samsung-serranovelte runs Linux mainline (linux-postmarketos-qcom-msm8916)
with support for:
- Display
- Touchscreen
- Sound
- GPIO keys
- NFC
- Vibrator
- IMU (Accelerometer + Gyroscope)
- Battery
The primary limitation of samsung-serranovelte is that it can only run
ARMv7 (32-bit) binaries, even though its hardware (MSM8916) is 64-bit
capable. This is because it was never updated with 64-bit compatible
firmware (usually introduced together with the Android 5.0 update).
[ci:skip-vercheck]: only added new architectures
MSM8916 has a single "modem" firmware for the audio DSP and modem.
In some early tests, the remote processor boots successfully at least
and the modem shows up in ofono. (Have not done further tests yet...)
However, audio stops working as soon as it is loaded
(because the audio DSP assumes control over the audio hardware).
For now let's just package it for all MSM8916 mainline devices
so it can be installed more easily. It is not used or installed
by default but it can be manually installed for testing.
Remove all firmware-support dependencies from the firmware package and
add them to -downstream-firmware and -mainline-firmware packages which
have an install_if on the downstream or mainline kernel subpackage.
[ci:skip-build]: already built successfully in CI
device/device-asus-me176c:
- Install me176c-factory to apply correct MAC addresses for
WiFi and BT
- Use FAT32 for boot partition. This allows flashing the boot
partition directly as ESP (EFI System Partition).
- Overall cleanup
device/linux-asus-me176c:
- Update kernel fork to 4.19.80
- Cleanup APKBUILD
- Stop building patched ACPI DSDT table directly into kernel
firmware/firmware-asus-me176c:
- Package WiFi firmware
firmware/firmware-asus-me176c-acpi:
- New package for the patched ACPI DSDT table
-> Separate from firmware-asus-me176c because it is always required,
(not optional)
[ci:skip-build]: runs into timeout
The modem boots up properly without causing any problems, so let's
install the firmware and support packages by default.
Also install adsp-audio now by default to boot up the adsp for audio and
other services provided by the processor.
[ci:skip-build]: already built successfully in CI
Firmware for Exynos 7880 SOC from https://github.com/TheMuppets
It is needed to enable wifi, and possibly other hardware. All of firmware found on Muppets has been packaged.
Also contains wlan module configuration.
- OTG support
- Charger
- WiFi 5GHz
- RTC bug "fixed" (always-on interrupt - made device overheat!)
- Kernel version bumped to 5.2.1
- Memory timings
- New WM8994 codec board driver (fixes suspend/resume)
- Camera's regulator supported now (saves power at least!)
- Updated panel driver (still not in mainline, idk why)
- MHL support in kernel (fixes boot times and screen, currently disabled in X,
not tested)
- Other minor kernel chagnes
[ci:skip-build]: already built successfully in CI
Boots succsfully, SSH over USB works fine, display and touch screen
works fine. WiFi is also confirmed to be working.
[ci:skip-build]: already built successfully in CI
This port uses the Android bootloader (kernelflinger) instead of
Gummiboot or rEFInd,... just in case if people still want to easily
reflash Android later without going through some DNX Fastboot, Intel
Flash Tool blah blah.
Chuwi violates GPLv2 by not releasing the kernel sources of Android to
the public. This port uses Linux mainline (5.1-rc7), and almost
everything works properly, so thankfully we don't have to use the 3.10
kernel which is outdated and EOL.
[ci:skip-build]: kernel takes more than an hour to compile on CI.
ollieparanoid made sure that everything builds.
* Add support for osk-sdl
* Use latest commit from bitrvmpd
* Add udev rules, scripts for charging led
* Add (hacky) udev rule for jack detection
* Add pulseaudio files
* Silence substream kernel messages
* Change charging script path
* Move adsp-audio dependency to firmware to avoid watchdog
[ci:skip-build]: already built successfully in CI
device-xiaomi-santoni:
* Added initial audio support (generated by xml2ucm)
* Fixed splash screen size (720x1280), which also fixes the screen
showing "posma"
firmware-xiaomi-santoni:
* Firmware files are added (contains ADSP and WCNSS firmwares), these
* files are from Developer ROM 03/29 by Xiaomi.
linux-xiaomi-santoni:
* Kernel updated to 3.18.138.
* Modernized GCC, it'll now compile with the latest GCC from Alpine.
[ci:skip-build]: already built successfully in CI
This adds the required firmware to allow ip link set wlan0 up, which
then enables Samsung Hero-Devices, the Galaxy S7 (herolte) and the
Galaxy S7 Edge (hero2lte), to connect to the Internet.
This device is x86_64 and has a 32-bit UEFI, so I need to install
32-bit grub (AFAIK it's the only bootloader capable of loading a 64-bit
kernel from 32-bit).
The grub-efi-x86 package has been generated with pmbootstrap.
Rename the firmware so it's clear that it's specific to the platform and
not only the amami device. Sony rhine platform includes as follows:
Xperia Z1 (honami)
Xperia Z1 Compact (amami)
Xperia Z Ultra (togari)
This is tested to boot on google-crosshatch, following these
instructions:
$ pmbootstrap init, choose the mainline kernel
$ pmbootstrap install --no-fde
$ pmbootstrap initfs hook_add debug-shell
(enter fastboot mode on the device)
$ fastboot set_active a
$ fastboot flash dtbo_a ~/.local/var/pmbootstrap/chroot_rootfs_google-crosshatch/boot/dtbo-google-crosshatch-mainline.img
$ pmbootstrap flasher boot
And you should get telnet after a while. This kernel takes a long time
to build, so [skip ci]. I can confirm it builds locally.
Note that this patch adds the mainline dtb path to deviceinfo. But the
parameter gets ignored on the downstream kernel, so it's fine to keep it
in the shared deviceinfo.
Mainlining this device is work in progress, details at:
https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/issues/153
Runs an only slightly patched mainline kernel.
For now:
- flashing works (only SD card boot and kernel flashing tested)
- boots
- screen works
- keyboard works
- touch works
- accelerated Xorg works (OGL not tested, xf86-video-tegra works,
but sometims X crashes with invalid instruction error - open top menus in
Xfce file manager to reproduce)
- SD card works (troubles with GPIO insertion detection)
- USB should work, not tested
- WiFi should work, also not tested (a lot of warnings during boot)
- Sound needs configuration
- battery needs kernel driver (max8922/max8907c)
- touchkey doesn't work - very strange hardware here...
- cameras don't work - no DT bindings, but all drivers there
Other functionality is broken/not tested.
[skip ci]: already built successfully in CI
Add firmware required to make WiFi work. Patch the kernel so the ramoops
dmesgs can be read properly without having to remove that header every
time.
[skip ci]: already built successfully in CI
I have tested this on xfce4 and weston. Also plasma-mobile "works"! The
performance isn't any better than on armhf, it's still less than one
frame per second and llvmpipe still doesn't work.
After switching to armv7, this kernel fails to compile with the
following error unless CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_ARM_BS is disabled:
arch/arm/crypto/aesbs-core.S:449: Error: thumb conditional instruction should be in IT block -- `addeq r6,r6,#0x10'
arch/arm/crypto/aesbs-core.S:904: Error: thumb conditional instruction should be in IT block -- `addeq r6,r6,#0x10'
arch/arm/crypto/aesbs-core.S:2100: Error: thumb conditional instruction should be in IT block -- `subne r9,#0x10'
