Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:39:11 +0200 From: Valery Seys <valery@vslash.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Arm64 Tier 1 FreeBSD 13 Phones Message-ID: <dff75fe7-06d1-5114-8c0c-d83faaebbd7e@vslash.com> In-Reply-To: <0ac501e9fb3d814435950b2141bd6d9332197a71.camel@freebsd.org> References: <CAD2Ti2_wNWyzfUeD4t8iG=T8FGm8V085dc-Asqgb8r38ATdNaA@mail.gmail.com> <0ac501e9fb3d814435950b2141bd6d9332197a71.camel@freebsd.org>
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On 10/04/2021 15:02, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sat, 2021-04-10 at 04:07 -0400, grarpamp wrote: >> FreeBSD Phones... >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5 >> NXP i.MX 8M Quad core Cortex-A53, 64bit ARM >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone >> Allwinner A64 ARM Quad core Cortex-A53 >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c32-QOrI4cw >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCKMxzz9cjs >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVJo9faE1fM >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV0RnWorPpQ >> >> Happy hacking :) >> > > Dream on. FreeBSD lacks the power-management infrastructure to run on > battery-operated devices. The amount of work required to get there > from here is almost unimaginable, and there are no big companies > funding that kind of work (which is how linux got all that code). > > -- Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ... and even on Linux, the power management is very unstable on the PinePhone ; I tried it through 3 distros (Mobian, KDE Manjaro, GloDroid), and results are far to provide something usable for a day to day usage. Some investigations I made with Mobian on a new Pinephone having hardware issue: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13311&pid=91835#pid91835 IMHO, the Pinephone is something like a prototype, low quality control (and low price too), but not really something reliable. But yes, FreeBSD on a smartphone would be so great !
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