{"id":2205,"date":"2018-01-28T15:31:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T23:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2018-01-28T15:31:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T23:31:25","slug":"kernel-4-15-final-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2205","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; 4.15 Final, at Last.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 4.15 is &#8211; finally &#8211; released, and an overview of changes since -rc9 is here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1801.3\/02794.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1801.3\/02794.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest NVIDIA drivers &#8211; <strong>384.111<\/strong> and <strong>390.12<\/strong> &#8211; compile and load OK, and VMware <strong>14.1.1<\/strong> is also OK.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth mentioning that , although the final release was delayed due to more work on PTI mitigation etc,\u00a0 this is still work-in-progress&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 There is further protection &#8211; <em>retpoline<\/em> &#8211; that depends on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">compiler<\/span> features, which have already been incorporated into <em>beta<\/em> GCC 8.X, and are due to be &#8216;backported&#8217; to the next mainstream 7.X release &#8211; GCC 7.3.<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 January 28, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 4.15 is &#8211; finally &#8211; released, and an overview of changes since -rc9 is here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/1801.3\/02794.html The latest NVIDIA drivers &#8211; 384.111 and 390.12 &#8211; compile and load OK, and VMware 14.1.1 is also OK. It is worth mentioning that , although the final release was delayed due to more work on PTI mitigation etc,\u00a0 this <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2205\"><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":[14,15,18,19,25],"tags":[1811,1808,242,1812,1809,1810,1803],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-gcc-7-3","tag-kernel-4-15-final","tag-linux","tag-nvidia-384-111-390-12","tag-pti-mitigation","tag-retpoline","tag-vmware-14-1-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","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=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}