Credits and licensing¶
PixeliOS stands on other people's work.
Inspiration and base: ios-sweet¶
ios-sweet by dipa-studio ported XNU and iOS 16 to a
Redmi Note 10 Pro ("sweet"). It is the reason this project exists: the whole approach (a small
bare-metal shim, a patched XNU built in CI, a device tree handed over by the shim, an HFS+ iOS
root in userdata) is theirs.
ios-sweet had no license file when we started (pinned commit 11da58b), so its files were not
redistributed: tools/setup-upstream.sh downloads that commit from its own repository and
applies our changes, which are stored as diffs in upstream-patches/.
ios-sweet is now MIT-licensed (copyright dipa-studio; checked on GitHub, 2026-10-24), so that arrangement can be simplified:
the kernel repository is being changed to carry files derived from ios-sweet directly, with its MIT notice in LICENSE-ios-sweet.txt.
Until that change is published, the fetch-and-patch flow above still works. Please thank them, and star their repository.
Third-party code in this repository¶
| What | Where | License |
|---|---|---|
| QR Code generator library by Project Nayuki | qrlog/qrcodegen.[ch] |
MIT |
| Our patches to Apple's XNU | xnu/patches/ (ours) and the fetched series |
Apple Public Source License 2.0 (derivative of XNU); Apple's source is not included |
| blacktop/darwin-xnu-build | fetched in CI | MIT |
Linux kernel and Google's Tensor kernel sources, Broadcom dhd driver |
read as references for register values and sequences (no code copied) | GPL-2.0 / see each source |
AOSP mkbootimg.py, avbtool.py |
fetched by tools/fetch-android-tools.sh |
Apache-2.0 |
Register values and sequences for the Tensor G1 UFS host and PHY, and for the PCIe, Wi-Fi and GPU bring-up, were derived from the Linux
kernel sources (ufs-exynos.c, phy-gs101-ufs.c, the Pixel kernel's PCIe code; GPL-2.0), the Arm Mali kbase driver and the Broadcom dhd driver, and are documented in
soc/google/gs101/docs/ and docs/research/ of the kernel repository, each with its source cited. No such source code is copied.
Not affiliated¶
This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple Inc. or Google LLC. "iOS", "iPhone", "Apple" and "XNU" are trademarks of Apple Inc.; "Pixel" and "Tensor" are trademarks of Google LLC. No Apple firmware, device trees, or decrypted binaries are distributed; you must obtain the iOS restore image yourself from Apple.