Arch Linux User Repository

Official binary builds for various x86_64 μ-arches are available here.

pf-kernel follows its own versioning scheme that doesn't depend on stable kernel releases versioning. X.Y.Z package version here corresponds to vX.Y-pfZ release in the source code repo.

I'm trying to build nvidia-pf, but it complains about "determining the kernel version". The nvidia-pf PKGBUILD points the nvidia installer to "/lib/modules/2.6.37-pf/build" witch doesn't exist. The stock arch kernel instead, contains "/lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/build" as a link to "/usr/src/2.6.36-ARCH/". Should i create that link manually? Or did i messed up something during the kernel configuration?

To all users of kernel26-pf: I had an oversight in the .37 PKGBUILD that left inside the firmware files, so if pacman complained about conflicting files in /lib/firmware during the installation, please delete the kernel26-pf package from /var/cache/pacman/packages (if you used the prebuilt repo package), uninstall and re-install both kernel26-pf and linux-firmware so you don't have any conflicting files in future updates.

For those who don't tweak much their kernels or are bored of compiling, assorted kernel26-packages can be found at the repo below. [pfkernel] # kernel26-pf, kernel26-pf-p3, kernel26-pf-k8, kernel26-pf-core2, nvidia-pf, squid3, arora-git Server = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11734958/$arch

I've built successfully the generic x86_64 version (check the pfkernel repo: search for unofficial user repositories in archwiki) and I'm building right now the optimized 64-bit ones and the generic i686 version without errors. Wrapper scripts like yaourt are known to have problems with the AUR; please use 'aurdownload kernel26-pf' from aurscripts and just 'makepkg -i' inside the kernel26-pf directory.

Doesn't build for me: HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig fs/Kconfig:194: can't open file "fs/aufs/Kconfig" make[2]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 1 make[1]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 2 make: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf', needed by `include/config/kernel.release'. Stop. Aborting... ==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build kernel26-pf. ==> Restart building kernel26-pf ? [y/N] ==> ------------------------------------ ==> ==> WARNING: Following packages have not been installed: kernel26-pf This could be the problem: ==> Applying pf-kernel patch bzip2: skipping "/tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-kernel26-pf/src/patch-2.6.37-pf2.bz2": not a regular file ==> Applying aufs2 and squashfs-lzma patches patching file fs/namei.c patching file fs/splice.c patching file include/linux/namei.h patching file include/linux/splice.h patching file fs/Kconfig patching file fs/Makefile patching file include/linux/Kbuild patching file fs/file_table.c patching file fs/inode.c patching file fs/namei.c patching file fs/namespace.c patching file fs/notify/group.c patching file fs/notify/mark.c patching file fs/open.c patching file fs/splice.c patching file security/commoncap.c patching file security/device_cgroup.c patching file security/security.c bzip2: skipping "/tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-kernel26-pf/src/aufs2.1-2010-12-20.patch.bz2": not a regular file

LZO compression is implemented now into mainline kernel hibernation and it should be as fast as tuxonice, but I still like the latter's framebuffer interface.

BTW, I've deactivated tuxonice for my laptop, because hibernation works better without it.

Grrrrreat! I'd hate to lose tuxonice.