Android Kernel Actions

Builds Android kernel from the kernel repository.

Note: You don't have to fork this repository, see the examples.

Action Vars

Inputs

Input	Description
`arch`	Specify what Architecture target to use, currently only supports `arm64`
`compiler`	Specify which toochain to use
`defconfig`	Specify what defconfig command used to generate `.config` file
`image`	Specify what is the final build file, usually it's `Image.gz-dtb` or `Image-dtb`

Environment Variables

Variable	Description
`NAME`	Specify the name of the release file, defaults to the name of the repository
`KERNEL_PATH`	Specify the path of the kernel source, defaults to `.`
`ZIPPER_PATH`	Specify the path of the zip template, defaults to `zipper`
`PYTHON_VERSION`	Specify the version of Python to use, either `3`, or `2`. defaults to `3`

Outputs

Output	Description
`elapsed_time`	Time elapsed from building the kernel in seconds, excluding zipping and downloading toolchains
`outfile`	Path to the final build file
`hash`	Kernel commit hash

AnyKernel3

Put the AnyKernel3 template to zipper. Providing AnyKernel3 template is optional, the outfile output varies based on this. If AnyKernel3 template is provided, this Action will create a flashable zip file based on the AnyKernel3 template and the outfile output will be the path to the zipfile. if not the outfile will be the path to the kernel image. See the examples.

Getting the build

Use other action to actually get the file, for example, with ncipollo/release-action:

- name: Release build
  uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
  with:
    artifacts: ${{ steps.<step id>.outputs.outfile }}
    token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Or with appleboy/telegram-action:

- name: Release build
  uses: appleboy/telegram-action@master
  with:
    to: ${{ secrets.CHANNEL_ID }}
    token: ${{ secrets.TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN }}
    message: ${{ github.repository }} on ${{ github.sha }} is built!
    document: ${{ steps.<step id>.outputs.outfile }}

Available toolchains

If you want to compile with Clang and LLVM without any of GNU's binutils, make sure your kernel source already supports LLVM options, otherwise compilation may fails. In that case, use clang toolchain with /binutils.

ARM64

Ubuntu's GCC

For older GCC use v0.4.0 action version

gcc/9
gcc/10
gcc/11
gcc/12

Ubuntu's Clang

For older Clang use v0.4.0 action version

clang/11, clang/11/binutils
clang/12, clang/12/binutils
clang/13, clang/13/binutils
clang/14, clang/14/binutils
clang/15, clang/15/binutils

Proton Clang

proton-clang/<branch, commit hash or tag>, proton-clang/<branch, commit hash or tag>/binutils

Example : proton-clang/master, proton-clang/09fb113/binutils

AOSP's Clang

aosp-clang/<branch>/<clang version>, aosp-clang/<branch>/<clang version>/binutils

Example : aosp-clang/master/clang-r416183b, aosp-clang/android11-release/clang-r365631c/binutils

Example usage

With `ncipollo/release-action`

name: Build on Tag

on:
  push:
    tags: '*'

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Checkout kernel source
      uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Checkout zipper
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        repository: lemniskett/AnyKernel3
        path: zipper

    - name: Android kernel build
      uses: lemniskett/android-kernel-actions@master
      id: build
      env:
        NAME: Dark-Ages-Último
      with:
        arch: arm64
        compiler: gcc/10
        defconfig: vince_defconfig
        image: Image.gz-dtb

    - name: Release build
      uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
      with:
        artifacts: ${{ steps.build.outputs.outfile }}
        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

With `appleboy/telegram-action`

name: Build on push master

on:
  push:
    branches: [ master ]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Checkout kernel source
      uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Checkout zipper
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        repository: lemniskett/AnyKernel3
        path: zipper

    - name: Android kernel build
      uses: lemniskett/android-kernel-actions@master
      id: build
      env:
        NAME: Dark-Ages-Último
      with:
        arch: arm64
        compiler: gcc/10
        defconfig: vince_defconfig
        image: Image.gz-dtb

    - name: Release build
      uses: appleboy/telegram-action@master
      with:
        to: ${{ secrets.CHANNEL_ID }}
        token: ${{ secrets.TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN }}
        message: Kernel is built!, took ${{ steps.build.outputs.elapsed_time }} seconds.
        document: ${{ steps.build.outputs.outfile }}

Troubleshooting

Script `InvalidSyntax` exceptions

Your kernel source scripts might not support Python 3 yet, set PYTHON_VERSION environment variable to "2".

Error codes

1: Packages fails to install
2: .config fails to be generated
3: Build fails
100: Unsupported usage
127: Unexpected error

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