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    Phoronix: NVIDIA Still Working On Linux 3.11+ Support

    In mid-October I had written how AMD's Catalyst driver surprisingly beat NVIDIA to modern Linux support. While NVIDIA is usually first to support new kernel releases, AMD won in shipping "out of the box" Linux 3.11 and 3.12 compatibility. NVIDIA, however, has devised a workaround and will be coming up with a more proper long-term solution...

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  • #2
    Middle finger by Linus still holds true.

    Nvidia need this function, and they had all the time in the world to voice their needs... Where where they?

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    • #3
      Well, at least we now have a stopgap measure that is more or less safe to use. Just in time for openSUSE 13.1, too.

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      • #4
        What are people doing on Ubuntu 13.10?

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        • #5
          Am I missing something or should the article say 3.12 ?

          nvidia blob working fine for me on Arch Linux with 3.11

          Code:
          me@upstairs ~ $ uname -a
          Linux upstairs 3.11.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 18 23:22:36 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
          
          me@upstairs ~ $ pacman -Qi nvidia
          Name           : nvidia
          Version        : 325.15-10
          Description    : NVIDIA drivers for linux
          Architecture   : x86_64
          URL            : http://www.nvidia.com/
          Licences       : custom
          Groups         : None
          Provides       : None
          Depends On     : linux>=3.11  linux<3.12  nvidia-libgl  nvidia-utils=325.15
          Optional Deps  : None
          Required By    : None
          Optional For   : None
          Conflicts With : nvidia-96xx  nvidia-173xx
          Replaces       : None
          Installed Size : 3963.00 KiB
          Packager       : Tobias Powalowski <[email protected]>
          Build Date     : Mon 14 Oct 2013 07:39:41 BST
          Install Date   : Tue 15 Oct 2013 09:29:00 BST
          Install Reason : Explicitly installed
          Install Script : Yes
          Validated By   : Signature
          
          me@upstairs ~ $ glxinfo |grep "vendor string"
          server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
          client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
          OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation

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          • #6
            Using this patch I presume:
            Code:
            --- a/kernel/nv-linux.h
            +++ b/kernel/nv-linux.h
            @@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ static inline int nv_execute_on_all_cpus(void (*func)(void *info), void *info)
             #endif
             
             #if !defined(NV_VMWARE)
            -#define NV_NUM_PHYSPAGES                num_physpages
            +#define NV_NUM_PHYSPAGES                totalram_pages
             #define NV_GET_CURRENT_PROCESS()        current->tgid
             #define NV_IN_ATOMIC()                  in_atomic()
             #define NV_LOCAL_BH_DISABLE()           local_bh_disable()
            with fuzz +1 line

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            • #7
              Meanwhile Catalyst beta still builds fine on the latest 3.12-rc7 kernel.

              So glad I went back to AMD.

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              • #8
                Lots of posts so far criticizing Nvidia for this, but I can't imagine too many people are affected by this. Anyone with 128+ GB is most likely on an LTS kernel, and with 3.2 EOL'ing in 2016, they have plenty of time. (Interestingly, 3.4 EOLs next year and 3.10 in 2015 - does anyone know how LTS periods are decided?).

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                • #9
                  Dang, my laptop with 129GB of RAM is screwed...

                  On a more serious note, at least we now know what the hold up was. Most major distros already had their own stopgap patches in place for new/upcoming releases, so this is a non-issue for most people. Still, it will be nice to see a proper solution somewhere down the line, not that the average user is going to reach over 128GB of RAM any time soon, or even a rich user for that matter.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by sirdilznik View Post
                    Dang, my laptop with 129GB of RAM is screwed...

                    On a more serious note, at least we now know what the hold up was. Most major distros already had their own stopgap patches in place for new/upcoming releases, so this is a non-issue for most people. Still, it will be nice to see a proper solution somewhere down the line, not that the average user is going to reach over 128GB of RAM any time soon, or even a rich user for that matter.
                    Yeah, doubt any home computer user has that much RAM. Most I seen for a personal home computer was 16GB. Even if they were running a home server, still wouldn't need 100+GB.

                    I've only seen datacenters run that amount of RAM since they need it.

                    Regardless, supporting latest is nice. 3.12 is so much better than most previous versions I've used.

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