Switch from the 5.8.x kernel with allwinner specific patches to megi's
5.9 based tree. He drives the PinePhone related kernel development
forward like no other, his tree and changes are well documented on
xnux.eu, and he frequently publishes tested "build this one" commits with
the latest improvements. It makes a faster and less time consuming
workflow to simply package these versions (after a smoke test) into
postmarketOS edge, and after some time to catch possible regressions
ship the same version in postmarketOS stable.
This kernel should make HDMI work for most people, and improve call
quality (thanks to smaeul's patches, which are integrated into megi's
tree).
Kernel config changes:
* Enable MODEM_POWER in the kernel config, among other improvements this
allows us to get rid of the 30s delay on power off.
* Enable CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_ILITEK_ILI9881C (new PineTab panel)
* Enable CONFIG_ZRAM
* Enable CONFIG_HID_MULTITOUCH
Related: https://xnux.eu/devices/feature/modem-pp.html#toc-modem-power-driver
Changelog: https://megous.com/git/linux/tag/?h=orange-pi-5.9-20201019-1553
Co-Authored-By: Martijn Braam <martijn@brixit.nl>
Co-Authored-By: Clayton Craft <clayton@craftyguy.net>
This adds emoji support to the squeekboard emoji picker, and to any apps
that might want to display emojis (chatty, firefox, text editor, etc)
Thanks @vurpo for the tip.
We have tried out lightdm-mobile-greeter for three weeks, but let's remove
it again from the default install.
The greeter behaves completely different from the Phosh (or any other
UI's) lockscreen, therefore it provides a bad user experience. Not only
the design is different, but it also can't display the same information
as the Phosh lockscreen. You can't accept a call coming in while the
greeter is displayed, and whatever other features will be added to the
lockscreen in the future would not be in the greeter (e.g. making a photo
without logging in, emergency calls without login, ...).
It's clear to me now, that postmarketOS in the default installation
should install one UI in single-user mode, and that UI should use its
lockscreen to display all login screens. The case of having multiple UIs
installed at the same time is used rarely, so instead of optimizing for
it, document how to enable a greeter after the installation in the wiki:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Configure_postmarketOS_for_multiple_UIs_or_users
Besides the strong reasons above to ship with no greeter at all, we had
problems with lightdm-mobile-greeter in particular:
* It did not work with Plasma Mobile
* When HDMI was plugged in, the greeter was not usable (especially
annoying, because Phosh tends to crash after plugging in HDMI, so it
would go back to the greeter which then means you need to reboot)
This reverts commit be693339ec.
cpio expects a newline-separated list of files from stdin by default,
and you can change that to a NULL-terminated list of files by using the
'-0' switch.
Previously we were passing a NULL-terminated list ('-print0') and using
cpio with the default setting. For some reason busybox cpio works with
that but GNU cpio doesn't like that and generates an initramfs without
any files (as it only gets "a single file").
With this change the initramfs generation works fine with both busybox
cpio and gnu cpio.
Fixes#815
- Update to Linux 5.9-rc7
- Add "BAM DMUX" driver as network interface to the modem
for mobile data
- Major rewrite/cleanup of all MSM8916 device trees
- Lots of cleanup everywhere
- I hope I did not forget something :)
Devices:
- bq-paella: Add vibrator
- samsung-j5nlte: Add display
- samsung-a2015 (a3u/a5u): Fix USB-OTG detection
- "Initial" support for Xiaomi Redmi 2 (wingtech-wt88047)
- USB
- Storage (eMMC, SD card)
- Display, brightness control
- Touchscreen, buttons
- IMU (accelerometer+gyroscope)
- Notification LED
- Sound
- WiFi, Bluetooth
- Modem
- Initial support for Motorola Moto E 2015 (motorola-surnia)
- USB
- Storage (eMMC, SD card)
- Display, brightness control
- Touchscreen, buttons
- WiFi, Bluetooth
- Battery status
- Initial support for Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
- USB
- Storage (eMMC, SD card)
- Initial support for Oppo Mirror 5s (oppo-a51f)
- USB
- Storage (eMMC, SD card)
- WiFi, Bluetooth
Since
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/12086 the
Cheese application won't be installed anymore unless explicitely
specified. Applications that usually depend on it now depend on
cheese-libs instead.
This means we can stop hiding it and allowing people to install it
themselves if they want too
This application doesn't work 100% when launched from the 'desktop', but
it is still useful as a handler for opening image files from a file
browser, so the icon is hidden.
eog is a nice image viewer that works pretty well on a
touchscreen/mobile display.
Nemo is a file manager from the Cinnamon desktop project, which forked
from Nautilus some time ago. It is much more usable than Nautilus on a
touchscreen/mobile display.
Set eog as default app in mimeapps.list, so it even works when hiding
the launcher with postmarketos-hidden-desktop-entries (we'll hide it,
because it doesn't work when opened directly; no image is shown and
opening a file does not work either). The list of associated mimetypes
is taken from here:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/eog/-/blob/master/data/org.gnome.eog.desktop.in.in
We now trigger on files in /usr/share/postmarketos-mkinitfs-triggers.
This can be used by other packages like osk-sdl for which an updated
version would otherwise never be used in the initramfs
Enable the freezer cgroup. This allows a user to start a large application like
firefox, freeze it to save some power, and unfreeze it to continue using it,
without having to restart the application completely. Stopping and restarting
the application completely results in more battery usage as well as lost state.
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Sloppy patch that makes the displayport alt-mode output signal work on
the PinePhone convergence edition. Proper fix is in the 5.8 tree
[ci:skip-build]: Martijn made sure that it builds and works. This is
time critical, so skip the CI build.
Fix mobile-config-firefox not replacing postmarketos-config-firefox on
upgrade. Without the pkgver in provides, apk only considers
mobile-config-firefox as virtual package name, not as replacement.
Verified with the CE factory image:
$ sudo apk upgrade
...
(20/29) Purging postmarketos-config-firefox (1-r0)
(21/29) Installing mobile-config-firefox (1.0.1-r1)
...
postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile has plasma-camera in _pmb_recommends.
plasma-camera does not build for x86, because mpg123-libs-1.26.3-r0 is
still broken in Alpine edge repos (aports#11807).
Disable postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile for x86 again, so the CI check
test_aports_ui doesn't fail anymore with:
postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile/APKBUILD: package 'plasma-camera' from _pmb_recommends not found for arch 'x86'
[ci:skip-vercheck]: only modifying arches
[ci:skip-build]: unfortunately, postmarketos-ui-plasma-mobile fails to
build for x86_64 too due to broken libdv in Alpine (aports#11892).
I'll create MRs to Alpine to fix the broken depends, so we should be
able to enable it again soon.
Related: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/11807
Related: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/11892
