[PLUG] postmarketos experience?

[TomasK]

Good luck with that - it looks quite challenging project this long
after the device's release.

While trying to educate myself - I came across this N7 use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=960YQle-f2w&feature=youtu.be

That is if you need screen for Pi.

On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 17:20 -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
> I think I have looked at that. There are several nexus 7's (2012 vs
> 2013 and with/without LTE). I have the 2012 no LTE model. Apparently
> it used an SoC that was abandoned and so pre-built support for it is
> more tenuous.
> 
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/633788/installing-ubuntu-touch-on-nex
> us-7-2012-now-that-it-is-no-longer-supported
> 
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 4:30 PM Tomas Kuchta
> <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Not related to you question and fresh dose of finest
> > "whataboutism"!
> > 
> > To make my manners even worse, of course, I have no clue what is
> > postmarkedos!
> > 
> > With that out of the way ....
> > 
> > Isn't Nexus 7 suppose to be able to run the Ubuntu phone/tablet OS?
> > I
> > occasionally stumble on recent update release notes on the
> > interwebs.
> > 
> > Just a question, not a suggestion, I swear. I assume that you know
> > :-)
> > 
> > Tomas
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021, 19:11 Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.n
> > et>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi folks,
> > > 
> > > I just spent about 3 days trying to get postmarketos running on
> > > old
> > > abandoned nexus 7 (grouper) devices, including by consulting with
> > > supposed experts on their IRC channel. Part of the problem seems
> > > to be
> > > that the constructed firmware is bigger than will fit in the
> > > system
> > > partition. There are suggested workarounds, but none of them seem
> > > to
> > > work. Furthermore, the various intermediate steps seem to lack
> > > tools
> > > that might be helpful for figuring out what's going on, like, oh,
> > > something to tell me how the emmc is partitioned.
> > > 
> > > Has anyone successfully installed postmarketos on anything? And
> > > if so,
> > > do you have any insights into the mechanics of what is going on
> > > under
> > > all the scriptings.
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Russell Senior
> > > russell at personaltelco.net
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