{"id":1423,"date":"2015-04-26T22:05:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T21:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2015-04-26T22:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T21:05:31","slug":"kernel-pre-4-1-rc-test-with-linux-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1423","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; Pre-4.1-rc Test with Linux-Next.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Kernel 4.1-rc1 is not released yet, I tested the April 24 version of <strong><em>linux-next<\/em><\/strong>, to see how VMware and NVIDIA compiles would behave..<\/p>\n<pre><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\"># uname -a<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">Linux rg6830l 4.0.0-next-20150424 #2 SMP Sun Apr 26 12:04:54 PDT 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>With this version, VMware 11.1 (with the 3.19 vmnet patch) compiled and loaded OK, but NVIDIA driver 349.16 failed:<\/p>\n<pre><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'cpu_tss'<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">\/usr\/src\/linux-next-apr25\/scripts\/Makefile.modpost:91: recipe for target '__modpost' failed<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">make[3]: *** [__modpost] Error 1<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">\/usr\/src\/linux-next-apr25\/Makefile:1404: recipe for target 'modules' failed<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">make[2]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-next-apr25'<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">Makefile:146: recipe for target 'sub-make' failed<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">make[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-next-apr25'<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">NVIDIA: left KBUILD.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">nvidia.ko failed to build!<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">nvidia-modules-common.mk:248: recipe for target 'module' failed<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier,monospace;\">make: *** [module] Error 1<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p><strong>cpu_tss<\/strong> comes from this patch:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/lkml.org\/lkml\/2015\/3\/5\/835\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lkml.org\/lkml\/2015\/3\/5\/835<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It should be emphasised that this <strong><em>linux-next<\/em><\/strong> version is only a snapshot of changes still in progress, so these results may change with later versions, and with 4.1-rc1 when released..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 April 26, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Kernel 4.1-rc1 is not released yet, I tested the April 24 version of linux-next, to see how VMware and NVIDIA compiles would behave.. # 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