Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 19:54:12 -0800 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro? Message-ID: <86fsaaipzv.fsf@bay.localnet> In-Reply-To: <9881D780-DB01-4D96-ADA0-5E502763B100@gmail.com> (Pat McEvoy's message of "Sat, 11 Mar 2023 20:55:02 -0500") References: <86v8j6ivzp.fsf@bay.localnet> <9881D780-DB01-4D96-ADA0-5E502763B100@gmail.com>
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Pat McEvoy <mcevoy.pat@gmail.com> writes: >> On Mar 11, 2023, at 20:44, Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote: >>=20 >> =EF=BB=BFMario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> writes: >>=20 >>> Hello. >>>=20 >>> you could try to install linux natively on it and then virtualize freeb= sd >>> with qemu + kvm on / for arm64. This is what I would like to do if I >>> bought one of those. >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> Thanks for the reply. >>=20 >>>> On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 1:16=E2=80=AFAM Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> = wrote: >>>>=20 >>>> 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 lo= ck >>>> up a couple of times. >>>>=20 >>>> 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-CURRE= NT >>>> and all of them have the same problem. The Pinebook Pro works well wi= th >>>> 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. >>>>=20 >>>> 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? >>>>=20 >>>> Thanks for any information. >>>> -- >>>> Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org >>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>=20 >> --=20 >> Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org > > > https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=3Dindex&fts=3DPinebook+pro > > https://bsd-hardware.info/?computer=3D63859de55834 > > > Hope these dmesgd / he-probe entries are helpful.=20 I took a quick look for now, but I don't see any mention of the problems that I have been seeing. Thanks for the information. --=20 Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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