I have compiled a Kernel (4.5 stable) from source on an Intel Cherry Trail based tablet running Ubuntu 16.04 beta 2. After several sleepless nights I finally got this installed. According to my .config file I should have had all the necessary drivers to run all the components: touch screen, accelerometer, battery, WIFI, HDMI audio, graphics, and SD card.

Unfortunately, not much works - in fact Ubuntu had more working out of the box.
With Ubuntu default 4.4 Kernel I have:
Touch screen fully working
Intel Cherry View Graphics recognized
SD card fully working
No battery info
No WIFI
No audio
No shutdown signal to system (I have to manually press power button to turn off)
With compiled Kernel I have:
SD Card fully working
Shutdown signal working - will now shutdown completely
No battery info
No WIFI
No audio
No Touch screen
No Intel Cherry View drivers

Here are the steps I used to compile my Kernel:
make menuconfig
make -j5
make modules
make modules_install
make install
All went well with no errors. Checked with uname -r to verify linux 4.5 was running.

Here is the hardware I am trying to configure:
Intel HD Graphics VID:8086 HID:22B0
Intel Battery Management INT33FE
Intel Audio VID:8086 HID:22A8
Broadcom Wireless SDIO HID:A9A6
Goodix Touch GDIX1001

As far as I can tell I have selected all of the drivers for each of these in my .config file and they should be enabled. Not sure what I am missing and why the drivers are not being utilized.

Any ideas?

I haven't started from scratch on a config in a long time. The config file is over 3000 entries and a single wrong one can cause problems. The steps I do are:

Copy config from previous working kernel to .config
Take defaults for most of the new stuff unless I know differently. Make any needed changes with:
Then build and install as you have done.

Thank you for your suggestion smallpond. Yes, you are right I should have tried that first. I just tried it last night with the same end result.

It appears that the Kernel is just having trouble recognizing all the hardware due to a problem with the ACPI.

Correct me if I am wrong but I should be able to modify the DSDT and then insert that table into the Kernel and recompile. In theory the Kernel will then be able to see all the available hardware as it should.

This is not something that I have done before so I think I am going to save this option for last.

Anyone else have any suggestions?

NOTE: In my search I came across this site for the SOC audio. https://www.spinics.net/lists/intel-gfx/msg90372.html