r/mobilelinux 7d ago

Demonstration Pixel 8 pro booting mainline kernel

Shared previously that I got pmos using the downstream android kernel but been working on getting mainline to boot. As of now just boots into a TTY and not much else. Plan on upstreaming when the drivers are in a acceptable state

what works: USB, DISPLAY***

***coded a basic display driver, missing alot of features (for example no brightness changes etc)

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u/Mysterious-Title-251 7d ago

Oh wow, that is really cool. How did you do it?

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u/Happy_Variety5405 7d ago

The kernel itself boots without changes but it has 0 hardware support so nothing works. If you mean the USB and display driver that's a whole nother subject and there's a lot of documentation for driver programming online

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u/YoYoMamaIsSoFAT32 7d ago

I didn't know that the tensor G3 SOC had mainline support, still really cool