On 19.05.21 09:49, Takashi Iwai wrote:
On Wed, 19 May 2021 06:48:47 +0200, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On 19.05.2021 01:01, David Mace wrote:
Hi, I have a vintage (2007) laptop, upgraded to openSUSE Leap 15.3. When using 15.3 kernel 5.3.18-57 there is no yenta module, so my PCMCIA cards are not working (a legacy Creative Soundblaster Audigy for example). If I boot into my Leap 15.2 kernel then it is working fine (with boot option "pci=cbmemsize=8M" workaround)
The Soundblaster might be CardBus, not legacy PCMCIA, at least this one https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0006FWZ98 is clearly CardBus.
Is openSUSE removing support for legacy PCMCIA?
kernel modules are split between several packages. Check kernel-default-optional and kernel-default-extra
PCMCIA was disabled on SLE15-SP3, i.e. also on Leap 15.3.
It looks like it is still enabled on Kernel:HEAD
So it's a bad news, but we can't maintain this legacy stuff due to lack of hardware.
For legacy PCMCIA (ISA based) I'd agree and I doubt that much of these are still in use, but is CardBus (PCI based) also disabled? I'd have at least some hardware to thest that (i686 only though, all my x86_64 hardware already has ExpressCard (PCIe based) slots). Have fun, seife -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman