CentOS - Sep 2016 - CM8828 sound chip ??

Need a PCI-E sound card with low profile bracket, optical out, and one 
of those mini-din connectors that fans out into various analog connectors.

Only card I have been able to find so far uses a CM8828 chipset.

Looks like that chipset is natively supported by the kernel alsa driver 
starting in 3.17 kernel but CentOS 7 uses 3.10 kernel.

I did not see a package that was obviously for that chipset in elrepo.

Has that driver been backported into the RHEL/CentOS 7 kernel, and if 
not, is it in elrepo?

Worst case scenario I suppose it may be possible to port the driver like 
many of the elrepo drivers have been, but not sure I want to buy 
hardware based on a "may be possible"

Thanks for any comments.

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On 20/09/16 18:37, Alice Wonder wrote:
> Need a PCI-E sound card with low profile bracket, optical out, and one
> of those mini-din connectors that fans out into various analog connectors.
>
> Only card I have been able to find so far uses a CM8828 chipset.
>
> Looks like that chipset is natively supported by the kernel alsa driver
> starting in 3.17 kernel but CentOS 7 uses 3.10 kernel.
>
It may have started out it's life as a 3.10 kernel, but Red Hat 
constantly backports updated drivers to support new hardware.

The only way to tell whether or not it is supported by a given driver is 
to query the PCI vendor:device ID.

Once you know these, you can query your system to see if the device is 
supported by any of your installed kernels:

grep -i VendorID /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i DeviceID
> I did not see a package that was obviously for that chipset in elrepo.
>
> Has that driver been backported into the RHEL/CentOS 7 kernel, and if
> not, is it in elrepo?
>
> Worst case scenario I suppose it may be possible to port the driver like
> many of the elrepo drivers have been, but not sure I want to buy
> hardware based on a "may be possible"
>
> Thanks for any comments.
>