Hello,
Hi all, I'm trying to write a guix code that will generate images for
pinephone pro. Can anyone share the config .scm file if anyone has
done it?
Thanks.
I do have same interest in mind. The bigger issue I'd say is to have
working mobile UI environment as the console would otherwise be
useless.
There are two possibilites:
- Plasma mobile [1][2]
- Phosh [3][4]
None of the above currently works in Guix.
Recently also Gnome Shell, but that I haven't yet tested. [5]
After these environments are running in Guix we can look into the
hardware. The biggest drawback I'd say is that's still development
platform. Sure you can use it daily but the mileage varies from
Android or iOS (mainly power and peripherals such as camera)[6].
Though the work already done is amazing and continues to improve!
Besides the code not yet being merged in the upstream kernel there's
another issue.
Without the issue you won't be able to have bluetooth, WiFI, USB
peripherals (probably more like fingerprint, nfc).
Definitely having libre phone is admirable goal but it's not possible
under current circumstances.
The best way is to have Guix on foreign distibution.
There's similar project in the NixOS world, might check that. [7]
Or just use PostmarketOS. [8][9]
The last issue is probably running Android apps using Waydroid. [10]
FIY I've been putting together the definition for the Pine64 products
on nonguix channel :-)
1 https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57608
2 https://plasma-mobile.org/
3 https://issues.guix.gnu.org/44400
4 https://puri.sm/posts/phosh-overview/
5
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022/09/09/gnome-shell-on-mobile-an-update/
6
https://tuxphones.com/pinephone-pro-sony-imx258-camera-demo-samples-mainline-linux/
7 https://mobile.nixos.org/
8 https://postmarketos.org/
9 https://issues.guix.gnu.org/49577
10 https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51737
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Petr