- p-boot bootloader by Megous (currently at 5.14-rc6)
- optimized PinePhone kernel from Megous
- needs stock Arch Linux ARM and some setup to start with:
- can be used with with danctnix's Arch Linux ARM with Phosh GUI
TODO: LTE Modem (EG25) needs some tuning with danctnix build, as megous' kernel uses modem power manager driver: https://xnux.eu/devices/feature/modem-pp.html
TODO: pacman configs to avoid kernel updates form danctnix tree
All bootloader related files are installed to /p-boot -directory, which are read with the pacman hooks upon installation.
Use with care - The PKGBUILD comes with pacman hooks that overwrite your boot partition! Use plain makepkg to build the package.
On your Pinephone with Arch Linux ARM:
- install git and base-devel
- install f2fs-tools (not needed with danctnix as it uses ext4 fs on root partition)
- git clone this repo
- cd to repo and run makepkg
- pacman -U linux-megous--aarch64.pkg.tar.xz --overwrite /etc/fstab
- https://xnux.eu/index.html
- https://megous.com/git/p-boot
- https://xff.cz/kernels
- https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/allwinner/pine64
[alarm@alarm pinephone-arch]$ sudo pacman -U linux-megous-5.14-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz --overwrite /etc/fstab
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) linux-megous-5.14-1
Total Installed Size: 39.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [############################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [############################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [############################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [############################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [############################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/1) installing linux-megous [############################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/7) Generate initramfs for p-boot
==> Starting build: 5.14.0-rc6
-> Running build hook: [base]
-> Running build hook: [udev]
-> Running build hook: [autodetect]
-> Running build hook: [modconf]
-> Running build hook: [block]
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
-> Running build hook: [keyboard]
-> Running build hook: [fsck]
-> Running build hook: [bootsplash-danctnix]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /p-boot/initramfs.img
==> Image generation successful
(2/7) Set up boot partitions for p-boot
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.
(3/7) Update boot partition with p-boot required filesystem
Data space:
00010800-0001a3b2: /p-boot/board-1.2.dtb (size 38 KiB)
0001a400-00028b64: /p-boot/fw.bin (size 57 KiB)
Kernel Image detected: text_offset=0x00000000
00028c00-00e71c08: /p-boot/Image (size 14628 KiB)
00e71e00-015bf52b: /p-boot/initramfs.img (size 7477 KiB)
015bf600-019b3e00: /p-boot/files/off.argb (size 4050 KiB)
019b3e00-01da8600: /p-boot/files/pboot2.argb (size 4050 KiB)
Boot configurations:
no=0 (pp-5.14.0-rc6)
console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk2p2 rootfstype=ext4 rw rootwait
D 00010800-0001a3b2 /p-boot/board-1.2.dtb
A 0001a400-00028b64 /p-boot/fw.bin
L 00028c00-00e71c08 /p-boot/Image
I 00e71e00-015bf52b /p-boot/initramfs.img
file list block 1
015bf600-019b3e00 off.argb /p-boot/files/off.argb
019b3e00-01da8600 pboot2.argb /p-boot/files/pboot2.argb
Total filesystem size 30369 KiB
(4/7) Put p-boot.bin into the start of the boot device
32+0 records in
32+0 records out
32768 bytes (33 kB, 32 KiB) copied, 0.000812667 s, 40.3 MB/s
(5/7) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(6/7) Updating module dependencies...
(7/7) Refreshing PackageKit...
[alarm@danctnix pinephone-arch]$