<mijk>
anyone here running Linux on a rk3126 based tablet?
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<fischerm>
mmind00: so it works now as non-root but not with pulseaudio, but I think that's more like a pulseaudio config issue on my end, speaker-test worked once I pulled my user from the 'audio' group
<mmind00>
fischerm: great ... so you had to remove your user from the audio group? wired
<fischerm>
indeed
<fischerm>
now fighting pulseaudio
<fischerm>
lol
<mmind00>
Engarde :-)
<fischerm>
hah
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<mijk>
is it possible to install Linux onto a Rockchip tablet?
<mijk>
Android tablet
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<paulk-collins>
mijk, most of them ship with Linux preinstalled, you know
<paulk-collins>
there aren't other kernels that I know of that have support for Rockchip SoCs
<mijk>
mine is an Android tablet
<paulk-collins>
mijk, Android uses the Linux kernel
<mijk>
right, so is it then possible to install Linux instead of Android?
<paulk-collins>
mijk, you don't get it -- Android already runs Linux
<mijk>
Yes and Mac OS X runs BSD ...
<paulk-collins>
mijk, BSD's not a kernel
<mijk>
I want to run a Linux distribution
<mijk>
not Android
<mijk>
right now it runs Lollipop, there's no option to downgrade to Kitkat
<paulk-collins>
how is Android not a Linux distribution?
<mijk>
it is completely useless
<paulk-collins>
any system you'd like to install in particular?
<mijk>
Debian or Ubuntu
<mijk>
I know I can chroot but there's only 180MB usable
<mijk>
it's ridiculous
<paulk-collins>
usually people use external sdcards
<paulk-collins>
grab a rootfs archive, build/get a proper kernel and setup the bootloader to boot from sdcard
<paulk-collins>
it's usually also easier to have the bootloader on sdcard when possible
<paulk-collins>
although you'll probably need some device-specific adaptation in both the kernel and bootloader
<mijk>
yeah see, I don't know where to start with all that
<paulk-collins>
if that your device's soc, then any kernel targeted at it has a chance of working, but you'll need device-specific adaptations most likely
<phh>
you can't just build it, you need to check the dts changes and drivers
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<mijk>
how will I know what drivers I need?
<mijk>
the dtb will convert to multiple dts files?
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<phh>
no, to only one
<mijk>
I know it must sound completely ridiculous to you but I don't know these things
<phh>
no no it's ok
<phh>
dt{s,b} is a file format to describe the hardware. dtb are generated from dts using cpp (standard C pre-processor), so when "compiling back" you won't get all the #include <>
<phh>
but anyway, it's a tree representation, so it's not too hard to compare
<phh>
the bus-es you'll want to examine are i2c and spi
<phh>
it's unlikely you'll have differences someplace else
<phh>
well, you'll also need display settings (timings and mipi on commands)