[gentoo-user] kernel and harware

[gentoo-user] kernel and harware

[Martins Steinbergs]

hi,

i'm curios where to find what hardware each kernel version supports, from my 
experience building 2.6.16 kernel series i know ati-drivers doesnt work. is 
it somewere documented? for example i have peace of scanner that isnt 
supported by sane and i see that in sane homepage. Is there some links to 
kernel or ati documents where keep track?

martins

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Re: [gentoo-user] kernel and harware

[Richard Fish]

On 4/3/06, Martins Steinbergs <mar@ml.lv> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i'm curios where to find what hardware each kernel version supports,

I have always found lwn (www.lwn.net) to have very good coverage of
the changes between kernel versions.

I'm not aware of any comprehensive list of supported hardware. 
Various attempts at this have been attempted over the years, with
varying degrees of success.  The most reliable is to plow through the
menuconfig/xconfig options.

> from my
> experience building 2.6.16 kernel series i know ati-drivers doesnt work. is
> it somewere documented?

Out-of-tree drivers can be expected to break when updating kernels. 
It doesn't happen every kernel release, but it will happen.  If it is
open source, there should be an update to the driver pretty quickly. 
If it is a proprietary driver, you usually have to wait for the vendor
to make an update.

If you want to run bleeding-edge kernels, you might want to accept
~x86 for any out-of-tree drivers.

> for example i have peace of scanner that isnt
> supported by sane and i see that in sane homepage. Is there some links to
> kernel or ati documents where keep track?

lwn and the linux forums at www.rage3d.net.

-Richard

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