{"id":1249,"date":"2014-12-08T06:26:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T06:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2014-12-08T06:26:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T06:26:01","slug":"kernel-3-18-small-changes-from-rc7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1249","title":{"rendered":"Kernel 3.18 &#8211; Small Changes from -rc7.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Installed kernel 3.18 Final, and as expected the latest NVIDIA (<strong>346.16<\/strong>) and VMware (<strong>11.0<\/strong>) drivers compile and load\/run OK.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The older NVIDIA (340.58) and VMware (10.0.4 + <em>vmnet<\/em> patch) drivers should also be OK..<\/p>\n<pre><strong>$ uname -a<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Linux rglinux-i7 3.18.0 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 7 18:54:19 PST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>The obscure &#8216;lockup&#8217; bug is still unfixed, but it appears this only affected a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">very<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">small<\/span> number of users, so was not determined to be a reason to hold things up..<\/p>\n<p>More details of the changes from -rc7 here:\u00a0 <a title=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1412.0\/05308.html\" href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1412.0\/05308.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1412.0\/05308.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 December 7, 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installed kernel 3.18 Final, and as expected the latest NVIDIA (346.16) and VMware (11.0) drivers compile and load\/run OK.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The older NVIDIA (340.58) and VMware (10.0.4 + vmnet patch) drivers should also be OK.. $ uname -a Linux rglinux-i7 3.18.0 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sun Dec 7 18:54:19 PST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux The obscure &#8216;lockup&#8217; bug <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1249\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,15,18,25],"tags":[959,960,1175,961],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-vmware","tag-kernel-3-18-final","tag-nvidia-346-16","tag-success","tag-vmware-11-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}