Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (41/2022): Plasma 5.26 and SGX 540 reverse engineering

Also: A Pi Phone, Ox64, better battery life for the Librem 5 and verification on Flathub beta.

Commentary in italics.

Hardware

Hackaday: A Raspberry Pi Phone For The Modern Era. Nice build!

Software progress

Kernel

Matrix

matrix.org: This Week in Matrix 2022-10-14

Worth noting

Linux 6.0 should improve Librem 5 battery life
Flathub implementing "Verified" icon on beta site.

Worth reading

Garnet: Reverse Engineering a GPU from 2009 the comprehensive story behind the PowerVR SGX540 reversing efforts mentioned in weekly update 38

PINE64: October update: An Ox, no bull
- @thanos_engine: "How do y'all feel about making a smart-ish-phone based around the BL808? I'm thinking that could be a pretty neat open source project to get started but it's well beyond my skill level on the software side so I'd need some help there."
- Robert Lipe: First thoughts on the (a)symmetery of Bouffalo Labs BL808 as in Pine64’s Ox64
FossPhones.com: Linux Phone News - October 11, 2022. If rav3ndust keeps this up, I can finally retire!
TuxPhones.com: An unexpected revival of Firefox OS. It's fun to get replies on months old tweets!
Martijn Braam: Automated Phone Testing pt.4
Duncan Bayne: Back to Android (for the time being), web mirror.
- Comment threads: Peanut gallery, r/peanutgallery, Peanut Gallery you cannot easily sign up to.
Tobias Bernard: Post Collapse Computing Part 2: What if we Fail?
TheEvilSkeleton: How I Started Programming, and How You Can Too

Worth listening

postmarketOS Podcast: #23 PVR SGX540, Kupfer, UBports installer, SoCs, Phone Testing II

Worth watching

Phalio: PinePhone Keyboard Keycaps Getting Stuck
Phalio: Inserting the PinePhone into the Keyboard Case
Jacob David Cunningham: Light web dev with docked Pinephone Pro
Jacob David Cunningham: Messing around with Pinephone Pro
The Gibus Cap: PinePhone Keyboard Typing
Equareo: Fairphone 4 in desktop mode on ubuntu touch
my Linux: How to install flash Mobian on to your PinePhone!
Scientific Perspective: Ubuntu Touch OTA devel update alongside AOSP | Multirom | Omnirom boot | POCO F1
U STARK: Droidian
Scientific Perspective: Ubuntu Touch OTA update alongside AOSP | Multirom | POCO F1 #shorts
Random Repairs: Sailfish OS for Xiaomi MI4/3 - Not Android!
Continuum Gaming: Microsoft Continuum Gaming E333: Traffic Data in PureMaps for Sailfish OS
caleb: (Re)writing an upstreamable haptics driver for Snapdragon Linux Phones
KDE: Plasma 5.26 is All About the Widgets

Thanks

Huge thanks to

hamblingreen, whose new website might be working now
nikodunk, and
ollieparanoid, just had to add that excellent SGX540 blog post

and possible further anonymous contributors and also to Plata for a nifty set of Python scripts that speeds up collecting links from feeds by a lot.

Something missing? Want to contribute?

If your project's cool story (or your awesome video or nifty blog post or ...) is missing and you don't want that to happen again, please get in touch via social media or email - or just put it into the hedgedoc pad for the next one!

PS: In case you are wondering about the title ... PPS: This one has less headlines - what do you think?