I think I’m reading this blogpost correctly: Mobian devs working on maintaining Linux kernel support for Pinephone painted themselves into a corner with tech debt, and may not be able to continue porting new kernel updates. Pinephone Pro runs a different chipset with wider community support, so it’s not affected.

I didn’t see any communities or articles talking about this, so either it’s not a big deal, or nobody is talking about it.

  • cmeerw@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    And mainline Linux and a Linux Desktop is still struggling today with power management. Like getting chat messages while it’s asleep.

    And the really sad thing is that the power management improvements devs have been working on for the PinePhone are really very specific to that particular device and don’t help mobile Linux in general (so it’s basically wasted effort).

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      Well, to do it properly I believe we need a whole API for applications that does connected standy. (Like Android Apps have)