Get Linux kernel 4.11 on a Ryzen system running Fedora 25

I currently have a R7 1700X with a Auorus Gaming 5 Board running Fedora 25 on the 4.9 kernel. I wanted to update to kernel 4.11 considering there would be better support for my system there. However, I have always had a hard time with manually installing a new kernel myself and adding it to the Grub loader.

On Ubuntu I can usually find a package list of the kernels and manually download the pre-builts there and just add them to Grub, or what have you. I can't find such a similar thing with Fedora, and it seems like I can never find a good set of instructions for installing the kernel in the first place.

Is somebody able to point me in the right direction on this? If I can't go the pre-built route then maybe I can build my own Linux kernel, which is something I have never done yet (I hear it takes a long time).

sudo dnf upgrade ususally installs new kernels for me. Which always causes me wifi problems because broadcom.

If you want the latest released kernel (not the latest f25 kernel). Then you can use the rawhide kernel nodebug repo which will by the current kernel release.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RawhideKernelNodebug

F25 will usually get 4.* Releases after a few 4.. Releases once they are tested and considered stable.

Keep in mind the rawhide kernel isn't signed so secure boot won't work.

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That was easy. Thanks!

uname -r
4.11.0-0.rc3.git2.2.fc27.x86_64

i’m trying to get kernel 4.12.x installed on fedora 26. rawhide gives me 4.13.0, which crashes on my system.

incidentally, i also need to remove the 4.13 kernel, so grub doesn’t keep trying to load it.

any help would be appreciated!