Samsung has just released the kernel source code for the Exynos-powered variant of the Galaxy S7 edge (SM-G935F) which is available to download through the manufacturer’s Open Source Release Center. Although you may not get too excited by this announcement, I’m pretty sure you can appreciate that many developers do as it provides them with a platform to adapt the files in order to produce their own ROMs, so that we can then download them from the Internet to flash onto our handsets.
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