIA driver 495.44 and Kernel 5.16-rc1, which can be found under the comments on my previous article: https://rglinuxtech.com/?p=2974 Of course, take care to cut/paste in text mode, as html will ruin the formatting etc.. I have applied this, and 495.44 now appears to compile/load/run OK, with kernel 5.16-rc1.. … Continue reading →
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 →
I have been carrying out some preliminary tests to see how feasible it is to compile the Linux Kernel, and NVIDIA drivers, and VMware, using the ‘alternative’ to GCC – CLANG.. The kernel compile is relatively easy, and well documented: # make CC=clang HOSTCC=clang -j8 (for a 4-core system) The compile seems to be slower than GCC, … Continue reading →