Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 09:10:35 -0700 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro? Message-ID: <868rg2hrwk.fsf@bay.localnet> In-Reply-To: <86jzzmiq4p.fsf@bay.localnet> (Carl Johnson's message of "Sat, 11 Mar 2023 19:51:18 -0800") References: <865yb6kenb.fsf@bay.localnet> <8745ee37-8168-e3ca-4316-18d17026159b@FreeBSD.org> <86jzzmiq4p.fsf@bay.localnet>
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Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> writes: > 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 ( A tiny bit outdated) 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. That image does have a stable display although it stayed blank after one boot. In that case I was able to blind login and type shutdown -r now. It looks like it is missing a number of things I would want for normal use, but it certainly demonstrates that its display handling is much better. Thanks you! -- Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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