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Hello,

The linux kernel-3.13 is released. I had no problems configuring
or compiling but the nvidia-drivers-331.38 will not load. Fortunately
a quick fix for the impatient is here:

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/644906/331-20-on-3-13-rc1-kernel/

However, the patch given in the forum will not work with the latest
nvidia-drivers-331.38. I have made a diff, based on the same patch,
that does work. Just add the attached file, nvidia331.38.patch to
/etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers.

Another change in kernel-3.13 is that now the kernel microcode driver
will load firmware directly from /lib64/firmware. The helper utility
microcode_ctl is no longer necessary to update the CPU microcode.
(Unless I am mistaken, this was not possible in earlier kernels.)

Gentoo, however, seems to still use microcode_ctl to update the microcode.
To change to the newer direct method, a converter utility is found
here:

https://fedorahosted.org/microcode_ctl/

The utility "intel-microcode2ucode" will translate the intel microcode
data into a form that is copied into /lib64/firmware. The kernel can then
load the microcode directly at boot time without the need for microcode_ctl.

Again, I could be wrong but Gentoo has not moved up to this new method yet.

Frank Peters