alcatel-pop7lte: new device

This MR adds support for the Alcatel OneTouch Pop 7S (pop7lte), a 2014 MSM8226-based tablet, using manufacturer's downstream kernel.

Unfortunately the downstream kernel is ancient (3.4.0) and requires GCC 4, but at least it boots :)

Currently working: display, USB networking, Weston

Firmware is packaged for WiFi and audio but the downstream kernel tree doesn't seem to include drivers for the qcom wlan chip, only wcnss.

Additionally, audio mixer config is missing as I haven't been able to find it in the stock Android 4.2.x ROM's filesystem yet.

Wiki page: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Alcatel_OneTouch_Pop_7S_(alcatel-pop7lte)

Please note that this adds support only for model P330X, which is not to be confused with similarly-named incompatible devices, the Pop 7 (also 2014 w/ MT8312) and the Pop 7 LTE (2016 w/ MSM8909).

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• 8536c086 - alcatel-pop7lte: update APKBUILD to pass linting

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By Lauren Kelly on 2020-03-15T13:09:12

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• 8536c086...796f2d09 - 2 commits from branch postmarketOS:master
• 55c10b5f - alcatel-pop7lte: new device
• 31fc8e10 - alcatel-pop7lte: update APKBUILD to pass linting

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By Lauren Kelly on 2020-03-15T14:46:29

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• 9a5877f2 - alcatel-pop7lte: fix symlinks to shared patches following !1068 (merged)

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By Lauren Kelly on 2020-03-15T14:57:57

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• 76d765af - alcatel-pop7lte: update comments in APKBUILD to pass linting

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By Lauren Kelly on 2020-03-15T15:00:49

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• 77fc207b - alcatel-pop7lte: use downstreamkernel_package for kernel build

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By Lauren Kelly on 2020-03-15T15:28:44

resolved all threads

By Lauren Kelly on 2020-03-15T15:29:42

Firmware is packaged for WiFi and audio but the downstream kernel tree doesn't seem to include drivers for the qcom wlan chip, only wcnss.

I think on many devices the WiFi drivers are compiled as external kernel modules. Some Android ROMs like LineageOS integrate the drivers from https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/ into the kernel tree.

You'd check for a recent CAF tag for your SoC (e.g. LA.BF.1.1.3-02310-8x26.0 for MSM8226) and checkout the tag in the repository above. Then you would somehow integrate it into your kernel tree. I don't know how it works exactly unfortunately.

Your changes in this MR look good to me, thanks for all your work on this, @thejsa! :)

By Minecrell on 2020-03-15T16:23:05

approved this merge request

By Minecrell on 2020-03-15T16:23:18

approved this merge request

By Alexey Min on 2020-03-15T20:08:13

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• 16e73360 - alcatel-pop7lte: new device (Alcatel OneTouch Pop 7S) (!1072 (merged))

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By Alexey Min on 2020-03-15T20:08:23

enabled an automatic merge when the pipeline for 16e73360 succeeds

By Alexey Min on 2020-03-15T20:08:54

merged

By Alexey Min on 2020-03-15T20:27:00

mentioned in commit 16e73360

By Lauren Kelly on 2020-03-18T12:39:32