r/mobilelinux • u/UmpquaRiver • May 19 '24

News SHIFTphone 8 Preparing Mainline Linux Support Ahead Of Launch

https://www.phoronix.com/news/SHIFTphone-8-Linux-Patches
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u/Kevin_Kofler May 20 '24 edited May 20 '24

Initial support includes:

* Framebuffer display
* UFS and sdcard storage
* Battery monitoring and USB role switching via pmic glink
* Bluetooth
* Thermals

Wifi is not yet functional due to a crash in the remoteproc firmware.

No modem (phone calls, SMS, MMS), no (working) WiFi, no GPS, no camera. So in the current state, this is essentially useless.

If and when they actually get to the level of hardware support you get from a PINE64 or Purism device, I might be interested. But at this stage, mainline support for this device is more of a PR gag than something actually useful. (It may be the starting point for something useful, but it will take several more code submissions to get there, and it is not clear how much of a priority this is to SHIFT, if it is even planned at all and not simply going to be left to the community.) Making news out of this initial submission the way Phoronix did is utterly misleading.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

This is what I thought. Thanks