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

Road to Mason S 15

I never really intended to start from scratch on this one. However after playing around with the few established kernels out there, I found them wanting. Miscellaneous implementations of the HAVS code, different ideas about performance patching to various sub systems. All together unsavory, so I went back to the HTC source and started patching up from there.

What to expect from this upcoming is a brand spanking new kernel derived from the HTC source. So with this it means, you might not find the what looks to be commonly pass around weird patches that I can't seem to actually find the source of. If I can't see where it came from, or determine why it's in there. I'm not going to put it in. This also means Mason S might be rougher than the other lines of mason due to it's infancy. I will probably be releasing a test build of this kernel later today.

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.

Little 15 Mason teaser

So there are a few people who have had this one for a little bit, but I thought I would toss it up to, you know, stir up Mason conversation. This one is non hwa, so don't try it on the latest ICS stuff unless you like it to be broken. It is by far not the complete 15 kernel by any stretch of the imagination, but it will give you a chance to play with a couple of the new features.

Next up we have ourselves a test build for the hwa enabled roms. This one was/is a feature testing build for improvements to zram and inclusion of zcache and related items. No one has this kernel until now. This kernel is probably the most unstable kernel I have ever released, it's really rough, but was built to test the zcache feature and not much else, stability of everything wasn't a concern. You might find that is also has some other changes including xz decompression as well as some improvements to the vr and sio schedulers. It's closer feature wise to the release of 15, but has some very experimental features enabled so your mileage will very. Don't complain if it eats your soul or does horrible things, as it's a tester, not meant for mass adoption, hell it might not even boot at all. How do you turn zram on in the first place you ask? These are the commands you need with superuser privileges in either a terminal emulator or adb shell.

mkswap /dev/block/zram0

swapon /dev/block/zram0

 If you don't know how to put those in, you probably shouldn't be messing with it. That is all.

~atyoung

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

AOKP M4 Shipped kernel with SBC support for the supersonic.

Decided to build a version of the kernel shipped with aokp M4 for the supersonic with sbc enabled. Supersonic users are are a little crazy for battery life, and with good reason, the supersonic (evo4g) eats its battery like a hog.


http://dev-host.org/Td3 - The sbc kernel.
http://dev-host.org/mhv - The nosbc one.

Both built by me, you can find the stock one ripped out of the rom on my dev-host.org.

Happy flashing.