Linux Desktop on Android Device?

[David Thornton]

why linux on mobile device?


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen <
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:38:33PM -0500, William Muriithi wrote:
> > And I think we don't have an open source video driver yet. Or can nvidia
> > blobs work on phone? Unlikely I would say.
>
> No, the drivers nvidia releases for the PC are for PC graphics cards.
> The graphics in the tegra is not part of that, and also you need an arm
> version not x86 version of the driver.
>
> > What about baseband? I think as long as we depend on closed source blobs,
> > its not worth it. Would be too fragile and easy to break during updates.
>
> If you want it to actually work as a phone, then I think i would leave
> Android on there.  That's going to be a lot of work.
>
> > Hopefully some day, nouveau will be good enough to not bother with blobs.
> > At that time, I may tinker with mine too.
>
> I don't know if nouveau is even considering the tegra line at this time.
>
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