Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:11:19 +0100 From: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <soren.schmidt@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Pinebook Pro, any progress as of yet ? Message-ID: <20191231001119.68f0c3865ac520388ade5ecf@bidouilliste.com> In-Reply-To: <D1786EB5-3A13-495D-A67E-9F76831F84AA@gmail.com> References: <A34D5AC9-2EDC-4601-B468-1A97C6CFD299@gmail.com> <20191230234910.9a02d7e3bd43d72f1250a780@bidouilliste.com> <D1786EB5-3A13-495D-A67E-9F76831F84AA@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:06:04 +0100 S=F8ren Schmidt <soren.schmidt@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 >=20 > > On 30 Dec 2019, at 23.49, Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> wrote: > >=20 > > On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 21:18:14 +0100 > > S=F8ren Schmidt <soren.schmidt@gmail.com> wrote: > >=20 > >> Hi gang > >>=20 > >> Just received my pinebook pro today (nice little machine btw), and tho= ught I?d better ask here how much if any support we have allready ? > >=20 > > I received mine today too. > >=20 > >> It is more or less just a rock64pro in a laptop enclosure, so I guess = the rudimentary support is there. > >=20 > > No, it's not a rockpro64 in a laptop enclosure. >=20 > Ahh, what I meant was that it uses same CPU etc as the rockpro64, so I as= sumed (wrongly ?) that they are at least somewhat similar. Sure it's similar but still not the same. > >=20 > >> However, it does not like the stock 13-arm64 image, so before I dig in= , has anyone else gotten this cutie to boot ? > >=20 > > What image are you refering too ? What do you mean by "it does not > > like" ? >=20 > I just tried the latest current image "FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64= -20191226-r356085-memstick.img", and it just seems to hang without any outp= ut to the console, but alas if it needs a new u-boot/dts that?s to be expec= ted. And you put this image on what ? an sdcard ? Yes that needs u-boot. > I also grapped a pinebookpro.dts from some site I forgot, they look more = or less identical. >=20 > > I've been able to boot to multiuser using mainline u-boot + mainline > > atf with this patch for u-boot : > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1194525/ >=20 > Hmm, OK, going to look into that one, does that still boot the ahem, linu= x its born with ? No idea and I don't care about the linux present on the eMMC, it was deleted from it 10 min after I've received the unit. > > I have some weird issue on the console like weird char are drawn from > > time to time (looks like it's when there is a lot of output from the > > console). It's a bit better with an FTDI adapter compared to the > > Prolific one that is in the Pine64 Uart<->Jack Adapter. >=20 > Yeah, getting 1500000 baud is a pain, I had to try several picks from the= bunch of cheap Chinese adapters here as well, settled on a FT232 clone tha= t seems to work. 1.5Mbps works great on the rock64 and rockpro64, which is why I still don't know what's happening. > > USB Doesn't work. The right port gives some USB_ERR_IOERROR, don't > > know the cause yet. The left port is tried to the dwc3 controller but > > in OTG mode and we don't support that. The USB-C port is also not > > supported for now. > > Both the SDCard and eMMC seems to work correctly. >=20 > OK; I?l get at build evn setup here so I can play with it, lets see how f= ar I get then. >=20 > >=20 > > There is, of course, no video support for now. >=20 > Endeed, that would be one of the really nice things to get working. >=20 > Anyhow its actually a nice piece of kit, amazing what you can get for 200= $ nowadays. >=20 > -S=F8ren --=20 Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
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