Re: [Tinkerphones] Mikrophone

2023-12-08 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 08.12.2023 um 18:22 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Friday, 8 December 2023 15:40:45 CET H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> Indeed an interesting approach. But I don't get the benefits. If it is about >> secure (i.e. end-to-end encrypted) voice and text communication

Re: [Tinkerphones] Mikrophone

2023-12-08 Thread H . Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 07.12.2023 um 19:02 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > Hello, > > Here's another phone project, one funded by NLnet, that attempts to partition > functionality between different units: > > https://mikrophone.net/ > https://nlnet.nl/project/mikroPhone/ That is a cool name!!! > > Unlike

Re: [Tinkerphones] FOSDEM 2023

2022-11-01 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, it looks as if I am not going (it is scheduled for 4 & 5 February 2023). BR, Nikolaus > Am 01.11.2022 um 07:48 schrieb Andreas Kemnade : > > Hi, > > On Tue, 27 Sep 2022 10:40:23 +0200 > "Dr. Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" wrote: > >> I don’t know about you, but I’m extremely excited >> about an

Re: [Tinkerphones] FOSDEM 2023

2022-10-02 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Mickey, while it is a good idea, I have no plans to go to FOSDEM. Best, Nikolaus > Am 27.09.2022 um 10:40 schrieb Dr. Michael 'Mickey' Lauer : > > I don’t know about you, but I’m extremely excited > about an in-person-FOSDEM 2023. Is anyone of you > going? Perhaps even Nikolaus? Would love

Re: [Tinkerphones] [OHSW.org] [Tinkerphones-Stammtisch] Happy New Year - and a better new year

2022-09-17 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 17.09.2022 um 15:33 schrieb David Boddie : > > On Sun Sep 4 22:03:38 CEST 2022, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > >> But as far as I see all of them are absolute niche an none of them got the >> same attractivity and general public attention as the original Openmoko g

Re: [Tinkerphones] [OHSW.org] [Tinkerphones-Stammtisch] Happy New Year - and a better new year

2022-09-17 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
1.2021 um 21:10 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller: >> What we did have was a video conference in May this year with ca. 9 >> participants. >> There was a wish to have another meeting after the holiday season but nobody >> did organise something. > > Hi Nikolaus! > Yes

Re: [Tinkerphones] Strategies for sustainable phones

2022-03-21 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
ie wrote: >> On Saturday 21. September 2019 15.48.50 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >>> >>> Yes, we thought about it - but where are the real users? >>> >>> There is for example hyped LightPhone2 but I don't see that it is a useful >>> device. Minimi

Re: [Tinkerphones] Looking for a hardware engineer...

2022-02-17 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, > Am 15.02.2022 um 23:03 schrieb Bill Woodcock : > > …with experience bringing something phone-scale or smaller through > production, for an open hardware project. > > If anyone’s interested, let me know. It’s a noncommercial project, we don’t > have a ton of money, but we’ll be doing a

Re: [Tinkerphones] Article about Crowdfunding and Open Hardware

2022-01-30 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 30.01.2022 um 17:12 schrieb David Boddie : > > I only recently read this article which seems to have flown under the radar > when it was published: > > https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2020/231/Risky-Business > > I was going to mention it in two of the places where the projects

Re: [Tinkerphones] Dual personality systems (was Re: ZeroPhone site offline)

2022-01-10 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 10.01.2022 um 22:51 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Monday, 10 January 2022 02:27:15 CET Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Paul Boddie (2022-01-09 23:40:08) >>> >>> The AR100 processor in the Allwinner SoCs appears to be used as a kind >>> of microcontroller without memory management unit,

Re: [Tinkerphones] ZeroPhone site offline

2022-01-06 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 06.01.2022 um 00:59 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Monday, 3 January 2022 20:12:32 CET H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> >> It happened several times during development of the GTA04 that people >> said: nice but look you can buy this or that. Instead of help

Re: [Tinkerphones] ZeroPhone site offline

2022-01-05 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 05.01.2022 um 16:46 schrieb Dr. Michael Lauer : > > Hi Radek, > >> If i was doing software for open phone i'd make basic monolithic telephony >> >> app (calls, SMS) that works directly with the modem, with one HW hardcoded. >> >> No plugins no frameworks just keep it simple. > > This!

Re: [Tinkerphones] ZeroPhone site offline

2022-01-05 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi all, > Am 05.01.2022 um 01:28 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Tuesday, 4 January 2022 19:30:38 CET H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >>> Am 04.01.2022 um 18:34 schrieb Paul Boddie : >>>> It’s extremely sad that after all these years with all our technological >&g

Re: [Tinkerphones] ZeroPhone site offline

2022-01-04 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 04.01.2022 um 18:34 schrieb Paul Boddie : > >> It’s extremely sad that after all these years with all our technological >> advancements and choice of free software projects, getting the very >> basic task – solid and reliable phone calls with tolerable >> audio quality and battery life –

Re: [Tinkerphones] ZeroPhone site offline

2022-01-03 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 03.01.2022 um 18:43 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Sunday, 2 January 2022 22:01:51 CET H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> >> you have probably pinpointed the most important aspect of all discussions. >> >> We have no high-quality power management in

Re: [Tinkerphones] ZeroPhone site offline

2022-01-02 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 02.01.2022 um 21:33 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Wednesday, 29 December 2021 10:15:45 CET H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> >> Next question: are there enough interested developers for writing free >> software? >> >> And one more thing to cons

Re: [Tinkerphones] ZeroPhone site offline

2022-01-01 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
A happy new year to everybody! Hi Paul, as usually a very insightful contribution and well written so that it is difficult to add something... > Am 30.12.2021 um 18:32 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Wednesday, 29 December 2021 10:15:45 CET H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >>> Am 2

Re: [Tinkerphones] ZeroPhone site offline

2021-12-29 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 28.12.2021 um 20:40 schrieb Martin : > > On 2021-12-28 19:35, Dr. Michael Lauer wrote: >> That’s a pity. In particular with the recent Pi Zero 2 design that could’ve >> been a pretty sweet alternative feature phone. > > My main problem with the ZP was the extremely small display. > I'm

Re: [Tinkerphones] No video on Pandora after letux kernel boot

2021-12-02 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 02.12.2021 um 19:23 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller : > > Hi Grond, > >> Am 01.12.2021 um 05:23 schrieb Grond : >> >> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 10:05:17AM +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >>> Hi Grond, >>> >>> >>>> Am

Re: [Tinkerphones] No video on Pandora after letux kernel boot

2021-12-02 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Grond, > Am 01.12.2021 um 05:23 schrieb Grond : > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 10:05:17AM +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> Hi Grond, >> >> >>> Am 25.11.2021 um 01:16 schrieb Grond : > [snip] >>> >>> Hmm. That's odd. I was able

Re: [Tinkerphones] No video on Pandora after letux kernel boot

2021-11-25 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Grond, > Am 25.11.2021 um 01:16 schrieb Grond : > > On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 10:48:41AM +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> Hi Grond, >> >>> Am 19.11.2021 um 23:36 schrieb Grond : >>> >>> >>> Hi. >>> >>> Havi

Re: [Tinkerphones] Problems with git.goldelico.com?

2021-11-20 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Grond, > Am 19.11.2021 um 23:36 schrieb Grond : > > > Hi. > > Having recently encountered a slew of software incompatibility issues on > my Pandora related to it's ancient (3.2) kernel, I thought I give the > letux kernel a try as I'd heard it could at least boot on the Pandora. Yes, just

Re: [Tinkerphones] LetuxOS: new updates

2021-10-05 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi all, it is quite a while that there was an update what is going on. So a lot of topics have been collected. a) new Kernels letux-5.15-rc4! Kernel development has progressed and we now have letux-5.15-rc4. It is running quite stable now. b) PVR SGX DDK 1.14 is working again! There was an

Re: [Tinkerphones] LetuxOS for Rasi-Zero-W?

2021-09-09 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 09.09.2021 um 16:01 schrieb David Boddie : > > On Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:18:50 CEST H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > >> But in the meantime I got another hint: maybe the same reason why the SD >> size limits exist. >> >> Pi 0, 1, 2 use an ARMv

Re: [Tinkerphones] LetuxOS for Rasi-Zero-W?

2021-09-09 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi David, thanks for responding! > Am 09.09.2021 um 13:57 schrieb David Boddie : > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:42:47 +0200, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> Does anyone on this list have experience with >> building and running mainline kernels for the >> Raspi-Zero? &

Re: [Tinkerphones] ANN: LetuxOS on RasPi 3B+

2021-09-08 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Arsenijs, I hope you are well and still reading this list. > Am 13.01.2019 um 19:35 schrieb Pičugins Arsenijs : > >> What about QtMoko for the ZeroPhone? Well, it uses >> a PiZero and not RasPi3B+ but why not adapt things >> as needed? The foundation is here now. > > Let me know if you need

[Tinkerphones] LetuxOS for Rasi-Zero-W?

2021-08-30 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, I am experimenting to get LetuxOS running on the Raspi-Zero-W. It already works on the Raspi-3B+ for long time and basically the setup should be cross-compatible. I.e. it should be possible to swap the µSD card between both. At least it "simply works(TM)" with some Raspbian µSD - but not with

Re: [Tinkerphones] Someone in Germany thinking about a Featurephone based on simple Linux

2021-08-04 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, > Am 03.08.2021 um 16:55 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Tuesday, 3 August 2021 11:12:58 CEST H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> Hi, >> I just came across this post (in German): >> https://www.mikrocontroller.net/topic/522691 > > My German is far from sufficien

[Tinkerphones] Someone in Germany thinking about a Featurephone based on simple Linux

2021-08-03 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, I just came across this post (in German): https://www.mikrocontroller.net/topic/522691 BR, Nikolaus ___ Community mailing list Community@tinkerphones.org http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org

Re: [Tinkerphones] LetuxOS: new updates

2021-07-28 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, and again just a small step: v5.14-rc3 is here. And, I have started to work with Paul to upstream the jz4780/ci20 hdmi drviers. There was some request by maintainers to use the "component framework" but all our attempts to modify the driver break it so far. If you have questions or

Re: [Tinkerphones] LetuxOS: new updates

2021-07-21 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, what is new this week? Not much or a lot - depending on how you view it. a) kernel 5.14-rc2 is built and as usually a lot of stable / longterm kernels. See: https://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-kernel/ b) i386/x86 version of LetuxOS kernel and debian images I recently got an ACEPC T11

Re: [Tinkerphones] Selling My GTA04 Smartphone + Accessories. UK

2021-07-19 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, > Am 18.07.2021 um 23:25 schrieb maillist_tinkerpho...@aross.me: > > Had a go at making a external 18650 battery adapter. snag is it needed > software change to work with dumb li-ion cells instead of the special gta04 > cells. so it got shelfed. was not pocket size anyway xd. I still have

Re: [Tinkerphones] Inferno on Letux 400 Minibook

2021-06-03 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Yes on my Unit trackpad is an usb device. Only the two mouse Buttons Go to gpio. On The Road > Am 03.06.2021 um 15:31 schrieb David Boddie : > > On Tue Jun 1 09:06:43 CEST 2021, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > >> We have almost all peripherals working in Letux kernel s

Re: [Tinkerphones] Inferno on Letux 400 Minibook

2021-06-01 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi David, cool! What I have just finished is a new RS232 console adapter for the Letux 400. Unfortunately it works only on my (light green) sample device because the later ones are missing the 4 pin PicoBlade connector in the battery bay. It could be retrofitted but means opening the device and

Re: [Tinkerphones] Inferno on Letux 400 Minibook

2021-06-01 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi David, > Am 31.05.2021 um 17:49 schrieb David Boddie : > > With a lot of help from Paul, I have been looking at running Inferno on the > Letux 400 - see the attached picture. > > I started with Paul's L4 port for the Ben NanoNote to get up and running > because the supplied U-Boot sets up

Re: [Tinkerphones] Librem 5

2021-02-13 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 13.02.2021 um 22:42 schrieb David Boddie : > > On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 20:28:01 +0100 Dr. Michael Lauer wrote: > >> When I was younger, I could understand the ?fixation? on getting things into >> mainline ? now, with more years on my back, I believe things would have >> turned out differently

Re: [Tinkerphones] Librem 5

2021-02-13 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Mickey, > Am 13.02.2021 um 20:28 schrieb Dr. Michael Lauer : > >> But app developers (like those developing QtMoko) did expect 100% which we >> even have not achieved many years after the active development of QtMoko >> ended. > > Not just app developers, also middleware. In fact, the whole

Re: [Tinkerphones] Librem 5

2021-02-13 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 13.02.2021 um 11:52 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard : > > Quoting michael spreng (2021-02-13 10:45:18) >> In December I received my librem5 phone and now had some time to try >> it out. It seems to work reasonably well, can make phone calls and >> messages. Though there is no support yet for

Re: [Tinkerphones] Librem 5

2021-02-13 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 13.02.2021 um 10:45 schrieb michael spreng : > > Hi > > Some time ago there was a discussion if any librem5 have shipped, so I > thought I would write a bit about mine: > > In December I received my librem5 phone and now had some time to try it > out. It seems to work reasonably well,

Re: [Tinkerphones] Anyone with a Pinephone reading here?

2021-02-04 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, > Am 29.01.2021 um 19:11 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller : > > Hi, > I am trying to get the PinePhone modem working in the LetuxOS kernel and need > someone to discuss. > > There is a modem-power driver here: > > > https://megous.com/

[Tinkerphones] Replicant 4.2 with LetuxOS kernel 5.10

2021-01-31 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi all, I played a little on the GTA04 with Replicant 4.2 and the latest letux-5.10.10-replicant kernel [1]. It starts up to a console shell but then the boot process stops. It appears as if the 'zygote' process tries (or succeeds) to launch the 'system_server' process but then exits.

[Tinkerphones] Anyone with a Pinephone reading here?

2021-01-29 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, I am trying to get the PinePhone modem working in the LetuxOS kernel and need someone to discuss. There is a modem-power driver here: https://megous.com/git/linux/commit/?h=modem-5.11=8c92fd271f11384361fae5fda13ef35195279843 but it is quite complex and not very general and mixes

[Tinkerphones] Happy New Year - and a better new year

2021-01-01 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Dear all, I wish you a happy and better new year. We have got some funding by a generous community member in December so that technical operation of the community resources is secured for a while. So please make use of these lists if you think they are still valuable. And please share your ideas

Re: [Tinkerphones] How many Librem 5 and Pinephones have been sold?

2020-11-04 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
in total. That is approximately the same as OpenMoko were sold. Any info about Librem 5? > > Regards > Rainer > > Am Dienstag, 3. November 2020, 17:37:53 CET schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller: >> and shipped? >> >> Is

[Tinkerphones] How many Librem 5 and Pinephones have been sold?

2020-11-03 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
and shipped? Is there any information about this? Some blog / forum info? BR and thanks, hns ___ Community mailing list Community@tinkerphones.org http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org

Re: [Tinkerphones] Mailing list about low levels of Linux on cellphones

2020-09-09 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Pavel, > Am 09.09.2020 um 00:56 schrieb Pavel Machek : > > Hi! > > It seems there is quite a lot of efforts porting kernel to various > cellphones. Yes, and it is sisyphos work to get it 100% into mainline... Most projects I know about are at 99,5%. > > Librem 5 and PinePhone have their

[Tinkerphones] LetuxOS for PinePhone

2020-07-03 Thread H . Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, I was able to spend half a day to fix several issues and now the latest letux-5.6.y and letux-5.7.y kernels are working again on the PinePhone. And even letux-5.8-rc3 boots. Working is: * boot * Display with backlight * heartbeat LED * iio sensors (accelerometer, gyro, light) *

[Tinkerphones] QuantumSTEP on PinePhone

2020-02-24 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, after fixing the kernel build and some small config issues I was able to start QuantumSTEP on the PinePhone. A problem is the capacitive touch screen (finger sensitive) which is not optimal for positioning the X11 mouse pointer. But it simply works. One just has to make a µSD card, insert

[Tinkerphones] LetuxOS on PinePhone

2020-02-21 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, I have a first image that I can 'makesd' on a fresh µSD: makesd -u DEV=/dev/sdb makesd -v latest pinephone -r quantumstep It is not yet useable since it doesn't initialize X11 (there is no proper setup for the Allwinner SoC). And, there is no tty on the serial console. Just a login: blinking

[Tinkerphones] LetuxOS on PinePhone

2020-02-20 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, I had ordered a developer PinePhone last year and unfortunately it did collect dust, because I was too disturbed by other topics... And, I had to build my aarch64/arm64 cross-toolchain first. But now I have managed to build a Letux 5.6-rc2 kernel. And just some minutes ago I was able to boot

Re: [Tinkerphones] LetuxOS: PinePhone support

2020-02-03 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Xavi, > Am 03.02.2020 um 21:37 schrieb Xavi Drudis Ferran : > > El Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 07:24:22PM +0100, H. Nikolaus Schaller deia: >> Hi, >> finally, after bootstrapping my aarch64-linux-gnu (arm64) cross-toolchain >> and fixing minor issues I am able to compile o

[Tinkerphones] LetuxOS: PinePhone support

2020-02-03 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, finally, after bootstrapping my aarch64-linux-gnu (arm64) cross-toolchain and fixing minor issues I am able to compile our kernel tree for arm64 :) Using a pinephone_defconfig from

Re: [Tinkerphones] Community Digest, Vol 91, Issue 1

2020-01-28 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 28.01.2020 um 13:02 schrieb Niels Heyvaert : > > Don't think so. > > Unless there is a talk or presentation on /e/, Librem, OpenMoko, OpenPhoenix, > Replicant, ShiftPhone, PostMarketOS, FairPhone, ... I think there is a talk about PostmarketOS and Maemo:

[Tinkerphones] PinePhone with Ubuntu Touch image boot log

2019-12-22 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
I now have built an RS232 adapter and get this boot message: U-Boot SPL 2019.04-01010-g97c65687fd (Apr 26 2019 - 23:05:26 +) DRAM: 2048 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 NOTICE: BL31: v2.1(debug):v2.1-109-gc3e4e088 NOTICE: BL31: Built : 23:03:52, Apr 26 2019 NOTICE: BL31: Detected Allwinner

[Tinkerphones] Comparison PinePhone to Librem 5

2019-12-21 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
IMHO quite well written: https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2019/12/01/decide-pinephone-vs-librem-5/ I could now boot my developer PinePhone to Ubuntu Touch and it works. Well, it is a little difficult to find out how to operate Ubuntu Touch without a user manual... So I could not really

[Tinkerphones] PinePhone arrived...

2019-12-14 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, I had recently ordered a developer unit of the PinePhone and it just has arrived :) Wow, is it big and does it feel heavy (186g)... Here is a first photo comparing to the GTA04 (left) and the PyraPhone (GTA15 prototype, right) which I had built a while ago. Really nice is the thickness.

Re: [Tinkerphones] Problems seem to repeat...

2019-12-07 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 07.12.2019 um 14:05 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller : > > >> Am 07.12.2019 um 13:35 schrieb Paul Boddie : >> >> On Saturday 7. December 2019 08.37.23 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >>> I just came across: >>> >>> https://www.cro

Re: [Tinkerphones] Problems seem to repeat...

2019-12-07 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 07.12.2019 um 13:35 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Saturday 7. December 2019 08.37.23 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> I just came across: >> >> https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/measurements-and-a-> >> hypothesis >> >>

Re: [Tinkerphones] [Gta04-owner] Problems seem to repeat...

2019-12-07 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 07.12.2019 um 12:12 schrieb Andreas Kemnade : > > Hi, > > On Sat, 7 Dec 2019 08:37:23 +0100 > "H. Nikolaus Schaller" wrote: > >> I just came across: >> >> https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/measurements-and-a-h

[Tinkerphones] Problems seem to repeat...

2019-12-06 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
I just came across: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/measurements-and-a-hypothesis So they also ran into unexpected solder bridges which must be X-Rayed. This sounds very very familiar to me... With our experiences collected in the GTA04 project many years ago, I think

Re: [Tinkerphones] [Letux-kernel] +++ PVR/SGX with LetuxOS Kernel running on GTA04 +++

2019-11-23 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 23.11.2019 um 09:11 schrieb Andreas Kemnade : > > Hi, > > On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:16:11 +0100 > "H. Nikolaus Schaller" wrote: > >> Hi, >> I managed to get the latest kernel driver and user-space running on the >> GTA04 (with Debian S

[Tinkerphones] +++ PVR/SGX with LetuxOS Kernel running on GTA04 +++

2019-11-21 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, I managed to get the latest kernel driver and user-space running on the GTA04 (with Debian Stretch 9.9). See Video: https://youtu.be/DDAEnDMVV3U and compare:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_QGU6e3eyA BR, Nikolaus ___ Community

Re: [Tinkerphones] OT: Banking in Germany (was: Strategies for sustainable phones)

2019-09-21 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 21.09.2019 um 19:14 schrieb Martin : > > On 2019-09-21 15:48, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> But the main problem I see (at least here in Germany) is that you can't live >> without a smartphone with Android or iOS any more, after banks are now >> requirin

Re: [Tinkerphones] Strategies for sustainable phones

2019-09-21 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 19.09.2019 um 18:18 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > Hello again, > > Recently, having found myself needing to buy a fairly cheap Android > smartphone > to keep communicating with the rest of the world, I found myself reviewing > what the options really were for buying something that

[Tinkerphones] GTA04: about the MMCX socket for external GPS antenna...

2019-08-02 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, I think I finally understand what the problem is... Recently I found out that my external GPS antenna with long cable and MMCX plug is broken. I ordered a new one and then I tried to plug it into the GTA04A4. It didn't go in as smoothly as I was used to and therefore I applied just a

Re: [Tinkerphones] CI20 - was Re: New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts

2019-07-05 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 05.07.2019 um 18:10 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Friday 14. June 2019 11.13.16 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> >> And it should not be too difficult to find the relevant patches and >> forward-port them to mainline or simply add the missing LED nodes to

Re: [Tinkerphones] CI20 - was Re: New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts

2019-06-14 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 12.06.2019 um 23:56 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Wednesday 12. June 2019 20.07.35 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> >> Yes, that is sad, but not the most important issue. It may be even better >> to have the NAND as a fallback boot option if the SD

Re: [Tinkerphones] CI20 - was Re: New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts

2019-06-12 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 12.06.2019 um 18:37 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Tuesday 11. June 2019 17.38.20 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> Hi Paul, >> also adding the letux kernel mailing list because discussion becomes quite >> kernel focussed... > > OK, maybe my message

Re: [Tinkerphones] CI20 - was Re: New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts

2019-06-11 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, also adding the letux kernel mailing list because discussion becomes quite kernel focussed... > Am 11.06.2019 um 15:38 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Tuesday 11. June 2019 14.54.36 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> >> Maybe you could also try the letux tree. The i

[Tinkerphones] CI20 - was Re: New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts

2019-06-11 Thread H . Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 09.06.2019 um 18:01 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Tuesday 21. May 2019 14.12.22 Paul Boddie wrote: >> On Tuesday 21. May 2019 10.22.50 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >>> What else is going on in the LetuxOS eco-system? >>> >>> We now su

Re: [Tinkerphones] [Gta04-owner] New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts

2019-06-05 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, just a small update > Am 21.05.2019 um 10:22 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller : > > Hi, > there are new LetuxOS kernels: > > letux-5.2-rc1 we now have letux-5.2-rc3 ... > letux-5.1.3 > letux-5.0.17 > letux-4.19.44 > letux-4.14.120

Re: [Tinkerphones] makesd (was Re: [Gta04-owner] New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts)

2019-05-28 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 28.05.2019 um 13:20 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Monday 27. May 2019 20.46.32 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> >> The pre-built images are just the result of a complete debootstrap in a >> fresh chroot on some ARM or MIPS SBC. Either bare bone with some

Re: [Tinkerphones] makesd (was Re: [Gta04-owner] New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts)

2019-05-27 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 27.05.2019 um 19:55 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Monday 27. May 2019 16.28.15 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> >> Exactly. It is coming not from theory but practice and has evolved over >> the years into a simple workhorse. Features were added where needed

Re: [Tinkerphones] [Gta04-owner] New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts

2019-05-27 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 27.05.2019 um 12:33 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Tuesday 21. May 2019 23.29.43 Paul Boddie wrote: >> >> I can't judge what is conservative or not, but the first thing I thought of >> was this: >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/vmdebootstrap > > It appears that it now has a

Re: [Tinkerphones] [Gta04-owner] New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts

2019-05-22 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Jonas, one more thought on this with some distance in time. > Am 21.05.2019 um 15:13 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard : > >>> My point is that that I firmly believe that to get out of the >>> vicious circle we _first_ need to collaborate and only _then_ >>> compete (if needed at all, but that's a

Re: [Tinkerphones] [Gta04-owner] New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts

2019-05-21 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 21.05.2019 um 18:33 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Tuesday 21. May 2019 15.48.06 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >>> Am 21.05.2019 um 15:13 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard : >>> >>> Speaking for myself, I got discouraged when we met in Bavaria and it >>&g

Re: [Tinkerphones] [Gta04-owner] New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts

2019-05-21 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 21.05.2019 um 15:13 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard : > > Quoting H. Nikolaus Schaller (2019-05-21 12:51:43) >> Hi Jonas, >> >>> Am 21.05.2019 um 12:26 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard : >>> >>> Quoting H. Nikolaus Schaller (2019-05-21 12:02:06) >>&

Re: [Tinkerphones] [Gta04-owner] New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts

2019-05-21 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Jonas, > Am 21.05.2019 um 12:26 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard : > > Quoting H. Nikolaus Schaller (2019-05-21 12:02:06) >> Hi Jonas, >> >>> Am 21.05.2019 um 11:00 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard : >>> >>> First of all, congratulations with the prog

Re: [Tinkerphones] [Gta04-owner] New LetuxOS Kernels and some tricks and thoughts

2019-05-21 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Jonas, > Am 21.05.2019 um 11:00 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard : > > First of all, congratulations with the progress! Thanks! > > > Quoting H. Nikolaus Schaller (2019-05-21 10:22:50) >> BTW, here is another trick: You may (not) know that LetuxOS images >>

Re: [Tinkerphones] MIPS CREATOR CI20

2019-03-29 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 27.03.2019 um 17:51 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller : > > > > So I have ordered one some minutes ago. The key idea was that I expect to > get a board where I can more easily test and debug the MIPS variant of > LetuxOS incl. kernels. And then this migh

Re: [Tinkerphones] MIPS CREATOR CI20

2019-03-27 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
> Am 27.03.2019 um 17:32 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Wednesday 27. March 2019 15.47.28 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> >> I think we articficially make the long-term goal even farther away by >> not having a working GPLed kernel driverfor loading and interfa

Re: [Tinkerphones] MIPS CREATOR CI20

2019-03-27 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 27.03.2019 um 14:40 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Wednesday 27. March 2019 08.26.29 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> >>> Am 25.03.2019 um 11:55 schrieb Paul Boddie : >>> >>> Yes, I have a CI20 board. >> >> Ah, great

Re: [Tinkerphones] MIPS CREATOR CI20

2019-03-27 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 25.03.2019 um 11:55 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Monday 25. March 2019 09.04.06 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> Hi, >> as you may know I am working a little on the PVR/SGX drivers for >> omap. >> >> Since the latest DDK code (1.14) includ

[Tinkerphones] MIPS CREATOR CI20

2019-03-25 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, as you may know I am working a little on the PVR/SGX drivers for omap. Since the latest DDK code (1.14) includes some jz4780 support, I researched and found that a) this is for the CI20 creator board b) it could also be used as an SGX reference implementation

[Tinkerphones] OpenMoko Debug Boards and www.openmoko.org

2019-03-22 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, it seems as if Harald has some Debug Boards: > http://shop.sysmocom.de/products/openmoko-neo-debug-board-v3-kit And donations there help to keep the archive of openmoko.org active and in operation. BR, Nikolaus ___ Community mailing list

[Tinkerphones] GTA15 / Pyra-Phone news

2019-02-22 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, I have spent a little time to improve some component placement and fix my scripts which do the translation to 3D data (by generating a python script that can be imported into the FreeCAD command line version to write a STEP file). Here you can find the result:

[Tinkerphones] New Kernels for LetuxOS

2019-02-19 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, there are once again new kernel builds for LetuxOS: letux-5.0-rc7 letux-4.20.10 letux-4.19-23 letux-4.14.101 There is only minor code improvement. Mainly I have fixed the PVR/SGX530 driver for OMAP3 (GTA04) so that it is again able to load the microkernel firmware. Unfortunately we are still

Re: [Tinkerphones] PinePhone

2019-02-19 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Arsenijs, > Am 19.02.2019 um 15:06 schrieb Pičugins Arsenijs : > > >>> The ZeroPhone was being readied for crowdfunding, although it now looks >>> like >>> the developer is doing something with a TI product (like those used in the >>> PocketBeagle)... >>> >>>

Re: [Tinkerphones] PinePhone

2019-02-18 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 18.02.2019 um 17:35 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Monday 18. February 2019 06.35.56 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> HI, >> it looks as if there is another project aiming at a pure-Linux device: >> >> https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=709

[Tinkerphones] PinePhone

2019-02-17 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
HI, it looks as if there is another project aiming at a pure-Linux device: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=7093=43850#pid43850 They have some developer-kits. It more or less resembles what I am doing with the Pyra-Phone - using a SoC module, an LTE module, a mainboard, display and

Re: [Tinkerphones] FYI - I may have to shut down or restrict the goldelico projects/issue tracker

2019-02-13 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 13.02.2019 um 13:35 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Wednesday 13. February 2019 12.28.05 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> since some robot has found it and learned how to spam responses to the issue >> (bug tracker) records. > > Sorry that it

[Tinkerphones] FYI - I may have to shut down or restrict the goldelico projects/issue tracker

2019-02-13 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
since some robot has found it and learned how to spam responses to the issue (bug tracker) records. Unfortunately we use a very old version of Indefero (non-existent any more) and there is no maintainance option for moderating such records. Or preventing rogue users from writing Issues. So I

Re: [Tinkerphones] FOSDEM Talks

2019-02-07 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul, > Am 07.02.2019 um 17:21 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > Hello, > > I saw that there were a number of FOSDEM talks related to this list and to > some of our previous discussions. For instance: > > "FST-01SZ (Flying Stone Tiny 01 revision ShenZhen)" >

[Tinkerphones] Fwd: [Replicant] Meeting point for the WORKSHOP

2019-02-02 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
FYI. > Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: > > Von: Fil > Betreff: [Replicant] Meeting point for the WORKSHOP > Datum: 2. Februar 2019 um 12:05:44 MEZ > An: replicant > > The meeting point for people interested in the Replicant *workshop* is > fixed at FOSDEM's Cafeteria, on Saturday, 2nd

Re: [Tinkerphones] [Replicant] Replicant blog post: Meeting Point at FOSDEM

2019-01-30 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
And there is a ZeroPhone meeting in the same room at Saturday: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/bof_zonephone/ <https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/bof_zonephone/> > Am 30.01.2019 um 13:49 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller : > > Fyi. > > On the road > >

[Tinkerphones] Fwd: [Replicant] Replicant blog post: Meeting Point at FOSDEM

2019-01-30 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
Fyi. On the road Anfang der weitergeleiteten Nachricht: > Von: WordPress > Datum: 30. Januar 2019 um 10:20:20 MEZ > An: undisclosed-recipients:; > Betreff: [Replicant] Replicant blog post: Meeting Point at FOSDEM > > Read the blog post online: >

Re: [Tinkerphones] ANN: LetuxOS on RasPi 3B+

2019-01-14 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Arsenijs, > Am 13.01.2019 um 19:35 schrieb Pičugins Arsenijs : > >> What about QtMoko for the ZeroPhone? Well, it uses >> a PiZero and not RasPi3B+ but why not adapt things >> as needed? The foundation is here now. > > Let me know if you need any hardware, I can supply > a phone or two at

[Tinkerphones] ANN: LetuxOS on RasPi 3B+

2019-01-12 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi, I have fixed some issues with our Letux Kernel and now for the first time we have a self-compiled system for the RasPi 3B+ where you can build SD images through makesd. Kernel is now a letux-4.19.14-raspi [1] where CONFIGs are (almost) the same as for all other platforms. Just some special

Re: [Tinkerphones] about experimental Letux-Phosh (Purisms Phone's shell)

2019-01-09 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Sebastian, > Am 04.01.2019 um 00:20 schrieb Sebastian Krzyszkowiak : unfortunatley, the mail wasn't delivered earlier... > > On 1/3/19, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> Hi, >> I have built a new debian image for Phosh (debootstrapped + letux-minimal + >> purism

Re: [Tinkerphones] Happy New Year + Report

2019-01-06 Thread H. Nikolaus Schaller
Hi Paul. > Am 05.01.2019 um 19:11 schrieb Paul Boddie : > > On Tuesday 1. January 2019 13.49.11 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: >> Dear all, >> first of all let me wich everyone a happy new year and say thank you that >> you are still subscribed to this list. > >

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