Re: PinePhone Pro Boots On CURRENT

On Tue, 30 May 2023 15:02:38 +0200
Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote:

> That's interesting. As I have already said,I haven't bought the pinephone
> pro,because it is expensive for me. So I'm working on a parallel project.
> I've bought this phone,instead :
>
> https://www.hdblog.it/schede-tecniche/samsung-galaxy-a6_i3655/
>
> That's cheaper. Between the specs I read that it has a mali gpu,too :
> Mali-T830MP2
>
> so,eventually,I can use the Lima and the PanFrost driver even for my
> samsung galaxy A6 ? I've started planning to install FreeBSD on top of the
> Android Kernel,using a specific patch,but now I'm thinking that maybe,I can
> install FreeBSD there natively. Can someone tell me if it is doable,giving
> a look at the specs of that phone model ? thanks.
>

Based on my experience with Samsung it probably won't be a simple task.

Samsung tends to block the bootloader such that it's very difficult to
install anything but Android.

https://www.xda-developers.com/ has a fair amount of info on the A6.  It
could be worth your while to take a look at what's there.

--
Gary Jennejohn