First of all, I’m loving my Pocket Reform. Really stoked to see how deep I’m going to go on it.
I’m a big fan of Void Linux and have started work on making a kernel package, and have a running system on it already (I’ll post a github link later).
I’m having some issues compiling the qcacld2 driver from MNT’s repo against my custom kernel’s header files. Does anyone here know what (if any) differences there are in MNT’s fork of this repo? I plan on running a diff this evening, but figured it’s worth asking first.
I also have to do some XServer debugging. I’ve tried basically nothing on this front, but it didn’t just immediately work. I plan on taking a look at my debian system to see if I can steal some of the config files. Not sure if there’s anything special there.
I’m chronically bad at documenting my work, but I’ll be doing my best to make installing void on the pocket reform easy so anyone else who’s interested can have an easy time.
I’m not sure if this will be directly helpful for you, but here are the NixOS derivations I put together for the imx8mp pocket kernel + qcald2 driver + qcald2 firmware which are building happily and work fine in my testing. The repo used for the driver and compilation options I had to do some fiddling with to get everything working. I’d definitely recommend using the repo for the driver I used in the NixOS derivation as it carries some important fixes. Hope this helps!
Much appreciated. Looking at the MNT repo, I’m going to take a crack at building it against the 6.11 kernel instead of 6.10. If that doesn’t work, I’ll start looking at that version
I was hoping you’d see my thread @josch. Your other replies in other threads were very helpful for getting a running system. I think I have everything up to
I don’t have an amazing understanding of DKMS, so I’ll do some research and take another crack at it tonight once I get my 6.11 kernel small enough for it to not leak into my DTB offset in u-boot
update: still stuck on building that qcacld2 module. I think the kernel I built is missing CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES. Maybe if I build that bad boy it’ll just work
I’ve made no progress on the XServer front, but it looks like that repo has a lot of info. I’m going to take a closer look and see if there’s any useful configuration in there. System is totally up and running using my phone hotspot as a NIC for network access
@josch one thing I noticed is that when I type “shutdown” the system controller stays on. Is there a command I need to send over a serial port to shut down the system controller?
@josch do you know what the state of X11 on the imx8mp is? I’m able to get it up with etnaviv acceleration using the modesetting driver, but I’m getting this really weird mouse smearing artifact, and whenever I move the cursor, it’s really slowing every other graphical application down
Hi @joe-albanese, no sorry, since i don’t own a Pocket Reform myself, I have no personal experience with X11 on that platform. I also cannot recall others having done more than an experiment here and there. On imx8mq with etnaviv there used to be some custom xorg configs which were removed but you can still see them in the git history: remove X11 settings for etnaviv (95ab92bb) · Commits · Reform / MNT Reform Tools · GitLab Maybe this helps.
Yeah, I dug that up in some old threads. I found some info online saying that X11 doesn’t play nicely with etnaviv a lot of the time, so I went to Wayland and have it working with that. I’m just going to make the call to not deal with X11 until I finish making my work into packages people can install
I’ve been a little busy with other projects recently, but this is still being worked on. If anyone IS interested in getting Void running on their pocket reform LMK and I can quickly put together a hacky guide on how to get started before I finish packaging it all up.
Currently, I’m fighting acpi to get battery info in the OS. Right now I need to use the little oled to know what my charge state is.
