Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10523858

We currently have a generic port for Nvidia Tegra 2/3/4 devices using U-Boot as bootloader, supporting 9 different devices at the time of writing. This wouldn’t have been possible without the work of Svyatoslav Ryhel (also known as Clamor), who has been working on Tegra devices for the last few years and is also a maintainer of Nvidia Tegra SoCs in U-Boot.

The wiki page has a list of supported devices.

Svyatoslav ported most of these devices without owning one, just relying on testing from people. This means anyone having such a device can reach him and eventually will be able to replace the old proprietary vendor bootloader with U-Boot.

  • WhiteHotaru
    4•11 months ago

    U-Boot is German for submarine. I was really curious what kind of submarine runs on Linux and what they wanted to test.

  • @db2
    4•11 months ago

    Asus Eee Pad Transformer asus-tf101
    Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime asus-tf201
    Asus Transformer Infinity asus-tf700t
    Asus Transformer Pad asus-tf300t
    Asus Transformer Pad 3G asus-tf300tg
    Google (ASUS) Nexus 7 (2012) asus-grouper
    Google (ASUS) Nexus 7 (2012) GSM asus-tilapia
    LG Optimus Vu lg-p895
    WEXLER Tab 7t

    But the page also says partial support for internal storage…

  • pelya
    2•11 months ago

    Are there any new phones or tablets using Tegra SoC? It seems like they are only used in car electronics

  • Delightful Dude
    1•11 months ago

    Great! I think I have a Asus Transformer Pad lying around, I might give it a shot!