Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro?

Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

I was looking into that, but I haven't been able to find out if kvm is
actually supported on linux distributions.  I am using the Armbian linux
now but I haven't seen any kvm packages available.

Thanks for the reply.

> 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
>>
>>

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Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org