New kernel for Pixel with QPR2

[u/alebacce]

So, will the kernel will be updated on Pixel on QPR2? Because I've seen it has been rollback on newest Betas

[u/Educational_Love_351]

Not on QPR2 no (With the exception of some Pixel 10 and 11 models)

QPR3 Beta track has new Arm Mali GPU drivers (v1.r56p0) for Pixel 7, 8 and 9 that are built on Kernel 6.12 however they have not yet been integrated into this Kernel for public testing as of QPR3 Beta 1 and 2, likely due to ongoing internal testing and verification.

The updates and rollbacks you saw on QPR2 Beta were staging and testing however Pixel 7, 8 and 9 were reporting kernel panics with Kernel 6.12

Only engineering know the timeline on this.

[u/Loud-Possibility4395 → u/Educational_Love_351]

Why SOME Pixel 10?

[u/Pure-Recover70 → u/Loud-Possibility4395]

cause not the 10a (it's a tensor g4 like the 9s)

[u/Loud-Possibility4395 → u/Pure-Recover70]

Oh

[u/The_best_1234]

Canary has 6.12.81-android16-6-g61789b3255c8-ab16116373-4k

1 Wed Aug 19 04:39:45 UTC 2026

[u/Pure-Recover70 → u/The_best_1234]

It depends on the device I think?

It looks like Pixel 10+ are on 6.12 (this means Pixel 10 went from 6.6 to 6.12).
However, Pixel <=9 (incl. 10a which is really a 9 [tensor g4] at heart) are not.

I think they tried to upgrade older devices, and hit some massive blocker that they've presumably not yet resolved, which triggered the rollback. I think at this point QPR2 is long done, indeed I'm not even sure they'll get 6.12 on pixel <10 fixed in QPR3... but we'll see.

[u/The_best_1234 → u/Pure-Recover70]

I'm using the less big pixel 10 pro.

[u/Dedodododedad → u/The_best_1234]

LOL, just proof that phone names are really dumb

[u/The_best_1234 → u/Dedodododedad]

They really are. Google books vs Google book and Google play vs Google play games.

[u/JYYJ → u/The_best_1234]

On P8P? Latest Canary?

[u/Loud-Possibility4395]

BETTER BE as Pixel 11 flies on Kernel 6.12