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 |
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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