<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 16, 2020, at 10:29 PM, George Rosamond <<a href="mailto:george@ceetonetechnology.com" class="">george@ceetonetechnology.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 7/16/20 5:06 PM, George Neville-Neil wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Note that it "works" because it's the same as something we already run<br class="">on, but it doesn't actually work as a FreeBSD phone. A few of us have<br class="">reached out to the tweeter to encourage and see where they're going with<br class="">this.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Right, I think it's relatively simple to run a BSD that has an arm64<br class="">port on the PinePhone.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/" class="">https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/</a><br class=""><br class="">But yes, as GNN said, modem support is another story, and those are<br class="">mostly proprietary binaries AFAIK.<br class=""><br class="">OTOH, what's wrong with a device with a phone footprint that can run a<br class="">BSD in your pocket, just using wireless, assuming that chipset is<br class="">supported? A good option for $150, especially compared to the GPD or<br class="">something.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>This looks interesting too - a perhaps-BSD-friendly tablet for a bit over $100:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wQMLqGOVkn0J:https://store.pine64.org/product/pinetab-10-1-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari" class="">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wQMLqGOVkn0J:https://store.pine64.org/product/pinetab-10-1-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari</a> (their site is down currently)</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://store.pine64.org/product/pinetab-10-1-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard/" class="">https://store.pine64.org/product/pinetab-10-1-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard/</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Charles</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">But oddly, the dmesgd lists the awg driver but no man page?<br class=""><br class="">awg0: <Allwinner Gigabit Ethernet> mem 0x1c30000-0x1c3ffff irq 43 on<br class="">simplebus0<br class="">awg0: cannot allocate resources for device<br class=""><br class="">The other issue is ACPI/power management/hibernation. I know the dev<br class="">versions of the default Linux on the PinePhone have pretty crappy<br class="">battery life, but even the stable version isn't too grand IIRC.<br class=""><br class="">Regardless, I really give huge props to the Pine64 people. They deserve<br class="">support, and we'll all be better off if *BSD devs can put time into<br class="">their devices.<br class=""><br class="">g<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">talk mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:talk@lists.nycbug.org" class="">talk@lists.nycbug.org</a><br class="">http://lists.nycbug.org:8080/mailman/listinfo/talk<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>