Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro?

Hello.

you could try to install linux natively on it and then virtualize freebsd
with qemu + kvm on / for  arm64. This is what I would like to do if I
bought one of those.

On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 1:16 AM Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> I recently bought a Pinebook Pro, but I haven't been able to get it
> to run FreeBSD reliably.  I can get it to boot, but usually the display
> loses sync shortly after the kernel starts booting.  The display is
> sometimes readable enough for text so I have experimented with it a
> little.  It seemed to run well enough for a while but I have had it lock
> up a couple of times.
>
> I have used the RockPro64 images with the u-boot-pinebookpro applied as
> directed.  I have tried FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE, 13.2-RC2, and 14.0-CURRENT
> and all of them have the same problem.  The Pinebook Pro works well with
> the supplied Manjaro and with an Armbian version of Xubuntu.  I also
> tried NetBSD, and that works but runs the battery down much too fast.
>
> I assume others have run it since there is a u-boot for it, but maybe
> recent versions are different than older versions.  Has anybody else
> gotten FreeBSD to work with recent versions of the Pinebook Pro?
>
> Thanks for any information.
> --
> Carl Johnson            carlj@peak.org
>
>

-- 
Mario.