pmbootstrap

Time flies by, right? Here's your Google Glass pull request from November 2017 with photos and everything: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/pull/957 (I just had to dig it up to see what you mean with "nearly two years", but given that this two years post is late by a month, and you started your porting work before making that pull request, I can see why you would write that now :) )

In case you should have time at some point, there is already a proof of concept with LVM made by drebrez. It is basically working after the installation, but all the use cases that are not straight forward (such as re-installing postmarketOS, what happens to the LVM partitions then?) need to be sorted out before this can be integrated into the master branch. https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/60

If you have some time to spare and want to learn something new, just try to get postmarketOS on one of them. Here are some loose ends to start with (not only iPod related, Apple in general): [0] If you get stuck somewhere, the community is happy to help you either in the matrix/irc chat[1] or in GitHub issues[2]. [0]: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Apple_iPod_Touch_1G_(appl... [1]: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Matrix_and_IRC [2]: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues

I think ollieparanoid, who founded this project and puts a ton of work into it has a great answer to a very similar question someone had on reddit a while back[0]. I fully agree with his philosophy. This is a project ran completely by unpaid volunteers. And the most important thing is to have fun while working on pmOS. If people have fun getting 10 different desktop environments to run, why not? If you look at his comment from 6 months ago, only one phone had wifi support. Now, quite a few do[1]. I've read similar comments from OpenBSD devs. They get the best contributions when people work on something they simply want to work on, instead of telling people what needs work. Progress on getting cellular working is tracked in this issue here[2], if you're curious what the state of that is. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6ndik4/5

That depends on the chip and what you really think you need. Me personally I'm fine with framebuffer drivers, I don't need hardware acceleration. So that needs no blobs. For some Qualcomm chipsets you can get 3D acceleration working without blobs using freedreno. I personally started working on getting the qualcomm modem userspace blobs working under pmOS[0]. If you just want pretty much everything to get to work, there's also the halium project[1] which runs a stripped down android in an LXC container to provide that stuff. This could easily be ported to pmOS too. It really depends on how libre you want your phone to be. Android applications could probably be run on pmOS too using e.g. Anbox[2]. [0] https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/1054 [1] https://halium.org/ [2] https://anbox.io/

> a single kernel that can boot on most devices That seems to be also a goal of postmarketOS, which was discussed here recently. https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/91

Check out the https://ubports.com/ project, they have continued Ubuntu Phone (which has officially been discontinued), and they have made really impressive progress since then. You can really run it on a phone and have all drivers working, unlike postmarketOS (but we have different goals, remember). One of our goals is packaging all sorts of user interfaces, and ubports is one of them (but it depends on individual developers, if they actually want to do it, because developers are encouraged to work on what they like most): https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/62

No, all you need is the source code to a kernel that works on the phone. This could be from LineageOS, AOSP, TWRP, CyanogenMOD (if they didn't transfer it to LineageOS yet), or any other random repository on github with "kernel" and your device's codename in the repositories name. There are lots of those actually. Even if you can spend "only" one weekend on it, it would hep porting to your phone immensely. As we document our progress in a device specific page, someone else can pick it up from there and advance your port! https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Devices Get started here: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Porting-to-...

If you have some time to spare and your oneplus one is not your day-to-day phone, you could give porting pmOS to it a try: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Porting-to-... All you need is some Linux knowledge, and we will help you with the process in the irc/matrix channel. Even if you can't get very far, it helps the next guy who picks up your work and starts from there. That's why we document our progress on a device-specific wiki page: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Devices

If it works on Linux, why not? Everyone is encouraged to work on what they like best, and we will together, as a community, pick sane defaults from the best components we have. See also: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Milestones

Perfect! Drebrez already made decent progress with the HTC desire: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/HTC-Bravo-%... Make sure to talk to him in the IRC/matrix channel, so you can join the efforts :)

Actually, to port a device all you need is some Linux knowledge. Check out the guide: https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Porting-to-...

Lineage and Copperhead are still AOSP, warts and all, under the covers. An interesting ticket [1] is to try and boot devices using an upstream kernel. This would enhance the utility of older devices, given the community fork of Ubuntu [2] is abandoning devices stuck on a Jelly Bean kernel (v3.4) without serious back-porting. [1]https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/issues/12 [2]https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubports-communi...