PMOS - Samsung Galaxy J4+ - msm8917

[carbonatedcaffeine]

is the msm8917 branch still usable for this?

[flto]

Its outdated (by over a year) but still useful yes.

[carbonatedcaffeine]

I wasn't able to compile it properly @flto.

asm/types.h file wasn't found or something.

[carbonatedcaffeine]

Oh nevermind It was my fault, all good.

[carbonatedcaffeine]

Hey @flto, could you help me with mainlining the j4primelte? I'm new to porting and I'd like a bit of advice.

[carbonatedcaffeine]

@flto, would you like to join me, MacTavishAO and Geckyn (from the j4+ community) to update and fix up the msm8917 branch?

[flto]

Unfortunately I won't be spending any time on msm8917 (I have much more interesting things to work on and get paid to do them). I may do a rebase at some point, but don't count on it.

A rebase on latest upstream shouldn't be difficult, then you need a dts file for your device.. of course debugging the booting process without serial will be difficult (I didn't have serial on my msm8917 device, but theres always something you can do to debug).

[carbonatedcaffeine]

Thanks for the reply @flto. Yeah, I agree getting paid is very important. If you could rebase the msm8917 branch sometime that would be awesome. We have dsmg and ramoops logs via postmarket booting so that's all good. We know exactly what happens when it boots.

Here's our problem with the Android kernel (just to get you up to speed on our progress). We have a problem with the android downstream kernel because of the mdp3 driver. We want to get to mainline so we can use an mdp5 patch that will fix all of our problems.

[flto]

So you have the mainline (based on my branch) booting and able to get a log from it or are you talking about the android kernel?

[carbonatedcaffeine]

@flto I was able to get a log off the android downstream kernel via dsmg, yeah.

I haven't actually fully tried your branch yet.

[carbonatedcaffeine]

I'll have a try at compiling the old kernel today, I'll see how far I can go.