Attempting to run Linux on a random Android tablet

import Inventory from '../../components/mdx/Inventory.astro'; import SourceSnippet from '../../components/mdx/SourceSnippet.astro'; import SignoffQuote from '../../components/mdx/SignoffQuote.astro'; What do we do with it? Guess the answer is obvious: I gotta port [PostmarketOS](postmarketos.org) to it. This attempt eventually failed to reach my goals, however I found it a very fun yak-shaving exercise, and hope it will amuse. ## What were my goals? I had a vague desire to use it as a 6th monitor, however I didn't want to deal with the VNC latency and such associated with most approaches. I decided to try shoving a simple framebuffer with dirtyrect detection + lz4 compression over USB 3, which can do several gbit/s. The intent was to do something similar to [my EVDI USB-display project](/blog/ms2160/), but I digress... While I could do that all on Android, running it on plain Linux would be more fun. How hard can it be? Just pmbootstrap away and `fastboot boot` in a hail mary, yeah?…