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IMPORTANT NOTICE

Intel has announced that they are shutting the Clear Linux distribution, which includes the Linux kernel patches that this package relies on. This means that we (JeremyStarTM and yarost12) won't be able to update the linux-clear package anymore.

To avoid this, we have decided to fork the Clear Linux kernel patchset and want to continue updating it for newer kernel versions. Unfortunately, we both will not be able to maintain that patchset alone and require help from others. If anyone has experience with kernel development and wants to help out, please contribute! If we don't manage to get enough developers on board, we might need to kill the package, which we definitely want to avoid.

The fork can be found here: https://git.staropensource.de/StarOpenSource/Linux-Tachyon

(this message can also be found when installing or updating the package)

Information comment
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Repository URL
This package is hosted at sos!git. If you want to contribute to the package, you can do it here: https://git.staropensource.de/JeremyStarTM/aur-linux-clear

Issue handling
Please only submit issues in the package's repository if they aren't bug reports about the package or help requests. Please keep them to the AUR only. This prevents unnecessary signups.

Updates
I usually publish updates 0-3 days after a kernel release, depending on how busy I am.
If I however get wind of security-relevant updates or any vulnerabilities I will try to update the kernel as soon as possible and write a comment about the vulnerability/update. So make sure to subscribe to this package's comment mailing list.

PKGBUILD environment variable customization
The PKGBUILD file supports customization via environment variables. Here's a list of all of them:
- _makemenuconfig: Invokes make menuconfig (ncurses-based default configuration menu) before compilation starts
- _makenconfig: Invokes make nconfig (ncurses-based nicer configuration menu) before compilation starts
- _makexconfig: Invokes make xconfig (X11-based GUI configuration menu) before compilation starts
- _use_current: Will use the configuration of the running kernel, if the running kernel is compiled with IKCONFIG_PROC
- _optimize_defconfig: Applies package maintainer-picked configuration changes to your defconfig. Only takes effect with _use_current being enabled
- _copyfinalconfig: Copies the final kernel configuration into the repository root as kconfig-new before compilation starts
- _localmodcfg: Only compiles modules found in modprobed-db's database (which decreases compilation time and kernel size)
- _use_llvm_lto: Compiles the kernel with LLVM instead of GCC. Should work, if not open an issue
- _subarch: Specifies the subarchitecture to compile for (see the PKGBUILD file for a list of all subarches). Default is 41/MGENERIC_CPU (Generic x86-64), which is compatible with all amd64 processors. Must be a number or subarch name
- _subarch_microarch: Specifies the microarchitecture to compile for. Only applies to and is required by the MGENERIC_CPU subarch. Must be a number between 1 and 4 (click for more information)
- _debug: Force enables debug options when set to y, force disables debug options when set to n or uses the config defaults when unset

All of these variables just need to be set for them to apply, except for _subarch and _debug. For more information please check their documentation inside the PKGBUILD file

GPG errors
If makepkg complains about invalid PGP keys, try running this command first: gpg --locate-keys torvalds@kernel.org gregkh@kernel.org sashal@kernel.org benh@debian.org. This command only needs to be executed once.

Build tool
If you want a dead simple way to compile this package, you can try out my build tool. It includes a few no nonsense changes to the kernel configuration and allows you to configure the PKGBUILD file in a simple manner and decrease build time. And if you don't want that, using makepkg as-is works fine too.

@metak Hi. I'm getting this error:

Failure while downloading https://github.com/graysky2/kernel_compiler_patch/archive/20210606.tar.gz`

How can I fix it?

@metak, thanks, that was the case. Apparently 3G proved a bit low!. though i did check the usage and it stop while 250-300M was still available. and why the heck was i even using ram, my nvme SSD seems to be faster then that. thanks again for the tip.

@Khaithang Have you tried compiling on SSD/HD instread of in RAM to check you're not running out of space? BUILDDIR=/tmp/makepkg

i am getting a build error! few excerpt from the build log:

ZSTD22  arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.zst   
make[2]: *** [arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile:135: 
arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.zst] Error 137
make[2]: *** Deleting file 'arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.zst'
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
GEN     Module.symvers
.
.
.   
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/boot/Makefile:115: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux] Error 2
make: *** [arch/x86/Makefile:302: bzImage] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

then after almost finishing the build, it fails with this:

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
 Aborting...

Here's the full log, most seems normal apart what i already pointed out above. Sorry, i don't which parts are important so adding the whole log, the log file is pretty long. log : http://ix.io/3oYF

some guys pointed that the issue is with makepkg/file not able to extract simple xz compressed file, this is in regards to the linux-ck package, and downgrading file to 5.39 seems to fix it for them. I downgraded it but the issue persist! Do let me know if i need to attach makepkg.conf as well.

EDIT: anyway i am attaching my makepkg.conf as well -> http://ix.io/3oYL

Thanks!

@oddpuck There's no separate option for Comet Lake, you should use skylake.

First, thanks for making this package. Why is Intel Comet Lake not an option when it asks you to select processor family during build?

@amoka That part in prepare() needs some cleaning up...

Can you please explain a little more about the following (line 227)?

### do not run `make olddefconfig` as it sets default options
    yes "" | make config >/dev/null

Since we run make olddefconfig before that too (line 179)

Thanks in advance!

@metak thank you