Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 12:09:08 GMT From: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-doc-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: git: fc0158e45d - main - Status/2025Q2/pinephone.adoc: Add report Message-ID: <202507091209.569C98qK004144@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch main has been updated by salvadore: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=fc0158e45d170bd1e37cb6f7141770e650f28aba commit fc0158e45d170bd1e37cb6f7141770e650f28aba Author: Stephan Lichtenauer <sl@honeyguide.eu> AuthorDate: 2025-06-16 07:00:29 +0000 Commit: Lorenzo Salvadore <salvadore@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2025-07-09 12:08:39 +0000 Status/2025Q2/pinephone.adoc: Add report Reviewed by: ykla <yklaxds@gmail.com> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/510 --- .../status/report-2025-04-2025-06/pinephone.adoc | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/pinephone.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/pinephone.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..72c261cfaa --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2025-04-2025-06/pinephone.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +=== Pinephone Pro Support + +Links: + +link:https://codeberg.org/Honeyguide/freebsd-pinephonepro[Repository on Codeberg] URL: link:https://codeberg.org/Honeyguide/freebsd-pinephonepro[] + +Contact: Toby Kurien <toby@tobykurien.com> + +The project to port FreeBSD over to the Pinephone Pro is progressing. +The aim of this project is to step by step support components of the Pinephone Pro in FreeBSD so that the device one day might be usable as a highly mobile FreeBSD device. + +In this quarter, a new development release has been made available for flashing and testing on a PinePhone Pro. +It includes a newly added touch driver, and a minimal desktop environment with an on-screen keyboard. +You can simply flash this build to an SD card and boot it up, provided you have the correct version of U-boot bootloader installed (details at the repository). +The image also contains the kernel and drivers source code, along with package:editors/vim[] editor and build tools, allowing for development of drivers on-device. + +To facilitate testing and driver development, network access has been enabled via the headphone jack (using the headphone-to-USB-serial adapter). +It works by using Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) to access the network via your PC. +Details of setting this up are in the repository README file. + +Work is now under way to develop USB and WiFi drivers. +As always, contributions in the form of testing, feedback, upstreaming, driver development, or just words of encouragement are welcome. + +See the post on the FreeBSD Forum for more: +link:https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/porting-freebsd-to-pinephone-pro-help-needed.95948/[] + +Sponsor: Honeyguide Group
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