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 ( A tiny bit outdated) 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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