Huawei's Honor 8 and Honor 8 Pro Android Phones Get Custom Linux Kernels

Senior XDA Developers member joe2k01 recently published new custom kernels for the Huawei Honor 8 and Honor 8 Pro smartphones, which is called WhitePugKernel and it's based on the Linux kernel 4.x series.

Shipping with three different governors, including alucard, blu and darkness, the WhitePugKernel mod for Honor 8 and Honor 8 Pro mobile phones appears to bring a lot of goodies to users of these devices, such as support for the NTFS (read/write), HFS, HFS+, and MSDOS filesystems.

Additionally, the custom kernel offers XZ and LZO kernel compression support, ZRAM support with LZ4 compression, three schedulers, including fiops I/O, sio I/O and zen I/O, an option to disable fsync, faster fingerprint wakeup, fingerprint gestures, as well as Xbox joypad support, though it's untested at the moment.

Don't install this custom kernel if your device is in warranty

joe2k01's WhitePugKernel mod appears to be based on OpenKirin's source, and the developer war...