6.11 Kernel missing a lot of options?

L1NTHALO · n00b Joined: 27 Aug 2024 Posts: 7

Currently configuring my kernel and there is a lot of stuff missing in gentoo-sources 6.11.

For one there is no "Enable the block layer" section and I wasn't able to find it anywhere else, Input devices got restructured and has a lot of stuff missing too and for some reason there is no firmware loader section?

Is this a bug or an intended feature? if it's intended, are these changes now built in by default? And how am I gonna load firmware blobs?

I built gentoo-sources with the experimental USE Flag.

Any help would be appreciated!

grknight · Retired Dev Joined: 20 Feb 2015 Posts: 1846

This prompt is hidden if CONFIG_EXPERT is off, but will still activate because of the default value. (This is not new either.)

pietinger · Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2024 12:18 am Post subject:

Maybe have a look into: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Experimental/Manual_Configuring_Current_Kernel

Firmware loading facility (*) has not changed since ... a very long time ... I cannot remember ... do you you come from a very, very old kernel version ?

*) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Tutorials/Manual_kernel_configuration#Driver_needs_Firmware
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