{"id":1396,"date":"2015-03-31T06:46:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T05:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2015-03-31T06:46:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T05:46:02","slug":"kernel-4-0-rc6-maybe-only-rc7-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Kernel 4.0-rc6 &#8211; Maybe only -rc7 Needed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated the test system to Kernel <strong>4.0-rc6<\/strong>, and VMware 11.1.0 (patched) and the latest NVIDIA driver &#8211; 349.12 &#8211; compile and load OK..<\/p>\n<pre><strong>$ uname -a<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Linux rg6830l 4.0.0-rc6 #1 SMP Sun Mar 29 22:23:37 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>Brief details of changes since -rc5 are here: <a title=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1503.3\/04437.html\" href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1503.3\/04437.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1503.3\/04437.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The VMware patch info is in a previous article, at <a title=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1281\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1281\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1281<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently &#8211; if all goes according to plan with -rc6 &#8211; 4.0 Final <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">may<\/span> be out after -rc7&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But of course, this sort of prediction is never absolutely certain!<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 March 30, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated the test system to Kernel 4.0-rc6, and VMware 11.1.0 (patched) and the latest NVIDIA driver &#8211; 349.12 &#8211; compile and load OK.. $ uname -a Linux rg6830l 4.0.0-rc6 #1 SMP Sun Mar 29 22:23:37 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux Brief details of changes since -rc5 are here: http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1503.3\/04437.html The VMware patch info is in a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1396\"><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":[1066,1060,1175,1067],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-vmware","tag-kernel-4-0-rc6","tag-nvidia-349-12","tag-success","tag-vmware-11-patched"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","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=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}