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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>we just started a community project¹ to bring Ubuntu Touch to the
Raspberry Pi to enable people to build their own fully featured
phones. If we succeed, it may be not that difficult anymore to
bring Ubuntu Touch to tinkerphones, too. So both communities could
combine their efforts, ubports on the software side and
tinkerphones on the hardware side.<br>
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<p>What do you guys think about that?</p>
<p>regards,</p>
<p>Jonatan<br>
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<p>¹<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/ubports/raspberry-pi">https://github.com/ubports/raspberry-pi</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 01.06.2018 um 23:04 schrieb H.
Nikolaus Schaller:<br>
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Hi,
<div class="">although there seems to be not much activity here,
there is still progress</div>
<div class="">with the Letux OS / GTA04 code base. It is neither
forgotten nor abandoned :)</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">I have finally made the TV-out of the GTA04 work
again. It did already work long</div>
<div class="">time ago (I think in 3.12 kernel), but after
upgrades to Device Tree we were not</div>
<div class="">able to catch up with upstream changes and
understand them. And to be honest,</div>
<div class="">TV-out was not on highest priority.</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">But now I spent some hours and made it working
again. Mainly there were typos</div>
<div class="">in the DT sources we had tried before. E.g.:</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
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^^^ here is the bug: this property must be called
"pinctrl-names".</div>
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<div class="">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space;
-webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">
<div class="">And after finally recognizing that the video
cable was broken overnight</div>
<div class="">(it was still working yesterday) and adding
some "ti,invert-polarity;" the</div>
<div class="">TVout of the GTA04 works again :)</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">Quality isn't bad - so switching to a
desktop mode (and taking care of</div>
<div class="">portrait vs. landscape dimensions) is just a
matter of easy-to-use</div>
<div class="">user-space software...</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">So by connecting to a projector or monitor
and adding a keyboard through</div>
<div class="">USB-OTG or Bluetooth you can easily convert
your smart-phone into a desktop</div>
<div class="">PC with standard Debian inside...</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">There is no longer an excuse that there is
no hardware capable of this...</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">Kernel and DT and hardware now finally
support it. Please note that</div>
<div class="">I have "backported" the fixes also to the
latest 4.16.13 kernel because the</div>
<div class="">4.17-rc kernels have some other spurious bug
on the GTA04A5 boards</div>
<div class="">we have not yet fixed.</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">
<div class="">So please dig out your GTA04 and give it a
try!</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="">For downloads see: <a
href="http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-kernel/"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-kernel/</a></div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">And, please consider donating to support
further work on Letux OS,</div>
<div class="">especially if you want faster progress or
new features:</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a
href="http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=Product&product=9602"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=Product&product=9602</a></div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">As you can see nobody is getting rich so
that you can imagine that</div>
<div class="">we do this almost voluntarily:</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a
href="http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04%3ADonation" class=""
moz-do-not-send="true">http://shop.goldelico.com/wiki.php?page=GTA04%3ADonation</a></div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">So unless we get big donations to hire
professionals, we need volunteers</div>
<div class="">or continue in slow pace.</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">Finally, here is a photo (well, I should
have initialized the real time clock before :)</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
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id="02F07C2C-F2CE-42F4-B8C4-62B0FCFBE738"
apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" class=""
src="cid:part4.1CAB8A84.B85C58F7@gmx.de" width="721"
height="1280"></div>
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<div class="">BR and have fun,</div>
<div class="">Nikolaus</div>
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