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

From: Mario Marietto <marietto2008_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 17:16:20 UTC
yes. it is. Maybe i Will open a new thread,even if The goal is the same as
your.

Il mar 30 mag 2023, 19:06 Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> ha scritto:

> 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.)
> >
>
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
>
>