Re: Pinephone Pro

Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> writes:

> 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 ?

PineTime is built upon nRF52832 (64 MHz Cortex-M4) which doesn't have
MMU. So, no FreeBSD or Linux can be used there (uCLinux is an exception,
but 64 KiB of RAM isn't enough).

Details: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8112

Regards,
Dmitry

>
> 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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