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`prebuilt` - a channel which is built for the tici and contains only required files for running openpilot and identifying the channel
`release` - a `prebuilt` channel with `ALLOW_DEBUG=false` (`RELEASE=1` when building panda, ex: `nightly`, `release3`)
+
+## openpilot channels
+
+| channel | type | description |
+| ----------- | ----------- | ---------- |
+| release3 | release | channel for end users |
+| staging | release | staging channel for release3 |
+| nightly | release | generated nightly from last commit passing CI tests |
+| master | prebuilt | current master commit with experimental features enabled |
+| git branches | none | installed manually, experimental features enabled, build required |
+
+
## creating casync channel
`create_casync_prebuilt.sh` - creates a `prebuilt` casync openpilot channel, ready to upload to `openpilot-channels`
@@ -23,17 +35,7 @@ release/create_casync_prebuilt.sh
`upload_casync_channel.sh` - helper for uploading a casync channel to `openpilot-channels`
+
## release channel
to create a release channel, set `RELEASE=1` environment variable when running build script
-
-
-## openpilot channels
-
-| channel | type | description |
-| ----------- | ----------- | ---------- |
-| release3 | release | channel for end users |
-| staging | release | staging channel for release3 |
-| nightly | release | generated nightly from last commit passing CI tests |
-| master | prebuilt | current master commit with experimental features enabled |
-| git branches | none | installed manually, experimental features enabled, build required |