Re: PinePhone Pro Boots On CURRENT

My idea is to patch the kernel with this patch :

https://github.com/sleirsgoevy/exynos-kvm-patch

in the worst case scenario, I will virtualize FreeBSD with qemu + kvm on
top of Android.

On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 8:20 PM Gary Jennejohn <garyj@gmx.de> wrote:

> 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
>


-- 
Mario.