NVIDIA Still Working On Linux 3.11+ Support

[rdnetto]

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?).

[synaptix]

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

So glad I went back to AMD.

[Licaon]

Using this patch I presume:

--- 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

[gripped]

Am I missing something or should the article say 3.12 ?

nvidia blob working fine for me on Arch Linux with 3.11

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

[johnc]

What are people doing on Ubuntu 13.10?

[GreatEmerald]

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.

[przemoli]

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?

[phoronix]

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...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTUwMTk