The task - compiling linux, linux-ck, linux-bfq and linux-zen kernels on Arch GNU/Linux. The aim - impartial benchmarking the kernel zoo to select the most appropriate for desktop tasks.
Desktop environment in this case is Lenovo Thinkcentre M92p i3 Ivy Brigde, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD - /boot FAT32 /bin /usr/bin F2FS, 500GB HDD - /root/ home /var BTRFS LUKS.
linux and linux-zen do restrict CPU choice just to 4 of them, comletely avoiding any CPU above Core2, ie Sandy/Ivy Bridge, Haswell, Broadwell and Skylake.
linux-zen fails on 'Downloading zen-102441bcb3e553ac87873594ee1f1e342d36605d.patch' from URL https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel/commit/102441bcb3e553ac87873594ee1f1...
linux-ck and linux-bfq compile and install run without any faults at any stage. Able to adjust CPU architecture to provide equal kernels for benchmarking.
Two questions: How to adjust CPU architecture in .config linux kernel? How to retrieve zen patch to build linux-zen kernel?