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

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 <[email protected]> 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.
>
> 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
>
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