Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro?

Pat McEvoy <mcevoy.pat@gmail.com> writes:

>> On Mar 11, 2023, at 20:44, Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Carl Johnson        carlj@peak.org
>
>
> https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=index&fts=Pinebook+pro
>
> https://bsd-hardware.info/?computer=63859de55834
>
>
> Hope these dmesgd / he-probe entries are helpful. 

I took a quick look for now, but I don't see any mention of the problems
that I have been seeing.

Thanks for the information.

-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org