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Title: Ubermix 1.31 and Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA
Post by: urkomasse on October 08, 2013, 12:38:13 AM

Hi,

I am starting to explore Ubermix 1.31. I am curious about making it possible to use standard Ubuntu kernels. How is this sorcery achieved? :D

In particular, I am going to try installing 3.11 from the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

Let's see if it blows up!

Title: Re: Ubermix 1.31 and Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA
Post by: jnetman1 on October 08, 2013, 02:01:48 PM

Mainline doesn't include aufs modules, unfortunately - it's pure stock so it won't support factory reset. Any kernel-image package in a standard Ubuntu repository should work fine. Mainline might work with an aufs dkms package, however I'm not sure one of those exists. Maybe I can create one...

Title: Re: Ubermix 1.31 and Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA
Post by: urkomasse on October 08, 2013, 06:37:57 PM

Mmm... so that would possibly open the door to taking the kernel from Saucy, for example, which is up to 3.11 as well.

I was just curious, because I've seen that the Broadcom brcmsmac driver is much improved in those.

Title: Re: Ubermix 1.31 and Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA
Post by: urkomasse on October 08, 2013, 08:40:09 PM

Oh, digging into your comment of aufs not in the mainline kernel, I found out about its status, and suggestions to go with overlayfs, which is part of mainline kernel.

What are your thoughts on this?

Eventually, Ubermix may work through btrfs snapshots anyway, I guess?

Title: Re: Ubermix 1.31 and Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA
Post by: jnetman1 on October 11, 2013, 02:57:09 PM

Will probably use overlayfs in ubermix 2.0, but haven't spent a lot of time with it just yet.