[kernel] franco #13

Segnalo agli amanti di questo kernel l'uscita della versione #13.
Hi everyone.

First of all my name is Francisco Franco, and I'm a kernel developer for several other devices, the LG P500, Huawei U8800 and the Google Nexus S.

Changelog:

18th January - nightly #13
* New wifi driver form fugumod's kernel
* A lot of OMAP patches to improve battery and performance
* ARM CPU Topology enabled again - you'll notice an init.d script called schedmc that enables the power saving technique offered by that interface. For more information Google it up, I did the same
* jRCU's back - now that the kernel is in a nice and happy place it seemed a nice time to enable it again
* UV interface is back - credits to imoseyon that fixed most of the previous UV's bugs, I only cleaned it a little bit
* Kernel undervalued by default with this values: 1300, 1200, 1100, 1000 and 900
* Config cleaned up big time, removed more useless debug and unused shit options
* NTFS write support (un-tested)
* Fixed SMP/hotplug bug that could still cause deadlocks and undesired effects - picked from the mainline kernel tree
* C4 power state enabled - thanks Ezekeel
* Add ARM RWSEM algorithm - how did I forget this earlier?
* More shit added, check my repo if you want to enlighten yourself
franco.Kernel updater app:
* UV interface added - you can now change the voltages via the app. More informations in the UV panel
* Added confirmation dialog to the recovery button
* Changed to a more light theme

12th January - nightly #12
* Revert Regulator driver backport from 3.2 - I think this was the cause for the strange reboots during browsing etc
* Stripped down the config - more debug shit deleted
* Added NTFS support
* Added ColorControl by Ezekeel:
/sys/class/misc/colorcontrol/v1_offsets
V1 gamma offset triple (default -4/0/5, set with 'echo "-10 0 -2" > v1_offsets' for example, causing green tint when 2. value < 0)
* Some minor tweaks and optimizations
franco.Kernel updater app:
* Added ColorControl mod - you can now change the colors on the fly without having to mess with scripts or terminal commands

9th January - nightly #11
* Patched final 3.0.16
* Fixed screen_on/off functions - no more unlock lag or strange behaviors
* Hotplug cpu1 is implemented somewhere else:
echo 1 > /sys/module/dsscomp/parameters/hotplug_enabled
cpu1 does not shut down on screen_off: echo 0 > /sys/module/dsscomp/parameters/hotplug_enabled
* Remove internet tweaks from the ramdisk - fix try on some users loss of data
* Ext4 patches from 3.2 to reduce CPU consumption and a little extra juice
* Added a few OMAP patches
* Some other minor tweaks and optimizations
franco.Kernel updater app:
* Fixed and optimized a lot of code
* Finally fixed the init.d scripts for the cpu frequencies and the hotplug_enabled functionality - it should work perfectly now without any issues

7th January - nightly #10
* Added Proportional Rate Reduction for TCP - by Google - from 3.2 Kernel
* I/O-less dirty throttling - backport from 3.2
* Reduce filesystem writeback from page reclaim - backport from 3.2
* Add the new FIOPS I/O scheduler - from Shaohua Li
* USB speed transfer increase - from Linaro
* Few fixes on the screen_on/off functions
* CFS tunables tweaked for a better experience
* Some other minor tweaks and optimizations
franco.Kernel updater app:
* CPU frequency init.d script fixed - it will work on reboot now
* Typos fixed
* Kernel filename is now correctly displayed - for example: 3.0.16-rc1-franco.Kernel-nightly-10.zip

5th January - nightly #9.2
* Screen_on function cleaned up - hoping for the supposed extra 1 or 2 secs of screen on to be fixed
* Removed some debug from the config

4th January - nightly #9.1
* Probably fixed the screen of death from #9
* Screening on should be a little faster
* Conservative governor made default as I think it's now in a pretty good place

4th January - nightly #9
* Internet tweaks added directly to the ramdisk - more speeeed
* Writeback settings tweaked a bit
* Omap screen_on and screen_off functions completely re-writen
* During screen_on frequency is ramped up to the maximum frequency and stays there for 5secs. This will get rid of the lag when unlocking the screen and makes sure the device wakes up propely
* Also added cpu1 suspended when screen_off and when screen_on it comes back to life. This works no matter what governor is choosen
* Added toggle option of the cpu1 suspend during screen_off:
cpu1 shuts down on screen_off: echo 1 > /sys/module/omap2plus_cpufreq/parameters/hotplug_enabled
cpu1 does not shut down on screen_off: echo 0 > /sys/module/omap2plus_cpufreq/parameters/hotplug_enabled
* Colors tweaked again
* Patch 3.0.15
* Patch 3.0.16-rc1

1st January - nightly #8
* Added 1,35ghz slot by popular demand
* Boots with 700mhz/1200mhz by default
* Tweaked once again Conservative values and it's now in a pretty good shape
* A bunch of reverts from shit older patches that are not needed at all - less is more
* More ramdisk tweaks
* It's now available for purchase for the symbolic price of 1€ a small tool to ease up the update check and downloading process of this kernel: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.franco.kernel
* UV interface is disabled - don't bother ask me 50 times for this. It has been proved that it creates a huge stall if a user undervolts too much. This kernel is already undervolted with this settings: 925000, 1103000, 1217000, 1280000 - values suggested by faux on his thread on rootzwiki and they seem to play along pretty well
* Dynamic Writeback from 3.1 is back too

30th December - nightly #7.1
* Bye CIFS - from my testing it was causing horrible battery life while idle
* USB now being recognizable in the computer fixed too

29th December - nightly #7
* Battery drain during idle is now finally fixed - got reports of 1% drain for 7h idle, and some other awesome results
* Ramdisk is now being delivered to be able to give certain tweaks to improve smoothness
* TUN and CIFS are now built in the kernel - no more modules that don't load
* Some minor tweaks and optimizations

27th December - nightly #6
* Add back UV interface
* 3.2-rc7 RCUtree backport from imoseyon
* When the screen is powered up the device ramps to the max frequency for a brief time
* Fixed compiling warnings all over the place
* Ondemand is default again
* Ondemand and interactive tunable parameters polished again
* New sdcard binary - to work with GTA3 you have to delete this directory /sdcard/Android/data/com.rockstar.gta3 and download gta3 data again
* More under the hood config changes
* More attempts to increase battery life
* A lot of reverts of previous patches to ensure maximum stability

25th December - nightly #5
* Revert "Add dynamic writeback feature from 3.1"
* Kernel more lean with more useless shit disabled
* Hotplug governor enabled again and made default - this governor disables cpu1 while screen is off - testing to see if it helps with

Download:
Nightly #13: http://androtransfer.com/franciscofr...alaxy%20Nexus/
franco.Kernel updater app: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.franco.kernel

franco.Kernel updater app features:
* Downloads the kernel directly from the ftp
* Checks for updates directly from the ftp
* Cpu frequencies changer
* Governor changer
* Kernel settings: hotplug_enabler (more coming)
* Reboot to recovery button
* Custom download path
* ColorControl to change the screen colors
* UV interface