Re: [Off list reply] PinePhone Pro Boots On CURRENT

On May 30, 2023, at 09:43, Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote:

> My curiosity was if the frost and lime drivers may be compatible or not with the mali gpu of the samsung  Galaxy A6 even it is a little different. Thanks.
> 
>> Il mar 30 mag 2023, 18:03 Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> ha scritto:
>>> > Mario Marietto <marietto2008_at_gmail.com>
>>> > Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 13:02:38 UTC 
>>> > 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.
>>> 
>>> The subject of this thread is about "PinePhone Pro Boots On CURRENT",
>>> so about the PinePhone Pro, not about the samsung-galaxy-a6_i3655 .
>>> 
>>> > Mario Marietto <marietto2008_at_gmail.com>
>>> > Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 14:49:26 UTC 
>>> > Someone is reading what I'm writing ? I'm not sure because it seems that my
>>> > messages are totally ignored.
>>> 
>>> Any reply to the list to your material would be off
>>> subject for the thread. That may make it less likely
>>> that you would get a reply.
>>> 
>>> You might want your own thread with samsung-galaxy-a6_i3655
>>> in the subject for the thread. It would not guarantee any
>>> activity but it would be less confusing than messing up
>>> a thread about the PinePhone Pro.

Actually, naming the SOC in the phone in the subject, instead
of naming the phone itself, would probably be more technically
direct. Exynos 7870 Octa ?

>>> I will note that I do not remember any prior discussion
>>> about booting FreeBSD on a samsung-galaxy (any model). It
>>> could be that no one has any experience with the phone that
>>> you picked or the SOC in the phone. A hint might be if there
>>> is a sysutils/u-boot-* port for the SOC involved vs. not. If
>>> not, then it is less likely that anyone will have any
>>> experience with what all is actually involved. (But it would
>>> not be a guarantee of the status.)
> 

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com