Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro?

Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> writes:

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

Thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for!

> 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 ( A tiny bit outdated)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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