community/device-asus-me176c: switch to linux-edge

Linux 5.18 brought better support for some x86-based Android tablets, thanks to work from Hans de Goede. This includes asus-me176c: the modified ACPI table and the Linux fork is no longer necessary, it can just run linux-edge from Alpine.

Drop the old Linux 5.4 fork and related packages. Instead of using the proprietary sound firmware from linux-firmware-intel, switch to using the open-source(!) "Sound Open Firmware" (SOF).

NOTE: The mainline battery driver seems quite a bit less accurate than the ugly old driver ported from the downstream driver. Also, Bluetooth seems to fail on some boots now. Overall it works quite well though. :)

Fixes #1499 (closed) (the mount-matrix is now contained in the kernel)

TODO:

• https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/13877
• !3166 (merged)
• https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/merge_requests/2184

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By Minecrell on 2022-05-28T12:04:56

Why does this MR target the "mkinitfs-genericfs" branch?

By Newbyte on 2022-05-28T14:59:54

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By Minecrell on 2022-05-28T18:18:20

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By Minecrell on 2022-06-05T12:24:48

I'm looking at how we could get this into postmarketOS edge and backport it to v22.06 ASAP.

The problem is that this depends on changes of linux-edge in alpine.

@Minecrell, maybe do the following?

• replace linux-asus-me176c with linux-edge + kconfig changes in this MR (so the linux-asus-me176c package is not deleted yet)
• we merge it to pmOS edge and backport it to v22.06
• create a MR towards alpine for the kconfig adjustments of linux-edge
• once the MR is merged in alpine edge, we can adjust pmOS edge to drop linux-asus-me176c and use linux-edge instead
• v22.06 will have linux-asus-me176c until the linux-edge change is backported in alpine edge (probably no plans to do so? maybe discuss in alpine; if we keep the package for v22.06 I wouldn't have a problem with this either, it will go away in the next release then)

By Oliver Smith on 2022-06-06T08:01:17

marked the checklist item https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/merge_requests/2184 as completed

By Minecrell on 2022-06-06T08:08:16

As discussed in chat, let's put this change not in v22.06.

By Oliver Smith on 2022-06-06T08:13:41

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By Minecrell on 2022-06-06T08:14:11

mentioned in merge request !3195 (merged)

By Minecrell on 2022-06-06T08:15:40