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Date:      Sat, 11 Mar 2023 19:51:18 -0800
From:      Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>
To:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro?
Message-ID:  <86jzzmiq4p.fsf@bay.localnet>
In-Reply-To: <8745ee37-8168-e3ca-4316-18d17026159b@FreeBSD.org> (Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen's message of "Sun, 12 Mar 2023 02:56:33 %2B0100")
References:  <865yb6kenb.fsf@bay.localnet> <8745ee37-8168-e3ca-4316-18d17026159b@FreeBSD.org>

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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 ( A tiny bit outdated)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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