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Kernel 4.12-rc1<\/strong> is out – one day early – and brief details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1705.1\/03964.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The release includes the reverted<\/em> GPL\/MIT licence changes in refcount.c<\/strong>, and the latest NVIDIA drivers compile\/load OK, now:<\/p>\n

 ...........................<\/strong><\/span>\r\nBuilding modules, stage 2.<\/strong><\/span>\r\n MODPOST 4 modules<\/strong><\/span>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.ko<\/strong><\/span>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.ko<\/strong><\/span>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.ko<\/strong><\/span>\r\n CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>\r\n LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia.ko<\/strong><\/span>\r\nmake[2]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.12-rc1'<\/strong><\/span>\r\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-4.12-rc1'<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n
4.11-patched VMware 12.5.5<\/strong> fails to compile..\u00a0\u00a0 vmnet is OK, but vmmon<\/strong> fails:<\/p>\n
............................<\/span><\/strong>\r\nIn file included from \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmmon-only\/.\/include\/pgtbl.h:25:0,<\/span><\/strong>\r\n from \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmmon-only\/linux\/hostif.c:99:<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmmon-only\/.\/include\/pgtbl.h: In function \u2018PgtblPGD2PTELocked\u2019:<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmmon-only\/.\/include\/pgtbl.h:125:28: error: passing argument 1 of \u2018pud_offset\u2019 from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]<\/span><\/strong>\r\n pud = compat_pud_offset(pgd, addr);<\/span><\/strong>\r\n ^<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmmon-only\/.\/include\/compat_pgtable.h:72:56: note: in definition of macro \u2018compat_pud_offset\u2019<\/span><\/strong>\r\n # define compat_pud_offset(pgd, address) pud_offset(pgd, address)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n ^~~<\/span><\/strong>\r\nIn file included from .\/include\/linux\/mm.h:70:0,<\/span><\/strong>\r\n from \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmmon-only\/.\/include\/compat_page.h:23,<\/span><\/strong>\r\n from \/usr\/lib\/vmware\/modules\/source\/vmmon-only\/linux\/hostif.c:32:<\/span><\/strong>\r\n.\/arch\/x86\/include\/asm\/pgtable.h:826:22: note: expected \u2018p4d_t * {aka struct <anonymous> *}\u2019 but argument is of type \u2018compat_pgd_t * {aka struct <anonymous> *}\u2019<\/span><\/strong>\r\n static inline pud_t *pud_offset(p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long address)<\/span><\/strong>\r\n ^~~~~~~~~~<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n
Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May 13, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kernel 4.12-rc1 is out – one day early – and brief details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1705.1\/03964.html The release includes the reverted GPL\/MIT licence changes in refcount.c, and the latest NVIDIA drivers compile\/load OK, now: ……………………… Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 4 modules CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.ko CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.ko CC \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/kernel\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.ko CC …<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,18,19,1533,20,25],"tags":[1604,1603,1122,1607,1606,1605],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-patches","category-performance-2","category-vmware","tag-gplmit-licence-changes-reverted","tag-kernel-4-12-rc1","tag-latest-nvidia-ok","tag-pgtbl-h","tag-vmmon-compile-fail","tag-vmware-fails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","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=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}