On Wed 2020-08-05 21:06:45, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:27 PM Pavel Machek wrote: > > > 2. In the past few merge windows we have seen an increase in (usually > > > older) Android phones and tablets gaining mainline kernel support. > > > This time we get a total of eight Snapdragon phones and two Tegra > > > tablets. To me this indicates that we finally have sufficient driver > > > support, in particular on the GPU side, to make this workable. > > > It also shows the impact that a single hobbyist developer can have, > > > as most of the new support was submitted by Konrad Dybcio who only > > > started contributing kernel patches to mainline Linux for postmarketos > > > earlier this year. > > > > I'm happy to see that. So far, Nokia N900 is reaonably supported (basically everything > > but Bluetooth works, voicecalls miss userland daemon for audio), and Motorola > > Droid 4 (modem needs some more in kernel, camera will be hard). > > > > Is there anything with similar support coming in, or is it usual "it boots, > > serial console works"? > > My impression is that the newly added phones are still fairly rudimentary, > but some others that were added in the past releases have gotten > further. I don't know any details, but I've added Konrad to Cc, he can > comment on his work. > > One of the missing pieces with the OMAP based phones has always > been the GPU, and on that front I think by now almost every other GPU > is ahead. I have working 3D on Droid 4 with Maemo Leste... but I'm not sure what kind of hacks are involved. (And not sure I want to know). > > Should we have some kind of linux-phones mailing list? There is quite a lot of > > stuff common in phones. > > PostmarketOS is probably the right place to look for this. Yes, I monitor postmarketOS a bit. But I believe we should have something cross-distro. I'm more involved with Maemo Leste, but there are other players -- at least Librem and Jolla. Best regards, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html