On Thursday 19. January 2017 06.24.35 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Hi,
> someone notified me about this project:
>
> https://hackaday.io/project/19035-zerophone-a-raspberry-pi-smartphone/log/5
> 1839-project-description-and-frequently-asked-questions
>
> What do you think?
That people are perha
On Wednesday 22. February 2017 15.49.53 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> Sadly, this also makes it really the last GTA04 batch which will
> ever be built (making these GTA04A5 boards rare collectibles).
> Unless someone spends us enough money to make more experiments
> with OMAP3 PoP soldering.
So
On Tuesday 24. October 2017 21.15.08 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> > Am 24.10.2017 um 20:08 schrieb Gilles Filippini
> > :
> >
> > When I heard about the Librem 5 project I just felt more confident in
> > their capacity to overcome these difficulties, because of their
> > experience with notebo
On Saturday 28. October 2017 14.14.26 rhn wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:33:17 +0200 "H. Nikolaus Schaller"
> wrote:
> >
> > But I just found this morning:
> > https://community.imgtec.com/developers/powervr/documentation/
> >
> > This looks to be very important (dated 07 Apr 2017):
> >
On Friday 3. November 2017 10.54.44 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> > Am 03.11.2017 um 10:32 schrieb Thomas Munker :
> >
> > i would like to see some small cryptographic hardware, like eg. yubikey.
> > At best easy interfaceable to gta02/gta04 or with necessary interface
> > hardware
>
> I have che
On Friday 3. November 2017 09.21.37 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> And more generally, this is in the area of software we offer for free and
> not new hardware / gadgets / services we could put in a shop.
>
> Any wishes for gadgets, accessories, tools, breakout boards, pocket bones,
> Pyra-phone
On Tuesday 7. November 2017 15.55.32 Josua Mayer wrote:
>
> Gnome and KDE still appear to rely on the existence of a proper OpenGL
> implementation. I remember that about a year ago the person behind
> netrunner was trying to run kde on the i.MX6 Cubox-i and failed due to
> the vivante OpenGL blob
On Tuesday 7. November 2017 14.56.41 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> > Am 05.11.2017 um 00:15 schrieb Paul Boddie :
> >
> > I know you've been doing work for the Pyra project, and I guess that the
> > OMAP5 board is what you were calling "Letux Cortex 15&qu
On Saturday 28. October 2017 13.33.17 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> But I just found this morning:
>
> https://community.imgtec.com/developers/powervr/documentation/
>
> This looks to be very important (dated 07 Apr 2017):
>
> http://cdn.imgtec.com/sdk-
documentation/PowerVR+Instr
On Monday 27. November 2017 11.51.41 Belisko Marek wrote:
>
> Anybody willing to do what Nikolaus proposed? If not I can try to
> establish some connection with FST01 community.
> or somebody else already active and willing to do so? Just want to
> recover communication to avoid putting this idea
On Wednesday 20. December 2017 18.42.37 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> > Am 19.12.2017 um 19:40 schrieb Paul Boddie :
> >
> > https://anarc.at/contact/
> >
> > Maybe he has a good line of communication to the community involved.
>
> Good idea! Anyone to cont
On Thursday 21. December 2017 13.38.59 Belisko Marek wrote:
>
> I can start conversation on that ML and check feedback if no one else
> plan to do that.
> Basically I present idea to have FST-01 clone with uUSB adapter +
> ability to update firmware via USB. Make any sense? Thanks.
I guess that s
On Sunday 4. February 2018 17.01.55 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> Anyways, I learned a lot of interesting and useful things for our
> projects. E.g. why the FST01 crypto key was developed an
> about about the status. And I established a contact to the
> developer and gnupg.org.
Great to hear th
On Friday 23. February 2018 12.28.59 Norayr Chilingarian wrote:
> I would prefer it to be on github.
I see that Radek already had a clone of QtMoko on GitHub.
But it annoys me somewhat when people "prefer" things that are convenient to
themselves but may not be convenient to others, especially w
On Monday 23. April 2018 18.35.43 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> > Am 23.04.2018 um 15:48 schrieb Belisko Marek :
> >
> > Just found this now, looks like interesting idea but I'm not sure if
> > they get ~1M$ ;):
> >
> > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2070436562/kite
If people have to re
On Friday 1. June 2018 23.04.43 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Hi,
> although there seems to be not much activity here, there is still progress
> with the Letux OS / GTA04 code base. It is neither forgotten nor abandoned
> :)
I feel a bit bad for neglecting the MIPS-based side of the Letux kernel
On Sunday 3. June 2018 17.30.39 anti.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
> | I was reading about Neo900
> | capabilities for this only recently, too.
>
> Where do you get news on that?
I read the IRC channel archives found here:
https://irclog.whitequark.org/neo900/
Here's the mention of the video-out featu
On Thursday 14. June 2018 17.54.56 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> What are you currently working on (wrt. to Tinkerphones)?
I thought I should finally respond to this in some way. As some people
following the rather exclusive Lenny400 mailing list (for the Letux 400
notebook computer) as well
Hello,
I saw the following article mentioned on the #neo900 IRC channel yesterday.
Here's an excerpt:
"The lesson learned here is probably that even a technically very exciting
project backed by world-renowned hackers like bunnie doesn't mean that anyone
will actually ever do anything with it,
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.
Happy New Year to you and to my fellow subscribers, too!
> There haven't been many news in 2018, but th
On Sunday 6. January 2019 18.16.36 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> > Am 05.01.2019 um 19:11 schrieb Paul Boddie :
> >
> > Once again, I feel a bit guilty about not continuing to work on the Letux
> > 400 Linux kernel, but there are diminishing returns in doing so.
&
Hello,
I noticed, not that long ago, the following blog post about hardware
development which overlaps with some of the topics discussed on this list:
"How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with 100% Free Software"
https://puri.sm/posts/how-we-designed-the-librem-5-dev-kit-with-100-free-software/
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)"
https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/gnuk_hardware/
"Maemo Leste"
https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/maemo_
On Thursday 7. February 2019 19.51.13 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> > Am 07.02.2019 um 17:21 schrieb Paul Boddie :
> >
> > Personally, I cannot get excited by a device that is not developed in the
> > open, and it also doesn't seem to have cellular connectivit
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 has made more work for you!
> Unfortunately we use a very old version of Indefero (non-existent any more)
> and
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=7093&pid=43850#pid43850
>
> They have some developer-kits.
>
> It more or less resembles what I am doing
On Tuesday 19. February 2019 20.41.22 Martin Rottensteiner wrote:
>
> There might be some other phones this list might be interested in:
> The maemo-leste-project tries to make recent mainline kernels available on
> older phones. You might especially like to hear that they made quite huge
> progre
On Friday 22. February 2019 12.15.40 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> 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 ST
On Saturday 2. March 2019 11.05.45 Martin Rottensteiner wrote:
>
> > I used to browse the Maemo forums and there seemed to be plenty of
> > projects that never went anywhere, so I hope that this isn't one of those.
> > I see that it is a continuation of the "Livermorium" keyboard extension
> > for
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) includes some jz4780 support,
> I researched and found that
> a) this is for the CI20 creator board
> b) it could also
On Wednesday 27. March 2019 08.26.29 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
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> > Am 25.03.2019 um 11:55 schrieb Paul Boddie :
> >
> > Yes, I have a CI20 board.
>
> Ah, great!
I may have mentioned it before somewhere, maybe not on this list, though.
[...]
> > Apart from
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 interfacing to
> the specific SoC. Therefore everyone has to start with getting something
> working.
On Friday 29. March 2019 08.57.22 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> > 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
> > Letu
Well, after previously making remarks about original design manufacturers (or
whatever ODM is supposed to stand for), here is today's news from the Necunos
initiative:
"Now, we have faced yet another obstacle regarding the freedom of software.
One of our critical partners has backed down from t
On Tuesday 21. May 2019 10.22.50 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> What else is going on in the LetuxOS eco-system?
>
> We now support MIPS devices, not only ARM. Well one. The Imagination CI20
> board. Just do "makesd ci20" to get a first SD card.
I'll have to stop procrastinating and try this no
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
> > became clear to me that your avoiding OSHW certification was a
> > deliberate business choice.
>
> No
On Tuesday 21. May 2019 20.15.04 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Paul Boddie (2019-05-21 18:33:09)
> >
> > I recall Nikolaus getting quite a bit of hassle from people who
> > demanded full access to the materials around projects like GTA04. I
> > wonder if those pe
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 successor:
http://git.liw.fi/vmdb2
> And, of course,
On Monday 27. May 2019 15.25.00 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
> Wauw! Probably the first ever review of Boxer :-)
Probably not a fair one, though...
> Yes, I think it is an accurate description. As for "[not] much of
> immediate use" I believe it stems from being about reusable patterns -
> so if
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
> and over the years some of the underlaying tools had changed.
>
> So it basically is a ma
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 minimal
> set of required or generally useful packages or with some more, e.g. a full
> GUI lik
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 support MIPS devices, not only ARM. Well one. The Imagination CI20
> > board. Just do &
On Tuesday 11. June 2019 08.14.49 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> > Am 09.06.2019 um 18:01 schrieb Paul Boddie :
> >
> > Ignoring the investigations into configuration and deployment tools, I did
> > manage to compile an upstream kernel for the CI20 today. Choosing t
On Tuesday 11. June 2019 14.54.36 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> Maybe you could also try the letux tree. The idea of the letux tree is that
> we can collaborate on it and contribute good things to kernel.org if we are
> successful.
I'll put the CI20 to work on it as soon as it is finished build
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 will bounce, though, because I am not subscribed to that
list.
[...]
> I have just booted sucessfully t
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 card becomes broken.
I personally wonder about the point of NAND, ultimately, at least for this
kin
On Wednesday 12. June 2019 23.56.44 Paul Boddie wrote:
>
> Now that I try again it works just fine with the 5.1.8 kernel. So I imagine
> that I didn't wait long enough previously and was convinced that a lack of
> LED activity meant that the board had failed to boot, which wasn&#
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 the
> ci20.dts. I'll give it a try in the next days.
I looked into this with the 5.1.8 kernel
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 would be (amongst other
things)...
1. Viable for a reasonable amount of
On Saturday 21. September 2019 21.33.22 Xavi Drudis Ferran wrote:
> El Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 07:22:22PM +0200, H. Nikolaus Schaller deia:
> > > Am 21.09.2019 um 19:14 schrieb Martin :
> > >
> > >
> > > Note: I live in Germany and do not own a mobile phone. My bank
> > > uses the so-called "Sm@rt-T
On Saturday 21. September 2019 15.48.50 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
>
> > Am 19.09.2019 um 18:18 schrieb Paul Boddie :
> >
> > I dislike the tone of technology reviews, especially when they talk of
> > "last year's" technology. They start to sound like f
On Monday 23. September 2019 17.21.38 H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> > Am 23.09.2019 um 16:28 schrieb Paul Boddie :
> >
> > But very bad for the planet. As it is, however, people can always be
> > persuaded to upgrade by just making the software more demanding, so as I
>
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
>
> So they also ran into unexpected solder bridges which must be X-Rayed. This
> sounds very very familiar to me
On Friday, 1 January 2021 10:40:53 CET H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Dear all,
> I wish you a happy and better new year.
I wish everyone a Happy New Year, too!
> We have got some funding by a generous community member in December so
> that technical operation of the community resources is secured
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 sufficient to appreciate this post, and my knowledge of
Norwegian doesn't make it convenient enough to really
On Wednesday, 29 December 2021 10:15:45 CET H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> > 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 ph
On Saturday, 1 January 2022 18:52:40 CET H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> A happy new year to everybody!
And the same from me, too!
> Hi Paul,
> as usually a very insightful contribution and well written so that it is
> difficult to add something...
I thought I was ranting, really. Maybe I should a
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 consider is the power demand of a non-phone-processor.
> Especially the ∏02 needs much more energy or must be he
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 any of the devices...
> We spend (spent) a lot of time to make it work, get hardware out just
> to get t
On Monday, 3 January 2022 21:32:16 CET Andreas Kemnade wrote:
>
> > > "The Pine64 developers and the community need to put more focus onto
> > > making the PinePhone perform the most basic of mobile phone tasks, Like
> > > making and receiving phone calls, using headphone earpieces, receiving
> >
On Monday, 3 January 2022 13:06:39 CET Dr. Michael Lauer wrote:
> Thanks for churning up these interesting comments, Paul.
I appreciate the feedback, particularly from someone who has been at the heart
of the action. I was reading through your retrospective on Openmoko yesterday,
and it still ma
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
> >> advancements and choice of free software projects, getting the very
>
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 helping getting
> GTA04 better and making it a success.
I have to follow up on precisely this poi
On Saturday, 8 January 2022 22:49:19 CET Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
> Even current generation PinePhone might be made to run a (very)
> lightweight telephony-focused stack, on its embedded 32bit 300MHz AR100
> processor.
>
> I maintain the needed compiler for Debian in package gcc-or1k-elf, and
>
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, at least from what
> > I ca
On Tuesday, 11 January 2022 07:26:32 CET H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> > Am 10.01.2022 um 22:51 schrieb Paul Boddie :
> >
> > I wouldn't know without really taking a look at it. However, it sounds
> > like the Linux support would be comparable to what has been don
Hello,
Sorry to bring up an old thread, but I would probably only end up repeating
myself in a new thread, anyway! See here for the quoted message in the list
archive:
https://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/community/2019-September/002046.html
On Monday, 23 September 2019 16:28:46 CET Paul
Hello,
It has been quiet on this list, but I recently became aware of another phone-
like project when perusing a popular maker/gadget retailer's site:
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/unphone
It appears to be an ESP32-based (XTensa LX7) gadget that emphasises LoRa-based
communication for Int
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/
Unlike various "privacy-enhanced" products seen previously, however, this one
separates core telephony from s
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, this can
> equally securely be done by an open source application running on the app
On Wednesday, 8 November 2023 17:45:58 CEST Paul Boddie wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It has been quiet on this list, but I recently became aware of another
> phone- like project when perusing a popular maker/gadget retailer's site:
>
> https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/unphone
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