{"id":152,"date":"2007-07-21T01:28:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T01:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/07\/new-hardware-support-in-the-gentoo-kernel\/"},"modified":"2007-07-21T01:29:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T01:29:24","slug":"new-hardware-support-in-the-gentoo-kernel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/07\/new-hardware-support-in-the-gentoo-kernel\/","title":{"rendered":"New hardware support in the Gentoo kernel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick reminder regarding the <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.gentoo.org\/~dsd\/genpatches\">gentoo-sources<\/a> patching policy:<\/p>\n<p>If you have some new hardware which is currently not supported by gentoo-sources, but you know of drivers or patches in the upstream development kernel to support such hardware, you are encouraged to <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.gentoo.org\">file a bug<\/a> and we will consider backporting the patch to the current release kernels.<\/p>\n<p>An ideal bug report would look something like:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I recently purchased a Fritzomatic E2 which is not supported by the current gentoo-sources (tested both stable and testing). However, the upstream 2.6.23-rc kernel tree does contain a patch to support this hardware. I applied this patch to 2.6.22 and it works great. Here&#8217;s a link to the patch: http:\/\/foo. Please consider for upcoming gentoo-sources releases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even if you aren&#8217;t able to initially go into such detail, you should file a bug anyway.<\/p>\n<p>While we won&#8217;t proactively go out adding new hardware support to kernels, if such patches are requested and tested by Gentoo users, we&#8217;ll add them provided that they don&#8217;t show immediate risk of increased maintenance burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick reminder regarding the gentoo-sources patching policy: If you have some new hardware which is currently not supported by gentoo-sources, but you know of drivers or patches in the upstream development kernel to support such hardware, you are encouraged to file a bug and we will consider backporting the patch to the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}