[CentOS-devel] C7 i686 kernel driver request

Sat Oct 3 22:25:21 UTC 2015
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>


On 03/10/15 15:40, Peter wrote:
> On 10/04/2015 03:37 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org> wrote:
>>> Is it beyond reason to request certain older drivers be enabled in the
>>> i686 kernel for CentOS 7 to help support the older hardware that you
>>> might find in 32 bit machines?  I have an old gateway laptop that I'm
>>> trying it out on and it needs the b43 driver enabled.
>>
>> Is there any reason you can't grab the SRPM and, for the short term,
>> build it yourself using "mock" and the new testable i386 repo? Or, for
>> the short term, grab a USB/wifi device with an old, standard chipset
>> and just use that until this gets worked out? I've done both in the
>> past for older operating systems.
> 
> That's exactly what I'm doing now, but I'm putting the request in as
> well as I'd like to not have to rebuild the kernel myself each time a
> new one comes out, I'd much rather the driver is enabled in the stock
> CentOS kernel if possible.
> 
> 

You don't need to rebuild the whole kernel just for one driver - just
build the driver out of tree.