{"id":2851,"date":"2020-10-26T13:01:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2020-10-26T13:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T20:01:56","slug":"kernel-5-10-rc1-out-fix-for-nvidia-problem-with-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2851","title":{"rendered":"Kernel – 5.10-rc1 Out – Fix for NVIDIA, Problem with VMware.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Kernel 5.10-rc1 is finally released, and brief details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2010.3\/00552.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to Joan Bruguera<\/em><\/strong>, there is a work-in-progress fix for NVIDIA 455.28, here:\u00a0 https:\/\/gist.github.com\/joanbm\/beaccedd729589df98332d70a1754e9a<\/a>
\n(and thanks to Willy Frissen<\/strong><\/em> for the notification..)<\/p>\n

ld -r -o \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nv-modeset-interface.o \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nvidia-modeset-linux.o \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nv-kthread-q.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nMODPOST \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/Module.symvers<\/strong><\/span>
\nCC [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.ko<\/strong><\/span>
\nCC [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.ko<\/strong><\/span>
\nCC [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.ko<\/strong><\/span>
\nCC [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia.mod.o<\/strong><\/span>
\nLD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia.ko<\/strong><\/span>
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory '\/usr\/src\/linux-5.10-rc1'<\/strong><\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

The ‘taint’ issue is still there, and needs to be ‘worked around’..<\/p>\n

Now I was able to test some more, and applied the latest VMware patches (which now include 5.10-related items), VMware compiled and loaded OK, but when I came to open a VM, I just got the black-background window with ‘Waiting for connection’ and nothing more happened..\u00a0 On the console was:<\/p>\n

[ 85.257360] \/dev\/vmmon[2842]: PTSC: initialized at 3492065000 Hz using TSC, TSCs are synchronized.<\/strong><\/span>
\n[ 85.399212] \/dev\/vmmon[2842]: Monitor IPI vector: ff<\/strong><\/span>
\n[ 85.399214] \/dev\/vmmon[2842]: HV IPI vector: f2<\/strong><\/span>
\n[ 85.845630] kernel write not supported for file [eventfd] (pid: 2920 comm: vmx-vcpu-0)<\/strong><\/span>
\n[ 85.853082] kernel write not supported for file [eventfd] (pid: 2921 comm: vmx-vcpu-1)<\/strong><\/span>
\n[ 85.859711] kernel write not supported for file [eventfd] (pid: 2921 comm: vmx-vcpu-1)<\/strong><\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

More testing needed, of course…<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 October 26th 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kernel 5.10-rc1 is finally released, and brief details are here:\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2010.3\/00552.html Thanks to Joan Bruguera, there is a work-in-progress fix for NVIDIA 455.28, here:\u00a0 https:\/\/gist.github.com\/joanbm\/beaccedd729589df98332d70a1754e9a (and thanks to Willy Frissen for the notification..) ld -r -o \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nv-modeset-interface.o \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nvidia-modeset-linux.o \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset\/nv-kthread-q.o MODPOST \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/Module.symvers CC [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-drm.ko CC [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-modeset.ko CC [M] \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-455.28\/kernel\/nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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":[5,1238,14,15,18,19,25],"tags":[2337,2338,2051,2290,2339],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-fix","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-kernel-5-10-rc1-released","tag-nvidia-455-28-patch-available","tag-vmware-patch-available","tag-vmware-runtime-problem","tag-waiting-for-connection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","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=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}