Sailfish OS for Allwinner A31: FreeTab 8014

[elros34]

Be aware it has a lot of bugs, can break your device and it's not ready for daily usage.

Introduction

First sailfish os for allwinner A31 based tablet: FreeTab 8014. With little effort it can be probably used on any A31 based device. Sources and patches are based on a31_v4.5_hummingbird_kfb_ok.

• After completing first boot settings screen becomes black.
• Due to Landscape framebuffer browser is broken.
• Kernel sends VSYNC udev events during any transition on screen so systemd-udevd consume ~20% of cpu. I have tried apply patch used for omap to ignore those events but without success: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1234743..
• To control volume use 3 fingers gesture (unreliable)
• Battery level stuck at ~95%
• Jolla store is not enabled so grab storeman and use openrepos.net
  

  rpm -U harbour-storeman-0.0.*.armv7hl.rpm

• Repo with my apps and patch (swipeable covers from sfos 1.1):
  

  devel-su
  ssu ar elros34-sailfishapps http://repo.merproject.org/obs/home:/elros34:/sailfishapps/sailfishos_2.2.0.29/
  pkcon refresh

Don't hesitate and donate if you like it


Images

Installation instructions

• First you need to flash firmware with modified boot which will init from second partition on sdcard
• Then copy this image to sdcard (using dd or Etcher) and enjoy

You can use this kernel + initramfs to boot debian/ubuntu also. If there is no sdcard or it's incorectly partitioned you can telnet to device, fix issues and continue:
telnet 192.168.2.15 23

Changelog

v2

• HDMI support added (at the moment it's the only device with external display (HDMI) support in sfos world )
• VSYNC udev events converted to sysfs and handled in qpa plugin (greatly decrease cpu usage)
• Landscape frambuffer issues fixed

v1

• Initial release

FAQ

Q: Can I *?
A: It's NOT android so you can't

XDA:DevDB Information
Sailfish OS, ROM for all devices (see above for details)

Contributors
elros34
Source Code: https://github.com/elros34/freetab_8014

ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat

Version Information
Status: Alpha

Created 2018-09-18
Last Updated 2018-10-03

 

[elros34]

2.2.1.18 version released with several fixes.

 

[Galaxyninja66]

you are amazing.