Pine64 PinePhone Pro Interest?
by mralk3 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6G76X)
I purchased a PinePhone Pro earlier this year and it seems that the hardware support has improved exponentially in the kernel. I have Mobian (Debian for mobile) running with phosh (on top of wayland). I have the Explorer hardware variant and the keyboard add-on that includes a battery within it.
About 2 months ago, I was able to boot the phone into the Slackware Aarch64 installer over a serial console. Most of the drivers are included in the module loading scripts that are apart of Slackware already. At the moment I do not have plans to port support to Slackware. Right now it is a personal project that I will use for my own benefit. I am still working on a few things that I want to try and get done by the end of the year. It was quite difficult to integrate my HoneyComb Workstation and very time consuming.
Creating support for the PinePhone Pro will likely be much easier. It has a RK3399S SoC, which is similar to the RockPro64 RK3399 SoC. I am going to build KDE Mobile to maintain the theme of a full desktop environment similar to what Slackware ARM already provides. Building packages is not the issue. The biggest time sink is testing and bug hunting with just too eyeballs. :rolleyes: Searching the forum I found brief interest for the PinePhone Pro.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...el-4175714507/
tl;dr
Do any of you Slackers own a PinePhone Pro?
Is there interest within the community to integrate support into Slackware ARM?
About 2 months ago, I was able to boot the phone into the Slackware Aarch64 installer over a serial console. Most of the drivers are included in the module loading scripts that are apart of Slackware already. At the moment I do not have plans to port support to Slackware. Right now it is a personal project that I will use for my own benefit. I am still working on a few things that I want to try and get done by the end of the year. It was quite difficult to integrate my HoneyComb Workstation and very time consuming.
Creating support for the PinePhone Pro will likely be much easier. It has a RK3399S SoC, which is similar to the RockPro64 RK3399 SoC. I am going to build KDE Mobile to maintain the theme of a full desktop environment similar to what Slackware ARM already provides. Building packages is not the issue. The biggest time sink is testing and bug hunting with just too eyeballs. :rolleyes: Searching the forum I found brief interest for the PinePhone Pro.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...el-4175714507/
tl;dr
Do any of you Slackers own a PinePhone Pro?
Is there interest within the community to integrate support into Slackware ARM?