{"id":3036,"date":"2022-06-05T19:29:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T02:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2022-06-05T19:29:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T02:29:44","slug":"kernel-5-19-rc1-released-ok-with-patched-vmware-and-a-hack-for-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3036","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; 5.19-rc1 Released.  OK With Patched VMware, and a Hack for NVIDIA.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel <strong>5.19-rc1<\/strong> is out, and details are here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2206.0\/04428.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2206.0\/04428.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a patchset for VMware 16.2.3, at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/tmp\/workstation-16.2.3-k5.19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/tmp\/workstation-16.2.3-k5.19<\/a> .\u00a0\u00a0 I have tested this with 5.19-rc1, and VMware compiles and loads\/runs OK.<\/p>\n<p>The latest NVIDIA driver (515.48.07) compile fails, but a hack is to edit <strong>NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.48.07\/kernel\/nvidia-drm\/nvidia-dma-resv-helper.h<\/strong> and <strong>NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.48.07\/kernel\/nvidia-drm\/nvidia-drm-prime-fence.c<\/strong><br \/>\nand change<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\">nv_dma_resv_add_excl_fence<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nto<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;\"><strong>dma_resv_add_excl_fence<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After this, the driver compiles and loads\/runs OK (tested with Plasma\/KDE on Fedora 36).\u00a0\u00a0 <em><strong>This is not an &#8216;expert&#8217; fix, and the actual code change required may be different.., but it appears to work&#8230;\u00a0 Usual disclaimer applies&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 June 5th 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 5.19-rc1 is out, and details are here:\u00a0 https:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2206.0\/04428.html There is a patchset for VMware 16.2.3, at https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/tmp\/workstation-16.2.3-k5.19 .\u00a0\u00a0 I have tested this with 5.19-rc1, and VMware compiles and loads\/runs OK. The latest NVIDIA driver (515.48.07) compile fails, but a hack is to edit NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.48.07\/kernel\/nvidia-drm\/nvidia-dma-resv-helper.h and NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.48.07\/kernel\/nvidia-drm\/nvidia-drm-prime-fence.c and change nv_dma_resv_add_excl_fence to dma_resv_add_excl_fence After this, the driver compiles <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3036\"><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":[10,1238,11,14,15,18,19,25],"tags":[2484,2483,2485],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-fix","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-hack-for-nvidia","tag-kernel-5-19-rc1-released","tag-patch-for-vmware-available"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","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=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3037,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}