I have written a blogpost about my first mainline driver, that lets you use night light on #LinuxMobile smartphones from the last 10 years, but also laptops and tablets.
Today i took part of #linuxday2025 in Palermo,
I talked about the risks for Android ROMs related to AOSP and how #LinuxMobile and
@postmarketOS might be a way forward, together with our communities.
Shout out to
@thefreecircle for the great organization and the ambitious and very lively event!
Following the advice from #postmarketOS maintainers, I submitted my nightlight patch to the LKML.
Once it will be accepted, it will become available for all the phones using close-to-mainline kernels, without having to manually add the patch to every repository.
Upstreaming the code to mainline is the only way of supporting hardware in a sustainable way (from the effort point of view), and everyone benefits of our code.
#Phosh and Phoc had nightlight support since ages but the only phone with out of the box gamma LUT support that could make use of it so far was the #PinePhone.
Thanks to
@fizzo 's kernel work it works on Qualcomm based phones too now and makes the (optional) night light quick toggle useful on way more devices and looking at the bright AMOLED displays at night much more pleasant.
My goal was to enable night light on OnePlus 6 using #phosh on #postmarketos.
It was a missing DRM GAMMA_LUT support in the Qualcomm Display Engine (DPU) driver.
I used the downstream kernel as a reference and found the LUT format by trial and error on the phone.
We have some new features, quality of life improvements, (a bit more than usual) under the hood work and 🐛 fixes, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.50.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵
Increasingly feeling that I'd like to get back into mobile Linux development, after over 8 years away. Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that can be picked up cheaply second hand? I'm currently thinking of the OnePlus 6, as it seems to be pretty good on
@postmarketOS support.
Functional audio, networking and GPS would be a must for the sorts of things I have in mind (e.g. porting Pied, playing with screen reader functionality, porting an in-development spatial app, etc.)
I'm curious. Send me your dream phone to run postmarketOS on. Can be a super cool, high-end phone or some weird early 2000s phone with two screens and a keyboard. Get creative!
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Very realistic bunny plushie is pointing at a phone screen with a touchscreen stylus. Phone is running Linux that looks like WindowsXP with terminal window open in the middle of the screen, spewing progress of compiling a program.
I like what Graphene is doing for security but instead of giving $$$ to Google in order to have #degoogled, I'd rather invest in improving #LinuxMobile which is a pro-freedom solution from the get-go and is not held hostage by a hostile codebase.
Perhaps this analogy will be correct: It's like moving into a less than ideal house that you can own forever versus moving into something that looks more like your dreamhouse that you don't really own.