Hey there

Its been a while since my last words about the future of hellsCore. Some of you may know, I was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder a few years ago. For me it was clear as night something may not be "normal" on myself since my childhood. The first time I talked about wanting to die to my mother was at around an age of 5, as I had to go to the preschool and I couldn't get in touch with the other kids, nor was I happy to have so many people around me, since I tend to feel all the other people around me much more in myself than my own feelings. I tend to loose myself in this river of emotions and loose track of my own feelings, my own needs, like sleeping, eating, take a shower, etc. That's when I started to spend time on the old pc from my dad. And in the end, fast forward, it was also one of the reason hellsCore exists.

I try to break down some signs and symptoms I experience to get you an idea what it is. My life tends to take place in extremes. Emotional wise, "Oh this day may not be as bad" Few moments later: "Oh no, this day is horrible." Some other few moments later: "No problem, this day is easy".And it can switch from best to worst just in a few moments. Sometimes there are one or two hours where I could cry the whole time, but after some time it switches to a hyperactivity and I joke around like there was nothing. And this can go back and forth multiple times a day. People around me tend to intensifie this switching, or my mood in general. Its like I adapt my own energy to the energy of the room.

So what does this mean for hellsCore?

Like I said above, my life tends to take place in extremes. I started developing hellsCore as I was unemployed. Making kernels was a passion for me and because it was a passion of mine, almost all of my energy, many tears of frustration and nights full of self doubts went in this project. It burned me out. It was like a job for me, but I didn't get a paycheck for it. In the end not even a good paycheck is worth it if the job you are doing is slowly burning you out. Some identify themself about their job, for me it was my hobby. There was nothing else there, which could stop this war of thoughts in my head. The time I actually looked into the code, studiet it, learned more about kernel and searching for new stuff this war in my head was stopped. Supporting it was also quite some fun, too sometimes. But most of the supporting it was like fueling my self-doubts and this hate about my self ended in knife like thoughts, which in the end killed my inner fire, my passion to do kernel around the time I started my IT apprenticeship.

I had to cancel my apprenticeship, because I was in a very depressed episode of my bipolar disorder. Since December 3 I'm in a day clinic to go back and work again on myself and my stategies to deal better with this disorder.

The last two days actually were one of the best I had the last 7 months. And to be honest with you... I don't know what all this means for hellsCore. My passion for doing it is still not back and my priorities are on my own mental and physical health for the next months, maybe even years.

Thank you all for being part of a very fun, interesting and also exhausting and emotional part of my life. If I ever come back to make kernel, you'll hear about it.

I was inspired by a fellow patient of the day clinic to make this post. She has multiple diagnoses and to summary up what changed during her time of her recovery she runs a blog to give everyone insight in her process. She's a very strong human, but like me, she often doesn't know how much she is capable of. If you are intrested, she runs the blog in english, too: https://naeragiaimo.wixsite.com/naera-edrecovery

N6/N6P/Pixel/PixelXL

-merged june security update
-compiled with latest ubertc

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N6/N6P/Pixel/PixelXL: May security update

-merged May security update

PixelXL kernel can also be flashed on the regular Pixel.


Pixel/PixelXL users please read:

May security update contains a new bootloader. It seems flashing the May bootloader will break TWRP/SuperSU. You will end in a boot loop if you try to flash it. A workaround seems to flash back April bootlader.

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PXL: b7

-merged latest sdcardfs commits
-merged patches for several subsystems from android kernel common 3.18 repo

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PXL: b6

-merged a few fixes to address some memory leaks
-merged a few optimizations for several subsystems - check git for reference
-compiled with latest ubertc (4.9 and 6.x)

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N6P: b4

-reverted previous f2fs implementation
-re added f2fs and properly enabled in defconfig
-merged missing bits of april security update
-added a patchset for haptic feedback for better efficiency

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PXL: b5

-merged linux upstream to linux 3.18.36
-merged new usb typec driver from android O preview source
-merged latest sdcardfs commits
-changed to anykernel2 (you won't lose TWRP anymore, but Root still gets lost)

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N6: April Security Update

-merged april security update

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PXL/N6P: April Security Update

PXL:
-rebased a part of the source and merged some other EAS patches than I previously had
-merged new sdcardfs commits
-merged latest wakelock blocking commits from franco
-merged few optimizations here and there
-merged nougat-mr2 aosp branch

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N6P:
-merged nougat-mr2 aosp branch
-merged optimizations for the lz4 decompression (zRam)
-merged latest wakelock blocking commits from franco
-merged patch from flar2 for ondemand and conservative

About f2fs:
I have found the reason why it doesn't work. But I couldn't fix it for this release. I think I have to revert all my f2fs stuff and merge it again. This needs some time.

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I'll play around with the "O-preview" Source when I get more time. Just wanted to push the april update by time.

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PXL: b3

-reverted a few sched patches I added on b2 (remote callback)
-merged latest sdcardfs commits
-merged a few fixes from android_kernel_common repo

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PXL: b2

-merged a lot schedutil stuff
-added conservative/ondemand fix from flar2
-added new toggles from franco to disable a few more wakelocks

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N6/N6P/PixelXL: Updated the kernel to march security source

-merged latest commits from march security update

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N5: b23

-merged some stuff from aosp branch and lineageos

Let me know if this one boots on nougat roms.

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N6P: b2-t3

-merged binder commits and enabled hwbinder domains in defconfig
-merged hw accelerated crypto algorithms
-merged optimizations for assembler code on newer ARM systems

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PXL: Alpha-1.9

-merged latest sdcardfs commits
-merged a fix to set tuneables for schedutil correctly
-merged fixes for better loadavg calculation

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N6: b2-711

-added a few fixes for several subsystems
-recompiled with latest ubertc 6.x

If you already flashed it, you can redownload it and flash again, since I recompiled it with the latest ubertc today.

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PXL: New test kernel: Alpha-1.8-gcc6

-merged latest sdcardfs commits*
-merged binder updates from hwbinder aosp branch
-added wake gestures by flar2
-bf build with build flags was pulled because it wasn't stable

*sdcardfs notes: 
To enable it, you need to add following line to your build.prop (/system/build.prop): "ro.sys.sdcardfs=true" - without the quotes of course.
You also need to set the selinux policy to permissive, or search for a patched selinux policy. Otherways you'll run into issues.

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N6P: b2-t2

-added a few fixes
-added f2fs support (shipping a modified fstab.angler)

You'll find the test releases in the "Test" folder.

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PXL: hC-Alpha-1.7

-few optimizations under the hood (check git if you are interested)

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N5: GCC6 build added!

I just got the kernel compiled with ubertc6. Let me know how it works (=

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