It was a marriage made in heaven, the raspberry pi and the official linux kernel have married and the result is a lighting fast, low resource kernel with support for the pi's drivers and I mean all of them, including VC4, we should all buy Eric Anholt a beer or at least send him the Internet's version of a high five for his work, his version of the raspberry pi kernel has been merged with the official Linux kernel, I cannot wait to use this new kernel as a user and as a developer because it has expanded the possibilities of the pi, I like that, and you should too, lets get into the details of what this new kernel has in store.

The VC4 DRM driver was previously added as the Raspberry Pi kernel mode-setting driver, the kernels up to now haven't had the necessary bits for supporting 3D/OpenGL in conjunction with the new VC4 Gallium3D driver from Mesa. However, with Linux 4.5 those needed kernel bits are in place for having a fully open Raspberry Pi 3D driver stack. And it work AMAZING, I use to hate raspbian and found it very slow and unusable for many things, while the new kernel isn't going to revolutionize the performance of pi and turn it into some sort of robotic transformer and all of a sudden you have the performance of a i7... that'd be cool but not realistic, the new performance is breathing a new life into distros that I haven't used in ages, mainly the officially supported distro's for the pi, I have worked on a couple open source porting projects and we have always based our kernels on the latest available, but thats because we like to be cutting edge .now this kernel will help improve the amount of distro's that can be made for the pi, as well as improve the performance of distro's that are based on more stable kernels.

This kernel has been five years in the making, and included a complete rewrite of a lot of code, so if you ever see one of the developers that worked on that, high five or a beer, now there are two ways you can get this kernel, okay three, you can cross compile on a Linux computer, takes about forty five minutes, you could build the kernel on the pi, takes about three hours, or you can thank me for sharing this early release candidate already compiled for you

I will be using some tools to benchmark the performance changes and will be posting the results on this subreddit sometime within the next twenty four hours but I couldn't find this kernel on anywhere on the Internet precompiled, so I thought id build it and make it available for all my raspberry pi brothers and sisters, I will also include two articles one from the official raspberry pi organization on there guide for compiling on the pi and also cross compiling and then I will include the guide that really helped me cross compile this kernel

1. Compiling On The Pi And Cross Compiling On Linux https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/kernel/building.md

2. Guide On Cross Compiling On Linux http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2015/08/13/how-to-cross-compile-linux-kernel-for-raspberry-pi-on-ubuntu/

3. Precompiled Kernel Built 02/06/16 4.5-RC2 For Raspberry PI 2 http://www.mediafire.com/download/58x4b26y3vdenaj/Full Kernel 4.5-RC2.zip

Thanks For Reading Guys

Hope someone finds this helpful and useful

IF You Going To Use The Precompiled I updated the mediafire download, to include all the files that need to be patched and replaced to run the 4.5-rc kernel this time i included the kernel modules i had forget before