Most parts work, still not sure why Bluetooth gives me errors in dmesg, audio out works, microphone input not yet… I’m getting there.

But graphics, charging, low standby power consumption, LTE, wifi… those all work already.

The fact that postmarketOS has support and also that there are people working on mainline support, makes this a task that is not as difficult as I thought, as most work was already done for another distro.

Otherwise it runs more fluid than Android ever did on it and it has a great standby time (forgot to turn it off at around 80 % and a few days later it was at 58 %).

For now stuck on merging the Kernel patches from the sdm670-mainline project with those from Mobian, not really something I can do without knowing C. I just hope someone with the right skills does it at some point.

Then I just need to make some smaller merge requests, like one to add a udev rule for vibration support and so on.

Not much missing before I can finally use it as a daily driver.

  • version_unsorted@lemm.ee
    1·
    9 months ago

    I know C and I have a pixel 3a. I could probably help out with the kernel patches if you want. I’m not totally clear what work needs to be done. You just need someone to help get those patches merged against the mobian upstream kernel?

    • erebion@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      2·
      9 months ago

      Cool! Well, it’s just a merge conflict. I don’t knoe how to combine the patches. Should be pretty easy for someone that does not need to google for every line of C.

      I can give you notes* later on what to do to get to the conflict, then maybe you can resolve it and push the result to some repo? :)

      *Just 3 or 4 commands, I think, including the Debian gbp command

      • version_unsorted@lemm.ee
        2·
        9 months ago

        Yeah sure. I’ll pull it all down and reproduce and try to get the conflicts sorted out and push the repo up somewhere. I’ve never built a Debian kernel before but I’m sure I can figure it out!