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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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How powerful is Pinephone Pro? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been using my OnePlus 6t since launch and love it, but I am very interested in Linux phones now. I've been an early adopter before, but it's finally getting where I think I need it to be to try. I pretty much only do basic phone functions and emulation. Would a Pinephone Pro have the power to run something like a Wii or 3ds game? What about an older ported game like STALKER? Curious just how much it could do

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

@CalcProgrammer1 @LeylaLove

Extra point regarding power consumption:

It's possible to trade a small sub-part of the open U-Boot bootloader and use a proprietary T-FA and DRAM initialisation from Rockchip that enables DRAM downclocking on the phone's RK3399 and this saves a ton of power, bringing the PinePhone Pro to a much more usable range.

See here: https://xnux.eu/log/091.html

I've been using that together with SailfishOS on mine.
I might try this rk2aw+drbin+U-Boot on my PineBook Pro, too.