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linux-lqx from github:

• https://github.com/sirlucjan/workbench/tree/master/linux-lqx-rebranded/linux-lqx (taged version)

• https://github.com/sirlucjan/workbench/tree/master/linux-lqx-rebranded/linux-lqx-git (master)

Damentz sometimes updates sources and checksums do not match. Please let me know.

Thank you for the responses :).

@Filip98, you're probably compiling the kernel with one thread, check the recommendations here : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/makepkg#Parallel_compilation

@Filip98: The compile time can be quite a while on slow/medium hardware and therefore it "is normal for that kind of hardware". You can speed it up a bit by using ccache (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ccache).

Lubuntu is faster as your were most likely where using a precompiled package from some kernel-repo (launchpad?). The AUR system is source based in most of the cases.

It seems to be compiling itself for hours with a list of the kernel files e.g "CC [M] sound/.../*.o" going at it one by one, Is this normal behavior? I'm reluctant to think about repeating this for each update. This wasn't the case while I was using Lubuntu, I'm using aurman if it matters.

@sir_lucjan, thanks for the heads up

@DungSherlock, 'pkg' will use the Liquorix configuration used in the binary kernels from liquorix.net, while old will take your running configuration and execute 'make oldconfig', asking you to select options for new or updated menu items. If you're comfortable with the latter and are only interested in the kernel sources, then 'old' is the way to go. If you want the behavior you get from Liquorix binary kernels (Debian Sid, the major Ubuntu's), then choose 'pkg.

A commonly used option, since you're building from source, is to actually choose 'm'. This will let you adjust the 'pkg' configuration before the build starts. One advantage of this is you can optimize the kernel for your processor, giving you some marginal gains depending on what you're using the kernel for.

Different build option _config="pkg" and _config="old"? What is advice?

@damentz

Probably MuQSS doesn't work properly with 4.16.17.

@sir_lucjan, please keep the patch at 4.16.16-2 for now, there's a stable patch in 4.16.17+ that's preventing some of my own systems from booting, but I currently don't have the time to figure out why only Arch is affected.

Seeing as how Arch itself has already moved to 4.17, it might be best to update linux-lqx once there's a 4.17 release - that'll probably include the fix.

@sir_lucjan : thx for looking into it. i cleaned out all my download caches and build locations and now it works ... odd ...

@markusk

I can't confirm:

[lucjan@archlinux roboczy-3]$ export LANG=C
[lucjan@archlinux roboczy-3]$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/linux-lqx.git
Cloning into 'linux-lqx'...
remote: Counting objects: 985, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (491/491), done.
remote: Total 985 (delta 561), reused 909 (delta 494)
Receiving objects: 100% (985/985), 300.70 KiB | 1.65 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (561/561), done.
[lucjan@archlinux roboczy-3]$ cd linux-lqx    
[lucjan@archlinux linux-lqx]$ mkaurball
==> Making package: linux-lqx 4.16.7-1 (Mon May  7 14:35:37 CEST 2018)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading linux-4.16.tar.xz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   178  100   178    0     0   1379      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1379
100 98.2M  100 98.2M    0     0  2174k      0  0:00:46  0:00:46 --:--:-- 3411k
  -> Downloading linux-4.16.tar.sign...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   178  100   178    0     0    912      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   912
100   455  100   455    0     0   1146      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  1146
  -> Downloading 4.16.7-1.patch.gz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  644k  100  644k    0     0   624k      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  625k
  -> Downloading config.amd64...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  202k  100  202k    0     0   227k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  227k
  -> Found 60-linux.hook
  -> Found 90-linux.hook
  -> Found 99-linux.hook
  -> Found linux.preset
==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    linux-4.16.tar.xz ... Passed
    linux-4.16.tar.sign ... Skipped
    4.16.7-1.patch.gz ... Passed
    config.amd64 ... Passed
    60-linux.hook ... Passed
    90-linux.hook ... Passed
    99-linux.hook ... Passed
    linux.preset ... Passed
==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg...
    linux-4.16.tar ... Passed
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Creating source package...
  -> Adding PKGBUILD...
  -> Generating .SRCINFO file...
  -> Adding 60-linux.hook...
  -> Adding 90-linux.hook...
  -> Adding 99-linux.hook...
  -> Adding linux.preset...
  -> Adding install file (linux.install)...
  -> Compressing source package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Source package created: linux-lqx (Mon May  7 14:36:39 CEST 2018)