Pro1-X with Linux

[Danct12 58]

I was also going to go onboard with this too. Still haven't played around with my Pro1X much tho.

[brunoais 334]

On 8/18/2022 at 7:08 AM, raymo said:

@claude0001
Android 12 remove access to the data folder (google "privacy" schizophrenic paranoia, or simply a way removing your right to access your own phone ?) so the archlinux container doesn't install properly, and I didn't find a way to correctly install scripts from SDRausty yet.
But I guess it will be a workaround in future, I really trust in the knowledge of this community to make the pro1-x better !

I was thinking about using bind mounts to achieve those kinds of things. Some apps don't know they exist but given the kernel version PRO¹-X is using (maybe the PRO¹ is using a close one to PRO¹-X), bind mounts and namespaces are well available in the mainline. From what I could poke already, it appears android has those too in the kernel. If the concept works right, that would mean SAF is a complete scam and not just badly implemented fancy pants security.

 

[brunoais 334]

On 8/18/2022 at 8:30 AM, Aka said:

Hi.

We(me+Ichernev) are currently messing around mainline kernel on Snapdragon 662.
We are going to submit some base stuff pretty soon depending how maintainers will go on merging simple compatibles.
However we are working on other devices, Redmi 9T(me) and Oneplus N100(Ichernev).
While progress is going to be slow we will get there at some point, one of harder things will be Adreno 610 support due to no GMU but i hope this will be done by SoMainline for 665 SoC so we just can pick it.

Awesome! I hope this brings more possibilities for PRO¹-X!

[SEH 2]

On 8/16/2022 at 5:18 PM, claude0001 said:

If you want to run mainline Linux out of principle, I totally respect that. 👍

But, on the practical side: what do you think you would miss if you ran your favourite GNU distro in a container of Android, Sailfish or UBTouch, as proposed by @matf-kabouik or @Rob. S.?

 

The ability to run the phone for at least 5 years with uptodate kernel with security fixes.

[splintercell38 0]

On 8/17/2022 at 2:11 PM, claude0001 said:

Thanks to MaemoLeste, the N900 can run a 5.x.y kernel now (I should try it at some point). However also here, they had to somehow reuse the original closed-source driver for 3D graphics, and sadly, also the remaining hardware is only mostly supported. And that is 13 years after the device was released ... Not to be misunderstood: the MaemoLeste people do great work here, they are just too late to the party. Pretty good illustration of my point above, about how obsolescence catches up with the phones before their support in mainline Linux matures sufficiently for being practically useful. 😞

The interesting thing about Maemo Leste imo is that some of the targets (particularly the Motorola Droid 4) are more or less usable as a cellphone nowadays, especially running an OS as lightweight as maemo leste.

I even ran LineageOS on a Droid 4 as a regular phone until about 3 years ago.

[Danct12 58]

Hi folks,

I just started working on the mainline kernel a few days ago with ichernev and so far I've got USB and simplefb up and going, no button, storage or regulators yet.

[Adamyno 13]

21 hours ago, Danct12 said:

Hi folks,

I just started working on the mainline kernel a few days ago with ichernev and so far I've got USB and simplefb up and going, no button, storage or regulators yet.

Is it SnapDragon 835?

[Danct12 58]

And here is postmarketOS booting to getty on the Pro1X.

https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/108/980/689/786/551/294/original/0791f254a0adf297.mp4

 

3 minutes ago, Adamyno said:

Is it SnapDragon 835?

Nope, this is the Snapdragon 662 version of the Pro1X.

[Adamyno 13]

2 minutes ago, Danct12 said:

And here is postmarketOS booting to getty on the Pro1X.

https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/108/980/689/786/551/294/original/0791f254a0adf297.mp4

 

Nope, this is the Snapdragon 662 version of the Pro1X.

That sounds good, because most of us have it (or will have it). Doesn't it have 8GB of RAM? The picture shows only 6GB.

[Danct12 58]

1 minute ago, Adamyno said:

That sounds good, because most of us have it (or will have it). Doesn't it have 8GB of RAM? The picture shows only 6GB.

You can get the Pro1X with 128GB UFS/6GB RAM.

Not to mention, this unit is a bit special because the chassis is not in blue, but rather the same color as the SDM835 Pro1 with XDA logo engraved and I did not pay for it.

[Adamyno 13]

3 minutes ago, Danct12 said:

A Pro1X-et 128 GB UFS / 6 GB RAM-mal kaphatja meg.

Arról nem is beszélve, hogy ez az egység egy kicsit különleges, mert a ház nem  kék, hanem ugyanolyan színű, mint az XDA logóval gravírozott SDM835 Pro1, és nem fizettem érte.

I understand. Mine is 8/256GB in blue with SD662. Yours may be an early piece. Maybe the main components and SoC are the same.

[Rob. S. 1,661]

11 minutes ago, Danct12 said:

Not to mention, this unit is a bit special because the chassis is not in blue, but rather the same color as the SDM835 Pro1 with XDA logo engraved and I did not pay for it.

Indiegogo samples were only available as blue, but after the Pro1 X had become available through Fxtec's website as well, from there it also could (and can) be ordered in black.

Edited September 11, 2022 by Rob. S.

[suicidal_orange 100]

32 minutes ago, Danct12 said:

this unit is a bit special because the chassis is not in blue, but rather the same color as the SDM835 Pro1 with XDA logo engraved and I did not pay for it.

Sounds like a dev unit to me, has one of the "community devs" finally appeared?  Great work whatever your backstory 👍🏾

[Danct12 58]

♻️ postmarketOS 🙂

[Danct12 58]

fxtec-qx1050:~$ kmscube
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GPU is working! 🎉

[zstas 6]

@Danct12 Hello, any plans to submit your PR to postmarketos repo? I'd like to try your work.

[sspiff 29]

Is there a repo we can build an image for the Pro1X for?

I use mine mostly as a pocket computer with Termux, but working Linux distro would be awesome! I tried droidian for a while but without GPU acceleration and power management it was not the greatest experience.

[zstas 6]

@sspiff I found (by username) these repos [0][1]. The 1st one is mainline kernel, the 2nd one is "ports" repo for postmarketos with scenarios for building images. I suggest using this instruction[2] to combine all this stuff - of course you'd need to replace kernel repo and ports repo with custom ones.

I'd also like to play with it, but probably after finishing other pending things. If you succeed with building the image - please share your instructions 🙂

[0] - https://gitlab.com/Danct12/linux-postmarketos/-/tree/fxtecpro1x-secondreturns?ref_type=heads

[1] - https://gitlab.com/Danct12/pmaports/-/tree/fxtecpro1-mainline?ref_type=heads

[2] - https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Pmbootstrap

Edited January 29 by zstas

[sspiff 29]

On 1/29/2024 at 11:33 AM, zstas said:

@sspiff I found (by username) these repos [0][1]. The 1st one is mainline kernel, the 2nd one is "ports" repo for postmarketos with scenarios for building images. I suggest using this instruction[2] to combine all this stuff - of course you'd need to replace kernel repo and ports repo with custom ones.

I started looking into these but sadly the kernel seems to be for the Pro1 with Snapdragon 835, not the Pro1-X

Nevermind, the kernel is for the Pro1-X, but the pmaports branch is for Pro1.

Edited January 30 by sspiff

[zstas 6]

sorry, my bad. I take a look again and didn't find device file for pro1x (in pmaports) in danct12 gitlab profile.

[sspiff 29]

I've been searching for the firmware blobs for the Pro1X elsewhere but haven't found any. I hope @Danct12 returns us with more info on how he built his image 🙂

[zstas 6]

after spending some time, I managed to build postmarketos with Danct12 kernel. I was even able to get wifi working.

however many things doesn't work - like keyboard, bt and so on.

there's a driver for gpio extender in mainline I stole dts scheme for keyboard from pro1 mainline branch - the keyboard still doesn't work unfortunately.

anyway, I can share my files so you can play with it 🙂

[Danct12 58]

More stuffs are working now. I have submitted patches to Linux Kernel Mailing List which may get picked up soon by the maintainers.

Thanks @zstas for their work on postmarketOS 🙂