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I don't know why but I recently started to do quite some postmarketOS work, now we have another device in the house!

Anyway, this port uses the Android bootloader (kernelflinger) instead of Gummiboot or rEFInd,... just in case if people still wants to easily reflash Android later without going through some DNX Fastboot, Intel Flash Tool blah blah.

More information on this port:

  • Chuwi violates GPLv2 by not releasing the kernel sources of Android to the public. And they still does.
  • This port uses Linux mainline (5.1-rc7), and almost everything works properly, so thankfully we don't have to use the 3.10 kernel which is outdated and EOL.

Progress:

What works:

  • Kernel
  • USB networking
  • Rootfs
  • Wi-Fi
  • Bluetooth (not tested, but firmware loads without errors)
  • Sound (using PulseAudio)
  • Touch (gslx680-ts-acpi)
  • 3D Acceleration & Video Decoding
  • Both USB ports

What doesn't work:

  • Sensors
  • SD Card Slot (Sometimes, most of the time it's unreliable)

(anything that isn't mentioned isn't working or not tested)

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    By Danct12 on 2019-05-06T16:21:52

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      This port uses Linux mainline (5.1-rc7), and almost everything works properly, so thankfully we don't have to use the 3.10 kernel which is outdated and EOL

      Awesome! What exactly works though? ;)

      By Bart Ribbers on 2019-05-08T16:58:06

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    By Danct12 on 2019-05-13T17:06:19

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    The tablet finally booted to Weston :tada:

    One problem is that how are we going to bundle gslx680-ts-acpi driver? I cannot get the silead driver to work, not sure why, but the gslx680-ts-acpi driver works fine on Arch Linux.

    Since Alpine Linux doesn't have dkms, we might need a better way to implement the driver.

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    By Danct12 on 2019-05-13T17:35:45

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    I have no idea why, but GitLab CI refuses to build it due to checksum error, I've checked the checksum on my hos computer, even tried to clean the distfiles from pmbootstrap, checksum but all were passed.

    Anyone have any idea why this happened?

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    EDIT: for the gslx680-acpi packaging discussion, see #256.

    The tablet finally booted to Weston :tada:

    Awesome!

    One problem is that how are we going to bundle gslx680-ts-acpi driver? I cannot get the silead driver to work, not sure why, but the gslx680-ts-acpi driver works fine on Arch Linux.

    I wish we had DKMS in Alpine. Maybe that is feasible for you to port?

    For wireguard we had used a hack: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Out-of-tree_kernel_modules

    Another method I can think of, is somehow building the module in-tree together with your device-specific linux package. But that is also not so great, having DKMS would be the best solution imho.

    Regarding the checksums, it seems to be caching on your PC (from what we found out in the chat). Please add another comment, when this is solved and CI passes :)

    Thank you very much for your porting efforts @danct12 \o/

    By Oliver Smith on 2019-05-14T18:44:43

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    (Please update that wiki article if you find out more, or try to port DKMS!)

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    By Danct12 on 2019-05-17T18:30:12

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    I added support for FDE and Battery, however there's a problem:

    FDE

    • Doesn't work, usually there'll be a UI for entering the password, but that one doesn't show up, and instead gives a message that root cannot be mounted.
    • I can still unlock the rootfs in debug-shell through cryptsetup!
    • osk-sdl works fine in rootfs while I was testing, and also works while in debug-shell

    Battery (charging-sdl)

    • Works, it even shows the charging indicator for a few seconds before boots straight to the rootfs for some weird reason, even though it's booted in the charging parameters (power off the system, then plug in the charger).

    (Sidenote: The device doesn't need fb.modes and directfbrc to exist in order to start osk-sdl. This can be proven by charging-sdl shows up in initram.)

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    By Danct12 on 2019-05-18T03:02:54

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    No idea how to fix the osk-sdl and charging-sdl issues right now, except for poking at the source.

    You did some amazing work with this port, @danct12! :tada: Let's merge this as is, and do future improvement as follow up MRs. I'm building this locally, and then merging it. (So the patch size in future MRs is smaller.)

    EDIT: code LGTM.

    By Oliver Smith on 2019-05-19T15:37:20

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    Wow, this took four hours to build on my laptop with an i7. (Maybe you can disable some of the stuff that is not needed for sure?)

    But everything runs through fine, let's ship this.

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