Re: Pinephone Pro

From: Mario Marietto <marietto2008_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 11:03:17 UTC
Hello,

I see that the Pinebook pro is very expensive for me. Can I collaborate
with you if I bought this version of the PinePhone ?

https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-beta-edition-with-convergence-package/

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 11:57 AM Dmitry Salychev <dsl@mcusim.org> wrote:

>
> 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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>
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-- 
Mario.