I haven’t wrote on my blog for quite some time now and haven’t released a new kernel package neither. Because the kernel development moved in two versions and seems this two versions are a bit different I’m not sure even myself which direction to take. Well at the moment I kind of know, as I tested in all this period kernel 2.6.31 and 2.6.31.1 and got a bad conclusion: Not a very good kernel release! So this means only one thing, try to stick with kernel 2.6.30.[0-9].

At the moment, I have missed two releases, but now we have kernel 2.6.30.9 which I called Seahorse. I know is unusual, because I was using rock band names, but with this release I will start a new naming convention.

As usual, this release comes with the same goodies, but also with a lot of bug fixes, features and for sure a lot of other improvements. Of course, if you wanna read more about what this kernel release is all about, please visit http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.30.9.

Now from my side, the goodies are always or almost always the same, coretemp patch so it supports Intel Atom CPUs, acerhdf module included (version 0.5.17), for Acer Aspire One netbooks, plus a lot of performance tuning done to the kernel config. I’m not sure how well this kernel will or does perform, but for this, you guys, those who use it and need it will have to give some feedback, especially if there are issues with the kernel.

The installation instruction are simple and the same with the other released, download at least linux-image-2.6.30.9-seahorse_1_i386.deb and then use dpkg to install it. In case of error from dpkg please using dpkg with –force-all option. To be able to download the packages, please go to: http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/2.6.30.9-seahorse/.

For developers or those who wanna rebuild the kernel for themselves please go to http://dl.robertalks.com/kernel/source/ and download from there the source code plus the config file for the kernel and then just build it.

Good luck and please do not forget to drop me comments if there are some issues with this new kernel package.