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Introduction

In 2014 the Novena open source laptop was announced. In 2019 the laptop officially hit end of life.

novena-next aims to extend the lifetime of the laptop indefinitely.

Current goals:

Future goals:

Please report all issues or ideas in this bug tracker.

Come chat on #kosagi on irc.oftc.net or #novena on irc.libera.chat

This project is split up in to many different Git repositories.

Documentation repositories:

novena-next/docs contains this guide, a general issue tracker and various upgrade scripts

Kernel repositories:

novena-next/kernel-patches contains distro-independent patch sets for Novena-specific features
novena-next/linux contains the Git development tree for the patch sets

Userspace repositories:

novena-next/xf86-video-armada is a maintained fork of Russel King's xf86-video-armada repository
novena-next/xorg-novena contains sample Xorg configuration for xf86-video-armada
novena-next/pulseaudio-novena contains PulseAudio configuration for the Novena sound system

Software repositories:

novena-next/novena-bluetooth-reset resets the Bluetooth subsystem when you hit the USER button
novena-next/novena-disable-ssp disables SSP on all attached Bluetooth devices
novena-next/novena-eeprom allows viewing and editing the Novena EEPROM values
novena-next/novena-eeprom-gui allows viewing and editing the Novena EEPROM values in a Qt5 GUI
novena-next/novena-usb-hub allows powering up or down the various USB hubs in the Novena
novena-next/novena-whack-lcd tries to reset the LCD when you hit the USER button

Firmware repositories:

novena-next/firmware-senoko contains the source code for the Senoko and passthrough board firmware

Debian package repositories:

novena-next/debian-linux contains the Debian package source for the Novena kernel variant
novena-next/etna_viv contains the Debian package source for the libetnaviv-headers package
novena-next/libdrm-armada contains the Debian package source for the libdrm-armada package

These are not included in the novena-next project for various reasons:

xobs/irqbalanced will eventually be ported to a newer irqbalance
xobs/libetnaviv is obsoleted by the novena-next/etna_viv repository
xobs/novena-debian-support is obsoleted by Debian's flash-kernel program and novena-next's configuration
xobs/novena-firstrun will be replaced by official distribution install scripts
xobs/novena-heirloom just turns the fan on and is no longer required with the newer kernel
xobs/novena-image will be replaced by official distribution generation scripts
xobs/novena-test is not useful to us given all the boards shipped have these tests
xobs/u-boot-novena will eventually be ported to a newer U-Boot

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The novena-next apt repository is signed with a separate key:

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