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#+TITLE: The Librem-5 Phone - a status update
#+SUBTITLE: FSFE Group Bonn Meeting, October 2018
#+DATE: 2018-10-08
#+AUTHOR: Guido Günther
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* Who am I
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** About me
- Debian Developer (libvirt et al., gbp, LTS, ...)
- GNOME Foundation Member
- FSFE Supporter
- Freelancing Free Software Developer
- Working on the Librem-5
** Intro
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- Short overview
* The Librem-5
** A security and privacy focused phone
[[./img/l5-id.jpg]]
** "Classic" Phone Features
- Phone calls
- SMS
- GPS
- Wifi
- Camera
- …
** Not so "Classic"
- Designed and built by [[https://puri.sm][Purism]] SPC
- Hardware kill switches (wifi/BT, camera, modem)
- CPU separate from baseband modem
- Runs by default a regular Linux distribution (PureOS)
- Not Android based
- End to end encrypted messaging (and calls)
- User has full control over the device
- By default GNOME based
* Status Update (Software)
** Adaptive GNOME apps
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[[./img/libhandy.jpg]]
- [[https://code.puri.sm/Librem5/libhandy][libhandy]] for adaptive widgets
- Lots of new widgets ([[http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/libhandy/doc/][doc]])
- 4 [[https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/libhandy/tags][releases]] so far, uploaded to Debian
- [[https://source.puri.sm/guido.gunther/libhandy/tree/hdy-users][Multiple GNOME apps already using it]]
- Used by Librem5 [[https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/calls][apps]]/[[https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh][shell]]
** Adaptive GNOME apps (II)
- Patches for
- [[https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-bluetooth/merge_requests/5][gnome-bluetooth]]
- [[https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-contacts/merge_requests/15][gnome-contacts]]
- epiphany
- gnome-control-center
** Calls
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[[./img/calls.jpg]]
- Does phone calls via [[https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ModemManager/][ModemManager]]
- [[https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/haegtesse][Daemon]] to test calls with Simcom 7100
- TODO Contacts integration / shell integration ([[https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/calls/issues][bugs]])
** Chatty (XMPP, SMS)
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[[./img/chatty.jpg]]
- Most recent addition
- SMS und XMPP (OMEMO)
- TODO Add back SMS / more XMPP XEPs ([[https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/issues][bugs]])
** Fractal (Matrix)
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[[./img/fractal.jpg]]
- Upstream work continues on MUC split
- Work on end to end encryption
** Phosh (Graphical Shell)
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[[./img/phosh.jpg]]
- Runnig it since several months
- Initialrelease: nightshift, gcr-prompter, lockscreen, ...
- TODO Appliction browser, Wifi status, Vol. ctrl ([[https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/issues][bugs]])
** Wayland compositor
- Awesome support from wlroots upstream
- text-input / input-method Wayland protocol enhancements
- TODO
- Don't use [[https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots][rootston]] (but wlroots!)
- Animations, dmabuf enhancements, text-input / input-method, ...
** Virtboard (On Screen Keyboard)
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[[./img/osk.jpg]]
- TODO: GTK+, different layouts, text prediction
** CI / Builds
- Based on gitlab / gitlab CI / Jenkins
- Build with different compilers, smoketest, valgrind, ...
** Plasma mobile
- Package builds for arm64 integrated
- PlaMo developers are currently looking into build issues
* Status Update (Hardware)
** Kernel
- Based on basic NXP imx8m arm64 Linux support from [[https://www.pengutronix.de/de/][pengutronix]]
- Building/using [[https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-emcraft][4.18 mainline based kernel]] on arm64
- Got [[https://source.puri.sm/guido.gunther/mesa][basic mesa]] to work by
- Forward porting things from NXPs/Emcrafts vendor kernel
- Cherry-picking together different mesa bits
- https://twitter.com/GuidoGuenther/status/1032898450180980736
** Kernel (II)
- Overall
: 262 files changed, 71398 insertions(+), 5074 deletions(-)
- Graphics subsystem
: 86 files changed, 26809 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)
** QEMU development images
- [[https://arm01.puri.sm/job/Images/job/Image%2520Build/][available]] from our CI system
- uses correct display geometry, shell, osk, ...
- rough around the edges
** Devkits about to ship
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[[./img/devkit.jpg]]
- [[https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-07-26-dev-kit-blueprint.jpg][blueprints]] done
- [[https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-07-26-devkit-parts-table.jpg][parts shipped]] for assembly
- first boards assembled (should arrive every day now)
** Phone shipment delayed 'til April 2019
- Power management issues
- Chinese new year
* Appendix :B_appendix:
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** Join the fun
- follow the links in the slides for details
- developer documentation: https://developer.puri.sm/
- Translations done via Zanata: http://zanata.org
- Puri.sm is hiring: https://puri.sm/job/librem-5-developer-roles/
- Sources: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5
- librem-5@lists.puri.sm / https://lists.puri.sm/
- Blog: https://puri.sm/posts/tag/phones/
- Questions?
** Thanks
- Send mail to <agx@sigxcpu.org>
** Hardware and Software
*** Based on NXP iMX.8 CPU
- The user space software is only *one* part of the project.
- not a common phone CPU
- Vivante gc7000 Graphics (etnaviv kernel driver/mesa)
- Reaching for RYF
- Mainline kernel (or close to it)
- No software updateable firmware
*** PureOS
- Debian based
- FSF endorsement
- Runs currently on Purism's laptops
- Rolling distribution
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