looks like t-mobile have released the 2.1 source at last

[Guest Tom G]

It's only affecting 2.1 users. 2.2 works fine.

Stop using 2.1? Problem fixed. :lol:

[Guest igor_anta]

Stop using 2.1? Problem fixed. :lol:

Haha, weeeeeell, maybe if you post a flashable zip we will :) Nah, I can wait a bit more, now that we have SWAP the world is a better place, after Froyo it's the Garden of Eden. To much to take at once :(

[Guest Simon O]

Stop using 2.1? Problem fixed. :lol:

lol.

I still have to support FLB-Mod :)

[Guest Simon O]

hey you were right...kinda http://android.modaco.com/index.php?s=&amp...t&p=1118525

hopefully the same fix applies

Hm the kernel won't compile with that fix..

Edit: WiFi fixed. uploading fixed zip now.

Ok.. the reason WiFi didn't work is because I was silly enough to edit CONFIG_LOCALVERSION

oops. Original link is the fixed file.

Edited September 14, 2010 by flibblesan

[Guest Krinyo]

Working. That was fast... thank You!

[Guest kenoboe]

I had tried swap. It works greatly!!

But I wonder to know if the kernel could support netfilter and rndis to use usb tethering ??

Thanks very much!! :lol:

[Guest Krinyo]

Hard to explain how much better the Pulse with swap enabled. It was a Ford T model before, but a Ferrari now. :lol:

Dear Pulse owner, You need to feel it, believe me...

Everything is starting much faster, programs not killed automatically if running in the background, launcher (or Fancy widget, for example) not exiting, of You start a bigger program. Feels like a snappy OS and phone at last...

Edited September 14, 2010 by Krinyo

[Guest gusthy]

I believe ext3/4 have journalling where as ext2 does not? I used a swap partition, & I reckon 96mb would be overkill and may actually do more harm than good as the system will probably slow down with too much in swap

Well, this is an interesting thing.

It didnt - Android (or Froyo? 2.x?) seems to use swap in a very clever vay. I was monitoring the memory usage while using Pulse for many hours using smem, and somehow it makes the apps swapping some parts of them, keeping the memory as intact as possible. So I guess this swap is trickier than a simple memory page cache.

This means (but it requires some test) that performance is almost independent of cache size, given a fast SD card. Can anyone confirm it?

edit: the swap usage is stabilized at around 50MB now that all of my apps are in the memory.

Edited September 14, 2010 by gusthy

[Guest gusthy]

Hard to explain how much better the Pulse with swap enabled. It was a Ford T model before, but a Ferrari now. :)

Dear Pulse owner, You need to feel it, believe me...

Everything is starting much faster, programs not killed automatically if running in the background, launcher (or Fancy widget, for example) not exiting, of You start a bigger program. Feels like a snappy OS and phone at last...

Yep, it jumped one ore two phone category up :lol:

[Guest TGWS]

From what ive been reading, you lot have been doing well Excellent trying to get this working.

The thing im hearing about Swap, Being able to multi-task with still enough memory to do more stuff is amazing.

Hopefully this is out soon for everyone.

Good work, Everyone!

Edited September 14, 2010 by TGWS

[Guest twrock]

Ok I'm going to throw myself right in at the deep end and build the kernel.. god help me lol

If it works then I guess it'll just be a case of turning things on until it breaks :lol:

(Yeah, I'm late to this thread, but....)

And that attitude right there, my friend, is the fountain of all knowledge!!!!! :)

Edit: (Now that I've read the entire thread....)

Regarding ext2 vs. ext3, my noob question is, should I reformat to ext3 (from ext2 currently) before starting to play around with this?

Edited September 14, 2010 by twrock

[Guest Simon O]

Edit: (Now that I've read the entire thread....)

Regarding ext2 vs. ext3, my noob question is, should I reformat to ext3 (from ext2 currently) before starting to play around with this?

Personally I'd stat on ext2. You won't see the benefit on ext3 on Android.

[Guest Simon O]

Oh and I've got compcache working :lol:

# compcache stats

DiskSize: 12288 kB

NumReads: 839

NumWrites: 2803

FailedReads: 0

FailedWrites: 0

InvalidIO: 0

NotifyFree: 0

ZeroPages: 162

GoodCompress: 77 %

NoCompress: 4 %

PagesStored: 2641

PagesUsed: 903

OrigDataSize: 10564 kB

ComprDataSize: 3555 kB

MemUsedTotal: 3612 kB

The problem now is finding a way to enable/disable it.

Edited September 14, 2010 by flibblesan

[Guest TGWS]

Oh and I've got compcache working :lol:

How long untill you could release a full working version of this update?

Great job, Wish you every success. :)

[Guest Tom G]

(Yeah, I'm late to this thread, but....)

And that attitude right there, my friend, is the fountain of all knowledge!!!!! :lol:

Edit: (Now that I've read the entire thread....)

Regarding ext2 vs. ext3, my noob question is, should I reformat to ext3 (from ext2 currently) before starting to play around with this?

Heres an interesting article about the extra writes caused by a journaling file system. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/...noatimerelatime.

The writes caused by running swap off the sd card will probably kill it a lot quicker than anything else, so if you're using swap on SD then ext3/4 isn't going to do much damage.

[Guest TGWS]

Heres an interesting article about the extra writes caused by a journaling file system. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/...noatimerelatime.

The writes caused by running swap off the sd card will probably kill it a lot quicker than anything else, so if you're using swap on SD then ext3/4 isn't going to do much damage.

I was reading that Swap is only good if you have a fast card.

I think mine is good?

4GB Class 8

Would that be fast enough for swap?

[Guest gusthy]

I was reading that Swap is only good if you have a fast card.

I think mine is good?

4GB Class 8

Would that be fast enough for swap?

It is - Pulse card reader is Class 6, so it won't be able to be as fast as your card, so this card will allow you the maximum performance of your device.

[Guest TGWS]

It is - Pulse card reader is Class 6, so it won't be able to be as fast as your card, so this card will allow you the maximum performance of your device.

Good good, im liking that.

Would having the maximum speed, Decrease the SD cards life qiucker or anything?

I dont mind if it does, as they dont cost much, and my pulse neeeeeeeds memory to keep the thing going :lol:

Is that good then, Class 6 4GB Speeds?

[Guest Krinyo]

Good. I'm using a Class 4 card with speeds more than 5-6 MByte/s read/write, so it's Class 4-6. :lol: Working beautifully.

[Guest gusthy]

Good good, im liking that.

Would having the maximum speed, Decrease the SD cards life qiucker or anything?

I dont mind if it does, as they dont cost much, and my pulse neeeeeeeds memory to keep the thing going :lol:

Is that good then, Class 6 4GB Speeds?

usually 6 mb/sec reading, there is an app in market that measures it.

[Guest Krinyo]

Oh and I've got compcache working :lol:

The problem now is finding a way to enable/disable it.

It's worth the memory/battery draining?

And what about JIT? :)

[Guest Totyasrác]

WiFi works

FLB 2.6.29 kernel test for A2SD users (and non-A2SD users)

Added: Swap, EXT3 support.

Compcache will come in the next update as soon as I figure it out :lol:

2.6.29-flb.zip for rom with A2SD installed

2.6.29-flb_noa2sd.zip for rom with no A2SD

The kernel will work with any custom 2.1 ROM based on the official T-Mobile UK ROM. This includes Community Custom ROM, FLB-MOD 1.5

The ZIP should be flashed through recovery. It is a replacement boot.img containing the new kernel and is rooted.

How to enable swap

If you have a swap partition on your SD card then Darktremor A2SD will automatically start swap on boot.

If you do not have a swap partition then you can either re-partition the SD card and add one (this will delete everything on the SD card) or use Swapper2 from the Android Market. It creates a swapfile on your SD card.

Please consider this kernel a test.

Okay, some dummy/lamer questions:

1. In order to benefit from swap usage - I need to repartition my SD, right? Thus losing all data (I'm only considered about my installed MobileMaps sw though).

2. Will it work with Froyo alpha versions (0.4 / 0.5 / 0.55)?

I have the idea what the answers will be but I guess it should be clear to everyone (most of us have partitioned the SDs NOT to have swap before...)

Thanks :)

[Guest Simon O]

Okay, some dummy/lamer questions:

1. In order to benefit from swap usage - I need to repartition my SD, right? Thus losing all data (I'm only considered about my installed MobileMaps sw though).

2. Will it work with Froyo alpha versions (0.4 / 0.5 / 0.55)?

I have the idea what the answers will be but I guess it should be clear to everyone (most of us have partitioned the SDs NOT to have swap before...)

Thanks :lol:

You can either partition with a swap partition or use Swapper2 to create a swapfile.

I won't be making any kernels with swap support for Froyo whilst it's still in development.

[Guest cleguevara]

Okay, some dummy/lamer questions:

1. In order to benefit from swap usage - I need to repartition my SD, right? Thus losing all data (I'm only considered about my installed MobileMaps sw though).

you could also resize/modify your sdcard's partitions using qparted (e.g. with the Parted Magic Livecd: http://partedmagic.com) and don't lose any data :lol:

Edited September 14, 2010 by cleguevara

[Guest Blake Loring]

Fibble is your kernel compatible with the 2.2 alpha releases?

EDIT: And if not can I could uncompress the 2.2 boot image and replace the kernel image with yours? Or are there driver incompatabilities

Edited September 14, 2010 by Blake Loring