NVIDIA 381.22 Linux Driver Released With Updated Vulkan

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA 381.22 Linux Driver Released With Updated Vulkan

NVIDIA has released a new short-lived Linux binary driver update that jumps it ahead to the 381 release series...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-381.22-Linux-Driver

[bug77]

And 4.11 was released when? Because I keep hearing the lack of prompt kernel support as an argument against Nvidia's blobs.

[davidbepo]

And 4.11 was released when? Because I keep hearing the lack of prompt kernel support as an argument against Nvidia's blobs.

linux 4.11 was released the first of may, and i only heard that argument with amd blobs

[DanL]

And 4.11 was released when? Because I keep hearing the lack of prompt kernel support as an argument against Nvidia's blobs.

I don't remember all of the details, but there were some licensing issues with 4.11 kernel and Nvidia had to relicense MIT -> dual MIT/GPL.

[leigh123linux]

I don't remember all of the details, but there were some licensing issues with 4.11 kernel and Nvidia had to relicense MIT -> dual MIT/GPL.

Still not fixed

ld -r -o /home/leigh/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/leigh/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 4 modules
FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia-drm.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'refcount_inc'
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/kernels/4.11.0-1.fc26.x86_64/scripts/Makefile.modpost:91: __modpost] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/usr/src/kernels/4.11.0-1.fc26.x86_64/Makefile:1500: modules] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/4.11.0-1.fc26.x86_64'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:152: sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/4.11.0-1.fc26.x86_64'
make: *** [Makefile:81: modules] Error 2

[/dev/null]

Mad Max vulkan beta was crashing on 381.09. I had to revert to 378.13.

Anyone know if this is fixed in 381.22 ?

[/dev/null]

Does this fix the Mad Max Vulkan Beta crash with 381.09?

[DanL]

Still not fixed

Hmm.

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1002820/linux/-patch-381-09-kernel-4-11/

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1007990/linux/-patch-made-obsolete-by-381-22-381-09-kernel-4-12-staging/

[bug77]

Still not fixed

ld -r -o /home/leigh/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nv-modeset-interface.o /home/leigh/Downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-381.22/kernel/nvidia-modeset/nvidia-modeset-linux.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 4 modules
FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia-drm.ko uses GPL-only symbol 'refcount_inc'
make[3]: *** [/usr/src/kernels/4.11.0-1.fc26.x86_64/scripts/Makefile.modpost:91: __modpost] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/usr/src/kernels/4.11.0-1.fc26.x86_64/Makefile:1500: modules] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/4.11.0-1.fc26.x86_64'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:152: sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/4.11.0-1.fc26.x86_64'
make: *** [Makefile:81: modules] Error 2

This to me is ridiculous territory. We happily grill Oracle when they claim an API is IP, yet we're happy to prevent users from accessing kernel's API because it's IP.
Ok, GPL source code (as in code, the thing that does stuff) I can understand. But GPL interfaces? What's the point?

[Zoll]

This to me is ridiculous territory. We happily grill Oracle when they claim an API is IP, yet we're happy to prevent users from accessing kernel's API because it's IP.
Ok, GPL source code (as in code, the thing that does stuff) I can understand. But GPL interfaces? What's the point?

It should have been a warning, not right out FATAL and refuse to load the module. And then some folks complain why commercial vendors are slow or not interested in supporting Linux.