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Add the ability to install postmarketOS on the device using the installer. Draft: prebuilt images should be built once https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/build.postmarketos.org/-/merge_re...

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

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The last couple of years I've always walked 40 km during Night of the Refugee (Nacht van de vluchteling). This year there is a special 50 km route, due to Stichting Vluchteling existing for 50 years. Definitely a challenge since 40 km is already quite long, but I'm confident I will succeed 😊 I'd really appreciate you donating via the link above to raise funds! #NVDV26

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 6mo ago

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@okias @darkdragon So in short: only Fairphone 3(+) so far, Fairphone 4, 5 and Gen. 6 do not have NFC support in the kernel yet. But there now being an end-user usable way of at least reading NFC tags, there may be some more motivation now (though it's still quite low as there's way more important features that need to be worked on) :)

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 11mo ago

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@fell@ma.fellr.net There's still a few more things, but it's getting them closer for sure!

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 16mo ago

The talk from me at Linaro Connect last month is now available on my YouTube channel, with subtitles as always!

https://youtu.be/xR-PlOlWRz8

#LIS25 #LinaroConnect

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

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@ati1 @mdhillca @agx There's no audio support at all yet, so no phone calls for sure. See https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_(Gen._6)_(fairphone-fp6) for all the info.

wiki.postmarketos.org

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 6mo ago

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@bigsilicon@social.treehouse.systems Front camera = selfie camera The main camera should slowly be unblocked thanks to C-PHY enablement in CAMSS but it's not working yet unfortunately

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 11mo ago

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@genofire@social.bremen.social The postmarketOS MR for Fairphone 4 cameras (and actually also charger & fuel gauge) should come within weeks, maybe still this week. Fairphone 3 will take a bit longer, just due to how the development process works there, and I've literally just got it working. Getting everything upstream is a bit more of a challenge, my camera sensor drivers are currently quite hacky, I need to figure out some parameters still to make it proper.

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 4mo ago

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@jfmblinux@mastodon.jfmblinux.fr As written there, Firefox does not support WebUSB, so no. You cannot use Firefox to flash postmarketOS. You can use any other flashing method though, command line, UBports installer and so.

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 11mo ago

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@rmader@mastodon.social I initially picked a IMX363 driver from I believe the sdm845 tree, but it didn't work when I tried it last. Today I dumped the downstream init sequence into my "template" and that worked, not sure if there have been other changes as well. Definitely worth looking into at some point. But I don't have a (clear) route for upstreaming my various sensor drivers yet unfortunately, I still need to figure some things out for that...

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

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@Tankred Because Ubuntu Touch doesn't yet support Fairphone (Gen. 6). It's just that you can use the UBports installer to install postmarketOS which is a completely different operating system.

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

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@b3nis Some basic level of usability is there, you can see https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_(Gen._6)_(fairphone-fp6) for the list of features that work or not work. Most significantly audio and camera do not work at all yet.

wiki.postmarketos.org

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 11mo ago

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@mueller_minki@bitbang.social I have, but have not found a fix for the main issue there, unfortunately.

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 11mo ago

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@tufekoi@mastodon.social If I'm not mistaken, there's some extent of A-GPS support but not sure really... And there's plenty of pain points still unfortunately, like calling not working on any of the Fairphones on postmarketOS. But it's getting there, very slowly! Check the postmarketOS wiki pages for each device if you're interested in details.

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 11mo ago

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@dubstar_04@fosstodon.org @postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems Donating to postmarketOS will surely help bring the ecosystem forward. Currently I don't think that any camera-related paid projects are planned, since there's enough other things that are considered to be more important than getting the camera quality better. But with everything happening in libcamera I'm certain it'll only become better from here :)

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 11mo ago

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@badumtss@framapiaf.org Nothing specific really, dump the init sequence plus updated resolution into a 'template' camera sensor driver and hopefully it'll work. I'm still not really sure about multiple things, but hey, it works!

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 11mo ago

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@r3pek@mastodon.r3pek.org Speaker is working on Fairphone 3 (not Fairphone 3+ though) and microphone/headphones are also not working. So, slowly...? I don't expect wonders anytime soon though, I barely spend any time on this device :)

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 11mo ago

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@corvus_ch@social.corvus-ch.name Given it's basically working on Fairphone 4, and the PMIC hardware is similar, it shouldn't be far away on Fairphone 3 either. But first, I want to stabilize that support on Fairphone 4!

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 15mo ago

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@stefanlindbohm@mastodon.social Wow, it gives me really good results for multi-day travels. Congrats!

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 9mo ago

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@yanndegat@piaille.fr There's active work in all of these areas, but time is limited so it'll take a while until more features are working correctly. Also Fairphone does publish as much source code as possible for all devices, see e.g. https://code.fairphone.com/projects/fairphone-gen-6/odm.html

code.fairphone.com

The Fairphone (Gen. 6) - ODM Android Source Code — Fairphone Open Source

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 9mo ago

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@yanndegat@piaille.fr For postmarketOS, Fairphone 5 will be definitely the better device for the foreseeable future, lots of work going into it. For the Fairphone (Gen. 6) to catch up will definitely take more than a year, if not longer.

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 11mo ago

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@tthbaltazar@chaos.social A not very clean branch is here: https://github.com/z3ntu/linux/commits/fp3-6.16-camera/ But essentially all the cameras in phones that I know of are sensors that send image data as raw bayer via MIPI CSI-2 protocol, and the control of the sensor is happening via I2C.

GitHub

Commits · z3ntu/linux

My patches for the Linux kernel source tree. Contribute to z3ntu/linux development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 11mo ago

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@0xB0D@mastodon.social Is that in a release yet? I'm just using whatever is in postmarketOS edge :)

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 14mo ago

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@affe_null Damn, looks better than most pictures I've seen from Qualcomm phones! Awesome work!

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 40mo ago

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@AsteroidOS@fosstodon.org Time to put mainline Linux on it ;) Wear 4100 should be close to sdm429 but that doesn't appear to have (much) mainline support yet

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

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@LaptopRevive@mastodon.nl Zeker langer, ik denk bij de 40km was ik al altijd ongeveer 10 uur mee bezig met pauzes, maar ik had ook nooit haast wat ook fijn is bij Nacht van de vluchteling.

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

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@bjawebos See https://fosstodon.org/@z3ntu/116478786631329567

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 4mo ago

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@grahamvh@social.librem.one You need to use "pmbootstrap install" with the "--fde" flag. You cannot use prebuilt images as they can't be encrypted in-place.

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

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@grahamvh Great to hear, thanks for trying it out! For SIM card I guess this should help: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/8428

gitlab.postmarketos.org

device-fairphone-fp6: fix sim detection on cold boot (!8428) · Merge requests · postmarketOS / pmaports · GitLab

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Luca Weiss @z3ntu@fosstodon.org

· 10mo ago

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@gri573@ieji.de @corvus_ch@social.corvus-ch.name iirc with 6.17.6 upgrade in pmaports charging status should work well, and battery percent works with +-10% deviation or something, so useful but not great

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