Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro?

Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> writes:

> 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.

I just found that the qemu-system-arm package is actually qemu-kvm for
arm and arm64 systems.  I have installed that, but I will need to figure
out how to use it.

Thanks for reminding me to try looking into that again.

>> 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