{"id":2075,"date":"2017-10-01T23:26:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T06:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2017-10-01T23:26:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T06:26:45","slug":"kernel-4-14-rc3-released-ok-with-patched-vmware-still-has-nvidiaamdgpl-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2075","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; 4.14-rc3 Released &#8211; OK with Patched VMware, Still has NVIDIA\/AMD\/GPL Problem.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel <strong>4.13-rc3<\/strong> is out, and brief details of changes from -rc2 are here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1710.0\/00180.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1710.0\/00180.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VMware <strong>14.0.0<\/strong> &#8211; with the <em>vmmon<\/em> patch &#8211; still loads\/runs OK(*), and NVIDIA is OK on Intel systems, but if the new AMD &#8216;<em>Secure Memory Encryption<\/em>&#8216; feature is enabled in the kernel config, then NVIDIA (384.90) will still fail with a GPL error:<\/p>\n<pre><strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">.............<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'sme_me_mask'<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">make[3]: *** [\/usr\/src\/linux-4.14-rc3\/scripts\/Makefile.modpost:91: __modpost] Error 1<\/span><\/strong>\r\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">............<\/span><\/strong><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">*\u00a0 As expected, the &#8216;<em>VMware 14 failing on older CPUs&#8217;<\/em>\u00a0 issue has produced quite a lot of &#8216;discussion&#8217; on the VMware forum&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Robert<em> Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 October 1, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 4.13-rc3 is out, and brief details of changes from -rc2 are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1710.0\/00180.html VMware 14.0.0 &#8211; with the vmmon patch &#8211; still loads\/runs OK(*), and NVIDIA is OK on Intel systems, but if the new AMD &#8216;Secure Memory Encryption&#8216; feature is enabled in the kernel config, then NVIDIA (384.90) will still fail with a GPL error: <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2075\"><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":[1702,1323,14,15,18,19,25],"tags":[1706,1709,1708,1707],"class_list":["post-2075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amd","category-intel","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-kernel-4-13-rc3","tag-nvidia-intel-ok","tag-nvidiaamdgpl-issue-not-fixed","tag-vmware-14-patched-is-ok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075","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=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}