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  • Running On Kernel 6.14 -- Here's How

    From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 25 19:55:26 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.hardawe

    Linux kernel 6.14 is just released and over the past 15 short minutes
    I have built and installed it.

    Here's how.

    1) Download and untar:

    tar xJvkf /build/dir/linux-6.14.tar.xz


    2) Copy 6.13 .config to /build/dir


    3) make oldconfig:

    make LD=ld.bfd oldconfig

    The option is necessary because the kernel does not handle
    link time optimization (LTO).

    The only significant differences were the PT_RECLAIM option,
    which reclaims empty page tables. The answer is "yes."

    Then there is NT_SYNC. This is fucking bizarre. I suppose
    it relates to Linux on that shit OS Winblows:

    https://docs.kernel.org/userspace-api/ntsync.html

    I, of course, answered "NO."

    Then there is CRC_OPTIMIZATION. This is CRC checksums so "Yes."


    4) Compile the damned thing, and modules, and install modules:

    make LD=ld.bfd -j9 bzImage && make LD=ld.bfd -j9 modules && make LD=ld.bfd modules_install


    5) Copy the kernel to /boot (modules are already installed).


    6) Copy kernel headers (I have a script for this which I won't
    publish here.)


    7) Allow Gentoo to build the Nvidia 570.133.07 driver:

    emerge nvidia-drivers


    8) Update the syslinux boot config file (fuck that bloated grub).


    That's it.

    In 15 short fucking minutes I am cruising on kernel 6.14.

    I need to script the entire process for an even faster build.

    The rest of you dumb-fucks have no choice but to rely on a
    bloated and sluggish distro kernel.

    My condolences.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!



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  • From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to John Ames on Tue Mar 25 21:21:53 2025
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.hardawe

    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:41:46 -0700, John Ames wrote:

    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:55:26 +0000
    Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

    The rest of you dumb-fucks have no choice but to rely on a
    bloated and sluggish distro kernel.

    And we care...why, exactly?


    There are only 10 kinds of GNU/Linux users:

    Those who care and those who don't.

    One knows why and the other one doesn't.

    Need I say more?


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  • From vallor@21:1/5 to Farley Flud on Wed Mar 26 20:55:05 2025
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:55:26 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in <pan$b5779$c521ba38$bd1fa2f2$bd3680f3@linux.rocks>:

    Linux kernel 6.14 is just released

    On _your_ _distro_, distro-lackey -- it was released Monday. (See my earlier post.)

    You're a day late and a dollar short.

    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

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