Playing a bit with the kernel

[turl]

Hi guys, I've been playing a bit lately with the cliqxt kernel and I included some tweaks which I would like you all to try before I merge it to CM

I have packed up the new kernel and modules into a build to ease the process (and make up for the lack of nightlies lately )

Full build: November 25
MD5 aea5546dd1f65a4622ccdbc23c7802e1

EDIT: New updated build
Full build: December 28
MD5 3239f52910799d220a77970be795b102

EDIT: Updated build again
Full build: December 6
MD5 98c45f13877c7de89d7597294fd1e4c0

EDIT: And again
Full build: December 16
MD5 05f93fefa1166b8b89fed3edb47c998f

EDIT: First 2012 build to celebrate the new year!
Full build: January 2
MD5 182e7e19c6c0b14111fe7a4a984660db

EDIT: Another one
Full build: January 14
MD5 f3e23903c2e1903a9d78f5b2e7337ca9

EDIT: small update
Full build: January 21
MD5 8834dbe1b7c83a18e291a5ceb0af06b8

EDIT: CM update, in preparation for 7.2-RC1
Full build: February 1
MD5 6c07a65ab122874bc6cc66d4eb7f7b2b

Of course if you're using other CM7 based ROM you can try flashing the boot.img and copying the modules on system/lib/modules/ to your phone.

Changes I did, if anyone is interested:

• Optimization of misc. algorythms (sha1, lookup2, crc32)
• Switch to Tiny RCU
• Disable write cache on USB file transfer

EDIT The new build also has a fix on the camera stack for an issue related to zooming and other small improvements which aren't merged in CM just yet.

Looking forward to your feedback!

[blackwing182]

cool! im asking one question

[Hairo]

Nice
is the UV included?? is just that the UV kernel do not work with CM7.1

[turl]

It is not included, as it doesn't work well on some people's phones and I intend to merge this upstream

Updated first post

[GROGG]

So are these builds based off the latest nightly (255) ?

I just flashed... I didn't check it out first, but I guess this is deodexed. I wish all our builds were...

[turl]

Yes, the second build is deodexed. I was considering if I should disable dexpreopt or not, opinions? I haven't settled yet for any side yet.

The build was made with a synced up tree, so it contains all the changes from CM (plus some extra patches that haven't been reviewed on Gerrit yet)

[GROGG]

My vote is to disable dexpreopt... I don't notice a significant change in speed whether I run an odexed or deodexed version of CM7.

[Hairo]

I was running a odexded CM7 for a while, since 3 days ago i'm running the GROGG's deodexded CM7.1 and i can't see a consistent speed change as well...

EDIT: Can i flash this without clear/wipe data/cache??

[clong]

My vote is to disable dexpreopt too, it will be easy for theming.

[androidkool]

Thx for the camera improvements and this new build 28-11!

[GROGG]

I've put this build through its paces and all is very stable so far! No complaints...

Sent from my UVOC CM7'd MB501 using Tapatalk

[blackwing182]

this is updated in the kernel repo? so i can download and compile it to make some UV one?

[turl]

Yes, make sure you check out the experimental branch

https://github.com/turl/zeppelin_ker...s/experimental

[clong]

@turl:

Do you have plan to work on higher version kernel, like 2.6.31?

[DroWzyX3]

@clong I don't think the kernel can be ugraded to a newer one I guess it has something to do with the bootloader but that is just my guess.Maybe someone else would know