Newer kernels for Arch: linux-clockwork-arch
OuinOuin74's pacman kernel packages for the uConsole track the Pi kernel from 6.16.y to 7.0.x; wtsh's fork adds Rex's new panel driver and Ethernet.
What it takes
- Software only
Difficulty 1 of 3 — easy.
Details
OuinOuin74 packages a Raspberry Pi kernel with the uConsole patches, drivers and overlays as a PKGBUILD with prebuilt .pkg.tar.xz files for CM4 and CM5 (August 2025 on 6.16.y; the May 2026 release is v7.0.9). Later additions include battery driver tweaks, cutting the speakers when headphones are plugged in, and F2FS compression. Some CM5 setups and the display orientation needed manual fixes in the thread.
wtsh's patched fork (June 2026, github KondratokGK/linux-clockwork-arch) adds Rex's panel driver for the newer screens, enables Ethernet and exposes experimental battery parameters through config.txt, with a 4 K-page build and suspend on the to-do list. The OS directory lists both under 'Arch kernel'.
Links
Open at Forum thread- GitHubRepository
- Forum: wtsh's patched forkForum
- GitHub — KondratokGK/linux-clockwork-arch (wtsh's fork)Repository
Related mods
Ready-to-flash Arch images for CM4 and CM5 from wdk-kr, on top of the kernel work by PotatoMania (CM3/CM4S), yatli (CM4) and PeterCxy (CM5).
The community's recommended OS: Debian 13 on Rex's patched Pi kernel, desktop and Lite variants, for CM3+, CM4, CM4S and CM5.
The previous Debian release of Rex's line, still rebuilt for the new screens in 2026 — the fallback when something on Trixie is not ready yet.
Rex's Kali image for CM4 and CM5 on the uConsole kernel with the hardware presets; cuu's original CM4 build is documented on the ClockworkPi wiki.
Rex's Parrot OS build for CM3/CM4/CM5 in Home and Security editions, plus krokowitz's Security spin with RTL-SDR and ALFA drivers preinstalled.
Rex's build of DragonOS Pi64 — an Ubuntu 22.04 SDR distribution with the radio tools preinstalled — on the uConsole kernel for CM4 and CM5.