Thread: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
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2017-10-13 , 13:07
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Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
At least in the Xperia X there is kernel 3.10.84 (accidentally the same kernel series as in RHEL 7 ).
Originally Posted by lantern View Post
Still, for long life after official support ends, would be marvelous if Jolla provided 4.4 kernel working, so that community would be able to support it for long time after.
And, as Sony has released a kernel 4.4-using Android 8 Oreo for the Xperia X, chances are high that Jolla will actually be able to do this (various sources mentionned in my TJC post).

On the other hand I doubt that any Snapdragon 400 would ever get Oreo ported (so no luck for Jolla 1) and even it that case, it would be the slightly older 3.18 that google proposes as an alternative for extremely old hardware.

Originally Posted by nh1402 View Post
Yes currently 3.4 kernel's don't work, but with enough patches it should work.
And the above possibility of 4.4 kernel would bring even more hopes for Andbox on Xperia X.

Originally Posted by ajalkane View Post
Google Play store downloading does not work anymore even with Jolla 1, apparently due to Google's changes that block unauthorized devices.
Huh ? Mine still works...

Originally Posted by alfmar View Post
SailfishX 2.1.3.5 uses Linux kernel version 3.10.84 compiled without btrfs support.
...but supports UDF which is a good cross-platform choice, on the other hand.

I'll try to get a btrfs.ko next week, if possible.

Originally Posted by alfmar View Post
For example, backupping the entire home directory in a single Linux command (needs ssh enable in SailfishX developer settings, I also set up a fixed IP address to have "xperiax" hostname in /etc/hosts
I am a Linux / command-line tools addict, too.

Originally Posted by Rauha View Post
Can anybody who has gone through the installation tell me how much hardrive space is required?
The biggest space eaters are :
- ~2.8 GB for an old Android 6.0 Marshmallow image, if you want to downgrade in order to save the DRM keys.
- ~2.7 GB for an Android 7.1.1 Nougat image ( must be >= ...228 )
- ~1.2 GB for Sailfish

Each of the above will also require you to unpack/repack files, so an extra 3 GB free for temp won't hurt.

You'll have to burn some of your porn on BD-Rs
 

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