Turns a bare Vestel Venus 5.5x board (MSM8926 / Snapdragon 400) into a headless Alpine Linux node on the stock 3.4 kernel. A custom /init pivots into Alpine/OpenRC, with USB RNDIS, SSH and Pronto Wi-Fi. All work was done over EDL, with no UART.
headless alpine-linux armv7 openrc edl qualcomm embedded-linux android-phone rndis vestel linux-on-phone phone-recycling msm8926 snapdragon-400
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Oct 26, 2026 - C