13:20 <paccer> a friend gave me his tablet, that he didn't want anymore... a generic/no-name 9.7", rk3066 based tablet (branded as "Ennovia TAB E309" where it normally says "made in china" on the tablets i found online)

13:20 <paccer> been reading through a *lot* of material, old and new... quite confusing since there has been a lot of contradictions

13:23 <paccer> then finally i stumbled across this post/thread: https://github.com/rockchip-linux/kernel/issues/75#issuecomment-376969918

13:23 <paccer> which pretty much confirmed that i can build a modern kernel for the rk3066

13:25 <paccer> so currently im working on figuring out the up-to-date method of making a recovery.img for flashing and testing the kernel...

13:26 <paccer> im a little worried about hardware dependant GPIO pins, since i have not been able to find a schematic

14:02 <paccer> i did manage to install the picuntu kernel in my recovery partition, and it does boot, but stops eventually and the screen graphics is garbled... i can however see that its trying to render on the screen, sometimes i can make out text

14:02 <paccer> so i assume its just wrong refresh rate / resolution or similar...

14:02 <paccer> the serial port tell me it boots fine, but eventually it tells me that tty0 has taken over or similar, and it stops outputting serial data

14:03 <paccer> was thinking perhaps i could base my device tree on that

21:40 <hexdump0815> did anyone port the kernel gpu driver for the mali blob for rk3328 and/or rk3399 to mainline? i only see the one included in the rk 4.4 tree ...

21:41 <hexdump0815> i know lima and panfrost are just around the corner, but it would be nice to have the mali blob as an alternative until they are both more marture