Linux 3.14-rc1 Kernel Makes Its Debut

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 3.14-rc1 Kernel Makes Its Debut

Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate of the Linux 3.14 kernel but its codename has nothing to do with Pi...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTU5MDI

[mmstick]

Not only do we now have kernel 3.14-rc1, but it seems Canonical is shipping both generic and lowlatency kernels in their kernel mainline PPA. I have updated my kernel upgrade script to reflect that.

#!/bin/bash
# Dependency
sudo apt-get install lynx -y
cd /tmp
sudo rm *.deb

# Kernel URL
read -p "Do you want the latest RC?" rc
case "$rc" in
   y*) kernelURL=$(lynx -dump http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ | tail -1 | cut -d ' ' -f 3) ;;
   n*) kernelURL=$(lynx -dump http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ | grep -v rc | tail -1 | cut -d ' ' -f 3) ;;
esac

read -p "Do you want the lowlatency kernel?" lowlatency
case "$lowlatency" in
   y*) lowlatency=1 ;;
   n*) lowlatency=0 ;;
esac

echo "The latest kernel is $(echo $kernelURL | cut -d/ -f 6). The currently installed kernel is $(uname -r)."

# Download Kernel
if [ "$(uname -m)" == "x86_64" ] && [ "$lowlatency" == "0" ]; then
   echo "Downloading the latest 64-bit generic kernel."
   wget $(lynx -dump -listonly -dont-wrap-pre $kernelURL | sed -n '16p' | cut -d ' ' -f 4)
   wget $(lynx -dump -listonly -dont-wrap-pre $kernelURL | sed -n '20p' | cut -d ' ' -f 4)
   wget $(lynx -dump -listonly -dont-wrap-pre $kernelURL | sed -n '21p' | cut -d ' ' -f 4)
elif [ "$(uname -m)" == "x86_64" ] && [ "$lowlatency" == "1" ]; then
   echo "Downloading the latest 64-bit lowlatency kernel."
   wget $(lynx -dump -listonly -dont-wrap-pre $kernelURL | sed -n '18p' | cut -d ' ' -f 4)
   wget $(lynx -dump -listonly -dont-wrap-pre $kernelURL | sed -n '20p' | cut -d ' ' -f 4)
   wget $(lynx -dump -listonly -dont-wrap-pre $kernelURL | sed -n '23p' | cut -d ' ' -f 4)
elif [ "$(uname -m)" == "i386" ] && [ "$lowlatency" == "0" ]; then
   echo "Downloading the latest 32-bit kernel."
   wget $(lynx -dump -listonly -dont-wrap-pre $kernelURL | sed -n '17p' | cut -d ' ' -f 4)
   wget $(lynx -dump -listonly -dont-wrap-pre $kernelURL | sed -n '20p' | cut -d ' ' -f 4)
   wget $(lynx -dump -listonly -dont-wrap-pre $kernelURL | sed -n '22p' | cut -d ' ' -f 4)
elif [ "$(uname -m)" == "i386" ] && [ "$lowlatency" == "1" ]; then
   echo "Downloading the latest 32-bit kernel."
   wget $(lynx -dump -listonly -dont-wrap-pre $kernelURL | sed -n '19p' | cut -d ' ' -f 4)
   wget $(lynx -dump -listonly -dont-wrap-pre $kernelURL | sed -n '20p' | cut -d ' ' -f 4)
   wget $(lynx -dump -listonly -dont-wrap-pre $kernelURL | sed -n '24p' | cut -d ' ' -f 4)
fi

# Install Kernel
echo "Installing Linux Kernel"
sudo dpkg -i linux*.deb
echo "Done. You may now reboot."

[mercutio]

anyone got it to go with md? it can't find my boot blocks for some reason, but it finds my hard-disks.