Those are some pretty sexy specs. It's also really rare to hear about a Thunderbolt port. That means this thing can potentially support external GPUs. Crazy. Also, it's a bit unusual to hear about the battery measured in Wh vs mAh. Do you just multiply/divide by voltage to get one spec vs the...
Your best bet at the moment, I think, is a custom QEMU build.
And no, I'm not sure how to go about doing that.
Software emulation of peripherals is also an issue. Why not wait until the thing comes out at least?
Replicant will not be able to support the GPU. Like I said, there are some proprietary binary blobs. I won't deny that Replicant could run on it with fbdev enabled. Something Lineage OS would be a good choice as well.
Well, the one reason that keeps me coming back to Pyra is that it actually has a good developer community. They understand the users. They're not the typical people out to make a quick buck out of consumers. And there's a lot of bad examples. Another good example is VoCore. They have real...
I hate to ask this, but will this be sort of an App store implementation to install programs from, or just an extra repo?
And will this be a repo that anyone can add to Debian's sources.list, for example?
f2fs-tools lack some significant features like FS shrinking. Error checking and fsck is still iffy I've heard. Might not be true. I don't have direct experience with it.
I prefer Btrfs at the moment, even if it has its problems, too. if bcachefs gets more development, I'd rather use that. Maybe...
Now that Firefox requires PulseAudio, I can see why that would be needed, not just for WebRTC voice calls, but IM applications like Skype, Discord, etc...
To me, it sounds like Pyra handheld owners will be able to run any 32-bit ARM GNU/Linux distro. BSD will be tricky. I think Android may be able to run on it? I'm not sure. You'll just need to copy over the firmware from /lib/firmware, and there may be some other blobs that need to be copied...
Don't be delusional. You can't make up excuses for things that aren't there yet. What you see in the specs is what you get in terms of hardware when you buy. And, of course, you get a decent community in the back working on the software as well!
You could try to fit it in your pocket, but it's...
They Pyra appears to be using two parts of 70-Pin DF40 connectors for the CPU and RAM connectors. The only company I know to sell chips like these are Gumstix. And unfortunately, all the Gumstix COMs use OMAP garbage as well. A few are actually XScale, but it's slow as nails.
We'll need to...
I also agree that the Pyra seems very impractical to use as a mobile device. It's hard to hold in your hand, then hold it up to your ear, and have that combination make you look like a normally functioning human being.
So in the meantime, the mobile device is mostly useful for GPS, or doing...
Sorry if a thread like this already exists, but can I please know exactly what Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chipset is going to be used on the Pyra. Will it be able to run without proprietary firmware and drivers?
Thanks a lot for any answers.
Man, I would really like to figure out how someone could make a QEMU/VM setup and configuration for testing this rootfs.
Last I checked, someone even made an extremely bare-bones XBOX emulator with QEMU, and there's also one for the Ben NanoNote.
Is anyone using an ARM 32-bit (armhf) dev-board...
The big problem with emulators like PCSX2 is that they, for some reason, use x86 32-bit assembly code, making it only able to run that code on that specific architecture. If only somebody could successfully translate that ASM code to C (or whatever the emulator uses) could it then finally become...
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