{"id":2971,"date":"2021-11-10T20:41:46","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2021-11-10T20:41:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:41:46","slug":"kernel-5-16-pre-rc-tests-ok-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2971","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; 5.16 Pre-RC Tests.. OK, so far.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just compiled\/installed the <em>November 10<\/em> git version of <strong>5.16-pre<\/strong>, and the latest NVIDIA driver <strong>495.44<\/strong> compiles\/loads OK.<\/p>\n<p>There is already a pre-release patchset for Kernel 5.16 and VMware 16.2.1, at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/tmp\/workstation-16.2.1-k5.16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/tmp\/workstation-16.2.1-k5.16<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With these, preliminary tests with NVIDIA and VMware have been successful..<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>]# uname -a<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>Linux rg400g4 5.16.0-rc0 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 10 16:53:28 PST 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU\/Linux<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are more changes to come before -rc1 is released next Sunday, so breakage may occur..<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 November 10th 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just compiled\/installed the November 10 git version of 5.16-pre, and the latest NVIDIA driver 495.44 compiles\/loads OK. There is already a pre-release patchset for Kernel 5.16 and VMware 16.2.1, at https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/tmp\/workstation-16.2.1-k5.16 With these, preliminary tests with NVIDIA and VMware have been successful.. ]# uname -a Linux rg400g4 5.16.0-rc0 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 10 16:53:28 PST 2021 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2971\"><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":[11,14,15,2022,18,19,25],"tags":[2437,2436,2438,2440,2439],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-new-install","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-git-version","tag-kernel-5-16-pre","tag-nov-10","tag-nvidia-495-44-ok","tag-vmware-16-2-1-patches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","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=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2973,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}