diff --git a/core/linux/PKGBUILD b/core/linux/PKGBUILD
index 96367fb49..5c167c108 100644
--- a/core/linux/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/linux/PKGBUILD
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ pkgname=('linux' 'linux-headers')
 _kernelname=${pkgname#linux}
 _basekernel=3.1
 pkgver=${_basekernel}.10
-pkgrel=27
+pkgrel=28
 cryptover=1.6
 bfqver=v6r2
 uksmver=0.1.2.2
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ options=('!strip')
 source=("ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-${_basekernel}.tar.bz2"
         "ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-${pkgver}.bz2"
         'archlinuxarm.patch'
+        'memset.patch'
         'pciefix.patch'
         'support.patch'
         'aufs3-kbuild.patch'
@@ -39,10 +40,10 @@ source=("ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-${_basekernel}.tar.bz2
         "http://algo.ing.unimo.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/patches/${_basekernel}.0-${bfqver}/0003-block-introduce-the-BFQ-${bfqver}-I-O-sched-for-${_basekernel}.patch"
         "http://algo.ing.unimo.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/patches/${_basekernel}.0-${bfqver}/0004-block-bfq-add-Early-Queue-Merge-EQM-to-BFQ-${bfqver}-for-${_basekernel}.0.patch"
         "http://download.gna.org/cryptodev-linux/cryptodev-linux-${cryptover}.tar.gz")
-
 md5sums=('8d43453f8159b2332ad410b19d86a931'
          'a8e1c25a93a685ec2a1c3a808715fe9d'
-         '803ba585e7aa3c1b900fffe977e92fc1'
+         '3146a693d9225343de2a8dbeb0c8e841'
+         '39be2896f0b968d61a19b33da75ce6e0'
          '61dbbcdb0f35032ea7f82c5b1ef7c769'
          'f5d3635da03cb45904bedd69b47133de'
          '3f64ed9d71499fe9293dc671f4e4087e'
@@ -50,23 +51,26 @@ md5sums=('8d43453f8159b2332ad410b19d86a931'
          'c9e6e8bb0774a89f7f9bd30a13be7532'
          '55b04499a4578e586cf5a4d0b69fc5aa'
          'd0c9618f942ab76212c9434dc14ba9b3'
-         'SKIP'
+         '84b2360d1fee9a97ab9e1fba1446b8c3'
          '9d3c56a4b999c8bfbd4018089a62f662'
          'd00814b57448895e65fbbc800e8a58ba'
-	 '19685c92623a8176fe3ed41d1ef8c5d9'
+         '19685c92623a8176fe3ed41d1ef8c5d9'
          '4b94c49eef0a3eaa8b208662d34a73f0'
          'c194f165a59266e764683439a6068c66'
          'efeb99dd8ff6f619ecc0e399deef833e'
          'ea737ea7e9986ea3ba9325ba265055e4'
          'eade38998313c25fd7934719cdf8a2ea')
 
-build() {
+prepare() {
 msg "Patches:"
   cd "${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}"
 
 msg2 "Add upstream patch"
   patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/patch-${pkgver}"
 
+msg2 "Fix memset for GCC 4.8"
+  patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/memset.patch"
+
 msg2 "Add the pci-e patch backported from 3.6.10 for kirkwoods"
   patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/pciefix.patch"
 
@@ -105,11 +109,15 @@ msg2 "Set DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL to 4 (same value as the 'quiet' kernel param)
 
   cat "${srcdir}/config" > ./.config
 
-  # set extraversion to pkgrel
-  sed -ri "s|^(EXTRAVERSION =).*|\1 -${pkgrel}|" Makefile
+  # add pkgrel to extraversion
+  sed -ri "s|^(EXTRAVERSION =)(.*)|\1 \2-${pkgrel}|" Makefile
 
   # don't run depmod on 'make install'. We'll do this ourselves in packaging
   sed -i '2iexit 0' scripts/depmod.sh
+}
+
+build() {
+  cd "${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}"
 
   # get kernel version
   make prepare