Development [INFO] PostmarketOS Linux boot on Xiaomi Pad 5 (nabu)

[roy60246]

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Sir,I want the odm.img of nabu for a friend of mine who is making ricedroid for it,could you please share the file with me or tell me what is the location of it,I tried the location where boot.img,vendor_boot.img are but it was not there,I think they are present in different partitions,anyways thank you for answering in advance

 

[roy60246]

Please reply fastly

 

[serdeliuk]

Sir,I want the odm.img of nabu for a friend of mine who is making ricedroid for it,could you please share the file with me or tell me what is the location of it,I tried the location where boot.img,vendor_boot.img are but it was not there,I think they are present in different partitions,anyways thank you for answering in advance

I am not aware that nabu has such partition or image.

 

[ProfessorSparrs]

maan, I dont mean to harp or bother you but why dont you open-source it right now? There are SO many talented coders here and around the world, and I aspire to at least become..somewhat competent. It could speed up fixing whatever youre struggling with in the code. Someone, who knows maybe a Xiaomi-dev would make some suggestions on how to fix things, and that'll be that.

I hope you take my post in the right way, Im fully supporting you but releasing alpha-software is in the spirit of the open-source world. It has to start somewhere right? I know as a perfectionist myself Im never satisified with whatever I do, something I struggle with everyday,, but maybe thats just me.

Anyhow, I really do believe if you open-source this project it would be at least have the potential to faster become what you imagine the perfect Linux-distro running on this amazing tablet.

Cheers

 

[serdeliuk]

maan, I dont mean to harp or bother you but why dont you open-source it right now? There are SO many talented coders here and around the world, and I aspire to at least become..somewhat competent. It could speed up fixing whatever youre struggling with in the code. Someone, who knows maybe a Xiaomi-dev would make some suggestions on how to fix things, and that'll be that.

I hope you take my post in the right way, Im fully supporting you but releasing alpha-software is in the spirit of the open-source world. It has to start somewhere right? I know as a perfectionist myself Im never satisified with whatever I do, something I struggle with everyday,, but maybe thats just me.

Anyhow, I really do believe if you open-source this project it would be at least have the potential to faster become what you imagine the perfect Linux-distro running on this amazing tablet.

Cheers

Hi, you are perfectly right, i already mentioned that i am in the process publishing my additions, right now i am cleaning my code prior releasing the first public version, but is not just about my code, preparing for release is more than publishing my modifications/additions, it will be required to create a few howto pages, to update the wiki, to create multiple repos and packages for the ones that will not want to build the PMOS and just install and play. Unfortunately i am stuck in the cleaning process as i am very busy with other stuff right now, not related to devices. On top of this i found that the battery percentage does not update, record the battery status during the boot then this is all that show, i didn't had time to find why, however i added a bit of code that log in the dmesg the battery percentage to be able to see the battery level without reboot from a terminal....

 

[roy60246]

I am not aware that nabu has such partition or image.

I found in,it was in super.img

 

[LesGaR]

I think his work is great.
There is no rush to try it.
If you need help writing guides, trying it out or whatever, you can contact me.
I'm not a programmer, but I can help where I can.

 

[ProfessorSparrs]

Hi, you are perfectly right, i already mentioned that i am in the process publishing my additions, right now i am cleaning my code prior releasing the first public version, but is not just about my code, preparing for release is more than publishing my modifications/additions, it will be required to create a few howto pages, to update the wiki, to create multiple repos and packages for the ones that will not want to build the PMOS and just install and play. Unfortunately i am stuck in the cleaning process as i am very busy with other stuff right now, not related to devices. On top of this i found that the battery percentage does not update, record the battery status during the boot then this is all that show, i didn't had time to find why, however i added a bit of code that log in the dmesg the battery percentage to be able to see the battery level without reboot from a terminal....

Aah! I see.

Thats very responsible of you. I'm used to devs putting their source code up on github/gitlab or whatever with ZERO documentation.. good that youre one of the few who does the boring work(I assume) of writing good documentation.

Sounds great man!Keep it on . If I can help in any way Im available.

It sounds like you're really responsible so to minimize newbies mistakes that will just softbrick their tablets. Altho I think thats fixable with the right tools and technical knowhow.

Is it the writing the instructions that's time-consuming for you?
I know I dont know exactly how your code works but I could check for spelling errors maybe? I used to be pretty good in school both in swedish and english, especially English. The era of smartphones and autocorrect has degraded it a bit when I write online.

Ppl usually complain about my WOTs lol but I just have a need to be thorough. To not miss a thing u know.

Well, regardless, do as you feel is best for You .

cheers

edit: I'm much better writing when I dont have Internet-standards in my back head, my grammar online ain't much to brag about haha.

 

[ProfessorSparrs]

I think his work is great.
There is no rush to try it.
If you need help writing guides, trying it out or whatever, you can contact me.
I'm not a programmer, but I can help where I can.

yup I agree, Im not a coder yet, unless BASH and tearin my hair off because of Make-errors counts.

Im also volunteering if I could support u somehow(sadly not financially, struggling myself tbh) in this project. I think we all would love a real bootable Alpine-based distro on our Pad 5s .

 

[ProfessorSparrs]

I wouldn't mind trying to flash it on my Pad 5 just to beta/alpha-test it for ya with the assumption that if it bricks,softbrick I hope, I can fix the bootloader somehow. Im used to distrohopping,not as much in Android(much harder imo) so I wouldnt care to wipe and partition it all to flash the images. I know Backup-Fu.

 

[russanandres]

Unfortunately i am stuck in the cleaning process as i am very busy with other stuff right now

I really hope you don't abandon this, because I know a couple of great projects (Galaxy S2 parallels android example) that have never been released. And it's very sad.

Spoiler: offtopic galaxy s2

Specifically, on Galaxy S2 parallels android, I contacted the developers, they removed all the source code. This wonderful and promising technology will forever remain only in youtube(

 

[ProfessorSparrs]

I really hope you don't abandon this, because I know a couple of great projects (Galaxy S2 parallels android example) that have never been released. And it's very sad.

Spoiler: offtopic galaxy s2

Specifically, on Galaxy S2 parallels android, I contacted the developers, they removed all the source code. This wonderful and promising technology will forever remain only in youtube(

as long as he is makes it open source we rre safe. I have ni idea why he hasn't made it opensource right from the start. Im certain the odds that it wouldve a lot of dev wanting to fork and cinxre2.

 

[serdeliuk]

as long as he is makes it open source we rre safe. I have ni idea why he hasn't made it opensource right from the start. Im certain the odds that it wouldve a lot of dev wanting to fork and cinxre2.

I didn't make the project public from the beginning for multiple reasons, first of all i didn't wanted to port anything, just poking around trying to see how Linux works on this device with SPI touch in order to be able to fix SPI/touch on my EDK2 port, well then i started to port PMOS, then mainline the kernel, then a lot of other issues, but the most important one that decided to not make the work public was the battery going empty if you do not pay attention as there were no battery level available. While i was working on this there were other people doing the same in parallel, you can check map220v for his version of PMOS if you really need that badly, is public.
Then, in order to make my work public should be cleaned, put all together, clone PMOS repos (gitlab) make the mods, ask for pull request, wait to be approved, etc, is not that easy to make something public if you want to make it right.....
All of the above require work and time spend, i do not have enough time those days, so will take a while but will be available, meanwhile you can play with map220v if you really want to try something....

 

[vincele6]

I think what @russanandres wanted to say, is that if you put your current WIP work in a public repo, someone else may be able to help you make it into an upstreamable shape.

Yes, there are big ifs there, you have to get people with the time and ability onboard, and hope that the work attribution will be properly handled.

 

[ProfessorSparrs]

I didn't make the project public from the beginning for multiple reasons, first of all i didn't wanted to port anything, just poking around trying to see how Linux works on this device with SPI touch in order to be able to fix SPI/touch on my EDK2 port, well then i started to port PMOS, then mainline the kernel, then a lot of other issues, but the most important one that decided to not make the work public was the battery going empty if you do not pay attention as there were no battery level available. While i was working on this there were other people doing the same in parallel, you can check map220v for his version of PMOS if you really need that badly, is public.
Then, in order to make my work public should be cleaned, put all together, clone PMOS repos (gitlab) make the mods, ask for pull request, wait to be approved, etc, is not that easy to make something public if you want to make it right.....
All of the above require work and time spend, i do not have enough time those days, so will take a while but will be available, meanwhile you can play with map220v if you really want to try something....

I apologise , I was not very sober writing that. I sincerely regret sounding so negative. I dont know why I went there mentally.

Im so..SO sorry..I hope u believe me. Also I noticed some weird spelling errors in my last post lol ..

 

[ProfessorSparrs]

I think I meant if you make it open source in the end. When u dont have time, list interest in the project or whatever reason. Then it would be awesome if other devs could continue your work.that would be very nice. But I feel really bad for saying all of that in my drunken post, when I meant something way more nice to say.

 

[ProfessorSparrs]

I didn't make the project public from the beginning for multiple reasons, first of all i didn't wanted to port anything, just poking around trying to see how Linux works on this device with SPI touch in order to be able to fix SPI/touch on my EDK2 port, well then i started to port PMOS, then mainline the kernel, then a lot of other issues, but the most important one that decided to not make the work public was the battery going empty if you do not pay attention as there were no battery level available. While i was working on this there were other people doing the same in parallel, you can check map220v for his version of PMOS if you really need that badly, is public.
Then, in order to make my work public should be cleaned, put all together, clone PMOS repos (gitlab) make the mods, ask for pull request, wait to be approved, etc, is not that easy to make something public if you want to make it right.....
All of the above require work and time spend, i do not have enough time those days, so will take a while but will be available, meanwhile you can play with map220v if you really want to try something....

I had no idea there were so many hurdles, Im no a dev ofc. Licenses and all that other stuff u mentioned I didn't know.

 

[Tryanks]

I didn't make the project public from the beginning for multiple reasons, first of all i didn't wanted to port anything, just poking around trying to see how Linux works on this device with SPI touch in order to be able to fix SPI/touch on my EDK2 port, well then i started to port PMOS, then mainline the kernel, then a lot of other issues, but the most important one that decided to not make the work public was the battery going empty if you do not pay attention as there were no battery level available. While i was working on this there were other people doing the same in parallel, you can check map220v for his version of PMOS if you really need that badly, is public.
Then, in order to make my work public should be cleaned, put all together, clone PMOS repos (gitlab) make the mods, ask for pull request, wait to be approved, etc, is not that easy to make something public if you want to make it right.....
All of the above require work and time spend, i do not have enough time those days, so will take a while but will be available, meanwhile you can play with map220v if you really want to try something....

I think porting PMOS is just an appetizer for nabu, the real highlight is the EDK2 port and the porting of other Linux distributions. I think, based on your work, we can quickly achieve PCizing this device and extending it to all aspects except MacOS.
I think github is much more friendly and easy to use than gitlab, which is used for PMOS, so I strongly hope that your work outside of pure PMOS (Linux Kernel, EDK2) can be put on github. Even though I'm still a kernel rookie, I look forward to making pull requests and contributing

 

[serdeliuk]

I apologise , I was not very sober writing that. I sincerely regret sounding so negative. I dont know why I went there mentally.

Im so..SO sorry..I hope u believe me. Also I noticed some weird spelling errors in my last post lol ..

Hi, actually is a very interesting question, but the answer is very complicated....

 

[serdeliuk]

I think I meant if you make it open source in the end. When u dont have time, list interest in the project or whatever reason. Then it would be awesome if other devs could continue your work.that would be very nice. But I feel really bad for saying all of that in my drunken post, when I meant something way more nice to say.

Relax, there were nothing bad said, and the question was in the air anyways, so was answered