Re: Pinephone Pro

Hello.

A lot of years ago I bought the tablet Samsung Google Nexus 10 P8110 that I
have used only for a small amount of time. Now it is getting dust inside
the drawer. I see that Linux PostMarket OS (based on the Alpine distro)
works decently on this device. But I'm more interested to know if FreeBSD
will also work decently on this tablet. The most important specs of it are
the following ones :


Chipset <https://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=chipset> Exynos 5250
Dual
CPU <https://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=cpu> Dual-core 1.7 GHz
Cortex-A15
GPU <https://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=gpu> Mali-T604 MP4


Could I be able to install FreeBSD on this hardware,without having a lot of
experience and competence in the programming but only a low/medium
experience in the system administration ? thanks.

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 4:29 PM Dmitry Salychev <dsl@mcusim.org> wrote:

>
> Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I know. But the pro version is too expensive for me. :(
>
> I tried to say that there's no hurry and you'd save money to buy the Pro
> version instead ;)
>
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 4:23 PM Dmitry Salychev <dsl@mcusim.org> wrote:
> >
> >  Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >  > 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/
> >
> >  PinePhone (not Pro) is built on Allwinner A64 (4xCortex A53). Compare it
> >  to Rockchip RK3399S (2xA72 + 4xA53) of the Pro version. There'll be
> >  different device trees for those models and it's curious to me how
> >  different those models are in terms of devices/drivers available in
> >  FreeBSD.
> >
> >  You can definitely buy it, but be prepared that we'll need to prioritize
> >  if the actual development will be planned. Personally, I'd pay attention
> >  to the Pro model.
> >
> >  Regards,
> >  Dmitry
> >
> >  >
> >  > 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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-- 
Mario.