Mastodawn

I'm super happy to share, that the #Fairphone (Gen. 6) was just announced, and we've been able to already publish a lot of code for it!

* #postmarketOS support is submitted
* 59(!) patches were sent to bring up upstream #Linux on the SM7635 SoC and enable the device.
* The stock Android source code is public on code.fairphone.com

This has been a lot of work over the last couple of months so it's awesome to finally be able to share it!

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Mae 1d ago

@z3ntu oh my god this is incredible, I might have to trade in my FP4

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Mae 1d ago

@z3ntu I know you are a fairphone employee, so does this mean FP6 will run mainline out of the box?

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Luca Weiss 1d ago

@Mae Nope, Android will ship with Qualcomm's 6.1 kernel, there's just too much stuff still missing in upstream that is required for full functionality. I've talked about it also at FOSDEM: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4836-kernel-support-for-mobile-linux-the-missing-20-/

FOSDEM 2025 - Kernel support for Mobile Linux: The missing 20%

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Mae

@z3ntu that's reasonable, still extremly cool. Big fan of your work on this :)