gentoo-linux-surface

This is a shell script that applies patches for Microsoft Surface devices onto the Gentoo Linux kernel.

Required Kernel Config Settings

Before running setup.sh and going through the installation process, a number of kernel config changes must be made.

Power management and ACPI options --->
   [*] ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support
Device Drivers --->
   Misc Devices --->
      {M} Intel Management Engine Interface
      <M> ME Enabled Intel Chipsets
   Input device support --->
      -*- Generic input layer (needed for keyboard, mouse, ...)
      [*] Keyboards --->
         <*> GPIO Buttons
      [*] Miscellaneous devices --->
         [M] Windows-compatible SoC Button Array
   Character devices --->
      <*> Serial device bus --->
         [*] Serial device TTY port controller
   [*] GPIO Support --->
      [*] /sys/class/gpio/... (sysfs interface)

Installation

git clone https://github.com/WillPower3309/gentoo-linux-surface.git
cd gentoo-linux-surface
sudo sh setup.sh