Device Ports & Hardware Bring-Up

Reproducible Linux bring-up trees, custom device trees, out-of-tree drivers, and headless compute conversions for tablets and repurposed phone motherboards. Each device page documents verified hardware status, boot architecture, and open engineering gaps.

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Device SoC & Arch Kernel OS / Userland Boot Path Status Links
Xiaomi Mi 8 (dipper)
xiaomi-dipper
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (SDM845) aarch64 Mainline Linux 7.1.0-rc1-sdm845 postmarketOS edge (Alpine / OpenRC) UFS userdata rootfs + boot partition (slot A) Active
Xiaomi Redmi 7A (pine)
xiaomi-pine
Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 (SDM439) aarch64 Mainline-near Linux 7.1.3-msm89x7 postmarketOS edge (Alpine / OpenRC) Internal eMMC via lk2nd 23.1 Bootloader Experimental

Xiaomi Mi 8 (dipper) — Mainline Linux 7.1 postmarketOS Port

Active Smartphone (USB Compute Node & Display) aarch64
SoC
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (SDM845)
Kernel
Mainline Linux 7.1.0-rc1-sdm845
OS
postmarketOS edge (Alpine / OpenRC)
Boot
UFS userdata rootfs + boot partition (slot A)

Mainline Linux 7.1.0-rc1 port for the Xiaomi Mi 8 (Snapdragon 845, 6 GB RAM, 128 GB UFS) with Samsung EA8074 AMOLED DRM panel, Adreno 630 Freedreno GPU, ST FTS5 touchscreen, TAS2557 + WCD9340 audio, and 60–80% battery charge limiting.

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Xiaomi Redmi 7A (pine) — Headless postmarketOS Compute Node

Experimental Smartphone (Headless Node) aarch64
SoC
Qualcomm Snapdragon 439 (SDM439)
Kernel
Mainline-near Linux 7.1.3-msm89x7
OS
postmarketOS edge (Alpine / OpenRC)
Boot
Internal eMMC via lk2nd 23.1 Bootloader

Snapdragon 439 headless Linux node booting mainline-near Linux 7.1.3 via lk2nd, trimmed to ~140 MB idle RAM with OpenRC WCNSS remoteproc boot-race fixes and hardware watchdog supervision.

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