{"id":284,"date":"2012-08-03T01:18:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T01:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2012-08-03T01:18:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T01:18:04","slug":"3-6-rc1-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"3.6-rc1 Already!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel version 3.5 has not been out for very long, but now there is <strong>3.6-rc1<\/strong> already &#8211; available from\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/git.kernel.org\/?p=linux\/kernel\/git\/torvalds\/linux.git;a=summary\" href=\"http:\/\/git.kernel.org\/?p=linux\/kernel\/git\/torvalds\/linux.git;a=summary\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/git.kernel.org\/?p=linux\/kernel\/git\/torvalds\/linux.git;a=summary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Compiling now, and will be interesting to see if anything breaks!<\/p>\n<p>Update:\u00a0\u00a0 Compiled and installed OK, and VMware <em>8.0.4<\/em> (patched) compiles OK, but &#8211; unusually &#8211; the NVIDIA driver (<em>304.30<\/em>) compilation fails:<\/p>\n<address>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.from \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.30\/kernel\/nv-acpi.c:15:<br \/>\n\/usr\/src\/linux-3.6-rc1\/arch\/x86\/include\/asm\/uaccess_64.h: In function \u2018copy_from_user&#8217;:<br \/>\n\/usr\/src\/linux-3.6-rc1\/arch\/x86\/include\/asm\/uaccess_64.h:62:41: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare]<br \/>\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.30\/kernel\/nv-acpi.c: In function \u2018nv_acpi_remove&#8217;:<br \/>\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.30\/kernel\/nv-acpi.c:303:9: error: too many arguments to function \u2018acpi_os_wait_events_complete&#8217;<br \/>\nIn file included from include\/acpi\/acpi.h:63:0,<br \/>\nfrom \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.30\/kernel\/nv-linux.h:274,<br \/>\nfrom \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.30\/kernel\/nv-acpi.c:15:<br \/>\ninclude\/acpi\/acpiosxf.h:208:6: note: declared here<br \/>\nmake[4]: *** [\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.30\/kernel\/nv-acpi.o] Error<br \/>\n1<br \/>\nmake[3]: *** [_module_\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.30\/kernel] Error 2<br \/>\nmake[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2<br \/>\nNVIDIA: left KBUILD.<br \/>\nnvidia.ko failed to build!<br \/>\nmake[1]: *** [module] Error 1<br \/>\nmake: *** [install] Error 2<\/address>\n<p>So&#8230;.\u00a0 Back to 3.5, for the time being&#8230;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel version 3.5 has not been out for very long, but now there is 3.6-rc1 already &#8211; available from\u00a0http:\/\/git.kernel.org\/?p=linux\/kernel\/git\/torvalds\/linux.git;a=summary Compiling now, and will be interesting to see if anything breaks! 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