Install Armtix on Pinephone

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Install Armtix on Pinephone

01 February 2023, 22:02:47

I saw it in the Armtix wiki "List of devices known to work", but the link is broken.

It has Arch Linux ARM support:

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(Unofficial) Arch Linux ARM with choice of Phosh UI, Plasma Mobile, sxmo or barebones. Currently being maintained by the DanctNIX community (GitHub: https://github.com/DanctNIX/danctnix, https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch).

There is also this other version of Arch but it doesn't support this model yet: https://kupfer.gitlab.io/.

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone:

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The PinePhone will automatically boot from microSD if a bootable card is inserted. Although it is technically possible to use any ARM distribution (because the PinePhone uses the mainline kernel), there are a few that are designed specifically for mobile use on devices like the PinePhone.

Maybe I can help and we can have some support from Artix devs or even official support.

Is there a general guide?
Should I try to install it?
Because maybe if lucky it will just boot but it will be unusable.

I was thinking to use this image: armtix-dinit-20230101.tar.xz.

Re: Install Armtix on Pinephone

Reply #1 – 01 February 2023, 23:41:29

I checked: List of devices known to work
The website loaded for me and this was the content:

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List of devices known to work

Firefly RK3399
Odroid N2
Orange Pi PC2
Pinephone (draft)
Qemu VM
Raspberry Pi 4 8Gb

If your device is not listed here, it doesn't mean it won't work. Devices based on Rockchip and Allwinner SoCs are well supported by mainline kernel and u-boot, so you can expect them to work similarly as Firefly RK3399 and Orange Pi PC2 listed above. In other cases you can try to adapt instructions for other distros with our images.

Re: Install Armtix on Pinephone

Reply #2 – 02 February 2023, 07:22:54

Quote from: kiblaster – on 01 February 2023, 22:02:47

Is there a general guide?

Usually installation consists only of storage device(s) partitioning, u-boot flashing (and maybe building) and unpacking rootfs archive to storage device. You also have to create u-boot configuration to boot your kernel

Re: Install Armtix on Pinephone

Reply #3 – 02 February 2023, 21:16:05

The broken link is the Pinephone link.

Is possible that someone is doing this already? But it is still a draft?

Support request for Artix devs: Pinephone with osk-sdl and luks https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/archarm-mobile-fde-installer.

Re: Install Armtix on Pinephone

Reply #4 – 03 October 2023, 20:45:50

The draft is still offline.
I managed to find it somewhere else but I couldn't boot.

I used this https://codeberg.org/jackc/armtix-pine64 but I can't use mobile data decently https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,5903.0.html.