Hello Maurice!

05 Apr 2018 21:02, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 MK> Yes I have tried it back with the 4.15.x kernels which is when they 
 MK> stopped supplying it with the regular kernel source.

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 MK> Linux mikey 4.16.0 #2 SMP Tue Apr 3 23:36:08 UTC 2018 x86_64 Intel(R) 
 MK> Atom(TM) CPU C2758 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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Linux themultixpoint 4.16.0-gentoo #2 SMP Thu Apr 5 23:25:04 CEST 2018 i686
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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 MK> All 8 penguins are properly displayed at bootup with the builtin - 
 MK> could be modular - AST2400 driver.  However still having issues 
 MK> building a kernel with the soon to be released gcc-8 compiler but 
 MK> gcc-7.3.0 works just fine which is still the default compiler here as 
 MK> we speak.

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only 6.4.0 here on gentoo is stable

i dont know why older kernels stopped building firmware when 4.16 works for me,
good its solved 

 BP>> sadly cant build firmware anymore in the kernel, seems it needs
 BP>> to be external build now

 MK> Just as well since there were some of the firmware I needed with the 
 MK> external source that wasn't provided with the regular source anyhow.  
 MK> This way most, if indeed not all, firmware can be found in the 
 MK> external source.  In my particular situation I can find all that I 
 MK> require in the external source which I needed before so it's not 
 MK> really a big deal.

yep, building external firmware is not easy on gentoo, it need to clena
userland firmware files, and disable in kernel firmware, then build in userland
firmware and hope it works on new kernels :)

have it build in kernel makes sure its tested and works with the kernel version


 Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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