[KERNEL][SENSEICS][LINARO4.8.3-O3] ★☆ Kangaroo Kernel ☆★ | 16 Jan | REVOLUTION

*****r26*****January 16*****
.update to GCC 4.8.3 Linaro compiler 2013.11.. finally compiling with 4.8 and -O3
.add back stock audio drivers: working 2WCR and everything (should be)
.scale GPU (does not show in trickster, its borked for old devices)
.readahead improvements
.change new naming convention to be like my One kernel
.update installer with new kangaroo graphics.. thx @janarp for help

*****r25*****November 20*****
.Security enhancements kernel side
.GPU drivers ported from 3.4 Sequent/CAF kernel
.made the acpuclock more pretty (can't see this )
.blkdev optimizations
.set s2w off at boot
.removed some debugging
.update compiler to 2013.10 4.7.4 Linaro latest
.ARM memset enhancements
.removed some useless/not maintained governors
.much more in git, see there for details and credits
.loadable module support

*****r24*****October 23*****
.fix wifi
.mm/proc-v7.S: Add .arch_extension sec

*****r23*****October 23*****
.Revert to r19 makefile flags
.patched in most of 2WCR (not all so it won't work)
.snapdragon sleep optimizations
.memory backports/ improvements from One V and CAF 3.4
.added sysfs interface to disable logger for better memory and less power waste (/sys/kernel/logger_mode)
.default logger off
.Shaky156 GPU OC patch
.Backported ondemand from CAF msm 3.4
.revert input mediator
.update interactive gov from google 3.4
.patch to 3.0.101 EOL

*****r22*****September 22*****
.improvements/updates to smartmax
.slimmed down defconfig a bit
.fix BCMDHD wifi driver (sense 4)
.port in One V audio drivers: BEATS and this time calling works too. This improves sound quality :P
.port in One V kgsl stuff for better graphics
.strip a lot of debugging
.tweak makefile optimizations w/ link time and graphite optimization
.reverted lowmemorykiller to r19
.bcmdhd wifi signal tweaks
.patched to 3.0.96
.updated linaro 4.7 toolchain to 2013.08

*****r21*****September 11*****
.Reverted some lowmemkiller stuff and stuff that caused problems
.Add input mediator from maxwen
.Support for input mediator in interactive and smartmax
.Update smartmax to latest
.Enhancements to conservative gov
.Add experimental OC to 1.8GHz 
.Cleaned out defconfig
.Removed a lot of debugging which will lead to better performancce and battery 
.Leaned out kernel a lot... stripped to under 5mb with the same optimizations and compression 
.Power tweaks
.Makefile adjustments
.Patched to 3.0.95

*****r20*****September 3*****
.Sync updates
.Binder optimizations
.Changes to Makefile
.lowmemkiller improvements
.Patch to 3.0.94
.Altered smartmax tunables 

*****r19*****August 25*****
.Switch back to 4.7.4 toolchain with -O3 and everything because the performance is better than 4.8 and -O2 :)
.Update to latest Linaro toolchain 2013.07 for 4.7
.Patched all the way to latest, 3.0.93
.Smartmax updated to latest version and modified tunables for optimum performance
.Changes to Makefile optimization flags
.Updated RWSEM to Linux 3.10
.Update interactive gov
.More under the hood changes

*****r17*****July 15*****
.Patched to 3.0.86
.Fine tuned DanceDance governor
.A lot of under the hood algorithm updates
.Backports from Linux 3.4
.Enabled cgroup timer slack
.Compiled with latest Linaro 4.8.2 toolchain, with help from       [user=4622338]@szezso[/user]! Big thanks to you :) This should give a bit of a boost :D
.Switched to gzip compression cause xz gave errors with 4.8, and subsequently altered makefile for it

*****r16*****July 7*****
.Updates to smartmax governor and removed all my changes to its tunables so it should be a lot smoother at the slight cost of battery
.Some readahead backports from 3.4 CAF
.Redone memcopy, string, SHA1 and AES optimizations
.Updated to the latest Linaro 4.7 toolchain, 4.7.4 2013.06
.Made the default scheduler deadline now :)
.Patched to 3.0.83
.Changed the whole graphics driver system: now we use newer drivers from CAF
.Added dancedance governor

*****r15*****June 28*****
.Patched to 3.0.75
.Remove all fast charge stuff cause it doesn't work
.Many under the hood improvements and patches etc
.More GPU OC: 350MHz 3D and 300MHz 2D
.Imported CAF ondemand as opposed to HTC's, and modified it. It should lead to increased performance due to more performance bias but battery is really the same
.Imported CAF Interactive and included changes and optimizations from my grouper kernel which camefrom fransiscofranco's N4 kernel but were modified to suit this device... confusing?
.Alterations to Smartmax governor, now its boosts to 806MHz on input and to your max freq if it needs it. 
.Backports from upstream (smp, rwsem)
.Ondemand is now the default governor cause of the chaanges to it

*****r14*****June 21*****
.Patched to 3.0.65
.Disable LED notification light timeout: I tried it for a few hours and it didn't stop 
.Tune up cfs
.Modified acpuclock (CPU steps) and disabled 1113MHz for now
.Bump voltage at higher freqs so hopefully its stabler
.Reverted all sound stuff from last time (Sound stuff should work as in r12)
.Smartmax: Tune a bit for more performance
.Some block optimizations
.Added fast charge

*****r13*****June 14*****
.UKSM 0.1.2.2
.Patch to 3.0.55
.fsync updates
.Audio driver enhancements from Rezound and Sensation XL source code: BEATS
.Some under the hood power saving things
.Some under the hood performance things (check github)
.More GPU scaling changes
.Add OC to 1.5GHz (1.497 to be precise, from Sensation XL source)
.Wifi enhancements: less power usage and see lower signals
.Update and optimizations to some IO schedulers
.Sense 3.6 and 4.x in one zip! Tested on my device, works for me

*****r12*****June 6*****
.Change WIFI PM mode when screen off for BCMDHD to save battery (Sense 4 wifi)
.Enabled BFQ IO scheduler
.Glitch free GPU freq changing, better graphics performance
.Tuned ROW IO scheduler with "winning tunables" from fransiscofranco's gnex kernel
.Revert voltages to stock CAF and limit OC to 1.4GHz just for stability.
.Some under the hood build optimizations

*****r11*****June 2*****
.more backports from linux 3.4
.Congestion algorithm improvements
.Compiled with new Linaro 2013.05 toolchain- 4.7.4
.BCMDHD IS WORKING WIFIIIIIIIIIII (Thanks Nik for your presence )

*****r10*****June 1*****
.Dynamic writeback feature from 3.1
.kgsl: Bulk update kgsl to 3.11
.init:calibrate: lpj from 3.4
.Altered frequencies and smartmax for smoothness in ui as well as battery
.GPU optimizations
.Lowmemorykiller enhancements
.More optimization flags
.Finally changed defconfig to show r10!

*****r9*****May 27*****
.ALSA updates (hopefully improve sound?)
.Enable XCHGADD_ALGORITHM by default
.Tweaked build optimizations
.Optimized crc32
.Audio and Fauxsound tweaks
.Dynamic writeback feature from Linux 3.1
.Fixed overclocking over 1200MHz, add back in OC to 2GHz (Might be unstable!)

*****r8*****May 26*****
.Patched to 3.0.52
.Implemented ck1 patchset
.Optimizations to lowmemorykiller
.Updates to Smartmax governor
.Backported binder from Linux 3.3
.uhid backported from 3.4
.Mutex improvements
.ROW io scheduler V4
.GPU OC? (szezso)
.io and scheduler improvements
.ext4 improvements

*****r7*****internal*****

*****r6*****May 11*****
Major performance update:
.glibc memcpy and stringcpy updates/optimization
.More TCP congestion algorithms, Westwood set as default
.Added frandom
.Switched to CAF frequency table from 3.4
.Freqs now from 122-1804MHz
.Optimized SHA1 algorithms
.Update Genlock
.Updates to scheduler from CAF
.SmartMax governor! Huge thanks to MaxWen
.Compiling optimizations- heaps of them!
.Dynamic readahead from AnthraX

*****r5*****May 9*****
.Changes to SLUB
.fsync() optimizations
.CPU alignment
.Added compiler time variables
.Enable RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM

*****r4*****May 8*****
.Dynamic FSYNC()
.Sweep2wake as default. Control with Trickster
.Ported Interactive governor from Google 3.4 kernel, with some fixes: tuned to use more mid range freqs, WIP
.SWAP
.2WCR (from Nonverbose)
.Lowmemorykiller from Linux 3.4
.Many more underthehood performance changes

*****r3*****Unreleased

*****r2*****May 5*****
.Updated interactive governor to faux123's implementation on the Sensation
.Added Fauxsound
.Changed tunables on SmartAssV2 governor to make it use lower frequencies
.Improvements to lowmemorykiller and fixes to possible memory leaks

*****r1*****May 4***** 
Initial release, based upon the sources of Beastmode cause we can't let a great kernel go to waste