Re: Pinephone Pro

PineTime is interesting and it is in my budget. I could buy it and then try
to play a little bit with it. Maybe FreeBSD can be installed there ? or
Linux ?

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 11:29 AM Dmitry Salychev <dsl@mcusim.org> wrote:

>
> Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info> writes:
>
> > [[S/MIME Signed Part:Undecided]]
> > On Tue, 4 Apr 2023, Dmitry Salychev wrote:
> >
> >>> I think you should be prepared to build your own image.
> >>> With FreeBSD it is not very difficult (I find it easier than in
> >>> the Linux world).
> >>>
> >>> Marcin
> >>>
> >>> [[End of S/MIME Signed Part]]
> >>
> >> I'd take their device tree and try to boot GENERIC kernel for arm64 in
> >> order to get an idea which drivers are missing:
> >>
> >> # dmesg | grep "no driver" | grep -v "disabled"
> >>
> >> Pete, are you going to keep your findings somewhere? I don't have
> >> PinePhone Pro at the moment, but would like to follow and can support
> >> with customizing your kernel.
> >
> > Now thinking about getting one, too.. Maybe wiki.freeebsd.org could be
> the place
> > to keep notes?
> >
> > saper
> >
> > [[End of S/MIME Signed Part]]
>
> Btw, it has almost nothing to do with the FreeBSD itself, but I recently
> received PineTime (both sealed one and a devkit) as a gift and can say
> that it's quite good in terms of PCB/assembling quality. Their
> FreeRTOS-based
> OS works surprisingly good as well. If the PinePhone Pro is similar,
> it's worth bringing FreeBSD there.
>
> +1 for notes kept at wiki.freebsd.org
>
> Regards,
> Dmitry
>
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>

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