Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro?

On 12.03.2023 01.16, Carl Johnson 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.
Hi
I do not know if they changed anything to the hardware itself but:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/FreeBSD-on-the-Pinebook-Pro.pdf 
( A tiny bit outdated)
https://github.com/jsm222/drm-subtree/releases/tag/v0.2-947fcb84b77

Panfrost tends to go out of memory and crash the system, but if you do 
not enable it i.e by using not extra patched libdrm the display and 
graphics still works okay.

Regards
Jsm