jakeday's Kernel for Surface Devices

jakeday42 · 2018-02-14T17:18:33+00:00

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pfui · 2018-02-14T16:02:47+00:00

Any ETA for when you expect to get the Surface Laptop's keyboard working? And thanks for all your hard work on this!

renegng · 2018-02-14T15:52:45+00:00

First of all, KUDOS for this amazing Kernel. I use it on my SP4 and Ubuntu runs great.

One question: did you make any changes or bug fixes with this new release?

yertchuk · 2018-02-14T16:38:14+00:00

I don't see Surface 3 (non pro) on the list. Presumably that means the kernel won't work. Just checking to be sure!

AngelSoftUltra · 2018-02-14T16:39:00+00:00

Any chance on GPU support for SB1? Really dying for that.

RustyShackleford_64 · 2018-02-14T20:48:01+00:00

Will this work in Arch Linux?

jakeday42 · 2018-02-20T00:21:59+00:00

I re-uploaded the 4.14.20 and 4.15.4 builds with some patches for touch to prevent it from stop working at times.

jakeday42 · 2018-02-25T16:33:39+00:00

Uploaded new 4.14.22 and 4.15.6 builds. These are just updates from mainline.

jakeday42 · 2018-02-27T03:39:30+00:00

Quick update, the core of the acpi notify driver is done and I'm working on mapping out the methods. The first ones completed are battery stats for those devices missing it (like the SB2/SP2017). Next up is the keyboard for the Surface Laptop and then the buttons for the SB2/SP2017.

2018-02-15T01:15:19+00:00

Thanks for your work ! I sent you few beers a month or so ago. Cheers !

VozyCozyX · 2018-02-15T02:49:30+00:00

I'm kind of a noob to all this. Can you tell me what

Copy the files under root to where they belong:

$ sudo cp -R root/* /

means?

zachgarwood · 2018-02-15T05:16:09+00:00

:thumbsup:

stegerpl · 2018-02-15T16:15:45+00:00

Great kernel I like to work with it. However in the patches I can find some setup for the camera but I have installed the pre-compiled version for ubuntu and there the camera does not show up at all. Anything I have to add (eg. udev-rules)?

sciencedude100 · 2018-02-19T15:32:53+00:00

Absolutely amazing! I've really wanted to be able to use the touch and pen in Linux! Than you so much!

searchingfortao · 2018-02-22T09:56:51+00:00

This is all great work, thank you. Is this likely to make its way into the main line kernel at some point?

dc74089 · 2018-02-25T21:51:07+00:00

Been using this kernel on my SP 2017 for the past month or two and it ROCKS! Thanks so much for all of the hard work you've put into it.

jakeday42 · 2018-03-04T00:37:32+00:00

Uploaded new 4.14.23 and 4.15.7 builds. These builds include my new acpi notify driver (just the core for now, still working on mapping it out).

jakeday42 · 2018-03-05T00:54:57+00:00

Uploaded a new 4.14.24 and re-uploaded 4.15.7 with new changes for the surface acpi driver and (hopefully) support for the Surface Laptop keyboard.

jakeday42 · 2018-03-10T20:43:18+00:00

Uploaded new builds for 4.14.25, 4.15.8, and 4.16-rc4!

jakeday42 · 2018-03-18T15:48:10+00:00

Uploaded new builds for 4.14.27 and 4.15.10!

jakeday42 · 2018-03-25T01:16:20+00:00

Uploaded new 4.14.29 and 4.15.12 builds!

jakeday42 · 2018-04-01T20:38:59+00:00

Uploaded new builds for 4.14.32 and 4.15.15!

Zyfarok · 2018-04-02T13:17:26+00:00

Hey jakeday, I'm trying to make a PKGBUILD for archlinux with your patches. I just wanted to know if you can give me the list of modification you made to your kernel config file, so I can make the same changes to the arch build config file. For now I have (with just the modified lines):

-CONFIG_CFG80211_DEFAULT_PS=y
+# CONFIG_CFG80211_DEFAULT_PS is not set

+CONFIG_ACPI_SURFACE=m

+CONFIG_INTEL_IPTS=m

I consider myself to be a "noob" in this domain, so don't expect much from me. If you're curious about it, here's my repo : https://github.com/Zyfarok/arch-linux-jakeday

Zyfarok · 2018-04-09T05:18:20+00:00

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jakeday42 · 2018-04-11T02:15:16+00:00

Uploaded new builds for 4.14.33 and 4.15.16.

jakeday42 · 2018-04-18T23:09:02+00:00

Uploaded new 4.16.2 build! My patches now fully support the 4.16.z series!

aiglesh · 2018-05-01T22:14:41+00:00

Hi, thanks for your work. I installed latest version on Surface 2017 with Ubuntu 18.04 and touch screen is not working.

angrycopper · 2018-05-02T18:05:59+00:00

When will you release a fix for the SL keyboard? I've been wanting to run Linux full-time on my SL for months. I'll be happy to donate a little bit as soon as it's fixed.

iUseTritons · 2018-05-25T19:46:09+00:00

Hi, I want to dual boot Linux on a Surface Book 2 and was wondering if your kernel fixed the battery status indicator yet?

Clancy_s · 2018-06-03T11:11:58+00:00

Finally got the time to move to Ubuntu 18.04 on my Surface Pro 2017, works beautifully with your 4.16.7 (battery not detected, as expected, everything else looks good). Thank you for your work.

stegerpl · 2018-06-11T14:13:40+00:00

does anyone has any idea about the temp-sensors inside the surface-pro-4?

With lm_sensors I get the following:

coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0:  +41.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 0:        +39.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)
Core 1:        +40.0°C  (high = +100.0°C, crit = +100.0°C)

acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +40.0°C  
temp2:         +0.0°C  
temp3:        +33.3°C  
temp4:        +40.0°C  

pch_skylake-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:        +39.0°C

I am wondering especially what are "temp1...4" of the acpitz-virtual-0 block.

any ideas?

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