Root how's the CM12 nightlies coming along?

[aaronestrada53]

do they have close to everything working? can anybody out there give me any bug reports? Im running Liquidsmooth right now, but I've been a cyanogenmod user since 2009. So i want to switch over if things are looking pretty stable. Any feedback is highly appreciated!

 

[Rxpert83]

Its stable enough. They haven't added many of their patches yet, including the CAF ones that break compatibility with AOSP.


Once they break AOSP compatibility I'll flash something else

 

[aaronestrada53]

Its stable enough. They haven't added many of their patches yet, including the CAF ones that break compatibility with AOSP.


Once they break AOSP compatibility I'll flash something else

I just found out about CAF. Isn't that just a different kernel they're using? what's so bad about that? I heard it gives better performance capabilities for qualcomm processors. if you don't like CAF, couldn't you just flash an AOSP kernel? or will the rom not work with an AOSP kernel?

 

[Rxpert83]

Some of the CAF patches they incorporate break compatibility with AOSP. So what that means is google's code will no longer work with a cyanogenmod ROM. As a result, kernel devs need to make specific varients of their kernels that support cyanogenmod. An AOSP based kernel will not work with CM/CAF based ROMS , and a CM/CAF based kernel will not work on an AOSP based ROM.

Another layer of complication is the developers. Some choose to support CM based ROMs, others wont since it was CM that broke compatibility. My favorite kernel is franco kernel, and that developer chooses not to support CM based roms. As a user I'd rather be able to run franco than CM, so thats why I said I would move on when they do break compatibility.