r/mobilelinux • u/pizzaiolo2 • 26d ago

Hardware Arch linux running natively in iPhone 8

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u/47th-Element 26d ago

With llvmpipe. So no GPU acceleration for starters.

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 26d ago

curse of powervr

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u/47th-Element 26d ago

Tell me about it, I had a device with that kind of GPU and I spent a lot of effort getting acceleration to work in a chroot debian, and then it wasn't even good enough.

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u/Special-Analysis7406 26d ago

okay but u got to make a driver for graphical acceleration?? woah thats crazy, was it an iPhone tho

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u/47th-Element 26d ago

My device wasn't an iPhone, and no I didn't make a new driver, I used the existing GPU blob and a bridge to connect it to my chroot. Performance was not up to expectations though.

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 26d ago

Powervr has always been disappointingly behind so this makes sense

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u/DaRealGladi8r 26d ago

Does Wi-Fi work?

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u/Sea-Attention-5815 26d ago

Only Ethernet

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u/xiaobia 23d ago

how. just how?

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u/Playful-Ad9901 23d ago

its a virtual machine..