Status update 2020-11-15

[marcih]

Thanks for the lengthy update post, @a-wai! 20201113 was the first Mobian build I flashed (right after giving the pre-flashed Manjaro a test run), not knowing that I had come in at the end of a storm.

First thing I noticed is that the modem takes significantly longer to wake up (after CRUST kicks in?), before the 7th ring as opposed to before the 3rd ring on Manjaro. Could it be that Manjaro implements the power saving firmware differently or perhaps not as aggressively? Both Manjaro and Mobian have "Automatic suspend" in the Settings app set to 5m.
EDIT: I spoke too soon, it was the fact that I had Manajro on the eMMC and Mobian on SD; just tried Mobian on eMMC, 3 rings like Manajro.
EDIT 2: 2nd try after leaving the phone on my desk for an hour or so, about 5 rings before the modem finally woke up. Makes me wonder whether there are different levels of suspend, at least for the modem...

From your post, I'm interested in the following point:

For the next few weeks, we'll switch our focus to more groundwork, and might use some help for the following:

• Implement a userspace power management daemon, based on megi's modem power driver
  

I don't have any experience with kernel driver development (or much programming at all), I'm just a Linux power user with a PinePhone. Is there any way people like me could assist in this? Is there a dev channel where I could follow discussions and at least help with debugging?

Thanks for all your work!