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HiSilicon Kirin

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Family of Huawei-manufactured chips, included in almost every Huawei ARM device. Very minimal mainline support is present, but often the proprietary nature of these SoCs makes it difficult to run anything beyond downstream kernels.

Cleaner AOSP kernels can be found, with their own limitations, on the OpenKirin page.

Devices

HiSilicon Kirin

Device Codename Chipset WiFi Category Booting
Huawei P8 Lite huawei-alice HiSilicon Kirin 620 (Hi6220) Y downstream Yes
Huawei Y6II/Honor 5A huawei-cambodia HiSilicon Kirin 620 (Hi6220) No
Huawei P9 lite huawei-venus HiSilicon Kirin 650 Yes
Huawei Honor 6X huawei-berlin HiSilicon Kirin 655 Y downstream Yes
Huawei P8 Lite 2017 / P9 Lite 2017 / Honor 8 / Nova Lite / GR3 2017 huawei-prague HiSilicon Kirin 655 (Hi6250) No
Huawei P10 Lite huawei-warsaw HiSilicon Kirin 658 Y downstream Yes
Huawei Honor 9 Lite huawei-leland HiSilicon Kirin 659 Yes
Huawei Mediapad M5 Lite 10 huawei-bach2 HiSilicon Kirin 659 No
Huawei MediaPad T5 huawei-agassi2 HiSilicon Kirin 659 Yes
Huawei P Smart huawei-figo HiSilicon Kirin 659 Y downstream Yes
Huawei P20 lite huawei-anne HiSilicon Kirin 659 Yes
Huawei Mediapad 10 Link+ huawei-s10-231u HiSilicon Kirin 910 (V9R1 / Hi6620) No
Huawei Ascend P7 huawei-sophia HiSilicon Kirin 910T No
Huawei Ascend Mate 7 huawei-mt7l09 HiSilicon Kirin 925 No
Huawei Honor 7 huawei-plank HiSilicon Kirin 935 downstream Yes
Huawei Honor 8 huawei-frd HiSilicon Kirin 950 downstream Yes
Huawei Mediapad M5 pro huawei-cameron HiSilicon Kirin 960 N downstream Yes

Some SoCs have their own dedicated pages.

WiFi

See WiFi#HiSilicon_WiFi and the packages of HiSilicon phones with working WiFi for reference.

UART

must do this in fastboot:

fastboot oem uart enable