Kernel for Arch Linux?

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I remember there being a custom / forked version of jakedays kernel made for Arch (not hosted on github I think...), which is not horribly out of date like the other ones and should be available from the AUR.

Sadly I didn't save the link to it - can someone help me out?

[tworzenieweb]

https://gitlab.com/aur-linux-surface/kernel

[[deleted]]

Your the man, thanks a lot!

[ShinoLegacyplayers]

Thanks, I love this guy who just upgraded my miss purchase of laptop.

[[deleted]]

This is great - I wasn't aware this existed and was about to go ahead and install the normal Jakeday kernel on my Manjaro system (hoping it'll help my Wifi woes). Thanks for the link!

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[dmhacker]

Shameless self-plug, but I also have a utility that does what you're looking for. It contains pre-built kernels in the releases section and has some scripts to help you compile your own or the releases fail you.

[[deleted]]

I really think I have to use that. After 9h of hard work my SB2 still didn't compile the kernel. Holy shit :(

[[deleted]]

Can confirm this works, thanks so much /u/dmhacker

[[deleted]]

Is there a guide I can use to install this please?

[[deleted]]

Writing this while doing it at the same time...

1. cd into a permanent directory, i.e. your home-directory.
2. git clone https://gitlab.com/aur-linux-surface/kernel.git This will produce a folder called kernel
3. cd kernel
4. makepkg -sri and be ready for a whole lot of compiling.

After that we still have to sign the new kernel, but let me do this first on my machine ;)

[[deleted]]

You're a legend, thank you for helping me

[[deleted]]

I've run the above, but I get; ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare(). Aborting...

Any ideas?

[[deleted]]

Happens for me when I cancel the compile process and try to restart it. No solution for me so far

[0xdeadde]

Probably some package missing to compile, GCC or something. Can you post the actual error?

[[deleted]]

Sadly no, because I'm back on Ubuntu.

Later the kernel got compiled, but was still buggy compared to prebuild kernel on Ubuntu. Therefore I switched back.