On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:24 AM Massimiliano <massi.ergosum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks Peter. > > > From the Arm PoV that statement is still mostly correct, but it's > > nuanced as there's group that is focusing on some of those devices. I > > think there will be a focus in that group on actively open phones, I > > still wouldn't expect your average locked down consumer phone to be a > > focus. > > Do you mean tha Librem 5 is not "open" enough? No, I mean general andorid consumer phones aren't > > So there is now a new group [1] that is actively looking at phones and > > tablets, in particular the PinePhone and the PineTab. This is the > > right mailing list to discuss and there's also an IRC channel > > #fedora-phone too. > > I missed this piece, I focused on aarch64. > Is this SIG communicating with the Purism team? I think form the PoV of the phosh UX they are, I've no clue about the HW side of things. I don't follow it closely enough. > > All the pieces for that device are enabled in the Fedora kernel, we > > don't build a boot firmware for any i.MX8 stuff ATM because basically > > "it's complicated". I'm aware of a number of i.MX8 devices that do > > work once there's an appropriate firmware in place. > > Good news, I suppose... Well there's only a small team, it's a community effort.... > > There's active work around the Phosh phone graphical environment. > > Nice, is there something about Plasma Mobile? Not a clue as to the exact focus, you could maybe join the channel and ask ;-) > > So in short most of the pieces are in place, I'm not aware of anyone > > that's actually tested one of those devices as yet but there was > > certainly interest. > > I've some experience in building Fedora images (I'm the maintainer of > [1]) on x86, but arm is a different game. It's really not, we use the same tools in core Fedora to build both x86 and arm. ATM a lot of it's not complete, there's a handful of remixes, when things get more complete the plan is to do a proper spin. This is detailed on the wiki page the last I looked. > I'm still investigating, but I'd like to boot a Fedora on this device > (like I do in my PCs). > Phone is not a priority for me, but convergence is a good point. Well the aarch64 devices on Fedora all boot UEFI basically just like a PC _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
