xmusjackson / android_kernel_lge_lmg820

Stock+ 4.14.117 for LG G8 US (TMO)

This will is source for my LG G8 kernel.

The kernel should now be working. I am not finished making changes, and I'd also like to merge some kernel updates as well at some point, but for now, this is a better kernel for our LG G8's, namely because we can compile modules against this source for use inside of android.

In order to get this working, you have to pull the modules out of your 'out' directory or wherever your compiled files ended up. Take a look at your /vendor/lib/modules to get a list of the modules you need. Non audio modules needed will be 'wmc_drv.ko' (for LG Pay) and 'vpnclient.ko' (for LG proprietary VPN client) You may note that there is an extra module on your system that we can't compile, 'texfat.ko'. Our kernel will have native exfat support, but getting vold to use the native support will be trickier. We may have to compile vold seperately later, but I have a bit to learn before I can do that. For now we have a couple of options. We can force the kernel to load modules, reguardless of signatures. We could try to resign the module with the new signing keys, but I'm not sure the modversion will pass. I'll have to look into this.

For now we lose native automounting of exfat partitions.

Audio modules will compile as "(module)dlkm.ko" They need to be renamed to "audio(module).ko" One of the modules, machine_dlkm.ko needs to be renamed to audio_dlkm_msmnile.ko This is the only file that needs to be renamed differently, the rest can be done with simple commands like:

find . -name *_dlkm.ko -exec cp {} modules ; rename -- _dlkm.ko '.ko' *dlkm.ko and for file in *; do mv $file audio$file; done;

There will be one extra audio module, 'wcd_cpe_dlkm.ko', we don't need this one we can just delete it. If you renamed all of your audio files with those commands before reading this, it will be "audio_wcd_cpe.ko"

This is the kernel source for the LG G8 T-Mobile (LM-G820TM) downloaded from opensource.lge.com, specifically for the 20J build. Compatibility with devices outside of the Tmo LG G8 and 20J build is to be determined.