{"id":2932,"date":"2021-07-11T18:02:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T01:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2021-07-11T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T01:02:07","slug":"kernel-5-14-rc1-ok-with-patched-vmware-breaks-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2932","title":{"rendered":"Kernel – 5.14-rc1 – OK with Patched VMware, Breaks NVIDIA.."},"content":{"rendered":"

Kernel 5.14-rc1<\/strong> has been released, and brief details are here:\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2107.1\/02943.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The latest VMware 16.1.2 patch includes a fix for 5.14-rc, and compiles and runs OK (tested with 5.14-rc1).\u00a0\u00a0 Find it at:\u00a0 https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-16.1.2<\/a><\/p>\n

NVIDIA 470.42.01 compile failed:
\n………….
\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.42.01\/kernel\/common\/inc\/nv-time.h: In function \u2018nv_sleep_ms\u2019:<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.42.01\/kernel\/common\/inc\/nv-time.h:217:18: error: \u2018struct task_struct\u2019 has no member named \u2018state\u2019; did you mean \u2018__state\u2019?<\/strong><\/span>
\n217 | current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;<\/strong><\/span>
\n| ^~~~~<\/strong><\/span>
\n| __state<\/strong><\/span>
\nmake[2]: *** [scripts\/Makefile.build:271: \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.42.01\/kernel\/nvidia\/nv.o] Error 1<\/strong><\/span><\/code>
\n……………….<\/p>\n

Bodged this by simply changing ‘state<\/strong><\/code><\/span>‘ to ‘__state<\/code><\/span><\/strong>‘ in line 217 of NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.42.01\/kernel\/common\/inc\/nv-time.h<\/span><\/strong> (note that other changes may be necessary..), and then the compile failed with:<\/p>\n

\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.42.01\/kernel\/nvidia-drm\/nvidia-drm-drv.c:925:14: error: \u2018struct drm_device\u2019 has no member named \u2018pdev\u2019; did you mean \u2018dev\u2019?<\/span><\/span><\/strong>
\n925 | dev->pdev = to_pci_dev(device);<\/strong><\/span>
\n| ^~~~<\/strong><\/span>
\n| dev<\/strong><\/span>
\nmake[2]: *** [scripts\/Makefile.build:271: \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.42.01\/kernel\/nvidia-drm\/nvidia-drm-drv.o] Error 1<\/strong><\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

The driver can be compiled\/loaded by using the #<\/strong> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.42.01.run –no-drm<\/strong><\/span> option<\/span>..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More investigation needed…<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 July 11th 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kernel 5.14-rc1 has been released, and brief details are here:\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2107.1\/02943.html The latest VMware 16.1.2 patch includes a fix for 5.14-rc, and compiles and runs OK (tested with 5.14-rc1).\u00a0\u00a0 Find it at:\u00a0 https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/workstation-16.1.2 NVIDIA 470.42.01 compile failed: …………. \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.42.01\/kernel\/common\/inc\/nv-time.h: In function \u2018nv_sleep_ms\u2019: \/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.42.01\/kernel\/common\/inc\/nv-time.h:217:18: error: \u2018struct task_struct\u2019 has no member named \u2018state\u2019; did you mean \u2018__state\u2019? 217 | …<\/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":[5,11,14,15,18,19,25],"tags":[2400,2401,2402,1305,1107],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-16-1-2","tag-470-42-01","tag-kernel-5-14-rc1-released","tag-nvidia-compile-fails","tag-vmware-patched-ok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","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=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}