Happy new year everyone!
Thanks for the writeup, let alone for the combined effort behind it.
Best regards,
Boudewijn
On Tuesday, 1 January 2019, 4:33:09 PM GMT+1, Matthias Weiß
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hey!
Happy new year for you, too!Very nice news update!!! I’m really looking forward
to the PyraPhone - donated! :) A little feature request: could you plan to
make a case similar to the OpenMoko Freerunner? i really like the robust design
and the „handle“ x)
Am 01.01.2019 um 13:49 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]>:
Dear all,first of all let me wich everyone a happy new year and say thank you
that you are stillsubscribed to this list.
There haven't been many news in 2018, but there have been activites behind the
scenesthat layed the foundation for plans for 2019 which you might find
interesting.
So let me start with the LetuxOS.
LetuxOS is constantly developing, mainly in the kernel which has reached
letux-4.20 release.And we are likely get 4.21-rc1 next week.
A lot of work has been done last year, mainly by Andreas Kemndade, to upstream
moreparts of our private feature branches, so that even a mainline kernel does
useful thingson the GTA04. Well, it is missing some of the polishing done by
our LetuxOS additions,but generally having the core upstream helps everyone.
The kernel now supports these hardware:* L2804/GTA04 (A3,A4,A5)* L3704* L7004*
BeagleBoard* BeagleBoard XM* OpenPandora* BeagleBone* PocketBeagle* Pandaboard*
omap5evm* Udoo neo* Pyra
Quite impressive list, but there are plans to expand it even further...
One really new thing is to support the Raspi B3+ where we already have a
demoimage. It does not yet use the LetuxOS kernel, but progress has been made
towardsfinding a working defconfig. So it will come sooner than later.
Just try
makesd raspi3b+ -r xfce
The rootfs are several flavours of Debian so that we particicpate from
upstream.We now have rootfs images for Wheezy, Jessie and Stretch and the
latest Buster.
For systems with boot-loader in NAND try:
makesd debian -r
http://download.goldelico.com/letux-debian-rootfs/20181225-buster-10.sid-armhf-minimal.tbz
For systems needing boot-loader on SD card e.g. Udoo neo:
makesd udoo-neo -r
http://download.goldelico.com/letux-debian-rootfs/20181225-buster-10.sid-armhf-minimal.tbz
For GUI we now have:* lxde* xfce* mate* illume* qtmoko* replicant* quantumstep
All these things can be easily (well almost) combined through makesd.
And thanks to Mark Müller we start to support Phosh (Purism Phone’s shell).
Theinteresting thing with LetuxOS will be that it can basically run on all
hardwarementioned above. But there are missing pieces in config, so that work
isn't doneand will not end and speed is awfully low (comapred to QtMoko and
Replicant)...
Regarding OpenPandora there have been several users trying it:
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/letux-os.81518/page-3#post-1446367
The command to make an xfce image is:
makesd openpandora -r xfce
This is a lot of news from the software side, but what is going on with
hardware?
I am currently working in my limited spare time on a project which is called
GTA15/PyraPhone.
It is just taking the Pyra hardware design, removing the keyboard and nub and
the displayhinge and cable, changing the battery, adding some phone features
(earpiece) and Kill-Switches,but keeping everything else and make a new PCB
layout in a smartphone portrait format.
Features will therefore be:* 5 inch resistive touch display with 720x1280*
µHDMI out* ca. 2000-6000 mAh battery* 2 external µSD slots + one internal*
2G/3G/4G + GPS/GLONASS* 2 USB2 host ports (full size - one prepared for USB3)*
µUSB3-OTG port* charger&FTDI console through µUSB2 port* 3.5mm headset jack
with auto-polarity detection and remote keypad option* WLAN/BT (maybe with a
RedPine module because it does not need a BLOB but has to be checked)*
independent hardware Kill-switches for WWAN, WLAN, BT, Microphone, Sensors, and
more* Processor board from Pyra, i.e. currently OMAP5 with 2/4GB RAM, eMMC -
but maybe a compatible i.MX8M board can be developed* expansion connector
(compatible to GTA04A5) for hackers to develop extensions
Before you start to think that this project is vapourware like many others with
similar goalsbut nicer marketing (web pages, public relations, political
goals), I have attached some documents.The first one is a prototype without any
electrical function, but shows the concept. The secondis the current draft
status of (improved but still not perfect and finished) component placement.
When will it be finished? I have to admit that I don't know. The mechanical
demonstratorwas already built in Feb 2017 and only now I have continued to work
on the PCB design,because I have to run this as a hobby project now. Financing
such projects in a way thatthey get tangible results has become more and more
difficult.
Anyways, if you are interested in helping to speed up the GTA15 development,
there is a way:
http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=Product&product=9601
And if there is really enough interest in a finished product, we can organise
to build someunits - after the design is finished. If you are, please also
spread the word that thisproject exists.
BR and again a happy new tinkering year,Nikolaus
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