The new gentoo-dev-sources dont have sata support under drivers>scsi device support>scsi low level drivers>Sata support>nvidia sata support The driver is available in the vanilla kernel. Was it removed for a particular reason? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to select nvidia sata support in the kernel 2. 3. Actual Results: It is not there as an option. Expected Results: There should be a option for it. It does exist in the vanilla kernel.
This is a big issue for g-d-s on amd64. g-d-s is our default kernel, but is missing important features that the vanilla kernel includes.
Woah, we don't remove _anything_ from the vanilla kernel tree in the g-d-s package. Are you sure you have the CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL option enabled, so you can see this option?
Well i poked around the /usr/src/linux-2.6.7-gentoo-r11/drivers/scsi here is the ouput of jeffs-amd64 linux-2.6.7-gentoo-r11 # cd drivers/scsi jeffs-amd64 scsi # ls sata* sata_promise.c sata_sil.c sata_svw.c sata_via.c sata_promise.h sata_sis.c sata_sx4.c sata_vsc.c when im in /usr/src/linux-2.6.7-mm6 jeffs-amd64 src # cd linux-2.6.7-mm6 jeffs-amd64 linux-2.6.7-mm6 # cd drivers/scsi jeffs-amd64 scsi # ls sata* sata_nv.c sata_promise.h sata_sis.c sata_sx4.c sata_vsc.c sata_promise.c sata_sil.c sata_svw.c sata_via.c we have a sata_nv.c which is the driver that is needed. Now if I'm mistaken in believing that the gentoo-dev-sources are based on the latest 2.6.7 kernel as in vanilla-2.6.7-bk20 or whatever is the latest, when in fact they are based on vanilla-2.6.7 with no updates then i am confused which is not unusuall and please forgive me for waisting your time. But if Im correct and the gentoo-dev-sources are supposed to be the latest and greatest with some patches applied by the gentoo-devs then something is not being done correctly... So any idea which is right ..... im borked as normal .... or im actually right for a change.....wow that would be neato.....any way thanks for looking at this. Jeff C.
You are looking at the -mm tree, which is _not_ the base 2.6.7 kernel.org kernel, sorry. So yes, you are incorrect :)
