PROJECT / 01Maintained
Linux 4 Switch
Fedora on the Nintendo Switch. Kernel maintenance, distro packaging, and the pieces that make a console a Linux computer.
NVIDIA TEGRA X1 · FEDORA
Project overviewIndependent Linux engineer
Linux on hardware that wasn’t built for it.
I’m Azkali. I bring Linux to consoles, handhelds and phones—from the first boot to graphics, power management and a usable system.
FROM THE WORKBENCH01 / SAMSUNG
BOOTLOADER / KERNEL / GRAPHICS / USERSPACE / REPRODUCIBLE BUILDS
Selected work
Different hardware. Same curiosity.
PROJECT / 02Ongoing
Fedora on Pocket DS
Bringing Linux to a dual-screen handheld, from the mainline kernel and touchscreens to a usable Fedora system.
SNAPDRAGON 8 GEN 2 · ARM64
Read the bring-up notesPROJECT / 03Client work
Volla & Ubuntu Touch
Device enablement across the Volla family. Kernels, power management, and work on the Lomiri display stack.
MEDIATEK · UBPORTS · HALIUM
See the contributionsEngineering services
From a stubborn board
to a working system.
I work with hardware makers and open-source teams on device enablement, debugging and maintainable Linux ports.
How I can help ↗Kernel & board support
Bring-up, device trees, drivers, backports, boot chains and build pipelines.
Mobile Linux & graphics
Ubuntu Touch, Halium, libhybris, Mir and Lomiri integration.
Power, stability & debugging
Find the failing layer, improve device behavior, and make the result reproducible.
Engineering notes
What I’ve been working on.
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Fedora on the AYANEO Pocket DS: mainline Linux on a dual-screen handheld
Mainline Linux on the AYANEO Pocket DS (QCS8550): Fedora aarch64 bring-up, taming the dual touchscreens, and a SteamOS-style image that boots to Big Picture.
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Fedora 44 on the Nintendo Switch: teaching a 2016 kernel some 2026 tricks
How L4S runs Fedora 44 on the Nintendo Switch: backporting cgroup v2, clone3 and the new mount API into the Tegra 4.9 kernel, plus FEX and Proton on ARMv8.0.
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What I’ve been pushing to the UBports GitLab lately
A roundup of my recent UBports GitLab merge requests, grouped by theme: the big Mir 2 display-stack port, the Volla-sponsored powersave and battery work, charge limiting, small device niceties, and boot/build plumbing.
The person behind the patches
Azkali.
I’m an independent Linux engineer, founder of Linux 4 Switch, and a contributor to the mobile Linux ecosystem. Most of my work happens in public: device ports, kernel changes, and the systems around them.
More about me & my CV ↗