Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro?

Carl, Im planning to buy a pinebook pro. You are doing what probably i will
do later. Do you want to keep me updated ? Can we keep each other in
contact ?

Il dom 12 mar 2023, 17:11 Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> ha scritto:

> 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 ( A tiny bit outdated)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
> >>
> >>
>
> --
> Carl Johnson            carlj@peak.org
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