Samsung Galaxy S20 & S9 With Exynos 9810 Support Coming To Linux 6.14

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Samsung Galaxy S20 & S9 With Exynos 9810 Support Coming To Linux 6.14

The Samsung ARM device updates are in the process of being queued up to the SoC tree ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.14 merge window in January...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-Samsung-S9-S20

[Ferrum Master]

G780 is S20 FE, there's a difference.

F either stands for friend, or fail edition, depends on you.

[Kjell]

LineageOS support is the reason I buy Pixel phones

[MastaG]

Flashing a boot.img featuring the mainline kernel on these phones will basically leave you with a paperweight without drivers for the gpu, (touch)screen, modem, usb(-serial), wifi etc..
The Android drivers only work against a heavily patched 4.x (probably 4.14) kernel.

[ezst036]

Seems a little pointless to me.

Android handles cameras in a special way that an open source OS cannot compete with. It isnt even close, android image quality out of the exact same phone in your hand is light years ahead.

Android will always rule as long as the camera debacle remains unresolved. People love their selfies and family and travel photos.

[QwertyChouskie]

Seems a little pointless to me.

Android handles cameras in a special way that an open source OS cannot compete with. It isnt even close, android image quality out of the exact same phone in your hand is light years ahead.

Android will always rule as long as the camera debacle remains unresolved. People love their selfies and family and travel photos.

I believe libcamera is looking to resolve that. Also, phone cameras have hit the point of diminishing returns long ago, even an iPhone 6 still looks pretty good if not zooming in a crazy amount (https://www.threads.net/@yantastic/p...IC/media?hl=en). I imagine it won't be too long until fully FOSS camera pipelines are good enough for most people not to notice/care about the difference.

[Azrael]

Any luck for the snapdragon models? Would love to run a DE on my S20 FE 5G

[FedFer]

Flashing a boot.img featuring the mainline kernel on these phones will basically leave you with a paperweight without drivers for the gpu, (touch)screen, modem, usb(-serial), wifi etc..
The Android drivers only work against a heavily patched 4.x (probably 4.14) kernel.

Well yes, but I imagine it is pretty difficult to develop drivers for a device which doesn't even boot the mainline kernel so this is still great progress.