Greetings!
The latest beta (v14.1) of Magisk just dropped (Magisk Beta Thread), which is the first release to officially support Pixel (XL).
Before I spend more time investigating TWRP and Magisk combination, please refrain from flashing Magisk through TWRP installed in your boot image (because Magisk cannot get a 100% stock boot backup)
The recommended way to install Magisk on Pixel (XL) are
This thread is not a support thread, all bug reports should be in the Magisk Beta Thread, discussions should be in Magisk General Discussions
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The followings are for Pixel (XL) developers:
I've written some descriptions on how Magisk works on Pixel devices in my Release Notes for v14.1.
You can directly check MagiskInit's code here. The code is fairly simple so you should get the idea.
However, I'm still fairly new to Pixel development, and I'm not sure how current custom roms and custom kernels workaround the skip_initramfs thing. Instead of trying all custom roms and custom kernels out, I think it would be easier for me to just open a thread and ask
I would like to have some insight from developers whether my Magisk solution can work well with current Pixel development projects. Since all my work is open source, if you have some suggestions to improve my work, please tell me and I'll be really grateful.
The latest beta (v14.1) of Magisk just dropped (Magisk Beta Thread), which is the first release to officially support Pixel (XL).
Before I spend more time investigating TWRP and Magisk combination, please refrain from flashing Magisk through TWRP installed in your boot image (because Magisk cannot get a 100% stock boot backup)
The recommended way to install Magisk on Pixel (XL) are
- Fastboot boot this TWRP Image, and flash the Magisk zip
- Get a stock boot image (download the full factory image here), and patch via Magisk Manager, then flash the patched boot by fastboot
This thread is not a support thread, all bug reports should be in the Magisk Beta Thread, discussions should be in Magisk General Discussions
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The followings are for Pixel (XL) developers:
I've written some descriptions on how Magisk works on Pixel devices in my Release Notes for v14.1.
You can directly check MagiskInit's code here. The code is fairly simple so you should get the idea.
However, I'm still fairly new to Pixel development, and I'm not sure how current custom roms and custom kernels workaround the skip_initramfs thing. Instead of trying all custom roms and custom kernels out, I think it would be easier for me to just open a thread and ask
I would like to have some insight from developers whether my Magisk solution can work well with current Pixel development projects. Since all my work is open source, if you have some suggestions to improve my work, please tell me and I'll be really grateful.
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