Custom kernel 2.6.38.3 32bit packages optimized for atom processors

This package is created in Linux Mint 10 and should install fine in all versions of Ubuntu Linux
10.10 and Linux Mint 10 (should as well in debian squeeze but not sure about dkms)

The build is for 32bit atom processors and should work on any netbook with an atom processor (not sure though about core2 processors as they have different instruction set). I tested it with my lenovo netbook which is nearly 2 years old

Please share if you are able to feel that the processor is running fast with the kernel and you are able to watch 720p movies very well (the kernel has autogroup scheduling enabled and should not feel stressed if you stress it to the limit, the miracle of Linus). I tried in linux mint debian edition and it did not install dkms packages, this should not be the case with Ubuntu or Mint 10 though

The kernel compilation was done on Virtualbox Linux Mint 10 and took around 2 hours to complete (I allocated only 1 core to virtualbox OS). Normally it takes 20 mins for me to build a kernel directly in my system and this made me wait forever to see how this cute atom kernel runs on my netbook. I could see the sound worked perfectly and the clarity of movies was excellent, the feel of the clicks and launching programs was snappy, it maybe my imagination.

The files can be downloaded from the following links and can be checked against the SHA256SUM and MD5SUM given at the bottom of this blog to verify if the correct file is downloaded

SHA256SUM

149fc1211488753dc43d71b9c4afe04be201eea1a440abc7d60186ca1329822f  CONFIG-ATOM

c16fa5a723b926997fe5b8530fa3a67ac7bf29468dfeb963eafc57e253522836  linux-headers-2.6.38.3-atom_11.00_i386.deb

40022b24ed4d72cfb730f712d07820531e950cf79fe53467360fb301ae60dfbd  linux-image-2.6.38.3-atom_11.00_i386.deb

c83c1a052be34c21b482ea3bdfafc6d9b7e6a6fa652cef7524e58c7bb0f397cd  Readme.odt

46151a8fd5d811f50e60cdf5268f0fd26a4fa5cf5ec8aa81d0b635c2747289d8  Readme.pdf

MD5SUM

70b567a65def54960e2fd6817ff55b47  CONFIG-ATOM

88905abb01e14f121dcaeef1f3a93668  linux-headers-2.6.38.3-atom_11.00_i386.deb

9aaa9a01d49364868329de063a378e39  linux-image-2.6.38.3-atom_11.00_i386.deb

dc6b76c58c601bb3ace7402d8b64a75b  Readme.odt

fa70cb0f03257a95cbd1960f4435a218  Readme.pdf

Dropbox Download Links

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22900905/MyKernelBuilds/2.6.38.3/atom/CONFIG-ATOM

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22900905/MyKernelBuilds/2.6.38.3/atom/linux-headers-2.6.38.3-atom_11.00_i386.deb

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22900905/MyKernelBuilds/2.6.38.3/atom/linux-image-2.6.38.3-atom_11.00_i386.deb

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22900905/MyKernelBuilds/2.6.38.3/atom/Readme.odt

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22900905/MyKernelBuilds/2.6.38.3/atom/Readme.pdf