Anybody’s seen this: Linux-based postmarketOS project aims to give smartphones a 10-year lifecycle - Liliputing https://liliputing.com/2017/08/linux-based-postmarketos-project-aims-give-smartphones-10-year-lifecycle.html ? I know it’s very early, but still this is an interesting ideas, imho

I didn’t know that something like that existed, thanks for the info @lklaus :slight_smile:

…and guess who’s already workibg on it for FP2: [image] postmarketOS/pmbootstrap pmbootstrap - Sophisticated chroot/build/flash tool to develop and install postmarketOS @z3ntu …just unbelievable… :slight_smile:

hehe and I really don’t like the 20 char limit

@z3ntu you’re awesome! But you should smile more! (this -> :slight_smile: counts as 14 characters)

Hello, I am interested in installing PostmarketOS in my FP2. It’s possible? How can I do it?

Take a look at the wiki linked by @BeMiGro (the link-address has changed) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_2_(fairphone-fp2) and regard the limitations. [quote]What works Flashing (needs bootloader patch) Booting Screen (needs the msm framebuffer hack) Touchscreen USB networking USB…

As @BertG wrote, it’s not usable as a “phone” right now. If you are still interested (you will also have to have access to a Linux machine to make it work), just write it and I’ll write some instructions.

Hi, yes, I would like to have instructions and the file. You never know when I’ll want to play with the phone! Surely more than one person will appreciate those instructions.

Get lk fixed for flashing the system partition A patch for not requiring this step is submitted to the Fairphone Gerrit and hopefully will be accepted soon. Install a arm eabi toolchain (eg arm-none-eabi-gcc on Arch Linux - you have to change the toolchain prefix below to make it fit). Also the mk…