{"id":2669,"date":"2020-01-26T23:34:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T07:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2020-01-26T23:34:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T07:34:41","slug":"kernel-5-5-released-ok-with-patched-vmware-and-e1000e-issues-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; 5.5 released, OK with Patched VMware, and e1000e issues fixed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel <strong>5.5<\/strong> is out, and brief details of changes since -rc7 are here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2001.3\/02724.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2001.3\/02724.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This now works OK with Intel e1000e-supported Ethernet cards, and the patched version of VMware 15.5.1.\u00a0\u00a0 There is an interim patch for NVIDIA driver 440.44, and this gives a <em>tombstone<\/em> on <strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"># startx<\/span><\/strong>, on my systems, but seems to work OK, after that. \u00a0\u00a0 Hopefully there will be an &#8216;official&#8217; release, now that 5.5 <em>final<\/em> is available.<\/p>\n<p>The VMware patch can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-15.5.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-15.5.1<\/a> and a link the interim NVIDIA patch can be found in this thread: <a href=\"https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/1068332\/linux\/nvidia-driver-does-not-build-on-linux-v5-5-release-candidate-kernel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/devtalk.nvidia.com\/default\/topic\/1068332\/linux\/nvidia-driver-does-not-build-on-linux-v5-5-release-candidate-kernel\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 January 26th 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 5.5 is out, and brief details of changes since -rc7 are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2001.3\/02724.html This now works OK with Intel e1000e-supported Ethernet cards, and the patched version of VMware 15.5.1.\u00a0\u00a0 There is an interim patch for NVIDIA driver 440.44, and this gives a tombstone on # startx, on my systems, but seems to work OK, after that. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2669\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1494,14,15,18,19,25],"tags":[2155,271,2157,2156],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethernet","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-kernel-5-5","tag-new-release","tag-nvidia-440-44-interim-patch","tag-vmware-15-5-1-patched"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}