FP3 custom rom development based on released source code

[corvuscorax]

I feared as much when I first looked at the kernel source tree.

I wrote a quick summary here:

FP3 : Fairphone Open OS?

in a first step, it should be possible to make a very minimal linux, offering a serial console, able to mount partitions, inspect them, test hardware, etc… the kernel is only half of the equation though, to boot linux from an arm system-on-a-chip you need a hardware-device tree specification for the particular motherboard/device the chip has been soldered on, on a desktop PC that is not needed, as the BIOS takes care of it with its ACPI tables (which store which hardware can be found at which …

has anyone tried to compile a .dtb from either of these configuration files? is it possible to extract the dtb (and compare) from a vanilla phone/factory image?