Projects:PinePhone Daily Driver

Project: Using PinePhone as my daily driver smartphone, running Linux fulfilling Goal:Technology.

(!) Looks like all the current OS images are crashing (apart from Megous' kernel on Arch Linux ARM).

Tested that older releases still work, e.g.: postmarketOS with 5.5 kernel, debian + phosh with 5.5 kernel

Tested with different SD Cards (one known to work with older releases).

Software Setup

postmarketOS

Pros and Cons

• [+] Alpine Linux

Next Steps

• ☆ Flash a prebuilt image
  • [+] ?
  • [–] Crashes after a few moments
• ☓ Waiting for a better build...
• ☐ Build and flash from the repository
• ☐ Try the custom image
• ☐ Try customizing the image

UBports

Pros and Cons

• [+] Ubuntu (almost Debian, could be worse)
• [+] Built via debos from source

Next Steps

• ☆ Flash a prebuilt image
  • [+] ?
  • [–] Crashes during boot.
• ☓ Waiting for a better build...
• ☐ Build and flash from the repository
• ☐ Try the custom image
• ☐ Try customizing the image

Mobian

Pros and Cons

• [+] Debian (almost as good as Arch Linux)
• [+] Aims to be as upstream as possible, built from source
• [–] Phosh

Next Steps

• ☑ Flash a prebuilt image
  • [+] Boots, serial shell works
  • [–] Crashes right after booting into phosh
    • [ 30.775060] Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffff800010aeb34a
• ☓ Waiting for a better build...
• ☐ Build and flash from the repository
• ☐ Try the custom image
• ☐ Try customizing the image

Arch Linux ARM

Via Arch Linux ARM for PinePhone Installer.

Pros and Cons

• [+] Arch Linux
• [–] Relies on Megous' kernel image and updates

Next Steps

• ☑ Update to kernel 5.7
• ☓ Try again the current status and progress
  • [i] Tested, boots and works, but the USB network seems broken as of 2020-05-11 --> Reverting to 5.6
  • [i] Kernel 5.6.13 works with USB network as of 2020-05-17

Related

• PinePhone Hardware
• PinePhone Software