So what's going on?

I'll let this speak for itself. Those thinking I'm dead, think again. Dragons are coming... That is all.

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

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

Mason G 0.15 RC3

Said I would put this out today, so here it is. There are quite a few changes from the previous RC including some changes to RCU that I thought was in previous one which I noted were decidedly not in there.

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

Mason 15 Release Candidates. Yep you heard me.

So here we have some release candidates. No zcache, still buggy.

Mason I sbc link
Mason G sbc link

Something special tomorrow.

Mason has a google sites.

So I hacked together a little site for mason to call home. Basically it's a holding place till I can figure out hosting some real hosting. I hoping to have something going at gooinside.me by now but not so much yet. So I'll have to work something else out. So without further lip service, Home of the Mason Kernel.

Eventually there will be issue tracker, forums etc. Suggestions and ideas are always welcome.

~atyoung

The road to 15 is paved with good intentions.

I've been working on .15 now for a bit, though I drop into my .30 here and there as well, as getting us to linux 3.y seems like a good thing to do in ICS land. Progress has been slower than usual due to me suddenly moving ovar last weekend. I wasn't really expecting to do that so it's pushed my timetables back a little.

There is a whole mess of goodies that are just waiting in line to be added to the Mason line of kernels however, of which 0.15 will get several. xz compressed boot images is in, works great, and provides a slightly faster boot up time. Also in are two new governors, scary and wheatley, the latter of the two I believe will be intensely popular. Updates the the CRC32 in the kernel which will make just about everything faster, better, and stronger from the filesytem to the TCP stack. Updates to more recent SIO scheduler code, and flash optimization of both the SIO and V(R) schedulers. All that is already in, and looking quite stable. I have some testing to do with the more recent rom releases, but there should be updates coming your way soon, so stay tuned.

I would like to see if there is any interest out there to help design some logos for the Mason kernel, so if you're artsy and reading this drop me a line.

~atyoung