Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 765 SoCs in December 2019 at the company’s annual conference called Snapdragon Tech Summit. Now, as they are available on a variety of devices, the San Diego-based company has begun to share the source code of these mobile platforms on the Code Aurora Forum (CAF).
The Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 765 are the mainstream chipsets from Qualcomm for the year 2020. These chipsets are capable of offering 5G connectivity to smartphones at the higher-end as well as those in the mid-tier. Just within a quarter, consumers now have various devices that are powered by the above-mentioned chips.
Apart from sharing modified kernels, AOSP framework, and other software tools to its partners (OEMs) as part of Board Support Package (BSP), Qualcomm also distributes certain source code for the community on its Code Aurora Forum (CAF).
Qualcomm publishes CAF releases for all of its chipsets publicly and updates them from time to time. These source code releases contain SoC-specific kernel changes and the AOSP framework for better optimization. Thus, custom ROM developers and users prefer CAF-based ROMs as they are theoretically better optimized and stable compared to AOSP-based ROMs
Now, as CAF sources are out for Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 765, we can expect developers to build custom ROMs based on them in the coming days.
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