{"id":2827,"date":"2020-09-13T18:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T01:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2020-09-13T18:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T01:37:58","slug":"kernel-5-9-rc5-patched-vmware-still-ok-nvidia-still-tainted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2827","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; 5.9-rc5 &#8211; Patched VMware Still OK, NVIDIA still &#8216;Tainted&#8217;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel <strong>5.9-rc5<\/strong> is out, and brief details are here:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2009.1\/06650.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2009.1\/06650.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The patched vmmon\/vmnet for VMware 15.5.6 still work OK, and the workaround for the runtime segfault etc. is in a previous article, here: <a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2819<\/a> .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Note that the 5.8\/5.9 fix is now incorporated in the usual 15.5.6 patchset, here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-15.5.6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-15.5.6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NVIDIA with the partial 5.8\/5.9 patches still suffers from the &#8216;taint&#8217; problem, but can be installed &#8211; without CUDA &#8211; by using the <code><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>--no-unified-memory<\/strong><\/span><\/code>\u00a0 option..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 September 12th 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 5.9-rc5 is out, and brief details are here:\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2009.1\/06650.html The patched vmmon\/vmnet for VMware 15.5.6 still work OK, and the workaround for the runtime segfault etc. is in a previous article, here: https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2819 .\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Note that the 5.8\/5.9 fix is now incorporated in the usual 15.5.6 patchset, here:\u00a0 https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-15.5.6 NVIDIA with the partial 5.8\/5.9 patches still <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2827\"><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":[14,15,18,19,25],"tags":[2312,2311,2314,2313],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-5-8-patched-vmware-ok","tag-kernel-5-9-rc5-released","tag-nvidia-taint","tag-segfault-workarounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","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=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}