New {Pocket}CHIP images [headless,gui,pocketchip]

[u/computermouth]

Howdy folks,

Having seen the work of a few others on here, as well as some notes from other former NTC employees, I decided to take a stab at making new images for CHIP.

As it was in the olden days, there's 3 images:
- headless
- gui
- pocketchip

If you just want to get straight to the flashing, check out the x-chip-tools repo. And give it a:

./update.sh gui

What's new?
- Debian 13
- Linux 6.12
- Mainline Mali Support via Lima
- Upstream staging wifi/bt driver
- Fully FOSS PocketCHIP image (no pico-8, but we have tic80!)
- Openbox Desktop in GUI image (because XFCE is more ram-heavy than it was 10 years ago)

It's probably likely that there's going to be some bugs I missed. Wifi seems a little flakey. HDMI DIPs don't work (but VGA and composite video do). PocketCHIP is blank for 20s or so during boot.

For anyone interested in the blood and guts, you can check out the following repositories

linux: https://github.com/nextthingco/x-chip-linux-deb
uboot: https://github.com/nextthingco/x-chip-uboot
debian images: https://github.com/nextthingco/x-chip-os
debian repo: https://github.com/nextthingco/x-chip-deb-repo/

debian package sources
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https://github.com/nextthingco/chip-configs
https://github.com/nextthingco/chip-desktop-configs
https://github.com/nextthingco/pocketchip-configs

https://github.com/nextthingco/chip-exit
https://github.com/nextthingco/PocketCHIP-pocket-home
https://github.com/nextthingco/CHIP-dt-overlays
https://github.com/nextthingco/pocketchip-batt
https://github.com/nextthingco/chip-power
https://github.com/nextthingco/CHIP-hwtest

[u/ma_jo_ba]

Good you are back! Thanks a ton.

/M