Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 09:11:47 -0700 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Pinebook Pro? Message-ID: <864jqqhruk.fsf@bay.localnet> In-Reply-To: <CA%2B1FSihYQnaTUbOOFG34OXaOQp0xBQ5=L8VchAfPYuiKhXtDaw@mail.gmail.com> (Mario Marietto's message of "Sun, 12 Mar 2023 12:19:17 %2B0100") References: <865yb6kenb.fsf@bay.localnet> <8745ee37-8168-e3ca-4316-18d17026159b@FreeBSD.org> <86jzzmiq4p.fsf@bay.localnet> <CA%2B1FSihYQnaTUbOOFG34OXaOQp0xBQ5=L8VchAfPYuiKhXtDaw@mail.gmail.com>
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Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> writes: > https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/pinebookpro-virtualization/ Thank you, that is exactly what I was looking for! > On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 5:21=E2=80=AFAM Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wro= te: > >> 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 displ= ay >> >> 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 l= ock >> >> 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-CURR= ENT >> >> and all of them have the same problem. The Pinebook Pro works well w= ith >> >> 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 ( A tiny bit outdated) 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 >> >> --=20 Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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