Hi

I just released that I can easily build and distribute Slackware packages of the RPi Kernel fork. You can install Slackware using the official mainline Kernel, then use upgradepkg from within the OS. You can also roll back with upgradepkg.

If you use slackpkg you'd mask out the proper Kernels from superseding them.

The only caveat is that I am not going to test them; but since we're on the Linux 6.1 stable LTS Kernel presently, there's a reduced risk of breakage.
It's also an opportunity for some of you who like living dangerously (and know how to recover) can test them out and report back if it's safe for others to upgrade.


Let me know.

If you slackware you live dangerously (and know how to recover)! .

I'm certainly interested in this as the official version of slackwareaarch64 has been broken on the Pi for sometime (KDE doesn't work at all, XFCE is very buggy). Both KDE and XFCE work perfectly with the Sarpi kernel on slackwareaarch64 and on slarm64, so it is almost certainly a kernel issue causing the problem. Strange, as they used to work, if somewhat clunky, but with recent kernel releases (since changing to the VC4 driver?) either don't work at all, or are extremely buggy.

I've had a search for these Pi kernels, but can't find them to try out. Where have you hidden them?

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Pete

I haven't uploaded them yet, but I've built and tested them. I will in the next couple of weeks once I write a document for it.

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Excellent! Look forward to this!

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Pete