Kernel 6.14-rc1 will be released soon, and I have been testing the code changes submitted so far (February 26th) with the following results:<\/p>\n
VMware 17.6.2 – including ‘clean up’ patchset from https:\/\/github.com\/64kramsystem\/vmware-host-modules-fork\/tree\/workstation-17.6.2-sav<\/a> – compiles OK, but with the usual host of ‘warnings’, which seem to be accepted as good-enough these days..<\/p>\n NVIDIA 550.144.03 compile fails with: As this simply removes the ‘date’ parameter, then do the same to the NVIDIA code, by commenting out that parameter:<\/p>\n NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-550.144.03\/kernel\/nvidia-drm\/nvidia-drm-drv.c<\/span><\/strong> – and then the driver compiles etc. OK..<\/p>\n Obviously there are more changes to come, so more fixes may be necessary……..<\/p>\n Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 January 27th 2025.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kernel 6.14-rc1 will be released soon, and I have been testing the code changes submitted so far (February 26th) with the following results: VMware 17.6.2 – including ‘clean up’ patchset from https:\/\/github.com\/64kramsystem\/vmware-host-modules-fork\/tree\/workstation-17.6.2-sav – compiles OK, but with the usual host of ‘warnings’, which seem to be accepted as good-enough these days.. NVIDIA 550.144.03 compile fails with: ………………….. …<\/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],"tags":[2705,2704,281,2707,2706,407],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","tag-date-parameter","tag-kernel-6-14-pre-test","tag-nvidia-fix","tag-nvidia-drm-drv-c","tag-removed","tag-vmware-ok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","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=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n.......................<\/span><\/strong>
\nLD [M] nvidia-modeset.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nCC [M] nvidia-drm\/nvidia-drm.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nCC [M] nvidia-drm\/nvidia-drm-drv.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nnvidia-drm\/nvidia-drm-drv.c:1733:6: error: \u2018struct drm_driver\u2019 has no member named \u2018date\u2019<\/span><\/strong>
\n1733 | .date = \"20160202\",<\/span><\/strong>
\n| ^~~~<\/span><\/strong>
\nnvidia-drm\/nvidia-drm-drv.c:1733:31: error: initialization of \u2018unsigned int\u2019 from \u2018char *\u2019 makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]<\/span><\/strong>
\n1733 | .date = \"20160202\",<\/span><\/strong>
\n| ^~~~~~~~~~<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/code>
\nThis is due to the change described in https:\/\/www.spinics.net\/lists\/amd-gfx\/msg115263.html<\/a> .
\n[PATCH 2\/2] drm: remove driver date from struct drm_driver and all drivers<\/em>
\n— remove the unused date member from struct drm_driver<\/em><\/p>\n
\naround line 1730….
\n...........................................<\/strong><\/span>
\n#if defined(NV_DRM_BUS_PRESENT)<\/span><\/strong>
\n.bus = &nv_drm_bus,<\/span><\/strong>
\n#endif<\/span><\/strong>
\n.name = \"nvidia-drm\",<\/span><\/strong>
\n.desc = \"NVIDIA DRM driver\",<\/span><\/strong>
\n\/* 'date' removed in 6.14.. https:\/\/www.spinics.net\/lists\/amd-gfx\/msg115263.html<\/span><\/strong>
\n.date = \"20160202\",*\/<\/span><\/strong>
\n......................................<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n