The first of the RC5's

So some of you may have looked into the testbuild yesterday, it was a precursor to the RC5's being pushed out. We are getting super close to a 15 final so, you might also notice a couple cosmetic changes, and naming changes, version number changes.

What's in RC5 you ask, well I drug in a ton of good caf code. This means changes to all kinds of things, power management, i/o, adjustments across the board here. This also means this kernel should support the more recent evervolv stuff that Mason stopped working on a while ago when they merged up newer kgsl code. Additionally updated some of the governor code that was getting dated, and unified some things to do it our way. RC5 might be the last RC for this point release. You'll note that the numbering pattern went from v0.15 to 0.1.5. I think I understand now why Linus went to that scheme. It's really the only way to track changes.

Thanks to smelkus and mazdarider23 from Team D.I.R.T for taking that kgsl test build for a early spin for me, you can thank them for doing the leg work to make RC5's drop today as opposed to sometime later this week.

If you want to help the project along and want to test, I higly recommend you drop into #masonic on IRC freenode and idle there, so that I can reach you easy. I'm on too many forums and in too many places, to coordinate that kind of thing via PM. My gtalk has too many people to keep strait, much easier to just ask for a tester on IRC and respond to whoever sticks their hand up.

Mason EI 0.1.5 RC5 sbc

~atyoung

AOKP Progress

So I have been playing around with a few different builds, I finally decided to continue with the evervolv tree, and merge in the good stuff from theplayground. There are any number of reasons for this, but the primary one is, drewis is a mad genius and throws some crazy hacks out that boggle my mind for the 8x50 which is you supersonic people. So much good stuff is coming out of caf at the moment, I feel like that's where the future is for the supersonic so there it is.

That said, I still have a ton of work to do, AOKP has been plagued by random reboots in so many places, I'm trying to resolve some of them. So just because your seeing updates to Mason doesn't mean I'm not working on AOKP, quite the opposite, some of the changes coming to Mason are a direct result of working on the AOKP supersonic tree. So there it is, keep the faith, you'll be hearing from me soon.

When there is something worth testing publicly, you'll here it here first.

~atyoung

How bout some RC4 FSO love

I know you were waiting for these.

Mason I 0.15 RC4 sbc fso
Mason G 0.15 RC4 sbc fso

Enjoy. :)

~atyoung

Introducing RC4 into the mix.

What another RC? Yeah, pumping another one out for you to try. This one shouldn't break, but it's not as extensively tested as the previous ones. This is mostly due to time constraints, so if you're feeling scrappy give it a shot, it shouldn't eat your phone. I series for now, G a little later.

Mason I 0.15RC4 - sbc
Mason G 0.15RC4 - sbc

Mason I RC3 sbc + fso

So until today I hadden't noticed I didn't put one of these out for the I series so here you go. Flash away you ICS users you. FSO love is a good thing for hump day right? Thanks to mazdarider23 of Team D.I.R.T for calling my attention to it and testing the build prior to posting.

Download

TaTa for now.

~atyoung

AOKP development.

So by now you might have heard, I'm going to be maintaining the supersonic build of the official AOKP. With that comes a ton of work, and I do mean a ton. Things in the works, I'm going to be using what was being used for the decks previews, which should bring in the features everyone is looking for. The rom will also run on a specialized Mason, which should actually bring even more customization options, that the already impressive amounts available in the AOKP rom. I will also be looking at whats been broken for some time on the supersonic for AOKP and taking a stab at cleaning it up.

There is lots of work to be done here, and I do have a real life too, so if the speed on the supersonic releases is not strait in line with the other AOKP releases, I apologize in advance, but I feel like quality should come before quantity in this case. For way to long, the supersonic builds have had semi regular breakage, I'd like to restore some faith to the community here. 

What wont happen: You will not find me pushing a versions that hasn't tested out solid and bootable and functional on my supersonic personally, from full clean wipe. Which means, when there's a release, it's going to be legit. That's all for now, more when I get there.

~atyoung

FYI. You might find checking in here every so often a teaser tester much like I've done with the Mason kernels.

Mason I 0.15 RC3

Moving right along to Mason I 0.15 RC3 after the failures of RC2. I believe those issues were directly linked to the inclusion of lulzactive, which is conspicuously absent on this one. Other optimizations have been made, and it's starting to lean out as one would expect when pushing towards a version release.

I think I'm at a feature freeze as far as 15 goes at this point. It's time for clean up, the compile is still quite dirty, and there are a couple rough edges to clean out.

Have fun.

~atyoung