Meizu released the kernel source code this week, I didn't see an official thread, so I am posting it here. Hopefully we can see some custom ROMs made for this phone.
The kernel source code is for meizu m030, m031 and m032 WCDMA smartphone
Enjoy!
Hi there. I am aware that partial kernel source code had been released for Mi4.
Is the full source code already available?
I'm joining to your question.
Kernel Source Released!Big news for the Honor 9 development community: The Kernel source has been released! The Honor 9 has already seen a bit of success with development, while the community has put out some custom ROMs and mods that work on the device. Now that the kernel source has been released, you can expect that to turbo-charge development for this phone.
Get the source code here
Great news @surdu_petru , check this
Xiaomi still doesnt release the kernel source code for our phone. With the source the devs will can do more things for development such more stable roms and kernels. The phone released at May 09 2020 but xiaomi doesnt release it. They relase the source even for Mi 11 which dont even is at the market yet but for us not.
So we try to spam them in github to show them that we want it. Toco is a large community. So please make a post here to request to release it
GitHub Link
Done my part...
Let's hope for the best
this really needs to happen. i buy Xiaomi phone to be free with the software, i want custom Roms and stuff for it, please Xiaomi
After reading about the fast kernel source release for the Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro one could think that xiaomi did a good job at complying with the GPL v2 license and providing useful sources for developers of custom kernels. But appearances are deceiving: The provided kernel sources are incomplete and partially broken.
The most important issues are that xiaomi pushed incomplete devicetree sources which are neither provided by qualcomm anymore unfortunately and the touchscreen drivers are really out of date which leads to broken double tap to wake and under display fingerprint sensor. Additionally building the kernel isn't as trivial as it sounds anymore since many kernel modules are built outside of the kernel tree now.
During the past days i have spent some time on getting a source built kernel including modules and devicetree running on Xiaomi 12.
I have sucessfully booted the kernel and uploaded this work to github.com/xiaomi-sm8450-kernel.
Using this manifest one is able to compile the OSS kernel for Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro.
I hope that this can help other developers working on the Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro!
For instructions to build the kernel and more details about missing sources please refer to the manifest on github.
Note that double tap to wake and fingerprint sensor don't work as is on the stock ROM.
Also note that the OSS display-devictree for Xiaomi 12 Pro is missing the configurations for some referesh rates which were supported on MIUI. This could be dumped and included from the stock dtbo.img with some effort.
If you encounter issues with this OSS kernel feel free to ask me and i will give my best to help.
To finish this thread i want to draw further attention to the fact that this is not a one-time issue with the OSS kernels for Xiaomi devices and the situation seems to get even worse. The newer Redmi K50 gaming got kernel sources which don't include any external respositories, as in no techpack drivers and no devicetree sources at all. The new Xiaomi 12S series still has not seen any open source kernel release.
I hope this project helps to set a better starting point than the xiaomi oss release to other developers for the Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12 Pro.
Thanks for thus clarification Arian. Sad story....To be continued... Quo Vadis Xiaomi?
ti think the xiaomi 12 has suffered a performance squeeze... this is not because of the heat.... i have tried thermal unlocking and overclocking the CPU GPU and updating the driver 617 the result shows the real performance is vastly different many
Can you tell me which version of clang can be used to build the kernel from the sources for lineageos 20? And which commands to use? I would like to build a kernel for Kali Nethunter, but when using any of the defconfig I get compilation errors
Can you explain how to flash built kernel..? I built the kernel and I get the kenrel image but I don't know how to flash it to the device...
Would you know if this is also the case for Mi11 Ultra tree?
The OSS for the 12S and 12S Pro has just been released recently if anyone is interested in looking at it:
GitHub - MiCode/Xiaomi_Kernel_OpenSource at mayfly-s-oss
Xiaomi Mobile Phone Kernel OpenSource. Contribute to MiCode/Xiaomi_Kernel_OpenSource development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
I would be interested to hear if the kernel source for the 12S family is also incomplete, like the regular Xiaomi 12 series
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Can you explain how to flash built kernel..? I built the kernel and I get the kenrel image but I don't know how to flash it to the device...
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You need to pack the boot, vendor_boot, vendor_dlkm and dtbo images, the easiest way is to do that within the LineageOS tree.
KeepingKeyes said:
The OSS for the 12S and 12S Pro has just been released recently if anyone is interested in looking at it:
GitHub - MiCode/Xiaomi_Kernel_OpenSource at mayfly-s-oss
Xiaomi Mobile Phone Kernel OpenSource. Contribute to MiCode/Xiaomi_Kernel_OpenSource development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
I would be interested to hear if the kernel source for the 12S family is also incomplete, like the regular Xiaomi 12 series
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Yes, unfortunately this devices source situation is even worse. On all the recent releases xiaomi did not release the audio, display and camera drivers. The released touchscreen driver does not compile either, though i fixed that by guessing and the driver works now: https://github.com/xiaomi-sm8450-ke...3b9d0f69ecd2ba01674a0dc29cfdc86782bb7c9d6c3da