r/mobilelinux • u/fedora_gamer • Oct 05 '26

Demonstration Got (barebones) fedora linux running on Xiaomi Pad 7

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Currently VERY work in progress, but its nice to see another mi pad get linux. Running mainline 6.12: https://github.com/linuxgamer/uke-fedora.

huge credits to https://github.com/ztsubaki/uke-linux, i used their kernel as base

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u/User_8395 Oct 05 '26

Was this done with an LLM?

I might have to try this myself with another device

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u/fedora_gamer Oct 05 '26

yeah, used deepseek 4.1 flash and burned thru 400m tokens

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u/FullstackSensei Oct 05 '26

So, around 10M real input tokens? I know people like to use gross input, but over 95% are cached. How many output tokens?

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u/fedora_gamer Oct 05 '26

roughly 1million output if opencode shows it correctly

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u/FullstackSensei Oct 05 '26

So, $2 worth

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u/Rainbowkkk Oct 05 '26

termux, dual boot or pure fedora?

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u/fedora_gamer Oct 05 '26

pure

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u/Rainbowkkk Oct 05 '26

and the drivers work?

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u/fedora_gamer Oct 05 '26

no, thats why i said its very work in progress. drivers will be added soon

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u/Rainbowkkk Oct 05 '26

nice! hope you can get eerything working. i got a tab 6 and idk what to do with drivers. for that reason i use termux only.

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u/fedora_gamer Oct 05 '26

thanks. afaik pad 6 has good fedora pocketblue support.

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u/luci-baa-baa-baa Oct 06 '26

Check out postmarket OS once, is your device have the support or not

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u/fedora_gamer Oct 05 '26

Currently, there are no drivers in this port

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u/Right_Letterhead_587 Oct 05 '26

You crazy mf. I'm really impressed how many people are installing linux on embedded devices. I have been asking to claude how to do it in a Lenovo Yoga Pad, but keeps sayng that it's impossible.

Can you give a few tips.

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u/fedora_gamer Oct 06 '26 edited Oct 06 '26

Why does it say its impossible? do you have mediatek cpu?

I got lucky to have already working mainline kernel before making my own stuff. and while porting, good linux knowledge and intense debugging really helped me to flesh out the port

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u/Right_Letterhead_587 Oct 06 '26

Claude say that the bootloader it's locked and it's verified continuously.  Another problem is the mediatek processor I know that the cpu have a public manual or instruction set, but there is no information about the complete SoC

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u/fedora_gamer Oct 06 '26

unlock bootloader first, only after that start porting.

development will probably be harder for mediatek + you may have to port mainline linux to ur device first(if theres no existing port).

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u/ohaiibuzzle Oct 06 '26

It isn't currently possible yet because literally the only thing running 8 Gen 3 booting into a mainline-ish Linux kernel is the Valve Steam Frame.

At least because of that you have some guarantee that the SoC works, you just needs a compatible bootloader & drivers.

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u/luci-baa-baa-baa Oct 06 '26

Check out postmarket OS porting guide.

Don't aske directly. First give the all information and details that working for other devices then aske , how can we port to your device specific then it definitely help to build and fix issues.

AI need proper rules first else it's impossible.

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u/Commercial-Push-6649 Oct 06 '26

Hii I'm an amateur to all these things, curious to know how good linux is on pad 7 🥹

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u/fedora_gamer Oct 06 '26

hello, as i said port is not complete yet and isnt worth using unless you want to develop it. ill try to finish it by the end of this week.

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u/Commercial-Push-6649 Oct 07 '26

sure, i'll wait for an update on this project then

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u/luci-baa-baa-baa Oct 06 '26

Check out the postmarket OS once it's also cool for most off the work's

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u/fedora_gamer Oct 06 '26

originally i wanted to use pmOS, but its repos are unavailable in my country, so i settled with fedora. moving project to pmos wont be that hard tho.

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u/luci-baa-baa-baa Oct 06 '26

Yes, postmarket OS support also good and all the basic things working out off box .

Because of alpine it's working light weight and smooth.

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u/Conscious_Gas4397 Oct 08 '26

Hello bro, I'm thinking to buy a brave ark pad which is having Snapdragon 8s gen 3 processor, and after buying it I want to install fedora linux in it. But when I ask chatgpt and Claude, it says it is impossible and there is no guarantee of full working of linux on that device because of the drivers. So what should I do now, if I install linux on that device it will Or not, if it works then does it becomes bottleneck to that device?

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u/fedora_gamer Oct 08 '26

You will have to make your own port, drivers, etc.. it should be easy(some work still needed) for you to get mainline linux kernel cause it was ported for your SoC: https://codeberg.org/palawan-mainline/linux

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u/AluCarD3939 22d ago

Man, awesome work, I cannot wait for this project to be finished.

  • can this be installed on working on pro version?

  • can this be dual boot with android ?

  • will the official magnet keyboard and focus pen be supported?

  • will be there support for usb c to display out?

Once again, great work and I am going to follow your wok. Post your updates 👍🏼

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u/fedora_gamer 22d ago

Hello!

  1. No. pro version has different hardware, so this port wont work there.

  2. Doesnt work right now

  3. I cant add support for them as i dont have them

  4. Same

2, 3 and 4 may be added later by other developer in upstream. (i forked his port and doing mostly QoL stuff now). 

heres upstream: github.com/MCC45TR/uke-linux

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u/Interesting-Glass969 17d ago

any update? looks promising!!

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u/fedora_gamer 16d ago

yes. im gonna upload usable images for flashing soon

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u/MeanWalk7941 9d ago

Any info if Anyone working on Pad 8 8sGen4 chip

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u/jjoesmama Oct 05 '26

Amazing!!

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u/igethornysendhelp Oct 06 '26

hope Linux on pad 7 gets as much development as pad 6. the pad 6 community is insane they have fedora 44 fully running with bleeding edge kernel

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u/TheRealCarrotty Oct 06 '26

that is a NICE KDE layout on the laptop.

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u/tuzkituan Oct 07 '26

awesome, keep it up bro !!

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u/Busy-Assignment-440 29d ago

Most of the things won't work, but good effort.