Development stopped
I sell my GPD Pocket 1 and bought GPD Pocket 2, which have 100% support in mainline kernel and working above the expectations. It is sad, but I must stop developing and close my github repo. Thanks yor sharing and your siupport, you is a part of BIG linux comunity! Peter
Ubuntu kernel for GPD Pocket
This is my repository with ubuntu kernel for GPD Pocket.
Kernel build with lot of patches from Hans De Goede. You can find his repository here: Hans De Goede Kernel Repository
Many thanks for hard work to Simone alias @stockmind and your perfect repo gpd-pocket-ubuntu-respin. This kernel is newest version than his repo and I use this repository with Ubuntu 16.04 on my own GPD Pocket.
Know Bugs
Check buglist in testing branch. I wrote something about every my released test build.
Do not use Ubuntu 16.04 and kernel 4.16+ with disabled DPTF (unlocked BIOS). Kernel fan driver not working with disabled DPTF and python fan script no longer working too, because kernel should change some security options for GPIO pins (used for set fan speed). Ubuntu 16.04 with enabled DPTF have total stucks and I cannot find reason (logs not writen while total stuck). Ubuntu 17.04+ do not have this issue and you can leave DPTF enabled and use gpdfan ekrnel driver wthout isues.
$ systemctl status gpdfand.service
● gpdfand.service - GPD Fan Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/gpdfand.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Čt 2018-03-08 18:32:57 CET; 5min ago
Process: 1305 ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/gpdfand --time=${TIME} --turbo=${TURBO} --min=${MIN} --med=${MED} --max=${MAX} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 1305 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
bře 08 18:32:56 gpdpocket systemd[1]: Started GPD Fan Daemon.
bře 08 18:32:57 gpdpocket gpdfand[1305]: Traceback (most recent call last):
bře 08 18:32:57 gpdpocket gpdfand[1305]: File "/usr/local/sbin/gpdfand", line 76, in <module>
bře 08 18:32:57 gpdpocket gpdfand[1305]: set_fans(0,1)
bře 08 18:32:57 gpdpocket gpdfand[1305]: File "/usr/local/sbin/gpdfand", line 46, in set_fans
bře 08 18:32:57 gpdpocket gpdfand[1305]: gpio.write(unicode(a))
bře 08 18:32:57 gpdpocket gpdfand[1305]: IOError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted
bře 08 18:32:57 gpdpocket systemd[1]: gpdfand.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
bře 08 18:32:57 gpdpocket systemd[1]: gpdfand.service: Unit entered failed state.
bře 08 18:32:57 gpdpocket systemd[1]: gpdfand.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Install
git clone https://github.com/petrmatula190/gpd-pocket-kernel
cd gpd-pocket-kernel/
chmod +x install-kernel.sh build-kernel.sh
./install-kernel.sh
Update
cd gpd-pocket-kernel/
git pull
./install-kernel.sh
Build own kernel with my .config - Manual way
You must have free around 5-10GiB space on disk for download and build kernel. Sources files have around 2.5GiB.
Fisrt, install tools and clone Hans repo
sudo apt-get install build-essential git libncurses5-dev libssl-dev libelf-dev bison flex
git clone https://github.com/jwrdegoede/linux-sunxi.git
Copy and overwrite my .config to directory ./linux-sunxi
If you have already donwloaded the repository, you can update it with latest commits issuing:
make clean
git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/master
And build kernel:
cd linux-sunxi/
make clean
make -j `getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN` deb-pkg LOCALVERSION=-custom-matlala-DD-MM-YYYY
After few minutes (or hour, depend on HW), compress all generated .deb files into a tar.gz archive with name "gpd-pocket-kernel-files.tar.gz", put it into /tmp directory and run install-kernel.sh.
cd /tmp/gpd-pocket-kernel
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
sudo update-grub
Automatic build own kernel with my script
If you want more automatic process, run build.kernel.sh and edit .config manually and conform build when yo will promt.
I created this script for me and there is for everybody. Version number will be extracted from .config file (3rd line and 3rd column). Script must be started from folder ./linux-sunxi and final product will be tar.gz file gpd-pocket-kernel-$version-$builddate.tar.gz in ./../linux-sunxi/.
Older kernel relases
If you want download and install my older kernel version, you can download from my Google drive. My script can install it automatically, if you put downloaded kernel archive into /tmp directory and run install-kernel.sh.
Do you want be tester
I have testing branch and two testers on opposite sides of Eatch. Do you want be next? It can be little bit dangerous, but I have not time, knowlenge and HW for testing everything (BT and exotic HW for example). So, I will be hapy If you try new test build and report bugs on github (or you can add me on skype/facebook) let me message in issues page.