Over the past few days I brought up Mainline Linux 7.1.0-rc1 (linux-postmarketos-qcom-sdm845) and postmarketOS edge on a Xiaomi Mi 8 (dipper) (Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, 6 GB LPDDR4X RAM, 128 GB UFS 2.1...
Read postWhen I first published Mergen, the goal was modest: prove that a C++20 / GGML runtime could split a GGUF language model into consecutive transformer layer shards, ship those shards to reclaimed phones...
Read postWhen recovering discarded phone motherboards for my Phone Revival Lab, two of my clean octacore boards were Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime (SM-G610F / on7xelte) mainboards equipped with the Exynos 7870 (8× C...
Read postWhen I brought up Mainline Linux 7.2 and Alpine Linux 3.20 on the Exper Easypad 8 (Model T8E) tablet (Allwinner A31s / sun6i), nearly every major subsystem worked through upstream drivers: sun4i-drm d...
Read postGetting an old phone to boot Linux is a satisfying milestone. Making it useful over time creates a different set of problems. It needs to receive work, report what happened, reconnect after an interru...
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