🦍 Linux 7.1.2 Unleashed — Build #16

🦍 Gorilla Unleashed Kernel Build

Auto-built from commit 740aa85628359bf39fa47a2d1189b3f64d749747 on main.
Every patch was verified against pristine upstream before this was
compiled — see the "Verify patch set integrity" step in the build log.

⚠️ Read this first — keep your current kernel

Installing this does not remove your existing kernel, and you should
not remove it either. If this one misbehaves, reboot, hold SHIFT
(or tap Esc), choose Advanced options, and pick your previous
kernel. Nothing is lost and no reinstall is needed.

Install

sudo dpkg -i linux-image-*.deb linux-headers-*.deb
sudo reboot

Then check it:

./kernel_selftest.sh

Do not install linux-libc-dev if you see it anywhere. Those are
userspace headers your distribution already manages, and replacing
them with a custom build can confuse apt. Only the image and
headers packages above are meant to be installed.

What's actually in it

• Wi-Fi deregulation, all four layers — restriction flags, the
  Atheros re-stamp, the AP's 802.11d country IE, and the AP's 802.11h
  power constraint. Your router no longer decides what your radio may do.
• HT40 CCA override — keeps 40 MHz width in noisy environments.
• TCP: BBR + fq_codel, initial congestion window raised to 128.
• ALC269 EAPD fixup — Sony VAIO speakers are no longer muffled by
  the BIOS.
• Forensic filesystem support — EROFS (Android images), exFAT,
  NTFS3, HFS+, and the rest.

Honest limits. This cannot make a radio transmit beyond its
factory-calibrated ceiling — no software can. Performance items are
design rationale, not benchmarks: no A/B measurement has been run.
See docs/VERIFIED_MEASUREMENTS.md, which lists explicitly what was
not measured.

CI builds use -O3 only. Local builds add -march=native, which a
shared runner cannot do correctly.