Re: Pinephone Pro

Hello.

you could try to install qemu and kvm and then virtualize FreeBSD for arm64
on the pine phone :P ; this is what I would do. How many ram and cores does
the pine phone have ?

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 11:20 PM Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote:

> Hey there folks - I recently acquired a Pinephone Pro as well as the
> Keyboard/Battery case option they sell:
>
> https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/
> https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pinephone-pro-keyboard-case/
>
> I especially like the Keyboard as it will probably make my on call
> rotations easier while I'm out running errands.  That's the theory at
> least.
>
> I've gotten Linux (postmarketOS) up on it, and it seems OK and will
> probably be my daily driver OS.  It certainly has quite a few warts to
> be honest, which is surprising because I assumed things would be a bit
> more polished with all the attention linux gets.
>
> Regardless, I would be keen to test out and help if possible getting
> FreeBSD support on it.  My plan is to start with the PINE64 image on a
> flashed memory card and see how it goes. Hopefully by finding what the
> quirks are on Linux will be helpful resolving issues on the FreeBSD
> side.  Not expecting a fully featured device out of the gate, but will
> probably focus first on getting the keyboard and wifi stack up first if
> possible.  There even a userspace keyboard driver here which may be
> better than the linux-kernel driver:
> https://xff.cz/git/pinephone-keyboard/about/
>
> So my question is - is the PINE64 the right image to use?  Anyone else
> tried this and able to share tweaks or docs they used to get things moving?
>
> Cheers!
> -Pete
>
> --
> Pete Wright
> pete@nomadlogic.org
> @nomadlogicLA
>
>
>

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Mario.