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Comment by kees99 | Hacker News Reader

I'm struggling to reconcile "Linux-ready" in the title and this blurb in the article body:

  MediaTek Helio P24 SoC is not one of the
  most easily hackable, and its Taiwanese
  manufacturer is not exactly famous for
  releasing kernel sources.

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Please don't use code blocks to quote text, it's very hard to read on mobile and narrow viewports.

> MediaTek Helio P24 SoC is not one of the most easily hackable, and its Taiwanese manufacturer is not exactly famous for releasing kernel sources.

According to the submission: "out-of-the-box support for community builds of Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish OS"

So even if it's not easily hackable or if MediaTek isn't famous for releasing kernel sources, seems like the company behind the phone will make sure at least Ubuntu Touch and Sailfish OS runs on it.

Edit: also, the sentence right your quote explains "In this case, however, Volla told us that its kernel sources should be publicly available"

You cut the quote before:

> In this case, however, Volla told us that its kernel sources should be publicly available.

Which links to:

https://twitter.com/hello_volla/status/1223819263745646592

> The kernel is public and we have the BSP.

Yeah, I'm thinking this is more like the Gemini (which turned out horrible, mine sits in a drawer unused) than the PinePhone. MediaTek is terrible, and I wouldn't be surprised if they need libhybris to get Sailfish and such working.

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