Description

If you prefer immutable systems you can use Bazzite which shares many kernel patches

If you are interested in a more complete out of the box experience, I recommend trying out Nobara

kernel-blu

What is this?

kernel-blu is a custom fedora kernel based Fedora's always ready kernel It aims to support more hardware, improve existing functionality and give end-users access to cutting-edge features.

Its based on the old kernel-fsync kernel.

What does it contain?

kernel-blu contains quite a few patches:

• cherry-picked Zen patches (based on glitched-base by tkg)
• amdgpu radeon patch (patch)
• acpi proc idle skip patch (patch)
• steam deck support (patch) including work-in-progress patches.
• surface support (upstream)
• Lenovo Legion patches
• i915 async page flipping fixes for Nvidia Optimus
• external scheduler support (upstream
• and more...

Things are constantly added, updated and removed so this list is not comprehensive.

Can you add more patches?

I'm always open to patch recommendations, feel free to open an issue on the [Github repo]https://github.com/Jan200101/kernel-blu). I am but a single person, so I don't always have the necessary means to test or verify some patches, let alone make judgement calls if some patches are sane to include so in general only things that are optional or bring no major downside are included.

Can you port it to other distros?

kernel-blu is based on the Always Ready Kernel, it should be possible to use the kernel tree when building your distros kernel, you are however completely on your own with that.

Made possible thanks to:

• Fedora Project
• Nobara Project
• Bazzite
• CachyOS
• Frogging Family
• every patch author
• and others that I forgot

Installation Instructions

Fedora

dnf copr enable sentry/kernel-blu

dnf update --refresh

If you don't want any official Fedora kernels and only use this blu one
edit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo and add

exclude=kernel*

to the bottom of the [updates] section

Fedora Silverblue

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Support for Silverblue and its flavors is minimal. If these instructions stop working you may need to figure out how to do this yourself ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Silverblue has no official support for copr, so some manual work is involved, its recommended to use Bazzite instead

sudo wget https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sentry/kernel-blu/repo/fedora-<version>/sentry-kernel-blu-fedora-<version>.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/kernel-fsync.repo

sudo rpm-ostree override replace --experimental --freeze --from repo='copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:sentry:kernel-fsync' kernel kernel-core kernel-modules kernel-modules-core kernel-modules-extra

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
Fedora 40	x86_64 (759)*	Fedora 40 (0 downloads)
Fedora 41	x86_64 (25176)*	Fedora 41 (2283 downloads)
Fedora 42	x86_64 (5604)*	Fedora 42 (379 downloads)
Fedora rawhide	x86_64 (0)*	Fedora rawhide (96 downloads)

* Total number of downloaded packages.