08-15-2023, 01:36 AM
(08-14-2023, 11:00 AM)RandB Wrote: OK, I am talking about a dumbized pinephone that does well what a cellphone is supposed to do well. One that does not consume nearly as much power as the pinephones with smart operating systems. Possibly it will not be running Linux. The nuttX solution looks interesting. If I understand it correctly we do not need to run X or Wayland or even Linux with nuttX although we can do so. Could this get us a couple of days or more out of the pinephone battery?
couple of days! i doubt it. in case of pinephone, i don't think it's possible even with simple operating system. but it would be good to see some results because those simple systems are running somewhat.
(08-14-2023, 11:00 AM)RandB Wrote: As I see it the advantage of having a "dumbized pinephone operating system" is the possibility of setting up the phone with two operating systems. One would be the dumbized operating system, which ideally will boot-up almost instantly and reliably give talk and text. The other would be a smartphone operating system which after using I would either turn off, put into hibernate, or put into sleep, while having the dumbized operating system boot-up and run automatically as part of the process. Most of the time there would be no reason for the "smart operating system" to be running.
in virtualization previous is possible, although i don't know how good arm64 virtualization is, including battery saving. so practically, no. another option is dual booting, which tends to be slow, because it requires reboots.