XDA Developers was founded by developers, for developers. Want more posts like this delivered to your inbox? Enter your email to be subscribed to our newsletter. Their new Reno series are pretty great devices as we found out in our hands-on of the regular model and 10X Zoom modelso it would be a shame for these devices to be ignored by the enthusiast community.

Most major OEMs fulfill this obligation by making the kernel source code publicly available as a downloadable archive file, while some maintain public Git repositories with full commit history. OPPO, like every other Android device maker, is obligated under GPLv2 to release to customers, upon request, the kernel source code for any Linux kernel binaries that are shipped on a device. While 2 months to release the kernel source code for the Reno series is a lot faster than we would expect from OPPO, some of the other devices that they just uploaded the kernel source code for have been available for much longer than 2 months. It took the brand 7 months to release the kernel source code for the Find X.

OPPO has a poor history with kernel source code releases. The audio techpack is important for getting audio to work properly because it contains device-specific drivers that may not be contained in the common Qualcomm tree.

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