Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 17:44:42 -0800 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro? Message-ID: <86v8j6ivzp.fsf@bay.localnet> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B1FSiisNFkbR2MwNxJTMBFKs%2BT6og%2BWXLkugv73dH49g-7b2Q@mail.gmail.com> (Mario Marietto's message of "Sun, 12 Mar 2023 01:22:32 %2B0100") References: <865yb6kenb.fsf@bay.localnet> <CA%2B1FSiisNFkbR2MwNxJTMBFKs%2BT6og%2BWXLkugv73dH49g-7b2Q@mail.gmail.com>
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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=E2=80=AFAM Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wro= te: > >> 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 >> >> --=20 Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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