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!
U-Boot now runs on the Pixel 3a! Even the integrated eMMC works :D
Searching for hackers (hacker: anyone that likes making technology do what wasn't intended) to build a community for jailbreaking MR headsets
Chat anyone interested in glitching Mixed Reality headsets ? I'm trying to build a community so we can get something done, as there's a bunch of folks that wanna charge money for it and I don't really like that idea x3.
The main SoC is XR2 by Qualcomm, it is an ARM SoC, and most of the headsets run very locked-down Android.
The goal here is to try to jailbreak it so we can run custom, fully open source software on it, possibly even mainline drivers to Linux and run something like #postmarketos :)
Unfortunately I am a systems hacker, I am hopeless when it comes to electric engineering anything, so I cannot actually pull off glitching myself. I can help with the stuff that comes after, such as mainlining drivers, though :)
IRC #xrbreak on oftc
Matrix: #xrbreak:itycodes.org
Discord: https://discord.gg/HeDAg3Ma7A
Please boost! Let's build an open and accessible community!
Any help is appreciated, no information is useless! If you would be interested in helping, we need anyone with, including BUT NOT LIMITED TO
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!
@tonyg @z3ntu does the FP6 has really no DisplayPort over USB-C ? (And a downgrade to USB-C 2.0)
https://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?&idPhone2=13955&idPhone1=12540
And another factor of battery which make it still not switch able between FPx
Slower CPUs (okay smaller also 4nm)
@z3ntu
It is awesome! Thank you for your work at fairphone and beyond!
For me the fp gen6 is perfect in almost every aspect.
Do you know anything about the decision for usb 2.0?
Imo its by far the biggest shortcomming this time.
@fell FP4 and FP5 I haven't figured out how to make audio working yet, some other people have also taken a look but haven't figured out the problem either.
I haven't tried yet on FP6 but I hope I won't hit the same problem there (even though it's again an amplifier from the same brand as on FP4/5), since the audio stack is a bit different from the SoC side.
@guenther You can order the phone today already ;)
But in real terms, we in postmarketOS *are* looking for a new name, since the name is not reflecting our long term goals, we don't want to be constrained just to devices that we prevent from becoming e-waste. You can read more here https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmcr/-/blob/main/0003-name-change-plan.md
@z3ntu give us the 120hz GNOME mobile demo!!!!!
fr though congrats! it is frankly incredible how you manage to get all of this working and orchestrate all the patches to be ready to go during the launch 🚀
@homo_particeps Variable refresh rate? I honestly don't know. For FP5 I know that at least the panel can switch between 60 Hz and 90 Hz but we just hardcode the sequence in the upstream driver to 90 Hz. Not sure if all the plumbing exists already to support this variable refresh rate.
@cas do you have any idea?
@z3ntu @homo_particeps i think it's panel specific, on the Galaxy S23 all you have to do is change the timings and the panel will follow afaict, but idk to what precision
not sure what the kernel API is but i assume we could at least expose modes for all the supported refresh rates, then there's probably a flag to indicate that the mode can be changed without blanking
@drakulix knows how that works on the DRM side, maybe we can experiment with it on the S23
@adrianyyy @z3ntu @homo_particeps @drakulix i think you need to somehow inform the drm subsystem that you can do non-blanking mode switches, and it might need support at the DSI controller layer to actually do such switches dynamically
INADRMDEV but it's possible that the default flow for mode switches involves resetting the panel and the non-blanking flow needs different code, also cc @lumag for that
@wrenix@chaos.fyi Not yet :) I hope to be able to work on those sometime soon, but there's some more important bits not working yet like internal storage and GPU so those come first. You can see what works or doesn't work right now here: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/The_Fairphone_(Gen._6)_(fairphone-fp6)
@z3ntu @jacek_ Oh I hadn't noticed that on the spec sheet... good reason to stick to my FP5 for now I guess (and being able to keep using the older models is partly the point!). Hopefully the 7th gen model won't need that tradeoff
I have dreams of using my phone as both a phone and a desktop Linux system, haha
I'm curious about wireless display, though - I have an old lapdock that supports Miracast, could that possibly work?
@error420 https://murena.com/america/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairphone-6/ soon?
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