Thread: Sailfish OS (officially) on Sony Xperia devices
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jakibaki is offline jakibaki
2017-10-04 , 13:41
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#1325
Originally Posted by jenix View Post
Jolla simply is not allowed by Sony and its licenses to officially support this method.
Not even that, they are allowed to ship an emma-less way, they're even writing that they're officially looking into it:

Originally Posted by Jolla
We are looking into the possibility of installing the software also using other platforms, but can’t promise this yet
My theory is that the emma-less way is just not easy enough for people to apply right now for an official release. In it's current state (judging by the HADK-Linux instructions) it involves booting the device into recovery mode and telneting into it to copy the blobs to the oem-partition. For that solution to be official they'll have to automate that process which is not trivial because they'll either have to script telneting into the xperia-x or create an custom recovery image which automatically prepares the partition, then reboots again into fastboot-mode so that they can flash the normal recovery again.

Doing the emma-less way unofficially shouldn't be a problem at all for most of the people here who have a problem with using windows though
Last edited by jakibaki; 2017-10-04 at 13:46.
 

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