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

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.

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