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 "From phone hardware to mobile Linux" ( 2024 )

Saturday at 10:30, 25 minutes, H.1309 (Van Rijn), H.1309 (Van Rijn), FOSS on Mobile Devices devroom Luca Weiss , slides , video

An exploration from the chips on the PCB to how Linux makes the phone work. We'll go into how the hardware and the Linux device tree files are connected, how the different chips communicate, etc. Things I wish I had learned years ago!

Sojourner FOSDEM
Related:
2026
  •  0.60 ""State of FOSS on mobile""
  •  0.57 "Photos and Video Recording on Mobile Phones"
  •  0.56 "The Linux Phone App Ecosystem (2026)"
  •  0.55 "Mainline kernel for Fairphones - 2026 update"
2025
  •  0.59 "Kernel support for Mobile Linux: The missing 20%"
2024
  •  0.59 "The Linux Phone App Ecosystem"
  •  0.57 "Towards a bright future with Mobian?"
  •  0.56 "The Journey to Ubuntu Touch 20.04 on PINE64"
  •  0.55 "Mainline Linux on Qualcomm SoCs, are we here now ?"
  •  0.54 "Why not run OpenCL-accelerated LLM on your phone?"

Last updated: 2026-03-20

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