How to support Intel 5100 and ICH9R chipset in Linux kernel 2.6.21?

[shiner_chen]

I want to support the Intel 5100 and ICH9R chipset in Linux kernel 2.6.21. But I can not find any patch file for Linux kernel 2.6.21 to support those. Who can provide the patch file for it or tell me how to support those chipset.

Thanks

Shiner

[saikee]

Don't really know the solution but 2.6.21 kernal is rather old now so have you tried the more recent kernels?

I seldom care about the chipset myself and have not run into a compatibility problem yet so what problem are you having with the Intel 5100 and ICH9R chipset?

[bwkaz]

But I can not find any patch file for Linux kernel 2.6.21 to support those. That's because there isn't one.

(Well, I'm not entirely sure on that. There might be one, but I doubt it. If support for that chipset was added to a later kernel, then there won't be a patch available for an older kernel. The kernel developers don't backport new features to older kernels, and support for new hardware is a type of new feature. It's almost never an issue to tell a person "just use 2.6.2x" (for whichever "2x" is current) when they need support for a hardware chipset that was added later.)

So: Is there a reason you need to run 2.6.21? Because if it doesn't have a driver for that chipset built in, then you probably won't be able to find a patch for it...