Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro?

https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/pinebookpro-virtualization/

On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 5:21 AM Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:

> Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen <jsm@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>
> > 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 ( A tiny bit outdated)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
>
> Thanks for the links, but something seems to have changed since those
> don't mention any problems.  I am downloading the image from the GitHub
> link and I will check to see if that is any difference.
>
> Thanks for your information.
>
> --
> Carl Johnson            carlj@peak.org
>
>

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Mario.