Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Aug 2020 21:45:12 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL 0/5] ARM: SoC: changes for v5.9 |
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Hi!
> Thanks for all the kind words, I really appreciate it.
Thanks for good work :-).
> >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. > > Thanks for adding me. The Sony sdm630/6 phones are shaping up really > well, but most of the work is not upstreamed yet mainly due to SMMU > maintainers not liking Qualcomm code and looking for cleaner > solutions. As time progresses, more things will see the light of the > upstream. The current-ish progress can be seen on my github [1]. And > much more is yet to come. > > Regarding msm8992/4, there is a need for the 20nm DSI PHY driver. It > exists for every other gen of qcom SoCs since 2013, but due to low > interest in these platforms, this specific one never got there. I > tried emailing the person who wrote most of the present ones, but > gmail told me the mail didn't exist :shrug:.
I won't pretend to understand all this. Do you normally have modems working?
> >> 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. > > First of all: postmarketOS, not PostmarketOS :P > > I would actually say that's incorrect. With the release of the > PinePhone and the Librem 5, the Linux mobile community has entered its > heyday and plenty mobile-oriented distributions have arisen (for > example Mobian, Manjaro ARM, Pure OS-ARM etc.) and some have gotten > more attention than before (think Ubuntu Touch, Maemo Leste). pmOS is > only one of many. > > The current thing to do is every distro maintains their own kernel (or > over 100 like in pmOS, which is terrible for the poor CI :/) and only > a small percentage of patches end up being upstreamed for various > reasons (clean-ness of the code, will of the maintainers, time > constraints..). As time goes, we're gonna see more stuff being > added.
I did not know how popular PinePhone is. Does it currently have useful battery life?
Would something like phone@vger.kernel.org be useful for low-level stuff?
Best regards,
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