leimon @leimon@librem.one

To anyone interested in the #Pinephone, or even the #Librem5 and #Linux #smartphones in general, we owe a huge debt of gratitude imo to #Megi.

He's not employed to do this, but donates hundreds of his own personal hours helping to get the hardware working, increase battery life (over and over) and generally make a huge amount of the smartphone progress we've seen, happen.

I'm personally extremely grateful and encourage everyone to donate at the bottom of his page here:
https://xnux.eu/contribute.html

MNT Reform Kintex-7 FPGA module work-in-progress

We are proud that mobian developer kop316 has now gone for a real fork of the unmaintained mmsd and will be trying to get it into Debian. Also @purism will be using his code on the Librem5. It goes both ways! This will hopefully become the basis for The Next Generation of mmsd:
https://gitlab.com/kop316/mmsd

This is the last week to pick up a #pinebookpro before production pauses on May 24th.

Pine Store link: https://pine64.com/product-category/pinebook-pro/?v=0446c16e2e66

Information about production break: https://www.pine64.org/2021/05/15/may-update-connection-established/

i've booted mainline linux on this (ls1028a) but still working on the display pipeline, which is kinda nuts (mali dp->cadence mhdp (imx8 flavored)) and gpu (GC7000UL). so far:
- monitor/edid detected on DP and have mali dp fb0, but stays black
- etnaviv binds but MMU faults

on a positive note: lots of peripherals work and the cortex-a72s feel snappy

New blog post discussing what happened in March and April on #LINMOBapps and a glimpse at plans for its future:

https://linmob.net/linmobapps-additions-changes-march-april-2021/

#LinuxPhoneApps

New blog post: "Will Linux Phones stay around this time?"
https://linmob.net/will-linux-phones-stay-around-this-time/

Comparing #LinuxPhone history and present.
#LinuxPhones #PinePhone #Librem5 #Openmoko

#PineTalk Episode 007 is out!

Shaken, not stirred: An interview with @danct12 , creator of a the Arch Linux ARM Spin for #PinePhone and #PineTab, Feedback, two aspects of the latest Community Update, and four listener questions. Listen Now!

Full show notes: https://www.pine64.org/podcast/007-my-name-is-64-pine64/

Here are the full sources for the new LS1028A processor module for MNT Reform, designed by RBZ Embedded Logics (Madrid): https://source.mnt.re/reform/mnt-reform-layerscape-ls1028a-som#mnt-reform-layerscape-ls1028a-som

The chip on this module has dual ARM Cortex-A72 processors and 8GB or 16GB DDR4 RAM while keeping the Vivante GC7000L GPU with open source drivers.

If you want to have a cool #retroarch setup on postmarketOS edge like lazzardo, check out the new wiki page he wrote:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/RetroArch

Most devices, like his BQ Aquaris X5, or the #pinephone and #librem5 need a touch input scaling patch. So he created one, upstreamed it to RetroArch and applied in Alpine 🎉

This blog is now hosted on the GPS/LTE modem of the Pinephone ! Very impressive feat
https://nns.ee/blog/2021/04/01/modem-blog.html #linux #pinephone #modem

I made a new video, demoing Mobian on the Purism Librem5 Evergreen.

Watch it on
PeerTube https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/2addeee5-0352-4c7b-b7ed-f44a140b9dfb,
Odysee https://odysee.com/@linmob:3/mobian-on-the-purism-librem-5-evergreen:f, and
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_4zCOTELlU

cc @purism, @mobian
#Mobian #Librem5 #LinuxPhones

MNT Reform march 2021 production update: https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2021-03-07-reform-production-update-mar-2021.html (soon on Crowd Supply, too)

Portfolio 9.10 by is out! #foss #pinephone #linux https://blogs.gnome.org/tchx84/2021/03/01/portfolio-0-9-10/

The thirty-fifth edition of my weekly collection of Linux Phone news (@PINE64 #PinePhone, @purism #Librem5 and such), #LinBits, is out!

https://linmob.net/2021/02/28/linbits34-weekly-linux-phone-news-week8.html

A new @ManjaroARM #Phosh release, #PlasmaMobile tarballs, #Sailfish 4.0 on PinePhone and more!
#LinuxPhones

#postmarketOSpodcast 3 is out! Lots of news covered this time, among the topics: @purism's Librem 5, Mainlining of Android devices, Feedbackd, @kde Plasma 5.21 and lots about @PINE64's PinePhone.

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/03-Librem5-Mainlining-Feedbackd-Plasma521/

Phosh Overview

"phosh is graphical shell for mobile, touch based devices like smart phones. It’s the default graphical shell on Purism’s Librem 5 (and that’s where it came to life) but projects like Postmarket OS, Mobian and Debian have picked it up putting it into use on other devices as well and contributing patches."

https://puri.sm/posts/phosh-overview/

#librem5 #privacy #freedom #phosh

While we had enabled power saving for the vivante gpu on the #librem5 since some time we couldn't power off the corresponding regulator (power supply) since the phone would hang then. Turns out we just didn't give it enough time to come back up. Fix is already merged into linux-next: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=3b66e4a8e58a85af3212c7117d7a29c9ef6679a2

#etnaviv #librem5 #batterylife

The future is going to be awesome 🌈

https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/12/18/gnome-shell-ux-plans-for-gnome-40