Re: PinePhone Pro Boots On CURRENT

---> Android remains the OS for the phone.

I'm not sure but I see that he talks even about Linux as main os that can
be installed on the phone

---> FreeBSD does not have the required proprietary driver blobs which are
used by Android and I greatly doubt
that FreeBSD running in a KVM will have access to all (or any) of these
hardware elements.

This is true. But AFAIK qemu can provide the missing software
components replacing
them with the virtual ones.

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 3:35 PM Gary Jennejohn <garyj@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 May 2023 12:00:43 +0200
> Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ---> No, with this you cannot replace Android with Linux.  This hack
> merely
> > provides a way to run a different OS in a KVM.
> >
> > ok,but what do I see as soon as I have flashed the boot.img to the phone
> > with odin ? can I virtualize freebsd,right ? What tool can I use in
> FreeBSD
> > to place phone calls and to send sms ? because this is what I want to
> do. A
> > freeBSD powered phone.
> >
>
> You'll see the hacked Android version which the developer has provided.
>
> Android remains the OS for the phone.  FreeBSD does not have the requiired
> proprietary driver blobs which are used by Android and I greatly doubt
> that FreeBSD running in a KVM will have access to all (or any) of the
> these hardware elements.
>
> Click on raspiduino/a6lte-kvm in the upper left corner of the github
> link.  This will take you to the source repository which has a long
> document about his hack.  Read it.
>
> [SNIP]
>
> --
> Gary Jennejohn
>


-- 
Mario.