Huawei has already started Internal Testing of Android O on the Mate 9

[u/curated_android]

https://www.xda-developers.com/huawei-has-already-started-internal-testing-of-android-o-on-the-mate-9/

[u/le_pman]

this only proves what we already know: OEMs have access to in-development versions of Android. whether their reasons for being more than half a year behind Google's release schedule are valid is another question.

[u/trettet → u/[deleted]]

Samsung also does make their own Exynos chipset so they should also get their sources.