Draft: huawei-venus: new device

Add Huawei P9 lite (venus) Using downstream kernel. Device boots, is accessible via ssh via usb, but the backlight is off

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• c8155fe5 - Replace CHANGE-ME

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By Marijan Limov on 2021-07-17T23:22:55

please squash the two commits. if you need help doing that, let us know!

By clayton craft on 2021-07-18T07:38:45

I tried to figure out how to squash myself, but made even bigger mess... I do need help

By Marijan Limov on 2021-08-01T13:42:40

New ports can come as single commit

By Alexey Min on 2021-08-19T01:20:59

@marijan.limov sorry I just saw this, for some reason gitlab doesn't always notify me of replies...

Since you're just squashing the commits and don't need to do anything else fancy with them, probably the simplest way is to just use git reset to remove the commits (your changes are kept, they'll just be dirty files in the repo), and re-stage/make a new single commit:

$ git reset HEAD~5  # you have 5 new commits in this branch that you want to merge to the master branch
$ git add device/testing/device-huawei-venus device/testing/linux-huawei-venus
$ git commit -m "huawei-venus: new device"

By clayton craft on 2021-08-19T01:33:27

added category::device label

marked this merge request as draft

By clayton craft on 2021-07-20T00:23:28

marked this merge request as ready

By clayton craft on 2021-07-20T00:23:34

marked this merge request as draft

By clayton craft on 2021-07-20T00:23:41

The wiki page sometimes contains "P8 lite".
Also an image of the phone running pmOS would be nice (once you get display working) ;)

By funny kiwi on 2021-07-20T10:16:59

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• a464cadf - venus: new device
• a607205c - Merge branch 'huawei-venus' of gitlab.com:marijan.limov/pmaports into huawei-venus

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By Marijan Limov on 2021-08-01T13:32:31

@marijan.limov solved

By MarkoGauss on 2021-09-29T17:07:59

changed title from Draft: venus: new device to Draft: huawei-venus: new device

By Martijn Braam on 2021-08-24T15:00:17

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Sorry to bother you @marijan.limov,

but we've detected that this merge request hasn't seen any recent activity. If you need help or want to discuss your approach with developers you can ping @postmarketOS. You can also ask on matrix in #devel:postmarketos.org or #postmarketos-devel on OFTC. If no further activity occurs in this MR, postmarketOS developers may close it in the future.

Thanks for your contribution.

By * postmarketOS Bot on 2021-09-23T16:00:02

I did some more testing:

1. It needs echo 255 > /sys/devices/platform/hisi_fb.1048577/leds/lcd_backlight0/brightness to enable the display initially. (don't know whats the propper way to automate this...)
2. It needs msm-fb-refresher dependency according to https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Troubleshooting:display#Screen_does_not_refresh as cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/modes > /sys/class/graphics/fb0/mode refreshes the screen

By Johannes Hörmann on 2021-12-24T00:19:01

initfs hooks can be used to do things like this

By Alexey Min on 2021-12-24T00:19:01

Thanks, but that did it only partially: now it is active and I can see the boot screen, but after that it turns off again and I have to enable it manually.

However, the msm-fb-refresher fix works very nice. Now even touch works as expected

For now I have the updated repo here: https://gitlab.com/al1gat0r/pmaports/-/commits/huawei-venus

By Johannes Hörmann on 2021-12-24T00:56:28

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Sorry to bother you @marijan.limov,

but we've detected that this merge request hasn't seen any recent activity. If you need help or want to discuss your approach with developers you can ping @postmarketOS. You can also ask on matrix in #devel:postmarketos.org or #postmarketos-devel on OFTC. If no further activity occurs in this MR, postmarketOS developers may close it in the future.

Thanks for your contribution.

By * postmarketOS Bot on 2022-01-23T01:00:02

No action for quite a while, so closing.

If you want to pick it back up again, please re-open

By clayton craft on 2022-06-02T04:49:30

closed