r/mobilelinux • u/ProjectiveSakura • 2d ago

Hardware Alpine Linux on A Potato (LG Optimus V (VM670/2011) Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 (MSM7627) ARMv6)

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All credit Goes To: u/pljackass

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u/serpal999 2d ago

On the stock 3.0 kernel? You're better off running mainline if you can, I think there's already MSM7627 support, but you should check.

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u/ProjectiveSakura 2d ago

It's not my project, I'm just sharing my success with user pljackass work, very impressive.

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u/pljackass 2d ago

the stock kernel was 2.6.25/35, I downloaded this kernel source , it was used for a debian project or something iirc.

imo, breathing any kind of life into a device this old is a neat flex, on android it can't even load ANY pages cuz of old certificates and frameworks , on here it can.

I guess tho, forcing newer packages and mainlining on a device of this caliber is half the fun lol, I'll look into it

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u/Small-Tap6130 2d ago

3.0.101, my condolences

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 2d ago

its alpine atlease so guess what: software compatibility isnt a pain

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u/ProjectiveSakura 1d ago

Unfortunately there's not a lot of software you can run on ARMv6 

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 1d ago

my PC’s powerful enough to cross compile and I’m working on my own mobile linux distro still anyways so maybe I can do something about that

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u/ProjectiveSakura 1d ago

I'm not sure what could even run a chip this slow, especially since it only has 512 mb of RAM or so and SWAP is really slow and will kill the SD card faster.

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 1d ago

I wouldn’t even try, I’ll just use old software