IRC log for #neo900 on 20190504

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08:43.17KeroGemini Oreo coming up, with still an ancient kernel. Debian/Kali use libhybris. Not sure about sailfish, but assuming so.
08:43.34KeroYou can ditch the android partitio, ttbomk
08:45.24Kerofor the size of the company and the presumably-lack-of-mediatek-cooperation they're actually fulfilling more promises than I expected them to. Albeit in on a schedule that is *always* slower than they promise.
08:46.39Joerg-Neo900Kero: many thanks! valuable info
08:47.05KeroGot the Gemini for a year now, or so. Use it a lot. Sturdy enough, esp regarding the mechanical parts to set the screen in its angle on a table
08:48.17KeroI expect the Cosmo to be a decent revision/improvement over the Gemini, but I would not expect much in terms of opening up mediatek blobs.
08:48.41Joerg-Neo900definitely not
08:49.40Joerg-Neo900I'm pretty sure they don't even _have_ much to disclose/open
08:50.25Joerg-Neo900even OEMs don't get much info about the content of those modem firmware partitions
08:50.41Keroheh. The modified kernel from mediatek (mtk) is available. mtk didn't even bother to provide git history - indeed, if they have any.
08:50.53Keroand the code is not mainline-mergable at all.
08:51.29Kero(but the source is available, minus the blobs, which is already better than I feared at certain moments in time)
08:51.54Joerg-Neo900wait, they run a modified linux kernel for "userland" system?
08:52.42Keroyeah. One android kernel, with libhybris to access pretty much all the hardware from linux userland
08:52.57Joerg-Neo900ouch
08:54.21Joerg-Neo900had hoped they run a hypervisor and two concurrent OS: plain linux and a whatever RTOS-younameit for the radio stack
08:57.25Keronope. there are people building mainline drivers for the mtk platform. Even the Mali GPU is making large strides. I believe @TheKit has mainline booting on the Gemini, but not a usable system, yet.
08:57.38KeroBut that's all outside the Gemini community, raelly.
08:57.49KeroNeither Planets nor mtk is assisting there.
08:59.01Keroand of course, cosmo will have a different chip
08:59.24Joerg-Neo900they got enouch cores they could afford assigning one to hypervisor and modem stack exclusively and thus run two completely unentangled systems where the plain linux could use whichever kernel we want
09:01.00Joerg-Neo900modified kernel means I can't update kernels, omg
09:01.24KeroSure; I don't think Planets does any of the software themselves. Outsourced what they needed.
09:02.00KeroBuilding your own kernel from source, installing it; works fine.
09:02.20Joerg-Neo900what about the proprietary stuff?
09:02.36KeroKeyboard has ghosting, unfortunately - there is a patch to improve that, which I have running.
09:02.51KeroNot the proprietary stuff, no
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09:03.31Joerg-Neo900I don't get it. When I build a plain vanilla kenel then what does work and what doesn't?
09:04.23Joerg-Neo900you said MTK did modify the kernel to make modem work I guess
09:05.08KeroOh, sorry. Built a kernel myself, ancient android version (3.late), sources provided by Planets, with two or three tiny patches.
09:06.14KeroI do not know what works with mainline linux. Best ask @TheKit in #gemini-pda here on freenode
09:08.38Joerg-Neo900great :-) many thanks!
09:09.20Joerg-Neo900ponders asking them for cooperatiomn or a job
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09:13.22Joerg-Neo900meanwhile, running backup of backup, 294G. 244 to go
09:14.05Joerg-Neo900happy about my 400M downlink
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09:17.53dazinism> I personally don't miss that nonsensical hw-switch
09:17.54dazinismI forget what your thoughts are?
09:19.17dazinismJoerg-Neo900
09:19.42dazinismI notice the pinephone is also getting switches
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09:33.55gr8morning guys
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