[SOLVED] Unable to select Renesas USB 3.0 support in kernel

[johngalt]

Hi, all,

Trying to configure my kernel correctly for my hardware - Desktop homebrew

• eVGA X58 Classified 3 motherboard
  
  1. 2 SATA 6.0Gb/s ports served by a Marvell 91xx chipset
     
  2. 6 SATA II ports served by Intel ICH10R
     
  3. 6 USB 2.0 served by Intel chipset (I think it is different from the ICH10R, but I'll have to double verify)
     
  4. 2 USB 3.0 ports served by a Renesas/NEC chipset

12 GB Triple Channel DDR 3 (3 * 4)

960 GB Sandisk SSD on the Marvell SATA 6.0 Gb/s port 0

256 GB Crucial SSD on the Marvell SATA 6.0 Gb/s port 1

3 Seagate Mechanical drives on the SATA II (0,1,2)

Blu-Ray burner on SATA II port 5

The USB 3 is what I am worried about. It was phenomenally hard to get it working in Windows unless I used the ancient drivers from eVGA website for the Renesas chipset. I searched the kernel for /renesas and it found an item that is not actually availalbe to me to select at all:

Code:

Symbol: USB_RENESAS_USB3 [=n]                                                                                                                                                         │    │ Type  : tristate                                                                                                                                                                      │    │ Prompt: Renesas USB3.0 Peripheral controller                                                                                                                                          │    │   Location:                                                                                                                                                                           │    │     -> Device Drivers                                                                                                                                                                 │    │       -> USB support (USB_SUPPORT [=y])                                                                                                                                               │    │         -> USB Gadget Support (USB_GADGET [=y])                                                                                                                                       │    │ (5)       -> USB Peripheral Controller                                                                                                                                                │    │   Defined at drivers/usb/gadget/udc/Kconfig:177                                                                                                                                       │    │   Depends on: USB_SUPPORT [=y] && USB_GADGET [=y] && (ARCH_RENESAS || COMPILE_TEST [=n])                                                                                              │

When I go looknig for it in that tree, it is not visible, until I hit 'z' - then it is visible but not selectable.

Is this something that is being phased out, or something that gentoo simply doesn't support (or, at least, in this kernel) and so I have to go looking for a different kernel / a patch to allow it to work?

The reason I ask is that the same search for renesas found that ARCH_RENESAS as an item, but is not letting me select it:

Code:

Symbol: ARCH_RENESAS [=ARCH_RENESAS]                                                                                                                                                  │    │ Type  : unknown                                                                                                                                                                       │    │

And manually searching the .config file for renesas finds only 1 instance of it:

Code:

# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RENESAS is not set

Under

Code:

# # Distributed Switch Architecture drivers #

So, I'm curious how System Rescue CD actually has the USB 3 supposedly loaded (using an older kernel, I suspect, is the key / answer).
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Last edited by johngalt on Fri Jun 29, 2018 4:53 am; edited 1 time in total

[Ant P.]

Do the standard XHCI drivers not work?

[russK]

If it works with System Rescue CD, use 'lspci -vvv' and find the card and check what is says for "Kernel driver in use".

[johngalt]

My fault. I inserted the drive and didn't see it in the file system - because in my haste I never acutally mounted it.

Went back and checked - SRCD is loading an NEC driver: