{"id":1863,"date":"2016-12-12T08:59:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T08:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2016-12-12T08:59:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T08:59:58","slug":"kernel-4-9-released-ok-with-latest-nvidia-and-patched-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1863","title":{"rendered":"Kernel – 4.9 Released – OK With Latest NVIDIA, and Patched VMware.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Kernel 4.9 has been released, and (brief!) details of changes are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1612.1\/01831.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The latest NVIDIA (375.20) driver works OK, and VMware 12.5.2 with the vmnet<\/em> and vmmon<\/em> hack\/patches, also works OK.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hack\/patch details are at https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1838<\/a><\/p>\n

On my Intel I-7 system (Gigabyte motherboard) I did get some odd ACPI messages at boot time, and it seemed that the boot process tried to detect too many CPUs:<\/p>\n

[ 0.000000] APIC: NR_CPUS\/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached. Processor 4\/0x1 ignored.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 0.000000] APIC: NR_CPUS\/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached. Processor 5\/0x3 ignored.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 0.000000] APIC: NR_CPUS\/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached. Processor 6\/0x5 ignored.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 0.000000] APIC: NR_CPUS\/possible_cpus limit of 4 reached. Processor 7\/0x7 ignored.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0xff] high edge lint[0x1])<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 0.000000] ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a701 base: 0xfed00000<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 0.000000] smpboot: 8 Processors exceeds NR_CPUS limit of 4<\/span><\/strong>\r\n[ 0.000000] smpboot: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
Other (Intel Core Duo\/Quad) systems were OK, so this may be a hardware-specific quirk?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The system booted with the correct (4) CPUs, and everything seems to be working OK, so far..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I will be checking the specific kernel config, to see if there is anything that should be changed..<\/p>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 December 11, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kernel 4.9 has been released, and (brief!) details of changes are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1612.1\/01831.html The latest NVIDIA (375.20) driver works OK, and VMware 12.5.2 with the vmnet and vmmon hack\/patches, also works OK.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hack\/patch details are at https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=1838 On my Intel I-7 system (Gigabyte motherboard) I did get some odd ACPI messages at boot time, and it seemed …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[1323,14,15,18,19,20,25],"tags":[1492,1173,1489,242,1493,1491,379,1490],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intel","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-performance-2","category-vmware","tag-acpi-quirks","tag-kernel","tag-kernel-4-9-final","tag-linux","tag-major-release","tag-nvidia-375-20","tag-update","tag-vmware-12-5-2-patched"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","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=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}